New Year party games that get everyone excited: a fun collection of ideas from classics to DIY

Jenga

If you kept playing Jenga forever without ever knocking it over, what would happen in the end?

Jenga is a classic game that’s perfect for New Year’s celebrations.

You pull out blocks and stack them, and while it seems simple, it’s surprisingly tricky—and that’s what makes it fun! Its appeal is that everyone, from adults to kids, can enjoy it.

When family and relatives gather for the New Year, this game is a great way to get everyone excited.

You can share the thrill of pulling out a block and the excitement when the tower collapses.

The rules are easy to understand, so you can start right away.

How about spending a festive New Year’s moment having fun with Jenga?

Slide Quest

A showdown with the hit board game 'Slide Quest'!!

Let me introduce “Slide Quest,” a recommended board game that gets both adults and kids excited during New Year’s home time.

It’s for 1–4 players.

The rules are simple: operate the lever in front of you to tilt the board and guide the piece to the goal.

It’s fun to play solo with focus or together while calling out to each other.

There are 20 stages, and the mission changes on each one.

As you progress, obstacles increase and the difficulty ramps up, so you can enjoy it over plenty of time.

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Ball in darts

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These are darts where the ball sticks to the target when you throw it.

Real darts use sharp-pointed darts, but with these, the texture is gentle and even children can play safely and have fun.

You can throw from above or below, and I think it’s interesting in a group because everyone can get creative with their throwing style and show their individuality.

HANABI

HANABI rules video by the Board Game Association

This game is for 2–5 players and takes about 30 minutes to play.

All players cooperate to launch as many cards as possible in numerical order by color.

Interestingly, you can’t see your own hand in this game.

Instead, you can see other players’ hands and use deduction—making it a fresh, innovative experience.

It’s recommended for anyone looking to try something unusual.

akinator

If you give answers that are the complete opposite of Hikakin and Hajime Syacho in Akinator, who will it come up with?

There’s an app and website called Akinator.

It’s a game where you imagine a person, then answer a series of questions about them, and somehow it figures out who you’re thinking of.

It can even guess people you wouldn’t expect, which makes it really surprising and a lot of fun to try.

Geister

[Board Game] A Serious Deception Game That Makes You Lose Faith in Humanity [Geister]

Geister is a game where you advance while capturing your opponent’s pieces, like in shogi.

You use blue “good” ghosts and red “bad” ghosts.

First, place four blue ghosts and four red ghosts in any arrangement you like on the eight squares on your side.

Arrange them so your opponent cannot see which colors are where.

Then, take turns moving one ghost one square at a time.

If you move onto a square with an opponent’s ghost, you capture it.

You win if you are the first to capture four of your opponent’s blue ghosts.

However, if you capture four red ghosts, you lose.

There’s another way to win: if you manage to move even one blue ghost out through your opponent’s side of the board, you also win.

It’s a real brain-teaser of a game!

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Spinning a top

[Revised Edition] How to Spin a Top (How to Wrap the String) [How to Spin the Top]

Because a spinning top twirls around, it has been interpreted as a symbol of money circulating, and it has long been cherished as a lucky charm at New Year’s in the hope of improving one’s finances.

Besides the ordinary top you typically imagine, there are various kinds such as beigoma and gyroscope tops, so it might be fun to collect each type.