Games You Can Play with 100 People! Fun Game Ideas for Large Groups
Getting together with a big group is exciting, but when there are 100 people, it’s hard to know what will get everyone hyped, right? If you know games that work well for large groups—like school events, company gatherings, or community meetups—they’ll come in handy when the time comes.
In this article, we’re introducing games you can play with 100 people! We’ve collected a variety of activities that are especially fun with large groups, including ones that don’t require any equipment and team competitions.
Use these ideas as a guide to create wonderful memories and bring everyone closer together!
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Games You Can Play with 100 People! Fun Large-Group Game Ideas (1–10)
Samurai sword-fighting (chambara) battle
Chanbara battles are fought using soft swords and a life ball attached to your arm.
The more players you have, the more exciting it gets, enveloping you in the intensity of a Sengoku-era battlefield.
Form formations, devise strategies, and work together as a team to defeat your opponents.
It can get heated and you may end up using more force than intended, so be careful not to injure anyone.
This is a game you can enjoy both indoors and outdoors—under a clear blue sky on sunny days, or in a gymnasium when it rains.
Tail Tag Game
“Tail Tag” is a game of tag played with “tails.” You can use anything as a tail—headbands, colored strings, etc.—and attach it around each participant’s waist.
When the game starts, everyone runs around trying to grab other people’s tails while protecting their own.
Whoever still has their tail at the end wins.
If there are many players, team play can be fun too; in that case, the team with more players who haven’t lost their tails wins.
Be careful—when you’re reaching for someone else’s tail, you’re the easiest target!
Finger Catch
No equipment needed! When it comes to easy games you can play with a big group, “Finger Catch” is the one.
Participants form a circle and extend their left hand, palm up, toward the person on their left.
Place your right index finger on top of the left hand extended by the person on your right.
When the leader says “Catch!”, quickly close your left hand while trying to pull your right index finger away so it doesn’t get caught.
It’s fine to fake out with “Ca, ca…” or say a different word like “Caster!” too.
It’s a fun game that tests your reflexes and decision-making.
Games You Can Play with 100 People! Party-Pumping Group Game Ideas (11–20)
Big Game Hunting
In the Wild Beast Hunt game, once the back-and-forth between the “parent” and the “children” heats up, the parent shouts the name of an animal.
The children then form groups with a number of people matching the number of characters in the animal’s name, and anyone who can’t form a group is out.
It gets more exciting if you raise the difficulty by moving from animals with short names to those with longer names.
With a large group of 100 people, even forming the groups would be quite a challenge! Until a wild beast is spotted, stay energetic and listen carefully to the parent’s voice as you play the game!
Rock-Paper-Scissors Train
First, have participants pair up and play rock-paper-scissors.
The loser goes behind the winner, places their hands on the winner’s shoulders, and they form a train.
When the music starts, pretend to be a train and walk around; when the music stops, the person at the front of your train should play rock-paper-scissors with the front of a nearby train.
If you lose, connect to the back of the winning train.
Keep repeating this, and the person who ends up at the very front of the final train is the winner.
It’s a popular game with kids because anyone old enough to play rock-paper-scissors can enjoy it.
The final round of rock-paper-scissors gets really exciting!
Red Light, Green Light
Split into one It (oni) and the rest as children (players).
The It chooses their territory, like a wall or a tree.
Once it’s decided, the children stand at the start line, say “First step,” and take one step forward.
While It covers their eyes and says “Daruma-san fell down,” move forward and try to get closer to It.
When It uncovers their eyes, you must freeze; anyone who moves is caught and must hold hands with It.
If someone says “Cut!” and pretends to cut the joined hands between It and the caught child, everyone except It should run back toward the start line.
Then, when It says “Stop,” everyone must freeze.
It can take a set number of steps to approach the children, and the person It touches becomes the next It.
Fruits Basket
Prepare one fewer chair than the number of participants and arrange them in a circle.
Choose one person to be “it,” and have them stand in the center of the circle of chairs.
All other participants should sit down.
Everyone except the person who is “it” will be divided into several groups.
Name the groups after fruits, such as strawberries or mandarins.
When the game starts, the person who is “it” calls out the name of one fruit (i.e., a group).
Everyone in the called group stands up and moves to a different chair.
At the same time, the person who is “it” should also try to sit in a chair.
The person left without a chair becomes the next “it.” If “it” says “Fruit Basket,” everyone must stand up and move to a different chair.