Simple yet exciting! Recommended games and activities for year-end parties
Many of you probably attend several year-end parties—at work, with friends, and in your neighborhood—every year, right?
Looking back on the past year and chatting with colleagues and friends makes for a great time.
And the entertainment games—like bingo and quizzes—might be part of the fun, too.
But when you’re in charge of the entertainment, it can be hard to decide what games to play.
Ideally, you want something simple that everyone can enjoy and get excited about.
In this article, we’ll introduce classic games that meet those needs!
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Simple yet exciting! Recommended games and activities for year-end parties (71–80)
Coin drop game
Fill a glass with plenty of water, then drop coins into it one by one in turn.
Participants keep repeating this, and the person who makes the water spill from the glass loses.
Using a variety of coins—from 1-yen pieces to 500-yen pieces, with different weights and sizes—makes it more exciting.
Games that involve strategy really get your heart racing, don’t they?
Bilibili Shock Game
The “biri-biri” in the Biri-Biri Shock Game refers to that electric zing! The gist of this game is a gadget that sends an electric current like Russian roulette.
Each person holds a handle that can deliver a shock, and music plays first.
When the music stops, a current may flow—or you might be safe and feel nothing.
The exact settings depend on the device, but either way it really gets your heart racing.
It could also work as a punishment in other games for the loser (lol).
Of course, it’s fun even without using it as a penalty.
Get ready for guaranteed laughs from reactions you don’t normally see!
after-the-fact rock-paper-scissors
You don’t need to prepare anything, and you can enjoy this during small breaks at a year-end party: it’s “after-the-fact rock-paper-scissors.” You play rock-paper-scissors, then respond after seeing the other person’s hand to intentionally lose or win.
It sounds simple, but the longer it goes on, the more your mind gets confused.
Decide in advance whether you’ll lose or win after the fact, and if you play the correct hand accordingly, you score points.
Compete to see who can successfully play after-the-fact the most and rack up the highest score.
Have a great time!
Simple yet exciting! Recommended games and activities for year-end parties (81–90)
King’s Game
When it comes to party games that have been around since the Showa era, the King’s Game definitely comes to mind.
First, prepare some chopsticks and mark one of them as the King.
On the other chopsticks, write numbers from 1 up to the number of participants.
Everyone draws a chopstick at the same time, and the person who picks the King’s chopstick gets to give a slightly mischievous command to the person or people who drew the numbered chopsticks.
Make sure the commands are mild and compliant! These days, there are even special King’s Game cards for sale, so be sure to check them out!
Mozzarella Cheese Game
The purpose of playing games is to create a fun atmosphere and boost everyone’s energy, right? But depending on the members, sometimes it’s hard for people to really let loose.
That’s when you should try the Mozzarella Cheese Game.
In this game, participants take turns saying “mozzarella cheese.” However, there’s one rule: each person has to say it with more enthusiasm than the person before them.
This way, the energy naturally ramps up, making it easier to liven up your year-end party.
dizzy bat
The items you’ll need are a few bats! Place your forehead against a bat standing upright on the floor, press up close to it, and spin around on the spot.
Once you’re nice and dizzy, run to the target.
Those are the rules.
We recommend doing it as a relay: form teams, and the team that reaches the goal faster wins.
Yamanote Line game
Among games like this, the Yamanote Line Game is a true classic.
The great thing is that you can adapt it to all kinds of prompts, not just Yamanote Line station names! For a company year-end party, you could use executives’ names or product names; for a class reunion, you could try the names of teachers from back in school.
Come up with your own original prompt!
