Party acts that hype up the crowd: Recommended entertainment and performances for banquets and drinking parties [2026]

Pi recitation

[Reciting 200 Digits of Pi] ~2021 Annual Presentation~ [First Grader]

We use pi to find the area and circumference of a circle.

Many people learned it as 3.14 in elementary school, but it’s said to go beyond 62 trillion digits in reality.

How about showing off a recitation of pi—something everyone knows about, but few really know in depth? Simply rattling off as many digits as you can might get boring, so you could spice it up by declaring, “I’ll recite X digits in Y seconds.” That might get the crowd going! And it would be fun if your record at the New Year’s party beats the one from the year-end party (lol).

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Hane Keisuke

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Dice stacking

A party trick anyone can do

A party trick that’s both stylish and cool: shake dice in a cup and they stack up into a tower.

Once you get the hang of it, you can increase the number of dice as much as you like.

Stack lots of dice quickly and nail it with flair.

to ride on a 1-sho bottle

Ninja party trick: riding a 1.8-liter sake bottle (isshōbin). Special party stunt ninja.

This is a party trick where you balance on top of a sake bottle that isn’t fixed in place.

A good sense of balance is very important.

It also makes a strong visual impact.

At a party, there should be bottles around, so there’s no need to prepare anything.

If you fall, it could be a disaster, so be careful when you perform it.

Plate-and-ball relay race

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

This is a game where you clear obstacles without dropping a ping-pong ball balanced on a plate on your head.

Everyone plays at once, and the person who has the most ping-pong balls left at the end wins.

The frustration of trying not to drop the invisible ping-pong ball creates a thrilling, heart-pounding experience.

If there are many players, forming teams and doing it as a relay should make it even more exciting.

Trump boomerang

Flick! How to throw a “Trump Boomerang”

There are many magic tricks using playing cards, but this isn’t magic—it’s an eye-catching stunt.

You flick a card with your fingers so it shoots through the air; it’s just a playing card, yet it flies with surprising force.

Once you get the knack, it’s easy—so it’s all about practice, like a party trick.

Hold the card with your middle finger and thumb, then snap it with your index finger as if you were flicking someone’s forehead.

Since it can be dangerous if it hits someone, pick a target and aim at that.

You could even set up a target that the card can stick into.

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utatane

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Beer Pong Game

Super wasted playing the classic American drinking game, beer pong lol

Form teams and arrange 10 plastic cups in a triangle at each end of the table to compete.

When a ball lands in a cup, the team on that side removes the cup from its designated position.

The team that throws the ball into all of the opponent’s cups first wins.

It might be more exciting if there’s a penalty game for the losing side.

Balloon tape remover

[Banquet/Party Game] So thrilling!!

It’s a game where you peel off cellophane tape wrapped around a balloon without popping it.

If you yank it off, the balloon bursts right away, and if you go over the time limit, it explodes automatically—super nerve-racking! By adjusting things like the length of tape on the balloon and the time limit, you can ramp up the tension even more.