New Year Game Ideas are just the right thing that you can use to entertain your celebration this New Year. Partying includes games, such as trivia and bingo, and countdown tasks that are high-energy. A resolution guessing game can also be performed as guests dictate their resolutions and alternately take guesses and make guesses. The photo scavenger hunt is another imaginative possibility: the guests can take pictures during the celebration to memorize the atmosphere of this special day.
Ideas for Competitive Fun. There are many traditional party games you can easily modify to have a New Year’s theme. These games promote a fun learning atmosphere, communication, and a good beginning to the school year. These New Year’s Game Ideas can help keep your guests occupied to pass the time before the big countdown.
New Year’s Game Ideas
- New Year’s Resolution Guessing Game
- Countdown Trivia Challenge
- Balloon Pop Countdown
- New Year’s Bingo
- Photo Scavenger Hunt
- Karaoke Night Countdown
- New Year’s Eve Pictionary
- Who Am I? – Celebrity Edition
- Champagne Pong
- Time Capsule Predictions
- Two Resolutions and a Lie
- New Year’s Eve Charades
- Fortune Cookie Messages
- Name That Tune: New Year’s Edition
- New Year’s Eve Lip Sync Battle
- DIY Confetti Popper Contest
- Dance Freeze Countdown
- Word Scramble Challenge
- Year-in-Review Quiz
- Resolution Drawing Game
- Minute-to-Win-It Party
- Emoji Resolution Game
- What’s in Your Purse? Challenge
- Guess the Prediction
- New Year’s Movie Trivia
- Countdown Hot Potato
- Digital Countdown Photo Booth
- Sparkler Art Challenge
- Write-the-Headline Game
- Drinking Roulette
- Memory Jar Game
- DIY Crown Decorating Contest
- New Year’s Eve Mask Making
- Guess the Song Lyrics
- Couple’s Countdown Challenge
- Social Media Scavenger Hunt
- Mystery Box Game
- The Champagne Tower Challenge
- New Year’s Eve Raffle
- Resolution Relay Race
- Hidden Clocks Hunt
- Balloon Countdown Wall
- Lucky Charms Game
- New Year’s Truth or Dare
- Confetti Piñata Game
- What Happened This Year Quiz
- Resolution Mad Libs
- DIY Countdown Board
- Glitter Guessing Game
- New Year’s Eve Memory Match
How to Play New Year’s Game
1. New Year’s Resolution Guessing Game
- Give every visitor a blank card on which to note in secret one genuine resolution.
- Put all the cards in a box and mix.
- Read out one by one the resolutions.
- The guests also guess who wrote which resolution; with every correct answer, one point is earned.
- Carry through to the end with every so-called, until all resolutions are declared, at which time a prize should be given to the one who proves to be the most correct.
2. Countdown Trivia Challenge
- Write 20- 30 New Year-related trivia questions based on New Year traditions, last year’s surprises, or pop culture.
- Divide guests into teams, assigning each a buzzer or a bell.
- Ask questions in circles, and give points to the right answer.
- Give it a spin by doubling points in the last minutes leading up to midnight.
- Announce the winning team at midnight and award them with a fun prize.
3. Balloon Pop Countdown
- Make little challenges or tasks on a piece of paper. Do this several times.
- Blow up 12 balloons and mark 1 through 12 to correspond to the hours to midnight.
- Tape balloons to a wall or hang as garland.
- Every hour, blow up one balloon and do the challenge in it.
- Play until the final balloon bursts at midnight to make a big celebration!
4. New Year’s Bingo
- Make New Year bingo cards with New Year words on them (e.g., champagne, fireworks, resolution).
- Have cards on each guest in advance and markers or candy that they can use to mark spaces.
- Write out words on a piece of paper and draw them out of a bowl, and read them out loud.
- The guests place a marker on the called words; the first to get a line shouts “Bingo!”
- Give away prizes to the winners, and multiple rounds make the game more entertaining.
5. Photo Scavenger Hunt
- Write down 1520 photo challenges.
- Separate guests into teams and give them the list of questions.
- Limit the amount of time (30, 60 minutes or more) needed to accomplish as many tasks as possible.
- Teams use phones to take photos and bring evidence to the teams.
- The group of children who have completed the maximum tasks with the photos is the winner of a good prize.
