Entertainment ideas for year-end and New Year parties: games everyone can enjoy together

The Fake Artist Goes to New York

The game where you draw illustrations and guess the impostor is bad for the heart [Fake Artist]

Whether someone can draw well varies from person to person, and depending on their artistic sense, they might produce something that others can’t make sense of.

This game lets you check everyone’s artistic sense while also reading into their thinking, making for lively back-and-forth mind games.

Players cooperate to draw an illustration based on a given prompt, while trying to identify the one person who doesn’t know the prompt.

If the person who doesn’t know the prompt—the fake artist—can guess the prompt from the drawing, they win.

So think carefully about how to draw your assigned stroke and proceed strategically.

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kappamaki

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3rd Year Class A Morning Assembly Dance

3rd-year Class A Morning Exercise Ryota Katayose

The 3-A Morning Assembly Exercise, which became a hot topic in the hugely popular drama ‘Mr.

Hiiragi’s Homeroom (3-nen A-gumi: Ima kara minna wa, hitojichi desu),’ is famous.

When you think of school, you think of morning assemblies—and you can imagine doing exercises at a morning assembly—but this “morning assembly exercise” is nothing like what you’d expect.

It’s a sharp, high-energy routine—more like a dance than an exercise.

It would be so cool if you could pull it off, right? There are lots of videos of the cast performing it, so practice and show it off perfectly!

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flash mob dance

[Latest 2025] For a lively year-end party, go with a flash mob dance

Flash mobs, which can create unexpected emotion at proposals or parties, are perfect for entertainment segments.

That said, they can be a bit of a high hurdle for anyone who isn’t especially bold.

And since dance is the main focus, they require more practice time than other types of entertainment.

Still, it’s reassuring if you have a few people with dance experience.

For a company event, it might also be fun to split into groups—like a younger team and a veteran team—and perform separately!

Telepathy Gesture Game

Banquet Entertainment Series, Vol. 3: Telepathy Gesture Game

Gesture games, which are frequently played on Japanese variety shows, are always a hit as party entertainment.

Here, rather than the usual communication-style gesture game, we’ll introduce a telepathy-style version that tests whether two people can get on the same wavelength.

First, present a prompt.

If the two performers make the same gesture, it’s a correct answer.

For example, if the prompt is “baseball” and one person acts as the batter while the other acts as the pitcher, that’s out.

If both act as the batter, that’s OK! It’s even more fun if you use a screen so they can’t see each other’s gestures.

acrostic using the Japanese syllabary (aiueo poem)

The answers in the A-I-U-E-O acting showdown were so dumb that I burst out laughing lol

An “aiueo composition” is an activity where you create sentences using each letter of a word as the initial letter.

Split into teams and decide on a set of letters as the prompt.

Each team comes up with their own aiueo composition and presents it! Let’s give a prize to the team with the funniest one.

We Asked 100 People: Quiz

[A Morning Repa is here too] We asked 100 people about their signature works

「We Asked 100 People (Quiz)It’s a game where you tally answers to questions about banquet attendees in advance, and multiple teams try to guess the top 10 responses. If you directly interview people with minority opinions to draw out their stories, it’s sure to liven things up even more.

air guitar

Air Guitar Championship 2014 Japan 5th Place! Kadotatei Shokatsu, Sendai Qualifier

It’s air guitar.

Step onto the stage empty-handed, and the moment the music starts, unleash a performance as ferocious as a demon.

The more emotionally charged the guitar track, the better—and the wilder your moves, the bigger the crowd’s reaction.

Study the stage presence of various guitar heroes and aim for a one-of-a-kind performance!