Office party games that get everyone excited
Do you ever play games that everyone can enjoy at company drinking parties or banquets?
Especially during the year-end and New Year party season, you might even prepare prizes and have everyone compete in games!
In this article, we’ll introduce party games that everyone can enjoy together.
We’ll cover plenty—from classic, familiar games to fresh, creative, and funny ones.
Be sure to give them a try and make your banquet a blast!
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Company Party Games That Get Everyone Excited (1–10)
Perfect Cola Drinking Game

You mark each glass slightly below the level of the drink currently in it.
Then, with your eyes covered, you drink by feel and try to stop exactly at the mark.
If you nail it, you can take first place.
The winner is chosen by the people watching the game.
It sounds easy, but it’s actually quite tricky because, depending on the glass, it’s hard to know how much you need to drink for the level to drop by a certain amount.
Borrowed-item race

It’s a game where you bring someone who fits a given theme, like “a sparkling person.” Even if you interact with your coworkers at the office every day, many people don’t really know what image others have of them.
This game might give you a fun chance to discover, “So that’s how people see me!”
Waribashi: The Catch

This is a game that even children often play.
It’s simple, so it’s nice that anyone can enjoy it anytime.
The game is to grab a falling chopstick with your hand.
Since reflexes and quickness slow down with age, it seems better to compete with people of the same age when playing in pairs.
If an older person is good at this game, it’s proof their reflexes haven’t declined.
Company Party Games That Get Everyone Excited (11–20)
linked ring traversal

This game seems to hinge on flexibility.
Form groups of about 10 people, line up side by side, and hold hands with the person next to you.
While keeping your hands linked, pass a ribbon through the line; the group that gets the ribbon to the end the fastest wins.
It’s a great game for people who want to get moving after desk work.
Whirlwind Glasses Long Straw Speed-Drinking

It’s a game where you chug a drink using a spiral “glasses-shaped” straw.
You do need to prepare the straw, but this loopy straw makes the flow visible, so you can even see when it gets tough and the liquid starts to go back.
It’s a subtly funny game because of that visual element.
Team Competition! Azuki Relay

It’s a team competition game where you use chopsticks to transfer azuki beans to the neighboring plate.
It seems like the results will differ between people who are dexterous and those who aren’t.
Also, depending on how much someone has had to drink, fine motor tasks get harder, so it could be tough.
It’s a low-key game, but it might quietly get everyone excited.
After-the-fact rock-paper-scissors game

It’s a very simple game: a rock-paper-scissors game where you play after your opponent and must lose on purpose.
This game is closer to brain training than to being entertaining.
For some reason, things like this seem difficult for people whose thinking has become rigid, and it’s the kind of game that those with flexible, childlike minds are good at.



