Party Games

Beer pong, also known as Beirut, is the staple game of US college parties. It has evolved into a competitive sport with its own world series, combining skill, strategy, and social elements.

Charades is a guessing game in which one player silently acts out a word, phrase, title, person, character, or other prompt while teammates try to identify it. The actor communicates through gestures, movement, facial expressions, and commonly understood hand signals, but does not speak, mouth wo...

Flip Cup is a team relay game in which players empty a small, equally measured serving from a cup and then try to flip that cup from the edge of a table so that it lands upside down. Once a player succeeds, the next teammate begins. The first team to complete its entire line wins the round.

Jenga is a turn-based dexterity game in which players remove blocks from a standing tower and place them on top. Every successful turn makes the structure taller, less stable, and more entertainingly precarious. The object is to complete a legal move without causing the tower to fall.

Mafia is a conversational social-deduction game in which an informed minority, the Mafia, competes against an uninformed majority, the Town. Players receive secret roles, debate whom they trust, and vote to eliminate suspected opponents. The Mafia know one another and secretly remove players at n...

Musical Chairs is a lively elimination game in which players travel around a group of seats while music plays and try to sit when the music stops. Because there is one fewer seat than there are active players, one player is normally eliminated during each round. Play continues until two players c...

Pictionary is a team guessing game in which one player communicates a secret word or phrase by drawing while teammates try to identify it before time expires. The drawer may turn an idea into pictures, symbols, diagrams, or a sequence of images, but may not communicate through speech, writing, ge...

The office classic turned competitive. Trash Can Basketball takes the universal experience of tossing crumpled paper into a bin and adds structured rules, point values, and a sudden death shootout.

Twister is a physical party game in which players place their hands and feet on colored circles while trying to remain balanced. A caller randomly selects a body part and a color, producing instructions such as “right hand on red.” As the available circles fill, players must stretch around one an...