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 (11–20)
Make the image
It’s a game where you pair up and strike poses to match a given theme.
If both people take the same pose, it’s OK, but if they’re slightly off or do completely different poses, it’s a fail.
In this video, for the theme “carpenter,” the two ended up taking entirely different poses, but for “police officer,” they both nailed it with a perfect salute.
It seems like you can gauge your compatibility.
Model Walking Relay
It’s a game where you walk like a model with a magazine or similar item clamped between your legs and compete to see how quickly you can go from one end to the other and back.
Depending on the item—like a stuffed toy or a book—some can be quite hard to hold or walk with, so you can introduce a random element by changing the item for each person.
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.
Tug-of-war North, South, East, and West
Play with 3–4 people.
Tie one end of a towel or tenugui into a single knot, and each person holds an opposite end.
Just pulling would be a bit rough, so do it like a tug-of-war while standing on one leg to make your balance unstable.
The match is decided in an instant, but the sight of adults wobbling around is quite comical and sure to get some laughs.
Quick necktie tying showdown
A quick and easy speed contest you can do anywhere as long as you have a necktie.
Depending on the company culture, some workplaces might not require ties—but precisely because people don’t usually wear them, you can enjoy a competition to see who can tie a necktie the fastest.
spin around with a bat
It’s a game where you stand a bat upright, press your forehead to it, spin around ten times, and then see how far you can walk.
It’s a classic game that’s been around for ages.
The faster you spin, the harder it is to walk afterward, so speed seems to be a key factor.
Some people are surprisingly resistant to dizziness, and those folks will surely earn admiring looks as they stroll along unfazed after all that spinning!
Office Party Games That Get Everyone Going (21–30)
Fun for communication! Pokan Game
Words that seem obvious to you can be completely unclear to everyone else—what do they even refer to? In the “Pokan Game,” you guess the true topic hidden behind such words through conversation.
First, the person who’s “it” gives a single-sentence line or phrase as the prompt.
The others then figure out what it refers to by asking the leader questions and proposing guesses.
It’s best to choose prompts that aren’t easily solved, ones that require some real thought.
Talk a lot and deepen your bonds as you play!
