New Year Party Game Ideas
Plan a rocking New year party 2015 on the new years eve and make it a memorable day for everyone.
11. New years flip cup
Ingredients
Paper Cups
New Years Themed Prizes
To Play This college throwback will have groups of guests competing for some New Years Bling. Have each player sit at a table, and give each one a paper New Years themed cup filled ? of the way with beer. Guests must drink the beer, put the cup top down on the table (with a little hanging over the edge), and use their index fingers to flip the cup right side up. The first one to do so wins a prize. New Years Eve Accessories allow you to have prizes for multiple rounds on the cheap while also dressing guests up with some bling before the countdown.
New Years Themed Prizes
To Play This college throwback will have groups of guests competing for some New Years Bling. Have each player sit at a table, and give each one a paper New Years themed cup filled ? of the way with beer. Guests must drink the beer, put the cup top down on the table (with a little hanging over the edge), and use their index fingers to flip the cup right side up. The first one to do so wins a prize. New Years Eve Accessories allow you to have prizes for multiple rounds on the cheap while also dressing guests up with some bling before the countdown.
12. Hangin low
Ingredients
Bananas
Oranges
String
Hoola Hoop
To Play Great for some pictures, this game makes every player look a little silly. Tie a banana from each players waist, so it hangs 12 inches from the ground. Place a hoola hoop in the center of a room, and put an orange for each player equidistance from the hoop. The object of the game is for players to push their oranges into the hoola hoop using only their bananas. It makes for a pretty awkward (and hilarious) sight.
Oranges
String
Hoola Hoop
To Play Great for some pictures, this game makes every player look a little silly. Tie a banana from each players waist, so it hangs 12 inches from the ground. Place a hoola hoop in the center of a room, and put an orange for each player equidistance from the hoop. The object of the game is for players to push their oranges into the hoola hoop using only their bananas. It makes for a pretty awkward (and hilarious) sight.
13. Guess the month
Ingredients
Magazines
Newspapers
To Play Go through old magazines from the past year, or travel to your local library to search through old news articles (this is fun research, though). Find as many events as you can that took place in the past year. Make a list of these events, and have your guests guess which month in which the event took place. For example During what month did the King of Pop die? Whoever guesses the most right wins a prize.
Newspapers
To Play Go through old magazines from the past year, or travel to your local library to search through old news articles (this is fun research, though). Find as many events as you can that took place in the past year. Make a list of these events, and have your guests guess which month in which the event took place. For example During what month did the King of Pop die? Whoever guesses the most right wins a prize.
14. Charades of the past
Ingredients
Magazines
Newspapers
To Play Go through magazines and newspapers to pick out events from the past year. Use these events as titles to act out for Charades or Win, Lose or Draw. For tons of fun, make each of your guests team up in twos and act out whichever past years event that they have randomly drawn.
Newspapers
To Play Go through magazines and newspapers to pick out events from the past year. Use these events as titles to act out for Charades or Win, Lose or Draw. For tons of fun, make each of your guests team up in twos and act out whichever past years event that they have randomly drawn.
15. Guess whose resolution
Ingredients
Slips of paper
Writing utensils
To Play Make each of your guests write down 5 resolutions, each on its own slip of paper. Pull one slip of paper out of a hat at a time and read it out loud. Everyone has to write down who they think made each resolution. After everyone has gone, the person who guesses the most correctly wins a prize. Read some of the wrong guesses out loud for fun.
Writing utensils
To Play Make each of your guests write down 5 resolutions, each on its own slip of paper. Pull one slip of paper out of a hat at a time and read it out loud. Everyone has to write down who they think made each resolution. After everyone has gone, the person who guesses the most correctly wins a prize. Read some of the wrong guesses out loud for fun.
16. Find your prediction
Ingredients
Fun objects (favors)
Slips of paper
To Play Make up some phony generic predictions like, In the New Year you will shave your head, write them on slips of paper, and attach them to a corresponding items (like a wig). Hide the predictions with their corresponding items, and tell guests that predictions are hidden around the room, and that they each need to find one, read it aloud to the group, and open it. (These make nice funny favors, too.)
Slips of paper
To Play Make up some phony generic predictions like, In the New Year you will shave your head, write them on slips of paper, and attach them to a corresponding items (like a wig). Hide the predictions with their corresponding items, and tell guests that predictions are hidden around the room, and that they each need to find one, read it aloud to the group, and open it. (These make nice funny favors, too.)
17. Cant say
Ingredients
Index cards
Marker
To Play This is a game that is patterned after the game Taboo. Before guests arrive, write down the name of a person who was big in the news in the past year on an index card. On the back of the card (or somewhere on the front of the card), write down four words that the person who chooses that card cannot use to describe the person on the card to other guests. Split into two teams. The other guests have one minute to figure out what the name is without the chooser of the word using any of the four words on the card. If the choosers team cannot guess the name, then the other team gets one chance to guess the correct name. The team who guesses the most names correctly is the winner. For example The name is Al Gore. The four words that cannot be used to describe him are vice president (ok, so thats 2 words), Tipper, Democrat, and election. So the chooser could tell the team that he is close with Bill Clinton, he works in politics, etc.
Marker
To Play This is a game that is patterned after the game Taboo. Before guests arrive, write down the name of a person who was big in the news in the past year on an index card. On the back of the card (or somewhere on the front of the card), write down four words that the person who chooses that card cannot use to describe the person on the card to other guests. Split into two teams. The other guests have one minute to figure out what the name is without the chooser of the word using any of the four words on the card. If the choosers team cannot guess the name, then the other team gets one chance to guess the correct name. The team who guesses the most names correctly is the winner. For example The name is Al Gore. The four words that cannot be used to describe him are vice president (ok, so thats 2 words), Tipper, Democrat, and election. So the chooser could tell the team that he is close with Bill Clinton, he works in politics, etc.
18. New years eve word mix
Ingredients
Paper
Writing utensils
To Play Everyone is given a word that has to do with New Years Eve (everyone uses the same word), and each player has to make as many other words as they can in 5 minutes using only the letters in the original word. Repeating a letter is not allowed unless it is repeated in the original word and proper nouns do not count as words. The guest who writes down the most original words is the winner.
Writing utensils
To Play Everyone is given a word that has to do with New Years Eve (everyone uses the same word), and each player has to make as many other words as they can in 5 minutes using only the letters in the original word. Repeating a letter is not allowed unless it is repeated in the original word and proper nouns do not count as words. The guest who writes down the most original words is the winner.
19. Guess which guest
Ingredients
Game Sheet (see below)
Writing utensils
To Play Before the party, create a game sheet that includes a statement about each guest from the past year. For example, you could write, Gave birth to twins. The name of the person______________. The names of the twins_________________ and __________________. Or a statement like, Wore the same outfit every day for 2 weeks. The name of the person_________________. A description of the outfit __________________.
Give a game sheet to each player, have all of your guests mingle, and ask each other questions to determine whose name belongs with each statement. Whoever has the most names filled in correctly after about 10 15 minutes wins.
Writing utensils
To Play Before the party, create a game sheet that includes a statement about each guest from the past year. For example, you could write, Gave birth to twins. The name of the person______________. The names of the twins_________________ and __________________. Or a statement like, Wore the same outfit every day for 2 weeks. The name of the person_________________. A description of the outfit __________________.
Give a game sheet to each player, have all of your guests mingle, and ask each other questions to determine whose name belongs with each statement. Whoever has the most names filled in correctly after about 10 15 minutes wins.
20. Who wins a prize
Ingredients
New Years Eve Prizes
To Play
Every 10 minutes or so (or longer, depending on how long the party is supposed to last) call out a question that relates to guests at the party, such as Whos the youngest here? Who brought the best food? Who said the last word? Who laughs the loudest? Whos sitting next to the hostess? and so on.
Award a New Years Eve themed prize each time you call out a random question. Soon, lots of people will have prizes and they wont have to stay for the entire party or worry about missing all of the games because they are party hopping.
