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-Pleasers: Drinking and Party Games (51–60)
Weight Guessing Game
How about a weight-guessing game that anyone can enjoy, regardless of age or gender? The rules are very simple: lift two items and guess which one is heavier.
The subjects can be people, everyday items like a smartphone or a roll of toilet paper, or heavier things like dumbbells.
It’s also fun to pick similar items, such as a hard baseball and a rubber baseball.
It might seem easy at first glance, but it’s surprisingly tricky.
You’ll be saying, “I didn’t realize it was this heavy!”—and the unexpected answers are sure to liven things up.
Weight Guessing Game
In a rock-paper-scissors tournament where you aim to keep winning until you’re the last one standing, the promise of prizes at the end really heats things up.
Going straight for a big prize is great, but how about a setup where the prizes step up gradually? Each participant holds a small prize; those who lose place their prize in a prize pool and leave, and the last person standing takes all the prizes.
Recommended variations include: everyone starts with the same item and the quantity grows as the game goes on, or participants freely choose their prizes so the winner can scoop up a variety of different items at once.
Balloon Tape Peeling Game
It’s a game where strips of tape are stuck onto a fully inflated balloon, and players take turns carefully peeling the tape off one by one without popping the balloon.
While it’s typically played as an individual competition, you can also make it a table-versus-table match by having each person peel one piece of tape from a balloon and compete on how many successful peels they achieve.
If a balloon pops, the loud noise can heighten the lively party atmosphere.
Adding a time limit for peeling the tape introduces the challenge of being both careful and quick, making the game even more exciting.
Calculating in a COOL way?!
It’s a game where you stack ice like building blocks.
Since you can use only the ice prepared for drinks, it doesn’t take much effort to set up.
The rules are very simple, so it seems easy to start.
The penalty is to put ice down your back.
That would wake you up in an instant.
Manpo ~ Dance
You often see people around the office wearing pedometers, and this is a game about how to rack up numbers as quickly as possible on pedometers that don’t register much unless you move a lot.
After trying things like flailing around and dancing in place, it turned out that jogging in place was indeed the strongest strategy.
Your silly little head
You attach party blowers on top of your head and blow so that the number of blowers that pop up matches the count called out, using your lung capacity.
Because they’re on your head, you can’t see them yourself.
It’s hard to adjust when you can’t see, isn’t it? When you need to raise three, it seems straightforward—you just blow as hard as you can.
The people taking part in the game are probably carefully adjusting how they blow, but the sight of it all is really entertaining.
I’ll carry the ping-pong ball with chopsticks.
There are many games where you carry things with chopsticks, but this one is for advanced players.
It’s a game where you pick up a ping-pong ball with chopsticks and transfer it to another ball.
Since ping-pong balls are slippery, sometimes it might actually be better to go in with some momentum.
Just be careful not to flick it and send it flying into the boss’s face.
Drawing Telephone Game
A drawing-based telephone game where you think of something inspired by a picture, draw it, and pass it to the next person.
It’s a great game to play with a small group.
Setting a time limit for drawing or adding fun penalties can make it even more exciting.
With a time limit, you might get flustered and not draw well, but those imperfect drawings often turn into laughs when you review them at the end.
Turning it into a team competition also makes it lively.
Be sure to come up with a variety of prompts and give the game a try!
The “Haa” game
We use words in everyday life whose meanings change depending on the speaker’s emotions, don’t we? This time, I’d like to introduce a game called “The ‘Haa’ Game,” which uses words that can carry multiple meanings even though they’re the same word.
For example, have players say words like “haa,” “eh,” or “nande” with a specific emotion.
The way you say them changes if you’re angry, shocked, surprised, and so on.
With that in mind, the guessing players answer what emotion is being expressed.
Using cards that list a word and a situation and keeping score should make it lively.
It’s also a great game for large groups.
Incidentally, abroad people sometimes say “haa” when they don’t understand what someone said, and to Japanese ears that can sound like they’re angry.
I’m already so excited!!
We attach pieces of cellophane tape to a balloon.
The game is to peel off the sticky tape without popping the balloon.
There’s a time limit, so you can’t go too slowly, but if you rush, it will pop right away—so quick yet careful handling is required.