Simple mini-games that liven up a party

Kappa Plate Ball-Carrying Race

Kappa Plate Ball-Carrying Race [Party Game for Banquets, Parties, Year-End Parties! After-Parties!]

It’s also great to use paper plates at the party venue for an obstacle-course-style game! If you’ve got a large space, the excitement doubles.

Balance a paper plate on your head, hold it in place with your hands, and put a ping-pong ball on top.

The winner is the person who finishes with the most ping-pong balls still on their plate after clearing all the obstacles.

Simple obstacles made from tables and chairs are plenty.

Even just doing one lap around the venue along the walls works well.

You can customize the obstacles in many ways—like greeting the department head or playing rock-paper-scissors with a junior colleague.

Don’t forget to prepare classic sports day-style background music to play during the game!

Bamboo Shoot Gnocchi

[OWV 1-MINUTE CHALLENGE] Four people play Takenoko Nyokki!

Takenoko Nyokki is a game that originated from the variety show “Nep League.” With the chant “Takenoko takenoko nyokki-ki,” players take turns forming a bamboo shoot shape with both hands and raise them upward as if the shoot is growing.

When you stretch your hands up, you call out “1 nyokki,” “2 nyokki,” and so on in the order that hands are raised.

If two or more people raise their hands at the same time, or if someone fails to raise their hands before the end, they lose.

Anyone who raises their hands without overlapping with anyone else wins at that moment.

Even if you don’t know the rules, you can pick it up instantly—give it a try whenever you have a spare moment!

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Tasting ◯◯

I’ll expose whether you’re a true gummy lover with 18 varieties of ultra-hard blind gummy tasting!!

A tasting game where you eliminate visual information and try to guess what you’re eating using only taste and smell.

There are many ways to do it: try guessing the flavor when eating candies that come in many varieties, or use teas and coffees with lots of different types to guess which brand they are from.

You can do it in a field the challenger is good at, or just dive in with casual knowledge! Doing it one by one is great, and having everyone at the party taste at the same time is also recommended.

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Communication game

[Wordplay] The communication game was insanely fun lol

A communication game where the questions change depending on the number of participants.

Haven’t you seen something like it on TV quiz shows? If there are three contestants, you pose a question whose answer consists of three letters.

That said, there are multiple possible answers, and each person gives one letter; the challenge is whether their letters combine into a proper answer.

For example, with the question “What’s a yellow food?” how would you answer? There are options like lemon, banana, and corn, but unless everyone’s answers line up, you end up with a “What is that?” kind of result.

Checking the answers is part of the fun, too.

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Beef Tongue Game

A simple, no-props party game: the 'Gyutan (Beef Tongue) Game'

A super simple yet strangely addictive “Gyutan” game.

With your palms together, extend your hands forward and go around in order to the rhythm of “gyu-tan gyu-tan gyu-tan-tan”: the “gyu” person says it out loud without clapping, and the “tan” person claps silently without saying anything.

From the next round on, the final “tan” increases by one each time.

If you miss the rhythm or go out of order, you’re out.

As the number of “tan”s grows and the tempo gradually speeds up, this seemingly simple game somehow gets tangled up—and it’s highly addictive.

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Pedometer Game

Pedometer Showdown: Vocal Team

An idea for turning a familiar health gadget—the pedometer—into a game.

Attach a pedometer to any part of your body you like, such as your hand, foot, or waist, and move like crazy for one minute! Rack up as many steps as you can! The person with the highest step count wins, of course.

The numbers will probably vary depending on where you attach it, right? You could also spice it up by giving a penalty to the person with the lowest step count.

If you don’t have enough pedometers, another option is to install a pedometer app on a smartphone and hold it in your hand while you move around.

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Balloon Game

This balloon game is guaranteed to get everyone hyped to the max at a party.

In turn, players call out either “big balloon,” “small balloon,” or “regular balloon.” When someone calls one, everyone—including the caller—strikes the corresponding pose.

For “big balloon,” make a small circle with both hands.

For “small balloon,” spread your arms wide to make a big circle.

For “regular balloon,” touch both shoulders, then raise both hands straight up.

Because the actions are the opposite of what’s being said—or completely different—you might get mentally mixed up as the game goes on.

You also have to shout “Yes!” while posing, so give it your all and keep the energy high!

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