These printable New Year’s Eve games are perfect for any New Year’s Eve celebration! Simply print out one of the five New Year’s Eve trivia games and see how much you can remember about the year’s biggest news, pop culture, and sporting events! These are definitely our favorite best New Year’s Eve party games to play each year!
New Year’s Eve Trivia Games
One of my favorite traditions each year is creating printable New Year’s Eve games based on pop culture, sports, and news events from the year.
I’ve been creating New Year’s Eve trivia games for the last ten years, and they’re always a big hit for New Year’s. I have people email me every single year asking for the games because they’ve played them for years and want them!
I like to put one in each of our New Year’s Eve countdown boxes and play all night long!
While you could play these possibly with teens or young adults, the questions will likely be tricky for kids! If you’re playing with kids, these New Year’s Eve minute to win it games or really any of the New Year’s Eve party games on this list would work!
So grab a glass of new years punch and get to playing!
2025 update!
All of the games have been updated for 2025! I also created a 2025 New Year’s Eve Jeopardy that would be fun to go with these this year!
Printable New Year’s Eve Party Games
I thought last year was tough to create these games but let me just say 2025 may have been the hardest year ever to make these games.
I typically try to stick to movies, music, pop culture, sports, etc. and avoid the controversial things like politics and negative things like arrests, disasters, and so on. But unfortunately those were impossible to keep out this year, so there are some factual things in there that hopefully aren’t too controversial!
I tried hard this year to get in as many different things as possible and not use the same things across games but with creating five different games with at least 20 things each, it’s actually very challenging to not repeat things across games.
I also created a 2025 Jeopardy game this year that would be a fun New Year’s eve trivia game too! There are even more trivia questions there but some of them are repeats of the questions included in here.
Where are the Answers???
Before we get into the games, I’m going to answer the #1 question I get about these printable New Year’s Eve games every year – where are the answers??
The answers are in the PDF file that you get when you enter your first name and email address in the pink form toward the bottom of this post. You have to fill out the form or buy a copy of the game in my shop to get the answers.
New Year’s Eve Game #1 – 2025 Movie Match
I brought back my popular pop culture matching game because this was a really fun year for movies with family-friendly hits like The Minecraft Movie and classic movie sequels like Happy Gilmore 2!
If you’ve never played this one before, all you do is match the movie to the quote. I went with all movies that were PG-13 or less to try and get movies that more people will likely have seen!
New Year’s Eve Game #3 – 2025 Trivia Game
This is one is just what it sounds like – trivia from the year. No matching, no fill in the blanks, and no shortcuts – you either know the answer or you don’t.
I’ve heard from a lot of teachers that they like to use this with their students on the last day before winter break so honestly while it’s great for New Year’s Eve (and one of my favorites), it’s really just fun any time you want some year end trivia!
This is probably the toughest of all of these New Year’s Eve party games because you actually have to know the answer, no hints or clues. This is also a fun one to play just to remind people that there are some good things that happened this year!
I also include a section at the bottom for big awards and events of the year to give people a chance who may not be able to come up with answers to all of the 2025 trivia questions!
New Year’s Eve Game #3 – Celebrity Death Match
I created this game as a way to remember the celebrity icons that passed away this year. This does not mean that the lives of any of these celebrities are more important than the other hundreds of thousands who died this year, it’s just because they’re celebrities that universally people may know.
And I know each death hits people a little differently.
In this game, I’ve put together 25 of the most famous celebrities who passed away in 2025 on the left side. On the right side, there are words and phrases – each one is closely associated with one of the celebrities who passed away. This includes people from January all the way through Rob Reiner on December 14th.
Match the celebrities to the correct phrase on the right side to get a point. But be careful, some of them are a little tricky! There’s only one celebrity match per phrase.
New Year’s Eve Game #4 – Whodonit 2025?
I added this game last year for the first time and had good feedback on the game it’s now a new staple!
In this game, you just have to guess the person that the statement fits. It’s not necessarily easy or hard, just depends on if you can come up with the right names. I personally think it’s a fun one and a good addition to the New Year’s Eve trivia collection for this year!
New Year’s Eve Trivia Game #5 – Where Did 2025 Go?
This is one of those games that is tricky to play but so fun. I actually skipped making it one year, and I had so many people email me and ask to bring it back – well it’s here to stay!
The idea is to put the happenings in order from January to December and if you can guess the exact date, you get an extra point! I tried my best to pick things that you might actually remember the date or at least the time of the year, mostly.
Where is the fill in the blank game?
I’ve been creating a New Year’s Eve fill in the blank trivia game for years now. I’m still planning on creating it, but it takes more time than these ones so likely won’t be up until sometime closer to Christmas. Feel free to come back around Christmas to get that one as well but for now, enjoy these five!
Previous Years Trivia Questions
If you’re looking for the 2024 games, you can get them here.
If you’re looking for the 2023 games, you can get them here.
If you’re looking for the 2022 games, you can get them here.
If you are looking for 2021 games, you can get the old copies here.
More New Year’s Eve Games
Want something other than trivia? Try one of these fun New Year’s Eve games too!
- New Year’s Day games
- New Year’s Eve outburst – specific to 2025 topics!
- New Year’s would you rather
- New Year’s Eve Dice Game
- New Year’s Eve Scattergories
- New Year’s Eve games
Get the Free Printable Trivia Games
Enter your first name and email address below to get the free printables – both the games and the answers.
If you’d rather not fill out the form, you can get a copy in my shop here as well.
If you don’t see the form below, click here to get to it.
The file includes all five games mentioned above for 2025 and answer sheets, plus my use policy – everything is for personal use only, no commercial or for profit use.
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