20 Easiest New Year’s Eve Minute To Win It Games To Ring In 2025
Get ready for hilarious party fun with our list of 20 New Year’s Eve Minute to Win It games!
These quick and easy New Year’s Eve minute-to-win-it games are perfect for:
- Holiday family game nights
- New Year’s Eve parties
- Easy entertainment on cold winter days
Whether you’re hosting a family party or a festive get-together with friends, these simple games get everyone excited to ring in the New Year!
The best part? These easy New Year-themed games require only a few repeated supplies and don’t leave a big mess behind.
See who can complete the exciting tasks in just a minute! Grab a timer and play until the ball drops!
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Easy New Year’s Eve Minute To Win It Games
Pro Tip: If your family loves Minute to Win It games, set aside some of the commonly used materials and store them for easy reuse every time you play.
1. Clock Ball Drop
Supplies: Minimum 12 ping pong balls, 12 plastic cups
How To Play: Arrange cups in a circle like a countdown clock. Players have one minute to drop as many ping-pong balls into the cups as they can!
Pro Tips: The cups may tip over, and the ping pong balls will likely bounce everywhere! Have an extra player on hand to reset the cups, gather stray balls, and pass ping pong balls as needed.
2. Ball Drop Toss
Supplies: Ping pong balls, plastic cups or bowls
How To Play: Players must stand on a chair and attempt to drop ping pong balls into a bowl or cup on the ground. Players must successfully land a designated number of ping pong balls into the cup without it bouncing out before time is up.
To make it trickier, add a blindfold!
Pro Tip: Since plastic cups can tip over easily, switch to a small bucket, bowl, or even a small trash can if players are finding it tricky.
3. Kisses Countdown
Supplies: 12 chocolate kisses, 12 plastic cups
How To Play: Write numbers 1–12 on the bottoms of chocolate kisses and hide each one under a plastic cup. Arrange the 12 numbered cups in a circle like a clock. Players take turns uncovering a kiss and placing it in the correct “hour” spot on the clock.
Make it a race! This is an easy set up for two games at once.
Pro Tip: Number the cups 1-12 to make the game easier for younger kids.
4. New Year’s Kisses
Supplies: Hershey Kisses, large craft sticks
How To Play: Players hold a craft stick in their mouth with 1–5 Hershey Kisses balanced on top (adjust the number based on age). The goal is to walk to a designated spot and back within a minute without dropping any Kisses! If a Kiss falls, they must go back to the start and try again.
5. Kiss Unwrap
Supplies: Hershey kisses, toothpicks
How To Play: Challenge players to use only one toothpick to unwrap as many Hershey Kisses as possible within one minute. The player who unwraps the most Kisses by the end wins.
For younger kids, make it easier by allowing them to use a toothpick in each hand.
Also, check out more Easy Minute To Win It Games!
6. Cup Stack With Party Balloons
*Challenging party fun for older kids and adults
Supplies: One balloon per player, 6-10 plastic cups per player
How To Play: The goal is to blow up a ballon only enough to pick up the plastic cup and put it in the stack. No hands allowed! The first player to stack all of their cups within a minute wins!
Pro Tip: My kids found this one challenging! To make it easier, I let them hold the balloon in their mouth with their hands and used only 4–6 cups.
7. Can You Keep Up Your Resolution?
Supplies: Party balloons, markers
How To Play: Blow up three balloons per player and have each player write a short resolution on each of the balloons. Players must keep their three balloons in the air for the full minute to win.
Related: New Years This Or That Questions Game Printable
8. Party Blower
Supplies: Party blowers for each player, plastic cups, pom poms
How To Play: Set up 10 cups upside down and place a pom-pom on top of each one. Players have one minute to use their party blowers to knock off all the pom-poms.
Related: Most Fun New Year’s Eve 5 Second Rule Game
9. Black Eyed Pea Blow
Supplies: Party blowers, black-eyed peas
How To Play: Players must use a party blower to move a black-eyed pea from one end of the table or floor to the other.
Did you know? Black-eyed peas are eaten in the Southern United States for good luck and prosperity.
10. Prosperity Pass
Supplies: Tweezers, Black-eyed peas
How To Play: Players transfer black-eyed peas from one plate to another using tweezers. The person with the most after a minute is the lucky winner!
Planning activities for a Christmas party? Try these New Year’s Trivia Questions!
11. Around The Clock
Supplies: Small candies, straws, paper plate with clock numbers written on it
How To Play: Players will pick up small candies one at a time using only a straw and their mouth. They must carefully place each candy onto the clock, starting with 12:00 and working their way around in order.
*Players can complete two rounds in a minute to make it more challenging.
12. Party Hat Push
Supplies: Pointy party hats, pom poms or cotton balls
How To Play: Each player puts a party hat on. The goal is to push a pom pom across the floor to a finish line only using their hat in under a minute.
13. Party Hat Catch
Supplies: Party hats, pom poms
How To Play: Divide players into pairs. Partner 1 stands a few feet behind Partner 2, who holds a party hat. Partner 1 throws pom-poms over their head, and Partner 2 must catch them without turning around or looking back.
To make it easier, allow Partner 2 to turn around and face Partner 1 while catching the pom-poms.
14. Party Hats Off
Supplies: Party hats, ping pong balls
How To Play: Set up a row of party hats along the edge of the table. Players stand on the opposite side of the table and take turns bouncing ping pong balls to knock the party hats off the table.
15. Gummy Bear Hunt
Supplies: Paper plates, gummy bears, whipped cream
How To Play: Each player receives a plate with 5-10 gummy bears buried in whipped cream. The goal is to dig out the gummy bears the fastest without using hands.
Have a kid-friendly gummy bear New Year’s Toast after playing!
16. Gummy Bear Toss
Supplies: Gummy bears, plastic champagne flutes
How To Play: Players have one minute to toss as many gummy bears as they can into a plastic champagne flute. One player holds and slides the flute around to catch the gummy bears while the other player tosses.
17. Champagne Flute Stack
Supplies: Plastic champagne flutes
How To Play: Players team up in pairs and race against the clock to see who can build the tallest tower of champagne flutes in just one minute.
Use hilarious holiday team names while playing these minute-to-win games to get everyone in the holiday spirit!
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18. Roll To Midnight
Supplies: Two dice
How To Play: Players try to roll to midnight (roll two sixes) as many times as they can in one minute. The player who rolls the most midnights is the winner!
19. New Years Words
Supplies: pens, paper
How to Play: Players compete to see how many words they can form from the phrase “Happy New Year” in just 60 seconds. To make it more fun and manageable, team up in pairs and brainstorm together.
20. New Year’s Eve Toast Minute To Win It Games
Supplies: Glowsticks and bottles of sparkling juice
How To Play: Toss a glowstick and ring it around a bottle of sparkling juice as many times as you can in a minute.
More Holiday Minute To Win It Games
Got some leftover Christmas candy canes? Put them to good use at your New Year’s Eve party!
With those and many of the supplies you already have on hand, you can easily turn your holiday leftovers into fun Christmas Minute to Win It games!
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