Switch up your St. Patrick’s Day by playing some of these hilarious St. Patrick’s Day games! We’ve played all of these games as a family and there are games for every age, every type of celebration, and even every kind of game person.
Want something easy? We have printable games for that! Want something hilarious? Try out our St. Patrick’s Day minute to win it games! They’re guaranteed to make your St. Patrick’s Day even more magical!
St. Patrick’s Day Party Games
My husband is part Irish so we are big on celebrating St. Patrick’s Day! We’ve hosted everything from family St. Patrick’s Day parties to celebrations just for the adults!
And during all of them, we always played some crazy type of St. Patty’s Day games! I’ve included all sorts of games below including ones that revolve around luck, games about leprechauns, Lucky Charms, and pretty much everything else you could think of!
Minute to win it St. Patrick’s Day Games
These shamrock games can all be played minute to win it style, which means you can play them in one of three different ways depending on the group you’re playing with. Start here for more info on minute to win it games.
Or just pick and choose the games you want to play and skip the minute to win it style play all together! They’re all super easy games that you can play with things you can find around your house!
Shamrock Shake
This is one of the best St Pattys Day games ever! Before the game, empty a green tissue box for each player and tape a pair of panty hose on it so that you can basically tie the tissue box to your waist.
How to Play:
Players must put 20 ping pong balls (these green ones would be fun) inside of the tissue box then tie the tissue box around their waist. Then as soon as the timer starts, players must shake their hips and do a “shamrock shake” to be the first one to get all of the balls out.
Blarney Stone Bounce
Buy a little Blarney Stone replica (like this one) or just fill a fish bowl or buckets with small stones and put the bucket on one side of the room. On the other side of the room, put buckets with colored/numbered ping pong balls or just have people play at different times so you can keep track of whose ball is whose.
To play, players must stand on one side of the room and bounce ping pong balls across the room, trying to land one in the Blarney Stone bucket you set up previously. First player to land one successfully in the bucket wins.
Lucky Charms
Fill a 2-liter bottle with Lucky Charms cereal (or get this bag of marshmallows and just use the marshmallows) then tape the filled bottle to another empty 2-liter bottle.
Give the taped together bottles to the player and when you say go, they must shake shake shake the bottle to get all of the Lucky Charms to the other bottle. First person to get all of the Lucky Charms from one bottle to the other wins!
Potato Bowl
Give each player a potato and six water bottles. Players must set up the water bottles in a bowling pin formation (3, 2, 1) on one side of the room.
Players must bowl the potato across the room to knock all of the water bottles over. Getting them over once isn’t too difficult, so players must knock them over a certain number of times or knock over a total number of pins within the time limit.
First player to knock them over a certain amount of times OR player to knock them over the most number of times in a minute wins.
Four Leaf Clover Hunt
Fill 10 little Dixie cups per team playing with a non-clear liquid of some sort, Lucky Charms cereal, or something else that says “St. Patrick’s Day.”
On the bottom of one little Dixie cup (per team, so if you have five teams = 5 cups), put a 4-leaf clover sticker. Don’t put anything on the others. Line all of the cups up in a group on one table before the game.
Players must pick one cup and eat/drink the contents in it then look at the bottom of the cup to see if they found a 4-leaf clover. If they didn’t, they must continue picking and consuming cup contents until they’ve found one.
First player to find a four-leaf clover wins! If you’re worried about drinking too much, you could also do this with Skittles!
Cabbage Crawl
Tape a long piece of tape across one side of the room and then another one at the other side of the room. On the one side of the room, put one head of cabbage for each team.
Players must get down on their hands and knees and push their head of cabbage to the other side of the room using just their head, crawling on their hands and knees. The first player to have their cabbage cross the finish line wins.
This one also makes a hilarious team relay!
Pot of Gold
Tape a large (like 6’x6′) square on the ground. In the middle of the square, place a large pot.
Players must stand outside of the square and attempt to bounce plastic gold coins to land them in the pot. I recommend using different colored coins (like the ones in this pack) for each team playing but if not, just make sure to pay close attention to see whose coin actually lands in the pot.
The first person to land three coins in the pot wins. Players have to remain outside of the square at all times or else their bounces don’t count.
Feeling Lucky
Fill a large bowl with Lucky Charms and place it on a table. Place a cup full of spoons nearby.
Players have to take a spoon and race to find one of each of the different Lucky Charms by either just using their mouth or using the spoon in their mouth (my preschooler liked to just use his mouth). First player to find one of each wins.
Tip!
This one is also really fun as a relay! Have one teammate run down and find a Lucky Charm marshmallow then run back with it on their spoon then the next person goes and continues until the team finds all the marshmallows!
St. Patrick’s Day Games with Dice
With St. Patrick’s Day being all about being lucky, I had to include a bunch of St. Patrick’s Day games that include dice – something associated with being lucky! There are St. Patrick’s Day games for adults, kids, and everyone else too!
Chase the Rainbow
This fun game has players rolling dice to try and keep candy in their pile! It’s a St. Patrick’s Day version of one of my most popular birthday party games and it’s super fun for both kids and adults!
Get the cards and full details for this chase the rainbow Skittles game.
Lucky Dice Game
In this game, everyone gets three coins and the goal is to be the one who ends up with the gold coin wins and the one with the red coin ends – all game moves are decided by the luck of the dice! This one is one of my personal favorites and so much fun!
Get the free printable instructions for this lucky dice game.
Roll a Rainbow
Who can roll all of the colors of the rainbow the fastest? This fun rainbow game is always a hit with kids! You can even turn it into a group game by adding a relay factor or just passing the dice around the circle!
Get the rolling cards and full instructions for this roll a rainbow game!
Lucky Roller
This fun dice game have players rolling dice to win coins while having to decide if they want to risk it to roll more! It’s a super fun game that incorporates risks and rewards with a little bit of luck! Teens and adults love this one, but there are also instructions for making it fun for kids too!
Get the rules for this lucky roller game. It’s easily one of my favorite St. Patrick’s Day games for adults!
St. Patrick’s Day Dicey Words
In this game, players race to roll dice with letters to spell out St. Patrick’s Day words! You can play this game either individually or in teams, it’s so fun both ways! This is a great classroom game, group game, or even something fun for a St. Patrick’s Day party!
Get the full rules for this dice word game.
Pot of Gold Dice Game
This fun pot of gold game will have players rolling dice to try and be the first to fill their pot with gold coins! Each time you roll dice, you have to add more gold to your pot but don’t roll too high or you’ll have to empty your pot and start again!
Printable St. Patrick’s Day Game Ideas
These are simple games that you can just print out and play right away! They’re inexpensive, simple, and so much fun!
St. Patrick’s Day Bingo
This fun St. Patrick’s Day version of the classic bingo game is great for kids parties, classroom parties, and any St. Patrick’s Day celebration!
Get the St. Patrick’s Day bingo cards.
St. patrick’s Day Trivia
Do you know the real name of the Blarney Stone or what you find at the end of the rainbow? These fun St. Patrick’s Day trivia questions are perfect for a party, a fun St. Patrick’s Day activity at school, or even for asking to your family at home!
There are so many ways to use this fun St. Patrick’s Day trivia game no matter the age of the players!
Guess the Rainbow Game
You’ve probably played the game where you guess how many pieces of candy (or something else) is in a jar. This game is a really fun play on that where people guess the number of candies in a bag of rainbow candies!
It’s perfect for a classroom activity, game for kids, and even for adults! Get the guess the rainbow game printable!
St. Patrick’ s Day Would You Rather Game
Silly and hilarious would you rather questions with a St. Patrick’s Day twist! There are tons of different questions including options for kids, options for teens, and options for adults!
Get the St. Patrick’s Day would you rather questions.
St. Patrick’s Day Charades
Get a huge list of fun St. Patrick’s Day words you use to play charades, pictionary, or even reverse charades! This game works for pretty much any kind of party or celebration! Get the St. Patrick’s Day charades words.
st. patrick’s day scavenger hunt
This free printable St. Patrick’s Day scavenger hunt is perfect for sending kids on the hunt to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Silly clues with leprechauns, four leaf clovers, and rainbows make this one of the best St. Patrick’s Day games for kids!
Lucky Leprechaun Hunt
Another scavenger hunt but this one is a fun one where kids (or an entire team) have to race to find St. Patrick’s Day inspired things! This is a simple activity that makes one of the most fun St. Patrick’s games, especially for kids! Get the leprechaun hunt to play now.
Find the Leprechaun
One more leprechaun hunt idea but this time you’re looking for the actual leprechaun! Print out these leprechaun cards, hide them, and give out prizes for finding one (or all of them). Kids love this – we’ve done it with a bunny hunt, reindeer hunt, and even turkey hunt!
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St. Patrick’s Day Games Prize Ideas
You can’t play games without prizes! Here are some of my favorite St. Patrick’s Day prize ideas although you could totally go more traditional and do something like a gift card to an Irish restaurant or a decorated potato instead!
- Shamrock fidget spinner (this is so fun!)
- Rainbow purse (so cute!)
- Rainbow scratch paper (my boys love this!)
More St. Patrick’s Day Ideas
Pair these St. Patrick’s Day games with any of these fun St. Patrick’s Day activities for the ultimate St. Patrick’s Day party!
- Rainbow donuts or these rainbow cake balls would be fun too
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