These Christmas party games are guaranteed to make every Christmas party entertaining! With 50 of the absolute best Christmas games that my own family has tested and played at parties over the years, these are ones people will be asking to play year after year!
The Best Christmas Party Games
With all of the holiday parties, you’re bound to need at least a couple of fun Christmas party games to play! Lucky for you, I’ve gone through the trouble of putting all of the best Christmas party games right in one place so you can choose what works best for you!
All of these Christmas party games have been tested, played, and tweaked to make sure they are as fun as possible! There are Christmas party games for adults, kids, teens, the whole family to play together, and even great Christmas office party games! But don’t just take my word for it!
Christmas Party Games for Adults
These Christmas games for adults (or teens) are great for large groups, office parties, or Christmas Eve activities! While all appropriate for kids, they include content or trivia questions that kids likely won’t be able to get so I recommend teens and older on these ones!
1 – Christmas Floor Game
This Christmas floor game is an at-home version of the game show The Floor where two people compete head to head to shout out Christmas inspired images they see on the screen!
We’ve created 24 different Christmas floor game slideshows for you to play with your family at home – if I was going to play one Christmas game this year, it’d be this one!
This one is best for teens and adults who will recognize the images on screen!
2 – Higher or Lower Christmas Game
This fun Christmas game puts a spin on a Christmas trivia game, a spin that allows everyone to play! Players have to guess whether or not the number included in a Christmas statement is higher or lower than the actual answer – everyone has a 50/50 shot every time!
Everyone from my boys to my grandparents loved this one! Get the Christmas higher lower trivia questions.
3 – Christmas Movie Bingo
Buy some Christmas movies as prizes and get ready for a round of Christmas bingo! In this Christmas movie edition of the classic bingo game, you either have to match movies or popular movie quotes with holiday classics!
Get the free printable Christmas movie bingo cards here.
4 – Christmas Jeopardy
This Christmas version of the classic game show is great for teens and adults! See how many Christmas questions you can get right then wager it all in final Jeopardy! The game comes with four full sets of questions plus tips on how to make your own Jeopardy board!
Get the Christmas Jeopardy game here if you want to make your own board or use our Christmas Jeopardy PowerPoint templates to play a digital version.
5 – Christmas Rhyme Time
In this fun game, players have to come up with new rhyming versions of Christmas lyrics! But watch out, don’t match someone else’s rhyme or yours doesn’t count! A printable game PLUS two additional interactive versions that would be great for the entire family!
Get the free printable Christmas rhyme game here.
6 – Christmas Movie Games
Three fun Christmas movie games that have people guessing popular Christmas movies based on quotes, plot sub-titles, and even names you might’ve found in the thesaurus!
Adults and teens will absolutely love these Christmas movie trivia games!
7 – Christmas Emoji Game
How well do you know your Christmas movies? Enough to know how they’re written in emoji form? This Christmas emoji game is a lot of fun and great for adults or teens who will know these Christmas movies!
Get the free printable Christmas emoji game here.
8 – Christmas Trivia
See how well you know popular Christmas facts with these fun Christmas trivia questions! Over 75 Christmas trivia questions ranging from easy enough for kids to ones that’ll challenge even trivia buffs!
Get all the printable Christmas trivia questions here.
9 – Christmas Scattergories
A Christmas version of one of my favorite board games for adults – in Christmas scattergories, everyone has to come up with Christmas answers for individual categories without matching someone else’s answer.
It’s tricky, fun, and great for teens and adults! Get the Christmas scattergories cards here!
10 – Guess the Price Christmas Game
See who can guess the prices of popular Christmas items like stockings and ornaments in this fun holiday themed version of the game show! This printable game is simple to play and great for adults who will likely have a better grasp of prices than younger friends!
Get the printable Christmas price is right game here!
11 – Christmas Carol Chaos Game
See if you can figure out the real names of these mixed up Christmas carols. Some of them like quiet after duck are easy and some are definitely more challenging!
Get the free printable Christmas carol chaos game here. Or make it a little easier with this fun Christmas carol game that involves matching songs instead!
12 – Christmas Danger Words
Can you get your teammate to guess a specific word or phrase without them guessing the danger word? It sounds easy, but it’s not as easy as it sounds! This fun Christmas game is great for smaller groups and families!
Get the Christmas danger words here.
13 – Santa’s Grab Bag
In this hilarious game, everyone passes around a bag of wrapped gifts like you would if you’re playing hot potato! When the music stops, the person holding the bag picks out a gift and has to complete a challenge to win the gift!
It’s a game of luck, skill, and just a lot of fun! Get the Santa’s Grab bag game rules (and challenge ideas) here.
14 – Christmas Price is Right
You can either play this Christmas price is right game as a prize winning game or a gift exchange game! In the game, people have to guess the price of Christmas items without losing their cash! Whoever has the most cash at the end of the game wins the prize (or first pick of gift).
Get all of the rules for this Christmas price is right game.
15 – Ping Pong Prize Game
In this hilarious game, you put a bunch of prizes out on a ping pong table (if you don’t have a table, this kit turns any table into a ping pong table). Players answer Christmas trivia questions and if they answer correctly, they get a chance to try and hit a prize!
Get all the rules for these fun ping pong games here.
16 – Pass the Gift Game
In this game you wrap up one gift (typically something good like a gift card) a whole bunch of times with lines of a poem in between layers. Start the gift with someone in the room and they unwrap a layer then read the note on the card telling you where to pass the present.
Keep passing the gift around until some lucky winner unwraps the final gift! Get four free poems and pass the gift game instructions here.
17 – Don’t Eat Santa
This fun press your luck style game will have players trying to win prizes while trying to avoid Santa who will make them lose all of their gifts! It’s hilarious to watch and so much fun to play!
Get the don’t eat Santa game instructions here.
18 – The First Noel
In this hilarious game, teams compete to be able to come up with items in different categories that don’t have the letter L. It’s harder than it looks and hilarious to watch people try and figure out things that work while the time is running down!
Get the first noel game instructions here!
19 – Stack Attack
This is one of our new favorite party games! The basic idea is that teams have to try and answer Christmas trivia questions of some sort – movie quotes, name that tune, regular Christmas trivia – to win the chance to place disks in a connect four game. Last one to fill the column wins the prize!
It’s another you’ve gotta take some risk to win, but it’s a lot of fun! Get all the rules for this Stack Attack party game here.
20 – Christmas Kisses Game
This is my new favorite Christmas game! Ask true or false Christmas trivia questions to cover your tree! First one to cover the tree wins and with true or false questions, you never know who is going to win!
Get the game card and over 300 trivia questions in this family-friendly Christmas trivia game here!
21 – Let’s Make A Deal
In this fun Christmas edition of the popular game show, players get the chance to win cash, gift cards, and prizes but only if they’re willing to risk it all! It’s a fun risk and reward type game that’s a blast for the holidays!
Get the full Let’s Make A Deal game rules here.
22 – Christmas Recall
How good is your memory? This Christmas game will test people’s memories but not in a traditional Christmas matching game. Instead, players will have to look at familiar Christmas images and try to recall things from those images to win points!
Get the Christmas recall game and free slideshows to play.
Christmas Party Games for Families
Having a Christmas party with the entire family (or a bigger group of friends)? These are some of the best Christmas games that work for all ages, all group sizes, and all levels of participation! Many of these are also great for Christmas classroom parties!
23 – Christmas Family Feud
Okay so this game is fun for the entire family, but you’re going to want some adults involved when you’re playing it to be able to get all the answers.
Inspired by the game show Family Feud, this game has you competing as teams (or families) to guess the most popular answers to questions like Name a Popular Christmas song.
Get the free printable Christmas family feud game here. And if you don’t want to print something out, you can also buy our done for you PowerPoint templates in my shop.
24 – Christmas Tic Tac Toe
Tape a big tic tac toe board in the middle of the table and split your group into teams! Give each team a cup and stack of colored cups – a different color per team!
When you say go, players have to flip their cup over and try to get it to land right side up. If they do, they can place a cup of their color in the center either in an empty space or on top of another cup (replacing that color). First team to get three in a row of their color wins!
25 – 12 days of Giftmas
In this fun game, everyone will roll the dice to try and move their playing piece down the path to win prizes! Each line on the path comes with a prize, but it’s also a race so if you’re the last one there, no prize for you. This was easily my family’s favorite game we played this year!
Get the rules for the 12 days of Giftmas game.
26 – Grinch Grab Punch Game
Make this quick and easy Grinch inspired Christmas punch game (or this DIY advent calendar) then let people punch out a prize either just because or if they complete a challenge! Make it a great game for teens and adults with the addition of stealing hearts! This is one you’ll play for years to come!
27 – Christmas Minute to Win It Games
Twenty-five different Christmas inspired minute to win it games that will have you ringing bells, rocking around Christmas trees, and rolling with laughter! These ones are best for groups who don’t mind getting a little silly and interactive!
Get all the Christmas minute to win it games here. And if you need more ideas, you could just make a holiday version of any of these minute to win it games too!
28 – Christmas Outburst
This fun Christmas version of one of the most classic board games for adults will have everyone hollering out words to try and guess everything on a card for a particular category! It’s hilarious to play and even more hilarious to watch as people always tend to forget the most obvious answers!
Get the printable Christmas outburst game here.
29 – Christmas Charades
In this fun game, players have to act out Christmas words and get their team to guess them before the time runs out.
Or try one of these five different Christmas charades games – different than the classic Christmas charades! Or if you’d rather draw than act, Christmas pictionary works with the words too!
Get all the Christmas charades and pictionary words here!
30 – Musical Gifts
This makes for a really fun party game when you want to give out Christmas gifts! Everyone sits in a circle and passes a gift around, wherever it lands determines if you’re in or out! It’s a play on musical chairs, hot potato, and a gift exchange all in one fun and easy game!
Get the musical gifts game rules and ideas.
31 – Reindeer Hunt
In this fun game, players have to find all of the reindeer to win a prize! It’s an active hunt that will keep kids and adults searching for magical reindeer! This is a fun and interactive way to give out a little Christmas magic!
Get the rules and printable reindeer hunt cards here.
32 – Christmas Bingo
Use these cute Christmas bingo boards to play everyone’s favorite game! With over 40 unique Christmas bingo cards available, it’s a set that’s big enough for any size Christmas party!
Get the Christmas bingo cards here!
33 – Christmas Music Bingo
Switch things up from regular bingo and try a little Christmas music bingo this year! Play a Christmas song, match it on your card, and be the first to get five in a row to win!
Get the printable Christmas music bingo cards here.
34 – Twelve Days of Christmas Games
If the previous minute to win it games weren’t enough, try these ones inspired by the twelve days of Christmas song. They include everything from stacking chocolate doves to laying goose eggs! They’re hilarious and so much fun.
Get the 12 days of Christmas game ideas here.
35 – Pop a Prize Game
In this hilarious game, players have to pop balloons to try and win prizes! But before they can pop, they must roll the right number. It’s kind of like the saran wrap game but a lot funnier to watch! This one is best for older kids, teens, and adults who can pop balloons!
Get the pop a prize game rules here.
36 – Candy Cane Games
Get your friends and family together for a candy cane Olympics! Ten fun candy cane games like our viral candy cane chase game that players of any age can play! Play in teams and the team who wins the most events wins it all!
Get all the candy cane game ideas here!
37 – Nutcracker Games
Host your very own nutcracker games using nuts, nut containers, and nutcrackers! Similar to the candy cane Olympics except with a nutcracker theme! We did our own nutcracker games this year, and I haven’t laughed so hard in a really long time!
Don’t want to use nuts? Many of these games can also use something totally different, the games are still fun just call them something different!
Get the instructions and all of the nutty nutcracker games here.
38 – Reindeer Games
Santa’s reindeer never let Rudolph join in any of the reindeer games but that doesn’t mean that you and your family can’t! This set of 12 reindeer games is hilarious, great for any age, and for any size group!
Get the instructions and all the reindeer games here!
39 – Grinch Games
Play your own version of Whoville games with these Grinch games! There are games like stealing Christmas, 39 1/2 foot pole races, and more! With over 20 fun Grinch games, they’re a great option for anyone celebrating Grinchmas or having a Grinch themed Christmas party!
40 – Match the Gifts
This game has gone viral on social media because it’s so simple and so fun! Set up matching sets of gifts on two sides of a piece of poster board (or a wall). Then have people line up in two lines behind the gifts.
The first person in each line comes up to the table and picks up a gift. If they both pick up the same gift, they win a prize. If they pick up different ones, they go to the back of the line. Make sure to have different length lines so the pairs switch!
41 – Lump of Coal Christmas Saran Wrap Game
In this hilarious game, you wrap up a bunch of small prizes and gifts (quarters, candy, gift cards) in a big ball of saran wrap.
What makes this game way more fun than a typical saran wrap ball game is the addition of coal or challenge cards that make people do things like wrap the ball behind their back, name five of Santa’s reindeer before they unwrap, and so on.
It’s hilarious and one of our new favorites! Get the coal cards and Christmas saran wrap game rules here.
42 – Christmas Name That Tune
This game is fun for anyone who loves music but may not be able to sing (even in doo form)! See who can guess popular Christmas songs first in this Christmas name that tune game.
Or try one of these two other Christmas name that tune variations that have people singing their Ho Ho Ho’s and trying to get teammates to guess Christmas songs! Or you could try the doo doo game, one of our favorite party games for adults!
43 – Package Puzzle
Wrap up empty boxes and fit them as tight as possible into a larger shipping box so that you can still close it but so they really have to be put in there in a certain way to fit. Then do the same thing again so you have two boxes full of wrapped gifts. Once you know they fit, remove them.
Split into two teams and give each of those teams one of the boxes and the gifts that fit inside of it. When you say go, teams have to race to fit all of their gifts into the larger box, like a puzzle. The first team to successfully get them all in and shut the box wins.
Christmas Party Games for Kids
These Christmas party games are designed especially for kids! While the entire family or adults can be involved with these games, these ones are great for classroom party games, kids Christmas parties, and other holiday activities where you want things really geared toward the little ones!
44 – Christmas Scavenger Hunt
Kids always love scavenger hunts where they have to solve different clues and riddles to find a treasure at the end! This Christmas one will have them trying to chase down a sneaky elf who leaves them a fun Christmas themed surprise.
Get the free printable Christmas scavenger hunt here. There are actually four different scavenger hunts to choose from, including ones that are fun for teens!
45 – Christmas Seek & Find Hunt
This fun Christmas scavenger hunt will have kids, teens, or adults running around trying to find items on this Christmas list! This one is great for playing at home, at a party, or around the neighborhood!
Or skip the regular scavenger hunt and send them around the neighborhood looking for Christmas lights instead with this Christmas light scavenger hunt!
46 – Roll a Snowman Game
Try this roll a snowman game where you’re not only building a paper snowman (although there is that option) but also a marshmallow one! We did this for my son’s class party, and the kids loved it!
Get the printable roll a snowman game.
47 – Roll a Christmas Tree Game
Don’t want to roll a snowman? You could try this roll a Christmas tree game instead – same idea just rolling a Christmas tree instead of a snowman.
Get full instructions and the free printable roll a Christmas tree dice game here.
48 – Christmas Would You Rather
This isn’t just your traditional would you rather game! Three different games all using hilarious Christmas would you rather questions will have your family and friends rolling with laughter just like Santa!
Get all the Christmas would you rather questions here.
49 – Go Caroling Game
This fun Christmas version of the classic Go Fish game is a great Christmas matching game for kids to play at school, at Christmas parties, and just at home!
50 – Snowball Fight
Give two teams six white cups decorated with snowman faces and a bucket of cotton balls to act as snowballs.
Each team sets up their white cups in a stack on the edge of the table in front of them and when you say go, the teams race to try and toss snowballs at the other team’s snowmen to knock them all down. First team to knock the other team’s snowmen off the table wins.
Best Gift Exchange Games
We actually have created over twenty different gift exchange games in the past including many that have gone super viral and been played by millions of people!
Instead of rehashing all of those games in this post I’ve included a few of my favorites and you can check out our full list of gift exchange games and unique gift exchange ideas (like different themes and things to exchange like in our mug exchange) for the others!
- Right left Christmas game – choose from a variety of poems and stories that will have you passing gifts right, left, and right again! Or you could skip the poems and do something similar with this Grinch gift exchange too!
- Deck of cards gift exchange – one of our most viral gift exchanges, the deck of cards tells you what happens to the gifts!
- Gift exchange dice game – the original dice gift exchange game, this one went crazy viral because it’s so fun and has been played by so many people!
- Chews your gift – a fun candy theme gift exchange that was super popular this year!
- Christmas never have I ever – a classic game turned into a fun gift exchange!
Best Christmas Party Games for Large Groups
If you have a large group and want everyone to be able to play a Christmas party game at the same time, these are my top recommendations! Many of the games already listed in this post work as well but if you just want a quick list, here you go!
- Saran wrap ball game – any number of people can play, just make your ball bigger! Same thing with the pop a prize game!
- Christmas music bingo – we have up to 72 unique cards available for this game and so many people have played this for office parties, youth groups, and more with large groups!
- Christmas minute to win it games – these ones are great because you can split any size group into teams so everyone can play!
- Christmas recall – there’s no limit to how many people can play this game because everyone plays on their own! People have played it in classrooms, offices, and more!
- Christmas higher or lower – a simple trivia game that has you guessing if a number is higher or lower, everyone just needs a piece of paper!
Best Office Christmas Party Games
Need something to play at your office Christmas party? These are the games that people tell me they play at work the most often!
- Christmas kisses trivia – this one is great because there’s a finite end to the game and the trivia questions are true and false!
- Christmas Jeopardy – this one is really fun for smaller group Christmas meetings, it can get super competitive! Same thing with Christmas family feud!
- Christmas Floor – you won’t believe how much fun this game is to not only play but also watch your colleagues play! It’s a bit more setup but a great holiday activity.
- Santa’s Grab Bag – this one has you answering questions on the spot to win prizes, it’s a fun one if you have a budget for some small prizes!
- Christmas movie trivia games – if you just want something to print out and see who can win, these are fun too!
Best Christmas Party Games for Teens
So many of the games in this post are great for teens but if you want my top choices, these are the best Christmas games for teens you’ll find! I’ve played these with my own teen plus my nieces and nephews and all agree they’re a blast!
- Don’t Eat Santa – a risk and reward game with the chance to win fun prizes!
- 12 days of Giftmas – a fun dice rolling game where you could be about to win one second and back at the end of the line the next!
- Let’s make a deal – easily my teen’s favorite game and not just because they had the chance to win big!
- Candy cane games – the competition was intense, these games are crazy, chaotic, and perfect for teens!
- Stack attack game – I think the risk part of this game really kept our teens engaged since it really adds an element on top of the trivia based game!
Questions We Get Asked a Lot
What Christmas games are good for classroom parties?
Class parties are a totally different ball game, and I know since I’ve been a room mom for years! It depends on the age, but I like to do some active games like some of our candy cane games plus a sit-down game like Christmas bingo! And don’t forget to make a Christmas punch game for prizes – they’re always a hit with kids!
What are good Christmas party games for small groups (like 6 people)?
If you have 6-10 people, I recommend games like Let’s Make a Deal, Christmas Price is Right, or Christmas Family Feud! Those all work better with smaller groups (although you can play them with larger groups as well).
More Christmas Activities
Need some fillers in between Christmas party games, try one of these fun printable activities!
- Christmas i-spy – a printable hidden pictures that’s perfect for Christmas parties!
- Christmas word search – see how many words you can find and how fast!
- Christmas mad libs – make silly stories by filling in the blanks!
- Christmas color by number – the cutest Christmas coloring pages that you color based on the number in the shape!
- Printable letter to Santa – let kids write out letters to Santa in between games!
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