Games for Adults' Birthday Party
Through trial and error, we have selected the best games and activities for Adult Birthdays. They can be held in any company, both indoors and outdoors. This is a ready-made entertainment plan for your guests, which will help make the Birthday or any type of party fun and interesting. To keep the celebration dynamic, we alternate between dance, fun, musical, intellectual and dinner party games.
So, are you ready to follow our party plan? Let's go!
Games
Birthday Party Plan: 15 Games for Guests
Key points for organizing an entertainment program:
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First, decide whether the competitions will be held in teams or individually. Prepare a small prize for the winner - after all, guests should have an interest in winning. For each won contest, you can give a "Birthday Chip." The player (or team) with the most chips at the end of the evening wins the main prize.
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While guests are seated at the table, it's convenient to hold a series of dinner party games. Then, to shake things up, play active games. And when the guests have had a good drink and are relaxed, it's time for musical and dance games.
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Pay attention to the guests' mood so that there aren't too many games. After all, there should be enough time for socializing and dancing.
1. Toasts and Challenges
Thanks to fun toasts and challenges, the wishes of guests at the table will be "colorful". This contest will help avoid ordinary toasts and bring out the creative side of the toasters.
Before the feast begins, each guest is given a card with a challenge. For example: "Give a toast in a foreign language", "Recite a toast in the style of rap", "Congratulate the birthday person in the style of Jim Carrey", "Give a toast while doing squats", and so on.
The guest who delivers the funniest toast receives the prize of audience sympathy and an extra point in the overall competitive race. More about the contest + ready-made cards: Fun Toasts and Challenges for Guests.
2. Quiz
For the birthday quiz, we've selected interesting tricky questions that will make your guests think.
All quiz questions are presented as colorful slides with 5 answer options, which can be downloaded for free. To win, participants need to guess the largest number of correct answers. More about the contest + quiz cards here: Quiz with Interesting Questions
We recommend a fun variation of the quiz for a lively group: Quiz with Penalties
3. Who Am I?
An old-fashioned game for a group that always goes over well.
How to Play
- Write the names of famous personalities, characters, showbiz stars, politicians, etc., on small sheets of paper. You can prepare them in advance or suggest guests come up with them on the spot.
- Attach the pieces of paper to the guests' foreheads using tape, so that everyone except the player can see the character's name.
- With the help of guiding questions from other participants, each player tries to figure out "Who they are". However, the answer to the question can only be "Yes" or "No".
Tip! Write the birthday person's name on a piece of paper among the other characters. Regardless of who gets the paper with their name, the deciphering process will be very entertaining.
Props
We've prepared a list of names of famous personalities for the "Guess Who You Are?" game. You can print out the cards, cut them out, and choose the ones that you think would work best.
4. Guess the Prize
Preparation
This contest is based on the name of the birthday person. The number of letters in the birthday person's name corresponds to the number of prizes to be prepared for the guests. Each prize must start with a specific letter in the name. When preparing for the contest, creativity is needed in selecting small gifts.
Example: The birthday person is named Liam, so you need to find prizes that start with the letters L (lemon) - I (incense holder) - A (alarm clock) - M (marker). Even if these prizes seem silly, it's all the more fun.
How to Play
- Pre-purchased prizes are placed in a bag.
- The host names the letters of the birthday person's name one by one, and guests guess what prize may be associated with each letter.
- The guest who correctly guesses the prize gets to keep it as a memory.
- If players are struggling to guess a prize for a long time, the host can provide hints.
5. Find the Common
You've probably seen this game on TV. We invite you to play it at your home party in honor of the Birthday.
The conditions of this intellectual game are simple. Players are presented with a slide with three images. The goal is to figure out the word that unites all three images.
More about the contest + slides: Find the Common
6. Fun Glasses
Props
For this active contest, you'll need:
- Regular plastic cups
- Balloons
How to Play
Players need to inflate a balloon and insert it into a cup beforehand. This way, the cup will be securely attached to the inflated balloon and can be carried without using hands.
The task is to build a specified shape (pyramid, row) from the cups without using hands. The first to complete the task wins.
More about the contest "Collect the plastic cups"
7. Blow and Push
Don't hide disposable plastic cups and inflatable balloons, we'll need them for this party competition too.
Preparation
The obstacle course will be set up on the table, so clear it from unnecessary items. Use cushions, champagne bottles, books, toys to create 2 obstacle lanes on the table, with a separate finish lane.
How to Play
Players use the air from the inflated balloon to push the cup through the maze. If the cup falls, they need to start over. One successful run earns one point.
The team or player with the highest number of points wins.
8. Body Parts - Dance Battle
Invite the guests to the dance floor and explain the rules of our dance battle: when the music starts (song clips), players begin to dance, using only ONE SPECIFIC BODY PART! The body part to use is announced by the host:
- Dance with the Head (Benny Benassi - Satisfaction)
- Dance with the Shoulders (Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song)
- Dance with the Eyes and Eyebrows (Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe)
- Dance with the Lips, add the Tongue (Tarkan - Simarik)
- Shake your Hips (Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It)
As the song mix changes, the host sequentially names a body part.
This is a fun and hilarious dance contest suitable for any celebration. You can hold it separately for men and women and crown the dance floor star!
9. Repeat the Dance
An energetic dance contest that will bring lots of positive emotions to your guests.
How to Play
Randomly assign numbers to players from 1 to 10. Then play our prepared video on the laptop or TV screen.
Follow the instructions in the video and enjoy the funny dance moves of the participants. Learn more about the game Repeat the Dance
10. Pygmalion
It's time to showcase your creative abilities and use simple items to depict how you see the birthday person. Divide the guests into teams and provide each with a small "creative kit": inflatable balloons, threads, tape, clothespins, scissors, markers, colored paper, clay.
The task of the contest is simple - use the provided materials to create a "model" of the birthday person. The team that creates the most creative representation wins.
11. Guess the Birthday Song
The beloved music game "Name That Tune" is played with the only difference that all the songs are somehow related to birthdays. These are hits from all times, both local and international.
Props
How to Play
- The host gives all papers to write down the guessed songs and performers
- A mix of melodies starts playing, and players write down the song titles and performers
- The host counts the number of correct answers for each participant (0.5 point for correctly guessed song title, 0.5 point for performer) and announces the winner
Correct Answers
1. "In Da Club" - 50 Cent
2. "Birthday" - The Beatles
3. Lesley Gore - It's my party
4. "Birthday" - Selena Gomez
5. Katy Perry - Birthday
6. Anne-Marie - BIRTHDAY
7. Birthday S..x – Jeremih
8. It's My Birthday - Will.i.am
12. Karaoke-game "One Word at a Time"
Two participants are called from each team to sing in tandem. What's the twist? The challenge is to sing word by word. For instance, the first word of the lyrics is sung by participant 1, the second word by participant 2, the third by participant 1, the fourth by participant 2, and so on.
The fun begins when the song is filled with many short words and prepositions (which also count as words). Rarely does anyone manage to stay on track and not sing their partner's words.
List of Songs for the game: Karaoke-game "One Word at a Time"
13. Karaoke Roulette
In this fun music contest, players need to recall a song with a given word. The host takes turns drawing cards with individual words from a bag, and guests try to recall any song in which that word appears in the lyrics.
For example, the word "River" is drawn, and possible answers could be "Cry me a river" by Justin Timberlake or "You're my river running high. Run deep, run wild..." by Lykke Li." For each correct answer, a player earns 1 point. The player who raises their hand first gets the right to answer first. If another player remembers another song with the given word, they can also name it, but they will receive 0.5 points.
The player with the highest score wins.
Details about the game + word cards: Karaoke Roulette
14. Guess the Song by Emoji
Play the video clip Guess the Song by Emoji in 10 Seconds on YouTube and start the game. A set of emojis will appear on the screen, and players must decipher the title of a hit 90s song based on the emojis (you can choose other clips with hits from the 2000s, etc.). The first person to raise their hand gets to make a guess. If the answer is incorrect, other players have a chance to answer correctly. Each correctly guessed song earns 1 point.
The player with the most points becomes the winner.
15. Bonus Gift for Guests - Photo Garland
We suggest preparing for this activity:
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Select collective photos of you and your guests (fun photos of memorable moments from your life) from social media or search your phone's memory.
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Send the photos for printing in a Polaroid style (you can do this via email and receive the finished photos in your inbox).
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Hang up a garland or a beautiful string and use mini clothespins to attach all the photos to it. This will create a beautiful decoration for the room and a "corner of fond memories." Guests will enjoy approaching and looking at these photos.
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At the end of the festive evening, invite guests to choose their favorite photos and take them as a keepsake. This is a pleasant and heartfelt bonus you can offer to your guests.
We hope you enjoyed our Birthday scenario. You can use all the contests or select the ones you like the most. If you need more contests, we have many fun options in the "Party Games" section for you to choose from.
Also, there's a great collection of contests for kids: Top 12 Games and Contests for a Child's Birthday
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