50+ Absolutely Epic Friendsgiving Party Games for Nonstop Laughs

Friendsgiving is one of those nights that always feels a little extra special. You’ve got the food, the drinks, the cozy vibe—and of course, the people who matter most.

But honestly, the part that always sticks with me is when everyone’s laughing so hard over a silly game that nobody even remembers who’s winning.

That’s why I pulled together these epic Friendsgiving party games.

Some are laugh-out-loud classics, others are totally unexpected twists you probably haven’t tried yet, but all of them are guaranteed to keep the night buzzing.

1. Nail Hammer Relay

I thought this would be the easiest one on the list, but it turns into full-on chaos. The second that hammer slips or misses, everyone loses it.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams and set up a hammer, nails, and a wooden board for each.
2. The first player runs up, hits the nail once, and runs back.
3. Keep alternating turns until the nail is completely in.
4. First team to finish wins. Drop the hammer? Take a drink.

2. Blindfold Cup Maze

Nothing’s funnier than watching people tiptoe around a bunch of plastic cups like it’s a minefield. You’ll hear constant yelling—“left, left, no, your other left!”—while the blindfolded player freezes mid-step trying not to crush anything.

How to play:

1. Set up plastic cups across the floor in a maze-like pattern.
2. Blindfold one player while their teammate gives directions.
3. They must walk through without knocking any cups over.
4. If they touch or crush a cup, they start over—or take a shot.

3. Human Hungry Hippos

If you’ve ever wanted to feel like a literal Hungry Hippo, this is your moment.

How to play:

1. Pair up in teams of two.
2. One player lies face-down on a flat surface holding a basket or bowl.
3. The other grabs their legs and pushes or pulls them toward the center pile of ping pong balls.
4. The “hippo” scoops up as many as they can, then gets pulled back.
5. Most collected balls wins.

4. Musical Shots

It’s like musical chairs, but for the unhinged. You’re all sitting in a circle, laughing too hard to notice the bottle slowing down, and then—boom—it stops on you. You already know what’s coming next. Just grab the drink and own it.

How to play:

1. Sit in a circle with a round bottle (filled with shots or any drink).
2. Pass or spin the bottle while the music plays.
3. When it stops, whoever it points to drinks.
4. Keep going until everyone’s feeling “festive.”

5. Dance Telephone Relay

This one kills me every time. The last person’s dance always turns into something completely unrecognizable—what started as a smooth body roll ends up looking like someone fighting invisible bees.

How to play:

1. Players stand in a line facing away from each other.
2. The last person creates a short dance, records it, and shows it to the person ahead.
3. Each person copies and passes it forward.
4. When it reaches the front, compare it to the original—it’s never even close.

6. Mr. White (The Imposter Word Game)

This one turns into a full-blown debate every single time. You’ll swear you know who’s lying, but then someone drops a perfectly vague explanation and suddenly you’re second-guessing everything.

How to play:

1. Write down one word on several slips of paper, then one different word on a single slip.
2. Hand them out—whoever gets the odd one is “Mr. White.”
3. Take turns describing your word without saying it directly.
4. Guess who’s bluffing before time runs out.
5. Get caught? Take a drink.

7. Poke a Pumpkin

It’s like trick-or-treating with a jump scare element. You poke through the paper and have no idea if you’re about to pull a candy, a dare, or a full-blown disaster. The suspense makes everyone scream and laugh at the same time.

How to play:

1. Fill paper cups with random prizes, dares, or candy.
2. Cover them with orange tissue and arrange them like a pumpkin.
3. Players take turns poking through one cup.
4. Whatever’s inside, you keep—or do.

8. Musical Chairs Flip Cup

The music stops, cups go flying, and suddenly everyone’s screaming because someone can’t get theirs to flip. It’s fast, loud, and pure Friendsgiving chaos.

How to play:

1. Set up a table and line up upside-down cups in a single row.
2. While music plays, everyone walks around the cups.
3. When it stops, each person grabs one and flips it upright.
4. Last person without a flipped cup is out. Keep going till one winner’s left.

9. Speed Walking Relay

I can’t explain why walking fast is so funny until you see it. Everyone looks like they’re in an Olympic event that doesn’t exist, trying not to run while somehow still sprinting.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams.
2. Each player must “speed walk” to the cone and back—no running allowed.
3. If someone runs, they restart or take a penalty.
4. Fastest team to finish wins.

10. Color Cup Speed Stack Game

The tension in this one is unreal. You’re stacking so fast your hands are shaking, and everyone’s screaming because that one colored cup just won’t get to the top. When it finally does, you feel like a legend.

How to play:

1. Give each player about 30 cups with one in a different color at the bottom.
2. Move the top cup to the bottom one by one until the colored one reaches the top.
3. First person to finish wins.

11. Marshmallow Knockdown Game

You’d think blowing marshmallows off cups would be easy—until your cheeks give out halfway through. It’s pure chaos when the marshmallow wobbles but won’t fall, and both sides are wheezing from laughing too hard to aim straight.

How to play:

1. Line up plastic cups upside down and place one marshmallow on each.
2. Two players stand on opposite ends with party blowers.
3. Blow the marshmallows off one by one without touching them.
4. First side to clear all their cups wins.

12. Hula Hoop Relay

This one looks innocent until someone gets tangled trying to pass the hoop over their head. Everyone’s screaming, “Don’t let go!” while doing interpretive yoga poses to get it through.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams and have each line hold hands.
2. Place a hula hoop over one player’s arm.
3. Without breaking the chain, pass the hoop down the line by stepping and twisting through it.
4. First team to get the hoop to the end wins.

13. Spoons

This starts calm and ends in chaos. You’re pretending to play it cool until one person grabs a spoon—then everyone dives in like it’s life or death.

How to play:

1. Place one less spoon than the number of players in the center.
2. Deal four cards each and pass one to the left until someone gets four of a kind.
3. The moment they do, they grab a spoon.
4. Everyone else must grab one too—last person without a spoon is out.

14. Glizzy Eaters

You will cry laughing watching this. Picture everyone with sausages dangling from their waists, trying to eat them using only hip thrusts.

How to play:

1. Tie a sausage (hot dog or glizzy) to a string and attach it to each player’s waist.
2. Hands must stay behind your back.
3. Use only hip and body movement to swing the sausage up and eat it.
4. First person to finish wins—or passes out laughing.

15. Blindfold Money Scoop

It’s painfully funny because you swear you’re doing great until you take off the blindfold and see you’ve scooped absolutely nothing.

How to play:

1. Blindfold one player and place fake money on a table.
2. Give them a spatula and a small bucket.
3. They have 30 seconds to scoop as much as possible into the bucket.
4. Whatever they miss—or knock off the table—earns a round of laughter (or a shot).

16. Human Balloon Train

This one feels way too innocent at first, then suddenly everyone’s panicking trying not to pop a balloon. You end up shuffling across the floor, holding in laughter, praying that last balloon survives.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams of 4–5 people.
2. The first player runs to grab a balloon and presses it between their back and the next player’s front.
3. They run together to get another balloon, adding one player each time.
4. Keep adding until all team members are linked.
5. First team to finish without popping any balloons wins.

17. No-Hands Shorts Race

If you’ve never seen a group of people trying to wiggle into shorts without their hands, prepare to lose it. It’s half competition, half comedy show. The faces people make trying to pull them up are gold.

How to play:

1. Line everyone up with a pair of shorts at their feet.
2. Hands must stay behind your back.
3. Using only your legs and hips, put the shorts on completely.
4. First to wear them properly wins.

18. Head, Shoulders, Knees, Cup

It always gets me laughing. You think you are keeping up and then suddenly you are scrambling for the cup.

How to Play:

• Set one cup in the middle between two players (or a few cups for bigger groups).
• Stand facing your opponent with hands ready.
• Someone calls out “head, shoulders, knees” in any order, and you follow the moves fast.
• The moment they shout “cup,” both of you race to grab it first.

19. Musical Ball Game

It’s basically musical chairs, but everyone’s hovering like hawks over these little balls. The second the music cuts, it’s an all-out grab fest—someone always dives, another slips, and it’s absolute chaos in the best way.

How to play:

1. Place one fewer ball than the number of players on a table.
2. Players walk around while music plays.
3. When it stops, grab a ball fast.
4. The person left empty-handed is out.

20. Crawl Cone Relay

You think you’re fast until you have to crawl with a cone on your back. The second it wobbles, everyone freezes like it’s life or death. Watching people try to keep that cone steady is ridiculously funny.

How to play:

1. Give each player a small traffic cone to balance on their back.
2. On “go,” crawl on hands and feet (no knees) to the finish line.
3. If the cone falls, you restart.
4. Fastest person—or team—to finish wins.

21. Water Overflow Challenge

There’s something oddly satisfying—and terrifying—about watching the water climb right to the rim.

How to play:

1. Place an empty cup in the middle.
2. Each player takes turns slowly pouring a little water in.
3. Whoever makes it overflow loses and takes the penalty (usually a shot).

22. Toothpick Ring Toss

Everyone’s hunched over the table, trying to hook little rings using a toothpick they’re holding in their mouth.

How to play:

1. Stick several ring-shaped candies (like Life Savers) upright on the table.
2. Each player holds a toothpick or skewer in their mouth.
3. Without using hands, hook as many rings as you can within a time limit.
4. Player with the most wins.

23. Tape Measure Ping Pong Challenge

This one looks way too simple until you actually try to control a ping pong ball on a tape measure.

How to play:

1. Place a cup on a table.
2. Extend a stiff tape measure outward like a mini ramp.
3. Roll a ping pong ball down and try to land it perfectly inside the cup.
4. If you miss, reset and keep trying. First to make it wins.

24. Between-Legs Ping Pong Relay

Watching people run with a ping pong ball squeezed between their legs is way funnier than it sounds.

How to play:

1. Divide into two teams.
2. Each player puts a ping pong ball between their thighs and runs to a cup at the other end.
3. Drop the ball into the cup without using hands.
4. Run back and tag the next teammate.
5. First team to finish wins.

25. Cup Stack Relay

I don’t know what it is about cup stacking, but people suddenly turn into Olympic athletes the second the countdown starts.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams.
2. Set up cups for each player.
3. First player runs, stacks the cups into a pyramid, then un-stacks and tags the next.
4. Continue until everyone’s gone.
5. Fastest team to complete the relay wins.

26. Sour Candy Belt Eating Challenge

How to play:

1. Give each player a long sour candy belt.
2. Hands behind your back, candy in your mouth.
3. On “go,” eat it as fast as you can without dropping it.
4. First to finish wins—but everyone else gets a hilarious video of it.

27. Tissue Pull Challenge

I didn’t think I’d ever see people aggressively pulling tissues like their life depended on it, but here we are.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams, each with a tissue box.
2. On start, pull out every tissue as fast as possible using only one hand.
3. First team to empty the box wins.

28. Toilet Paper Water Drag

You don’t realize how fragile toilet paper is until you’re holding your breath, pulling it millimeter by millimeter while balancing a full cup of water.

How to play:

1. Roll out a long strip of toilet paper on the floor.
2. Place a cup of water at the far end.
3. Slowly pull the toilet paper toward you without spilling or tearing it.
4. First to get the cup across wins.

29. Blindfold Seat Swap Game

The blindfolded player is spinning, calling out numbers, and everyone else is sneaking around trying not to get caught. When someone finally gets tagged, the scream that follows is priceless.

How to play:

1. Everyone sits in a circle and gets a number.
2. The blindfolded player in the center calls out four numbers.
3. Those numbered players quietly stand and swap seats while the blindfold listens and tries to tag someone who’s moving.
4. If you get tagged, you become the next blindfolded player.

30. Over-Under Relay

If there’s one game that’ll make everyone scream-laugh, it’s this one.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams and line up.
2. Pass the ball overhead down the line to the last player.
3. They send it forward along the right side back to the front.
4. Then pass it between the legs down the line.
5. The last player sends it forward along the left side to the front.
6. When the ball returns, the first player runs to the chair and back.

31. Forehead Cup Stack Challenge

You have not known true concentration until you’ve watched two people trying to move a cup using only their foreheads.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams.
2. Each round, a pair links foreheads with a plastic cup in between.
3. Move the cup to the table and start stacking—hands off the whole time.
4. First team to build the full pyramid wins.

32. Paper Bag Flexibility Game

This one starts fine—until the bag gets shorter. Suddenly people are folding in half, falling over, and doing acrobatics just to grab that paper edge with their mouth.

How to play:

1. Place a paper bag upright on the floor.
2. Each player must pick it up with their mouth—no hands.
3. After each round, cut off a strip from the top to make it shorter.
4. Keep going until one person remains.

33. Paper Streamer Unroll Race

This one feels like cardio disguised as chaos. The streamers are flying everywhere, people are spinning like tops, and you’re just trying not to get dizzy watching it happen. The room ends up looking like a confetti explosion.

How to play:

1. Give each player a rolled-up paper streamer.
2. On “go,” unroll it completely as fast as possible.
3. You can spin, toss, or shake—just no tearing.
4. First to finish wins.

34. Flip Cup Tic Tac Toe

There’s no way to stay calm during this one. It’s like a mix of strategy and chaos—people are yelling “middle row!” and knocking over cups like their lives depend on it.

How to play:

1. Set up a 3×3 tic tac toe board using cups (one color per team).
2. Teams line up; the first person flips their cup upright.
3. Once they land it, they place it on the board as their mark.
4. First team to get three in a row wins.

35. Candy Cane Transfer

The room goes dead silent during this one because it’s surprisingly hard to do.

How to play:

1. Set up a line of candy canes on one side of the table.
2. Players hold one candy cane in their mouth, hook another, and move it to the opposite side.
3. Hands are off-limits the whole time.
4. Fastest team to transfer them all wins.

36. Balloon Cup Transfer

This game turns everyone into human leaf blowers. You think it’s easy until you start running out of breath halfway through and your cup hasn’t even moved an inch.

How to play:

1. Set up plastic cups on one side of the table.
2. Give each player a balloon.
3. Blow air into the balloon and use the released air to push the cups across to the other end.
4. No hands—only air. First to move all their cups wins.

37. Balloon Pop Battle

This one’s pure chaos. Everyone’s jumping around trying to pop other people’s balloons while screaming “protect your feet!”

How to play:

1. Tie one balloon to each ankle.
2. When the round starts, players try to stomp and pop others’ balloons while protecting their own.
3. Once both your balloons pop, you’re out.
4. Last person with a balloon wins.

38. Tampon Relay

You will never forget this one. It looks innocent until people start doing that weird squat-waddle thing to line up the string with the toilet paper roll.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams.
2. Each player ties a tampon to a string around their waist.
3. Waddle to the toilet paper roll and guide the tampon through the hole—no hands allowed.
4. Run back and tag the next teammate.
5. First team to finish wins.

39. Yes or No Line Game

One minute you’re walking to “yes” for liking pineapple on pizza, and the next you’re exposed for your most embarrassing story.

How to play:

1. Draw one line on the floor — that’s your Yes line.
2. Everyone stands on the same side behind it to start.
3. Ask a question like “Do you like pumpkin pie?”
4. If your answer is Yes, step over the line.
   If it’s No, stay where you are.
5. Keep the questions coming and see who hesitates or changes their mind — that’s where it gets funny.

40. Twerking Box Challenge

If there’s one game that’ll ruin your dignity and make you cry-laugh at the same time, it’s this.

How to play:

1. Strap an empty tissue box filled with ping pong balls to your waist (backside).
2. On “go,” shake, jump, or dance until every ball falls out.
3. No hands, just pure movement.
4. First to empty their box wins—everyone else wins by watching.

41. Ball and Cup Bounce Challenge

This one looks innocent until people start thrusting their hips like they’re in a dance-off. The ball just won’t land, and everyone’s screaming like it’s the finals of a world championship.

How to play:

1. Strap a plastic cup to your waist (so it rests in front).
2. Tie a small ball to a string and attach it to the same belt.
3. Without using your hands, move your hips to bounce the ball into the cup.
4. First person to land it wins—or dies laughing.

42. Card Blowing Drinking Game

You’ll feel confident at first—“I got this”—and then accidentally blow the entire deck off the glass. Everyone gasps, then cheers, because it means you’re drinking.

How to play:

1. Stack a deck of cards on top of a bottle or glass.
2. Each player takes turns gently blowing, trying to move a few cards without making the whole pile fall.
3. If you knock them all off, take a drink.
4. Keep stacking and playing until the last sober soul remains.

43. Flip Cup Battle

There’s nothing like the intensity of this one. Two teams face off, flipping cups like their honor’s on the line.

How to play:

1. Set a bottle cap (or coin) in the middle of the table.
2. Teams line up on opposite sides with their cups.
3. Players race to flip their cup upright; each successful flip pushes the cap toward the other team.
4. If the cap crosses your opponent’s line, you win.

44. Tall Boy Roulette

This one’s pure suspense. Everyone’s pretending to be chill while secretly praying they don’t grab their own drink.

How to play:

1. Each person places their tall boy can inside a paper bag.
2. Mix them all up in the fridge or cooler.
3. Everyone grabs one at random.
4. Whatever you pick, you drink—no swaps, no excuses.

45. Friendsgiving Pull Game

This one gets dangerous fast because you never know what you’re about to uncover. The surprise factor makes it chaotic and hilarious—especially when someone pulls “truth or dare with your ex.”

How to play:

1. Create a large board and cover each square with sticky notes.
2. Write dares, shots, or funny tasks underneath each one.
3. Players take turns picking and peeling a note.
4. Whatever’s written underneath, you do. No backing out.

46. Stocking Swing Relay

There’s something about people running full speed with a stocking tied around their waist that absolutely destroys me. The ball at the end starts swinging wildly, cups are flying everywhere, and everyone’s crying from laughter.

How to play:

1. Split into two teams.
2. Each player ties a pair of pantyhose around their waist with a ball inside one leg.
3. Run to the other side and knock down a stacked set of cups using only the swinging ball.
4. Run back and tag the next person.
5. First team to finish wins.

47. Candle Blow Shot Game

You take a deep breath, blow, and pray those last two candles go out—because every flame still burning means another shot for you. By the end, everyone’s cheering and pretending they meant to lose.

How to play:

1. Line up candles in a row with a shot glass next to each.
2. Take turns blowing once to try to extinguish as many as possible.
3. Any candles left burning? Drink the shots beside them.
4. Reset and pass the lighter—your turn’s coming.

48. Slappy Hands Challenge

I will never get tired of this one. Someone always over-swings, misses completely, and then celebrates like they just caught a Pokémon.

How to play:

1. Give each player a sticky hand toy.
2. Scatter coins or small objects on the table.
3. On “go,” use only the sticky hand to slap and grab as many as possible.
4. Most collected items wins.

49. Friendsgiving Jeopardy

This game starts chill and turns into a full trivia war. The categories get progressively worse—by the end, it’s chaos with points.

How to play:

1. Make a Jeopardy-style board with categories like “Drinks,” “Movies,” “Weird Facts,” or “Inside Jokes.”
2. Write questions under each point value.
3. Players or teams pick a square, hear the question, and shout the answer.
4. Correct answers earn points; wrong ones might earn a drink.
5. Highest total wins—or just the person still standing.

So, there you go—tons of Friendsgiving party games to keep the table full of food and laughter. I can already picture my crew cracking up over a few of these.

What about you? Which one would you want to play first, and which one do you think would have your friends in tears from laughing?