30 Festive & Funny Christmas Party Games For Adults in 2025
The holidays should sparkle with laughter and joy. But sometimes adult Christmas parties can fizzle into polite small talk and clock-watching. Not this year!
These Christmas party games for adults will guarantee laughter, competition, and just the right amount of holiday mischief. Whether you’re hosting:
- a cozy friends’ night
- an office party
- or the ultimate family gathering
From hilarious gift exchanges to laugh-out-loud challenges, every game on this list is festive, easy to set up, and perfect for groups. Best of all? They work in any space. No snow required.
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Laugh-Out-Loud Icebreakers & Group Christmas Party Games For Adults
1. Sneaky Little Elves
Give each guest 5–10 Christmas stickers. Their mission? Secretly stick them on other guests without getting caught. If they’re busted mid-stick, they take the sticker back and accept one from the person who caught them. The first person to use all their stickers wins!
2. Who Is Most Likely To: Holiday Edition
“Who’s most likely to still have their tree up in March?”
Ask a funny ‘Who is most likely to?” Christmas question. Count down from three. On “one,” everyone has to point to whoever in the group they think is the most likely to do whatever funny thing was said. The person with the most fingers pointed at them drinks or earns group points.
3. Never Have I Ever: Naughty List Edition
Start with 10 tokens (candy, coins, or drinks). Every “Never have I ever…” costs you a token if you’ve done it. Keep it sweet or turn up the naughty depending on the crowd.
Use this game for a fun adult Christmas gift exchange, too!
4. 5 Second Sleigh Ride
*Super Popular Game
Players have five seconds to name three holiday-related things. Fail, and you’re out!
Don’t miss the game cards in the printable shop. They make it easy to play in groups!
5. Guess Who: Hilarious Xmas Party Game
Who’s on your party hat!? Let’s put your detective skills to the test!
The Guess Who Christmas Party Game brings on a little holiday competition. This festive twist on the classic game will have everyone guessing and giggling in minutes. It’s perfect for breaking the ice as players race to figure out their secret character.
6. Cards Against Christmas
Play the outrageous card game with the Christmas expansion pack for some holiday-specific, cringe-worthy hilarity.
7. Team Tinsel Charades (In Reverse!)
Instead of one person acting and the team guessing, the whole team acts out the Christmas charades prompt while one person guesses.
Grab the entire set of game cards in the printable shop!
8. Holiday Trivia Shots
Split into teams for some fun holiday trivia. Play Christmas jeopardy or turn it into a drinking game. Wrong answer? Take a shot!
More Christmas trivia to use:
9. Would You Rather: Naughty Or Nice?
Pose festive dilemmas like, “Would you rather untangle Christmas lights for 3 hours or wrap 50 oddly-shaped gifts?”
10. Ho-Ho-Holiday Psych
Download the Psych app and answer holiday trivia with hilarious made-up answers. Try to guess the real answer or get others to believe yours.
11. OFF Topic: Naughty or Nice?
Each player grabs a card, fills in the blank, and drops it into a bowl. Then, one by one, everyone takes a turn guessing who wrote which card. The player with the most correct guesses is crowned the winner!
Be Naughty or Nice: Tailor the fun to your group. Keep it sweet and wholesome for all ages, or add a cheeky twist for an adults-only crowd.
12. Ho-Ho-No!
Try this classic Christmas Taboo game. To play, guess holiday words without using obvious clues. Can you describe “snowman” without saying “snow” or “frosty”? How about “Rudolph” without saying “reindeer” or “red-nose”?
13. Merry Dissmas
Play an epic truth-telling card game about your friends and family that will turn your holiday party into a laugh-out-loud roast!
14. Holly Jolly Telephone Pictionary
- Give everyone a stack of paper and a pencil.
- Start by writing holiday-themed words and phrases like “Santa stuck in a chimney” or “Elf snowball fight.” on the first sheet of your stack. Keep it a secret!
- Pass your stack to the person on your right.
- The next person looks at the word or phrase, flips it to the back of the stack, and draws what they think it means on the next sheet.
- Pass again to the right.
- This time, the person looks at just the drawing, flips it to the back, and writes a new word or phrase based on what they think the drawing is.
- Keep passing, alternating between writing and drawing, until the stacks go all the way around the circle.
- When everyone gets their original stack back, take turns flipping through the pages and reading them aloud.
Get ready to laugh at how far off the final guess is from the original word or phrase!
Related: Best Christmas Party Games for Work
Festive Competitions & Party Challenges
15. Minute To Win It: Mistletoe Mayhem
Play festive one-minute challenges with candy canes, ornaments, and holiday candy. For this game, players aim to transfer red and green M&M candies from one plate to another using only suction from the straw, without using their hands!
Want to up the challenge? Try using chopsticks instead. For an extra twist, separate the M&Ms by color into two different bowls as you move them.
16. Oven Mitt Madness
I played this game a few years ago with adults, and it was hilarious!
The Oven Mitt Christmas Game is equal parts chaos and laughter. Imagine frantically trying to unwrap a gift…
- while wearing bulky oven mitts
- while everyone else cheers and yells
- while the person next to you maybe tries to steal your turn
It’s simple, hilarious, and guaranteed to become a crowd favorite at your Christmas party.
17. Fa La-La-La-Fabulous! Ugly Sweater Contest
Try a “Who’s who” of ugly sweaters. Ask everyone to submit a photo of themselves in their ugly sweater ahead of time. Then post them on a slideshow or bulletin board without names and faces.
Coworkers have to guess who’s who!
Or just have everyone wear their ugly sweaters to the party. Award prizes for like:
- Best team theme
- Most festive
- Most likely made by grandma
- Most likely to blind Santa
- Most inappropriate for HR
18. Gingerbread House Speed Build
Set out a table of materials. Then give teams 10 minutes to decorate a mini gingerbread house. Creativity counts!
19. Giant Holiday Hunt
Hide candy canes, little ornaments, Santa figurines, or mini nativity pieces throughout the party space. Guests hunt for the hidden treasures, and whoever collects the most by the end of the night takes home the win!
The funnier the hiding spots, the better!
20. Jolly Pants Toss
One player slips into oversized Santa pants while the others race to toss “snowballs” (cotton balls or soft white balls) into the pockets. Want extra laughs? Make it a relay challenge and see which team can stuff Santa the fastest!
21. Emoji Elves Movie Challenge
Give players a sheet with strings of emojis that represent Christmas movie titles. The first player to guess all of them wins.
22. Christmas Cocktail Competition
For this, teams compete to create the ultimate festive beverage (alcoholic or non-alcoholic). Each team crafts a signature holiday drink and gives it a creative name. Judges (the rest of the group) score each concoction based on taste, appearance, and creativity.
Add a twist by providing each team with a “mystery ingredient” they must use like peppermint, cranberry, or cinnamon sticks.
23. Name That Holiday Tune
Play snippets of Christmas songs and have guests guess the title or artist. Bonus points for finishing the lyric or singing the next line of the song!
24. Candy Cane Cash Grab
The Candy Cane Cash Grab game is the perfect mix of competition and mystery! With candy canes wrapped in cash, every round keeps players on their toes as they win and steal their way to the best stash.
25. Ornament Guess
Fill a jar with mini ornaments, peppermints, or bows. Or have guests guess the number of ornaments on the Christmas tree. Closest wins!
26. Blind Wrap Challenge
One person is blindfolded and holds the wrapping paper, tape, and ribbon. Their partner gives only verbal instructions to guide them through wrapping the gift. The goal? Wrap the present as neatly (or hilariously) as possible before the timer runs out.
27. Ho-Ho-Hat Swap
At the start of the party, pick a trigger word (like “Christmas,” “Santa,” or “Gift”). Whenever someone says that word, they must put on a ridiculous Santa hat or ugly sweater. The hat keeps getting passed around as others slip up!
Gift Exchange Christmas Party Games For Adults
28. Jingle Bell Steal
Play the classic dice gift exchange game, but spice it up by adding a rule: before stealing, the player must sing a Christmas carol, wear a silly Santa hat, or answer a holiday trivia question.
29. Saran Wrap Roll
Wrap prizes in layers of Saran Wrap, adding candy and small trinkets throughout (mini bottles of alcohol, gift cards, lottery scratch-off cards, mini condiments, and funny magnets make this game more adult-themed). Players unwrap while the next player rolls the dice. When doubles are rolled, the ball passes.
30. Reindeer Solo Cup Game
*You might be surprised how satisfying it is to punch through a cup!
You can do this Solo Cup Christmas Game with prizes or as a gift exchange. You can do it as a gift swap in two ways:
1. Instead of placing money or gifts in the cups, put numbers in the cups. The number each participant punches out will be the order of your gift exchange. Or you can have each number correspond to a specific wrapped gift.
2. Have everyone bring a gift that’s small enough to put in a cup. Then, make the punching process your actual gift exchange. How fun!
31. “As Seen on Sleigh-V”
Every gift must be something ridiculous (and preferably useless) from an “As Seen on TV” ad. The fun is in the absurdity. Think bacon-scented alarm clocks or questionable kitchen gadgets.
32. Secret Santa Roast
A twist on Secret Santa! Buy funny or quirky gifts, then roast the person (lightheartedly!) before giving it to them.
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