Punishment game ideas to further liven up performances and skits
Entertainment acts and performances are essential for livening up events like weddings and birthday parties, as well as company year-end and New Year gatherings.
Some of you may be thinking, “I’ve been put in charge, but I’m not sure what to choose…”
In this article, we’ll introduce penalty game ideas to make your entertainment and performances even more exciting!
Having penalty games ready will take your party games to the next level.
We’ve assembled a wide range—from ones where you can enjoy the loser’s reactions to ideas that reveal unexpected sides of people.
Be sure to add these penalty games to your entertainment or performances so everyone at the venue can have a great time.
Penalty game ideas (1–10) to further liven up skits and performances
say an embarrassing line
Punishment games where you have to say embarrassing lines are essential for livening up events.
Regardless of gender, when someone is forced to deliver sweet lines to the opposite sex or grand, chuunibyo-style phrases, the energy in the room skyrockets.
Using baby talk to make everyone laugh is also recommended.
The person saying it will be full of embarrassment, of course, but that very reaction is part of the fun.
With a bit of creativity, you can arrange it in all kinds of ways, so be sure to try it at your next event.
With a surefire, crowd-pleasing punishment game, everyone’s guaranteed to have a great time!
Punishment game drink
Let’s have everyone taste some mysteriously flavored drinks that seem like they were invented for punishment games.
There are sodas like “salted squid guts flavor” and “natto flavor,” and the fact that their names alone make you not want to drink them is the whole point.
If you use a roulette or similar to quickly decide who gets punished, you can fully enjoy the variety of drinks.
Don’t just say they’re “not tasty”—clearly explain what kind of flavors spread in your mouth.
If the explanation doesn’t get through to the others, have the person keep drinking until they can properly convey the taste.
Say your strengths
Strengths are usually pointed out by others, and we rarely declare them ourselves.
This is a slightly embarrassing penalty game where you boldly proclaim your own strengths.
If you declare a strength and people around you start to question it, the embarrassment ramps up even more—so everyone should listen as earnestly as possible.
Besides the version where you think up your own strengths with an emphasis on the embarrassment factor, it’s also fun to play it as a game of rephrasing your weaknesses to sound like strengths.
Name written with butt letters
This is a penalty game where you write your name with your butt.
You often see it on variety shows, right? It’s easy to do, but I think it’s pretty embarrassing to do in front of everyone.
It’s embarrassing for the person doing it, but it looks funny, so I think it will liven things up.
Cosplay in front of everyone
Prepare some cosplay items for the penalty game and have the loser wear them and do an impression.
For the person receiving the penalty, the key is to accept it and cast aside your shame.
Do your best with a spirit of service so everyone can enjoy it.
Wasabi cream puff
Wasabi cream puffs are perfect as a forfeit to spice up an event.
By sneaking wasabi into a regular cream puff, you get the thrill of not knowing who will bite into it.
The moment the unlucky person’s reaction is revealed, the room is sure to erupt in laughter.
It’s easy to prepare and a game everyone can enjoy.
The faces people make when the heat hits will be unforgettable.
Laughter will fill the venue and the event will get even livelier.
It’s definitely worth trying once.
Why not give it a shot as a way to bring friends closer together?
Ultra Death Sauce
When it comes to classic punishment games, spicy food is a staple.
There’s a punishment game where you have to eat Ultra Death Sauce, said to be the spiciest in the world, and it really gets everyone excited because it’s truly hot.
Just be careful—not using too much, or it can become a serious problem.
butt bat (a prank/hazing act of hitting someone’s buttocks with a bat)
Ketsu-bat is one of the classic penalty games, isn’t it? It’s a simple game where you smack someone’s butt with a bat, but it always gets people excited.
Of course, make sure to use a soft bat to avoid injuries, and go easy when you hit.
Clothespin punishment game
This is a punishment game that 2PM—famous as the original “beastly idol” group—used to play in their early days on their own variety show.
They would clip rubber band–attached clothespins onto the person being punished, on their hair, earlobes, and so on.
Then they’d yank the bands hard.
Clothespins hurt just from clipping them on, right? Imagine several being pulled at the same time—it’s scary just to think about.
rubber band snap
It’s a penalty game where you bite down on a rubber band and have the other person pull it, then they suddenly let go all at once.
The person biting the rubber band doesn’t know when it will be released, so it’s really nerve‑racking, and the fear of it snapping back and hitting their face makes it very exciting.