If you are searching for your company’s Christmas party games ideas, you are now in the right place. Here are some of the favorite office Christmas party games that will definitely make your company Christmas party an event to remember.

 

Santa Hat Game

This game is suitable for festive gatherings with Santa hats. You need everyone to be wearing a hat, so either use the ever popular Santa hats, or otherwise give everyone a normal party hat.

The game is based on observation. The objective is NOT to be the last person left with a hat on. At the start announce the simple objective, the only rule is that no one can take their hat off until you have. Let another game or conversation take place, and as time goes by, people will take their attention off you, and even forget the game is happening.

Eventually remove your hat and watch as people cotton on. Gradually the hats will come off, amidst sniggers and smirks. Some unsuspecting person (who’s probably busy boring everyone with a hopeless story)will be last to notice, and much to every ones mirth, this person is the loser. Serve up an appropriate forfeit, get the hats back on and give the loser the chance to start the next game.

 

Christmas Stocking Guessing Game

Take a new large Christmas stocking, fill it with about 20 to 25 different objects of holiday gifts such as holly, scotch tape, ornament, pine cone, etc, and then tie a ribbon or decorative rope around the opening to make sure nobody peeks. You can use two stockings if you have too.

Pass the stocking to around with a piece of paper and a pen to all the guests. Tell them how many objects are in the stocking and have them write down all that they can feel. The person that correctly guesses the most objects in the sock are the winner, and the prize is, the things in the stocking of course!

 

The Bacon Factor

Take a list of 10 movie stars, any movie stars at all. Link that person to Kevin Bacon through movies in the least amount of steps possible.

Example: Dustin Hoffman was in Hook with Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts was in Flat-Liners with…Kevin Bacon!! Bacon factor is 1.

Don’t count the direct connection. You should be able to do this with just about any actor or actress from any time. The challenge is knowing all of the right movies and who was in them.

 

Name Those Logos

Cut out several advertisement symbols (ie. the 7up dot, but not the word 7up) from different magazines. Paste all the cut outs on several 3×5 cards and place it around the party hall.

Then ask everyone go around the room with an answer sheet and try to identify as many of the symbols as possible.

 

Holiday Office Guess Games

This game is considered one of the most entertaining among the office Christmas party games, as it will tell how well each employee knows their co-workers.

Get childhood photos of each person who worked in the company from spouses, family members, significant others, etc. At the party, post each picture on a huge white poster board with a number under each. Each member of the company had to write down who they thought each person was.

Another great idea to create this game is to secretly go around and snatch one somewhat ‘personal’ item off of their desk. At the party, lay everything out on a table, each assigned with a number. Everyone had to figure out which item came from whose desk.

It is interesting to see who knows what is on other people’s desks!

 

Employee Holiday Trivia Game

About three weeks before your company party /event, send an email message to all of your employees asking them to email you a tidbit of trivia about themselves and Christmas that they didn’t think that anyone else in the company knew about them.

Examples:

• I spent two weeks traveling Polar Bears during my college internship.
• I have played Santa on stage 3 times in the last 10 years.
• I was one of Santa’s elf’s at the mall when in high school.

These items can relate to travel, adventure and fun, the theme should focus on winter and or Christmas stories.

Then type up a sheet that has the trivia item in one column and the list of employees in the other column assigned with a letter. Have the employees write the letter of the employee that they thought matched the item of trivia. The employee that matched the most receives a prize.

Who am I?

Pick a category such as cartoon characters, movie stars, vegetables, etc. Pin the name of one of these items on the back of each guest as they arrive. Tell them that they need to find out who they are by asking other people for help. The rules are:

• Ask yes or no questions only
• Answer yes or no questions
• No removing your own name tag to find out. If you ask, anyone will help you find out your identity.

If you need people seated or grouped up this may be a good way to do it. Have place cards at the seat of each item. Or have a few different categories of item to guess. Then when it comes time to group up have the cartoon characters go here, vegetables there, etc.

 

Association Game

Put the following on a table:

• A calendar
• The letter K
• A match in a bottle of water
• Jar of 16 candies
• Toothbrush
• Pitcher
• Candle
• Salt
• Fork
• Tacks
• Buttercup (Reeses?)
• The letter N
• Stamp
• 2 dice on a dish of dirt
• An Iron

When the guests come, have the previous articles on a table. As they come, give them the following list. Match the statements on the list with the items on the table.

• End of pork (k)
• A bunch of dates (Calendar)
• A swimming match (match in the bottle)
• Sweet sixteen (Candies)
• Never borrowed, never lent (toothbrush)
• Seen at a ball game (pitcher)
• Out for the night (candle)
• The ending of a Biblical Character (Salt)
• Branching of a river (Fork)
• On of the causes of the American Revolution (Tacks)
• A spring flower (buttercup)
• The end of ambition (N)
• Ready to be licked (Stamp)
• A paradise on earth (dice)
• Birthplace of Burns (Iron)

 

Party Starters

This game has two purposes. First, to get things officially started with a bang. Second, some divide up a large group into smaller groups. Group games go much smoother and people are more willing to participate if they are split up from people they know and put into a random group. Grouping games are perfect for this.

 

Blind Gift Stacking

Start with two people sitting back to back on the floor or they can also sit in chairs with a table in front of them. Each person will be able to see the 5 – 6 gifts in front of them.

Now a third person will assemble one of the sets of gifts stacking them, leaning them, and arranging them in any fashion in front of one of the players. It is then the job of that player to describe what he or she is looking at and blindly guide the other player into assembling his or her gifts the same way.

Play two ways:
See who can complete the stack the fastest (So you will need a stopwatch)
If playing teams add the times together and the team with the lowest time wins.

See how many stacks they can get correct in 3 minutes. The team with the most gift stack done during their turn wins.

Time Saver Tip:
If you don’t have two sets of identical gifts wrap one set and then take photos of the gifts stacked in various ways. Then print out the photos of the gift stacks and turn them over and let the game begin.

If you do print them out, be sure to have two copies of each gift stack so the player describing the gift stack can have one and you as the judge can have the other. If you have a lot then number the gift stacks 1 – 10 so you know you are using the same ones.

 

The Grouping Game

This is a good game to play as a mixer. It is a fun, fast moving game. It starts out as everyone collects in one big group. The leader initially calls out a number, usually a number between two and fifteen. The number shouldn’t be more than half of the number of total participants.

When the number is called out everyone must try to collect in a group that contains that number of people. The group members should be latching arms or have their arms wrapped around each other so that the leader can see who is in the group.

If someone cannot enter a group because the number of required members has been reached, he is out of the game. As different numbers are successively called out the number of participants gets smaller and smaller.

Eventually, there are less than ten people. The last group, or winning group, should have anywhere from two to five people.

 

Pass The Bows

Team race to pass the bows from one end of the line to the other, but the tricky part is that they must pass it to each other while holding hands. This is quite a tricky Christmas game that takes a lot of patience.

Divide the group into teams of 6 to 10 people and have the teams line up side by side, either sitting or standing next to each other. At one end of the line place the six Christmas bows and at the other end have a table or stool where they can place the bows. Now with their left hand have each player grab the right wrist of the person to their right.

Now on when you say go, the teams must pass all the bows down to the one end and place them on the table or stool and then once all 6 bows are there they can start passing them back to the front of the line.

Note: If a bow falls, players must retrieve while still being connected and if the chain breaks all the bows currently being passed must move back to the beginning of the line. (Either the front – initial starting point or the table / stool – the half way point.)

 

What is it Game

Fill a large bowl with oddly shaped and strange items. Cover the bowl with an old towel taped firmly to the bowl, and cut a hole in the middle of the towel that is big enough for a hand to fit through. Have each guest sit in a chair, blind folded, then have them dig into the bowl and pull out an item. They must correctly guess what the item is too win a prize.

This one is a blast as you get to watch each person’s facial expression as they are feeling strange objects.

 

Creepers and Slammers

This is another great game among the office Christmas party games as it is a good game for large groups. Sitting at a table, have people sitting on either side of you and across from you. Divide your group into two teams. One team at a time takes a turn passing a quarter under the table carefully so that the people across from you on the other team can’t see where the quarter is.

Then at any time the other team that doesn’t have the quarter tells you to stop! They either yell CREEPERS, all the people on the team that has the quarter must bring both hands up on the table or slowly try to open their hands with their palms down trying not to allow the quarter to drop loudly.

The opposite team tries to guess where the quarter is. If the opposite team calls SLAMMERS then everyone on your team brings their hands up quickly slamming them down with palms down and opens. The other team tries to guess who has the quarter. Just take turns until you are tired of playing.

It is a lot of fun and everyone can join in. The winner is the team with least number of guesses to find the quarter.

 

Pass It ON

Sit close together in two lines facing the same direction. The person in the front of each line rolls a dice.

When one of them gets a six, both of them pass a small object (a jack, a ball, a bracelet) to the person behind them who passes it on until it reaches the end. When it gets to the last person, that person must get up and race to the front of the line with the object and sit down. The person who sits down first, gets to sit in the front of the line. The person who was second to sit down, goes back to his or her spot.

Whichever line rotates from back to front first, wins

 

Dragon Tail Tag

Make small chains of about four people. Either have team members hold on to each others waists or link elbows. The end person has a flag or tail (bandana) hanging behind them or in their back pocket.

Teams must stay linked to participate. The object of the game is to steal other teams tails while avoiding other teams who are trying to steal your tail. The last team to have a tail wins

 

Musical Chairs

The old favorite among all the office Christmas party games. With one fewer chairs than people, a short snippet of music is played while the people move around the room. When the music stops everyone tries to sit on a vacant chair. (Only ONE person per chair) The person who doesn’t find a chair is out. One chair is taken away and the game continues until only one person (The Winner) is left.

 

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