New Year Games

1. Games that break the ice get guests mingling as the party gets underway. One idea is the game Where Do You Stand? Guests line up and are asked intimate yes or no questions, such as whether they are wearing underwear. Stepping to the left represents yes and stepping to the right means no. Another ice breaking game is Fact or Fiction. To play, everyone takes turns reciting one factual and one fictitious thing they did this year. The crowd must gues .....

Drinking games

2. New Years party guests love to ring in the new year with a few exciting drinking games. If you want to get everyone in a competitive spirit, Champagne pong a play on beer bong will get the crowd going. It involves teams of two players taking turns throwing a ping pong into each others cup. If it goes in, that team must drink the Champagne from the cup. Another idea is the game animal. One guest starts by naming an animal, the next person mu .....

Prize oriented games

3. Guests will get even more excited if vying for a prize. Make prize goody bags with extra booze, adult toys or whatever you think is right for your particular crowd. One idea is the resolution game. Guests each state their New Years resolution and everyone votes on who had the best one; that person wins a goody bag. Another idea is to have a funny face selfie game where everyone takes a selfie making a funny face and you choose the best one as the .....

New years trivia

4. Games such as New Years charades gets the energy going and the crowd involved. Team members take turns acting out memorable events of the given year and try to get their teammates to guess correctly. Creating trivia questions from pop culture is better than going with obscure questions. Another idea is scramble trivia. It involves showing teams the answer to a trivia question scrambled up and giving them up to three clues to guess the answer. .....

A Ring of Fun

5. For this game take a bowl filled with milk or some dark liquid and throw a few rings in it. Now ask a couple to take off their rings and throw them in the bowl with the other rings. Then they have to put their hands in, feel the ring of their partner, and without seeing take it out. Both of them go together and are allowed to take their hands out only once. Time the contestants and the couple who finds the right rings in the shortest time, is dec .....

The tattoo painting

6. You can ask your guests to make a nice tattoo on their partners arm. For this you will need to prepare some body paints, face paints, or body markers to decorate with. You will also need to have some towels or washcloths on hand for any cleanup. After all the guests have made their tattoos, have everyone admire each others tattoo and vote for their favorite. The couple with the highest voted tattoo wins the game. A great couples party game! So cr .....

Dedicate a romantic song to your sweetheart

7. Ask your guests to sing a romantic song for their sweetheart. This will make your guests feel involved and it will keep everyone entertained. You can pick 3 to 4 individuals as judges, and ask them to rate the competitors. The judges can rate the contestants on their enthusiasm, the song that they choose, and how well it is presented. The couple who gets the highest rating wins the competition. .....

Make a Love Poem

8. This is a great game to play with the couples at your party. Start by getting some index cards and one each one write romantic words like hearts, lips, candlelight etc. On the other set of cards write some non romantic words like ironing board, wallpaper paste, nose hair, motor oil etc. Then ask the couple to draw one card each from the set of romantic index card and non romantic index card. Then ask the couples to come up with an interesting lov .....

Couples Charades and Pictionary

9. Charades is fun and simple. All you need for this classic game is pen, paper, and an imagination. Make it girls vs boys or have couples team up and vs each other. You cant go wrong with this fun and affordable couples game. You can add props, prizes, and drinks to make things more interesting. Check out greatgroupgames.com for more ideas and information.Pictionary is another inexpensive and simple game for couples. Same as Charades, all you need .....

Tasty whip cream party game

10. Whip cream, plastic spoons, and blind folds make this game delicious fun, and unique. To play this game, one of the couple members will have to be blind folded. After one member is blindfolded, they will try their best to neatly apply the whip cream to their better halfs face. Then, still while theyre blind folded, they will take the plastic spoon and try to shave or remove the whip cream from their partners face. You should set a one minute tim .....

Have fun celebrating

11. Have a spectacular party! Hope this list gave you some inspiration for your upcoming celebration. Remember to be creative and enjoy the planning experience. You guests will love your party if you put a lot of creative energy and effort into it. We would love to hear from you. If you have more party ideas. .....

Strike a light

12. How To Play Two party guests leave the room and together decide upon a word that the rest of the group will try to guess. They then return to the room and start a conversation together based around their chosen word, trying to give clues to what the word is but without, of course, actually saying the word itself.When a guest thinks they know what the secret word is, they must say, I strike a light, then whisper their guess to one of the two ori .....

The vicars cat

13. How To Play party guests form a circle and the first person begins by describing the vicars cat with an adjective beginning with the letter A. Each player then takes a turn finding a different adjective to describe the vicars cat starting with A.Once everyone in the circle has had a turn, it starts again with the letter B, and so on. Any player who fails to think of an adjective in ten seconds is out. The game continues through the alphabet until .....

Fruit bowl

14. How To Play You need an even number of people to play this game. Everyone gets into pairs, and each pair is given the name of a fruit. Someone at random calls out the name of a fruit, at which point the relevant pair must get up and swop places with each other. It starts off simply, but the idea is that as the game progresses, it becomes more complicated, with two or more fruit categories called out at the same time. .....

Charades

15. How To Play This game is an old family favourite, so probably doesnt need too much explaining. Depending on numbers, it can be played in teams or individually. Choose a song, film or television programme and, without speaking a word, act it out for the remaining players who must guess what it is. The person who guesses correctly is the next to perform. .....

Adult belly dance competition

16. Have the women judge the men in an exotic dance contest this New Years Eve! All you need are scarves and some exotic Arabic music. Have the men cover their faces with the scarves, pull up or take off their shirts to expose their bellies. Start the music and watch the fun begin. They could dance at the same time or one at a time for 30 seconds each. Have prizes for the things like the most voluptuous or the sexiest. Make sure there are enough priz .....

The cherry game

17. Ask your guests who likes cherries. When you have a few volunteers, place a maraschino cherry in a bowl in front of them. Explain that this is a race to see who can eat the cherry first. The rules are they cannot use their hands. Just as they think this is an easy game, fill each bowl with whipped cream. Now the fun begins! The winner is the first person to find and eat their cherry. Make sure you have a camera handy. .....

Bouncing ball drinking game

18. Have everyone sit in a circle with their drink in hand. You do need an IMAGINARY ball. The rules are simple but seem to get more confusing as the game progresses. Someone needs to start the game by saying one of the following words whiz, bounce or boing. Whiz means the ball moves on to the next player. Bounce means the ball skips the next player and moves on to the following person. Boing means the ball hits the wall and switches direction. The p .....

Two Truths and A Lie

19. This New Years Eve see how well you know your adult guests. Have everyone sit in a circle. Each guest should think of two truths and one lie. It is much more effective if the truths are somewhat outlandish and the lie is more believable. This makes it harder for the other guests to tell the lie. In turn, have each person tell their two truths and a lie. The group gets to discuss the statements and has to guess which is the lie. The person then re .....

Anonymous version of Two Truths and a Lie

20. Have each person write the two truths and a lie on a piece of paper, fold it and put it in a bowl. The host then randomly pulls them out one at a time and reads them to the group. Now the group must guess BOTH the person and the lie. It is best if they try to identify the person first. .....

Pick up

21. Have everyone stand in a circle facing outward with their arms linked together at the elbows. Place the prize, perhaps a $10 bill in the center of the circle. The object of Pick Up is very simple get the prize! Players may use their hands but their arms must remain linked with the people on both sides. If the circle breaks the game starts over. The winner is the person who succeeds in picking up the prize. .....

Park bench

22. For this adult New Years Eve game you need to move two chairs together and have a lot of imagination. Pretend these chairs are a New York City park bench. The object of the game is to do whatever you can to make the person next to you move off of the park bench. For example, if you were sitting on one seat and a stranger came up to you and started hugging you, you would probably leave. When you succeed in making the person leave the seat, you mov .....

Wooden spoons

23. Guess someones identity by feeling them only with wooden spoons. One guest in blindfolded and sits in a chair. Each person stands or kneels in front of the blindfolded person. That person must guess each identity only by feeling them with the wooden spoons. .....

Aura

24. This game is a great spectator sport for New Years Eve. Set up several groups of two people. These people will compete with each other. Two partners stand face to face, arms extended, palms touching. Either blindfold each person or have them close their eyes. Have them turn around five times and try to find their partners palms again and return to their original positions without looking. .....