Awesome Party Games

This grim but funny card game challenges players to act out unusual ways of dying. One team chooses who died and how they died, and the other team must draw or act out their demise for their teammates to guess. For example: Who: Air Tube Dancing Man; How: Lawnmower Accident. It’s basically Charades or Pictionary but in a cemetery. For 4 to 6 players.

This party game from Very Special Games asks players to come up with creative and witty text to fill in the center of a Venn diagram. Each player gets a board and draws two word cards. Everyone else competes to fill in the funniest intersecting answers to win points. Best for ages 15+ and 3 to 6 players.

This challenging party game asks players to steal items from a museum guarded by laser beams. Only the laser beams are elastic strings, and the hands you’ll use to grab things are tiny. Tiny Laser Heist also incorporates strategic card game elements as players draw cards to recruit their team and plan the biggest heist possible.

This party game from the makers of Exploding Kittens asks players to complete simple challenges. The trick is that your friends all get a chance to make them more difficult. The player who makes the task the hardest becomes your teammate, and if you can complete it, you both get a point. But if you fail, everyone else gets a point, and you both lose a point.

Après Hours’ ready-made espresso martinis make cocktails easy, and combined with the Drunk Après Hours Drinking Game, it makes happy hour even happier. This collaboration with Drunk in Love is a simple game for three or more requiring players to follow prompts correctly or take a sip.

Food and drink writers André and Tenaya Darlington turned their book Booze & Vinyl into a card-pairing game. The set includes 100 full-color cards which challenge players to combine one of fifty classic albums with a delightful cocktail pairing. Includes an 88-page recipe book with notes on the music. For 1 to 3 players.

The makers of Exploding Kittens teamed up with magician Penn Jillette to create this party game that’s all about lying. Players reach into the sack to secretly pick bad things or a good thing, then try to outsmart opponents by convincing them to take the bad things in your hand and not to take the good thing if you have it.

Looks like the Adulting Party Game’s creators get a kick out of Wink’s For Days’ Adulting Merit Badges like we do, ‘cause they’ve turned the idea into a silly charades game. Players randomly pick an adulting task badge and act it out using props, noises, whatever. A fun way to delay actual chores.

The party game I Have This Friend is a great way to get to know people. It plays out much like “Never Have I Ever,” except with players picking cards from a deck of awkward or embarrassing situations, then asking everyone at the table to fess up when it applies to them. Mix with booze for added laughs.

Make Anything’s Tippi Tree is a party game that challenges players to stack and interlock blocks but in a more organic way than Jenga. Maker Devin Montes has now built a giant version of the game out of wood. If you want to play some Tippi Tree for yourself, you can purchase the design for 3D printing from MyMiniFactory.

We love games you can play one-handed (leaving the other for beer), but Cornhole is just too ubiquitous. Trade bean bags for hacky sacks with go-anywhere TowerBall, a four-sided, four-season tossing game for all ages and playing surfaces, inside or out. Includes a collapsible plastic tower, eight balls, and zippered backpack case.

The Oatmeal and Elan Lee’s latest party game asks players to take on a secret identity as a good wombat or a bad wombat. Good wombats build towers; bad wombats tear them down – all with their eyes closed. Players then open their eyes and vote to eliminate suspicious wombats until the towers are complete or destroyed.

Tattoo Stories is a party game that gives players three minutes to doodle a design for a tattoo based on a selection of attributes. Each artist pitches their tattoo to the customer, who gets to judge and choose the winner of the round. For 4 to 6 players ages 12 and up.