Punishment games that amp up the fun at year-end parties—from hilariously gross to super embarrassing!
If you’re playing games at a year-end party, you can’t skip the penalty games, right? Still, when it comes time to actually do one, you might find yourself wondering, “What kind of penalty game would be good?” or “I can’t think of anything that would really hype everyone up…” If you’re having fun with friends or colleagues, you’ll want to pick a penalty that still feels like a penalty but gets everyone laughing—something in just the right balance.
In this article, we’ll introduce plenty of penalty game ideas perfect for year-end parties, from classics to slightly unusual twists.
Don’t forget to be considerate of others, and find ideas everyone can enjoy together!
- A simple punishment game you can do anywhere without any props—even at school or outdoors.
- Punishment games that liven up company drinking parties and banquets
- A fun punishment game recommended for women
- A party forfeit that gets everyone hyped
- Punishment games that liven up drinking parties and banquets
- Simple but intense! A quick-and-easy penalty game that hypes everyone up
- [Classic] Funny! Hilarious! A roundup of punishment games that will liven up the classroom
- [Easy] Punishments that will get middle schoolers excited
- Ideas for team-based games to enliven a party
- A fun penalty game recommended for men
- With friends or couples! A set of questions perfect for penalty games
- Entertainment ideas for year-end and New Year parties: games everyone can enjoy together
- How embarrassing! Lines recommended for punishment games
Punishment games that hype up the year-end party! From disgustingly bad to super embarrassing (11–20)
Biri-biri
A sudden electric jolt will sober you up in an instant! It’s a punishment game using party gadgets that look completely normal—pens, box cutters, lighters, and the like—but give you a zap when you hold them.
If you casually place a pen next to the loser and say, “Hey, draw something here,” they’ll walk right into the trap.
You can also mix it in with other stationery and get them to touch it—there are lots of ways to surprise them.
Just be careful so they don’t get so startled that they fall off their chair, and set up your punishment game safely.
What’s inside the box?
“What’s in the Box?” is a humor-packed penalty game where players must identify an object using only their sense of touch.
The tension of reaching into a box without seeing inside and the surprising reactions are the highlights of this game.
Choosing deliberately unexpected items makes it even more exciting.
Popular options include toy snakes and slimy foods.
The audience can enjoy it together while knowing what’s inside, so everyone gets hyped.
Simple and easy for anyone to join, this penalty game is a classic form of entertainment that creates a strong sense of unity at the venue.
Tell a story about your first love
What’s guaranteed to liven up a year-end party with childhood friends or former classmates? First-crush stories from your early years or school days! You might talk about current relationships or family from time to time, but how often do you get the chance to share tales of a first love from decades ago? There could even be someone secretly harboring a jaw-dropping first-love episode.
Since there’ll be drinks flowing at the year-end party, let’s have everyone throw caution to the wind and spill those long-sealed first-love stories for maximum fun!
Change hairstyle
A punishment game where the person changes their hairstyle and keeps it that way for a specified period.
Depending on the length, it may be difficult to create with natural hair, so incorporating wigs is recommended to reduce the burden on the hair.
Refer not only to magazines but also to manga to come up with more unique hairstyles—ones you’d hate to have on your own head.
Hairstyles tied high on the head add not only a certain look but also make movement more difficult, which should help bring out even more uncomfortable expressions.
to wear a sash of shame
Humiliating, embarrassing sashes! Make the loser of the game wear a sash that no sane person would put on, with phrases like “I am the loser of the game” or “Do not feed me,” and send them home like that.
It’s not that embarrassing if it’s only during the year-end party, but if they have to keep it on while riding the train home, it should be quite a serious penalty game.
Why not give it a try at a year-end party among friends who can joke around and be silly with each other?
Drink an extremely bitter beverage
For the losers of the game, punish them with an ultra-bitter drink! Many of you might be familiar with traditional TV show penalties like senburi tea, kuding tea, or bitter melon tea.
These days, there are even party-ready bitter teas sold specifically for punishment games.
Have some ready for your year-end party and your games are sure to get even more heated! Just be sure not to do anything dangerous, like adding bitterness with condiments that shouldn’t be consumed in large quantities.
Punishment games that hype up the year-end party! From disgustingly gross to hilariously embarrassing (21–30)
play a cutesy/affected-girly character
The act of making yourself look cute through affected gestures or behavior is called “burikko.” It’s seen mostly in women and often stems from wanting to be liked by the opposite sex, which leads them to act that way.
How about incorporating this burikko behavior as a punishment game? I think it would be a punishment that cool, serious women would especially hate to do, and having men who are far from “cute” try it would also inflict a certain amount of damage.
Typical features of burikko include things like “speaking while looking up” and “tilting the head slightly.”
