Encourage Game Nights by Gifting Some of These Entertaining Party Games!
The holidays are a time when we gather together with friends, families, co-workers (who may or may not be friends or family) and neighbors. Games are a great way to break the tension and avoid worrying about small talk. Party games allow many people to be involved all at once so people are less likely to feel left out.
This gift guide has an assortment of games either for large player counts or self-proclaimed as being party games. If you know you’ll be attending one of those high turn-out events, show up with a gift for the host/hostess… and that gift can be a game! Win/win!
Lost for Words
Pink Tiger Games
Lost for Words is a game to explore words from around the world that capture emotions and nuanced experiences to deepen our relationships and connections. With over 300 unique words from over 70 different languages, Lost for Words aims to broaden our vocabularies, as well as our emotional awareness.
Smug Owls
Runaway Parade Games
In this party game for 3-15 players, race to craft answers to riddles created by a magic deck. Your answer can be anything—funny, punny, clever, profound, or completely nonsensical. The last player without an answer becomes the Smug Owl, who listens to the answers and rewards their favorites. It’s the perfect gift because it is easy to learn and works with any age or group. Play it at family gatherings or your next game night!
Secret Identity
R&R Games
The “Who’s Who” of Social Deduction games. You are given a secret identity and must give clues using Picto Cards to allow others to guess who you are!
Tapple 10
The Op Games
Tapple®10 offers 10 unique games that are challenging and fun for the whole family. Categories engage players of all ages and comes packed in a portable box with sand timer for fast word fun on-the-go. The included instruction booklet describes how to play each game, and the recommended number of players & difficulty level of each game.
You’re Getting Old
Vango Toys
Do you think that age is just a number? Play against your fellow millennial friends to determine who’s managed to hold onto some semblance of their youth! With moving your mini-avocado playing piece along your path to getting old card, there are 300 available cards with prompts. Each features two prompts: an “Old” prompt like “ You’ve scrolled through Spotify and thought to yourself, “Who the hell are these people?” If you have, woah you’re getting old and need to move forward a space. You can regain your youth by answering the “Redeem” prompts on the cards! The first player to reach the last space is the loser. The player with the lowest space wins the game and gets the satisfaction knowing they are younger…at heart.
Kiss the Goblin
Skybound Tabletop
Kiss the Goblin is a party game where you describe how you would react to outrageous situations while trying to communicate a secret alignment.
For example: What kind of toppings does a chaotic evil person like on on their pizza?
You might answer “broken glass & anchovies” but the possibilities are endless!
Decrypto: 5th Anniversary Edition
Scorpion Masque
Success hinges on conveying secrets to your team while keeping the opposition in the dark. Strike a balance: your clues should be clear to your allies yet cryptic to your foes! Every round, both sides choose an Encryptor, responsible for sending a confidential 3-digit code to their teammates, all while shielding it from the other team’s prying eyes.
Dice Cards
CardLords
Featuring 50 unique mini games, Dice Cards is a game where you roll dice and write on the cards (using dry-erase markers). Playing 6 cards at once, you will write a single number each roll. Choose a number from one die or add them together, but only one number gets used each roll. The game plays quick, using only 50 total rolls of the dice.
Werewords
Bezier Games
Fiction
Allplay
Mish Match
The Op Games
Get in the mix with Mish Match, the fastest fun you’ll ever have! In this competitive, fast-action party game, be the first to spot and slap matching theme from a variety of Animals, Colors, Foods, and Moods!
The objective changes as categories to match are called at the top of each round. Collect the stack if you’re on point. Call it, flip it, slap it, claim it!
The player with the most cards when the deck runs out, wins!
Doodle Dash
Indie Boards & Cards
Time Up – Family Edition
R&R Games
Our award winning party game made for younger aged players in the family!
Whine Night
Skybound Tabletop
Whine with your friends about the worst date you’ve ever been on, a time when no one believed you, or about the worst thing to forget to pack on a vacation. Whine Night is all about spilling the tea and laughing with your friends!
Up to 8 players take turns sharing stories to answer relatable and annoying prompts, then vote on who had the best story. At the end of the night, whoever won the most rounds wins!
The Sherlock Files Jr. Introductory Investigations
Indie Boards & Cards
Everything Ever
Floodgate Games
Everything Ever – The Party Game You’ve Been Preparing For Your Whole Life! In Everything Ever, you and your friends take turns listing things from categories like “Every Dinosaur Movie” or “Every Brand of Soap”. If you can’t, you can change the category or push your luck and collect the card as a penalty. Keep your friends’ iffy answers in check with judge cards, and win by collecting the fewest cards once the deck runs out.
We’re in the last leg of our holiday gift guides so hopefully you’re finding a lot of ideas to help finish off the shopping list. If you haven’t yet, don’t worry. We have a couple guides left with more great ideas still to come!
Which events or parties do you attend where you wish had a game and which of your games would you want with you?
Fiction would be cool
Lost Words looks interesting from a linguistics standpoint.
Secret Identity looks good.
Fiction looks like something my family would love.
Times Up looks fun and challenging.
“You’re Getting Old” and “Fiction” would be on my want list
Decrypto: 5th Anniversary Edition is on my wish list. I’ve heard of it a few times but haven’t had a chance to play yet
You’re Getting Old would be a big hit in my home.
All of these games are so unique! I think Fiction would be a hit in my family.