BEST HOUSE PARTY GAMES
FOR AN EPIC NIGHT IN
You don't need a bar to have a legendary game night. These are the best drinking games, card games, and party games you can play at home with friends — no special equipment needed.
WHAT YOU NEED FOR A HOUSE PARTY GAME NIGHT
A Deck of Cards
One standard deck unlocks King's Cup, Ride the Bus, Spades, Rummy, and dozens more.
Cups & Drinks
Plastic cups for Beer Pong and Flip Cup. Your drink of choice (or go non-alcoholic).
Our Free Printables
Print our Spicy Trivia cards, Doom Cards, and score sheets for instant party games.
TOP HOUSE PARTY GAMES
Every game below works at home with minimal equipment. Tap for full rules.
1How to Play Beer Die (Snappa)
Beer Die — also called Snappa — is a precision throwing game where two teams try to toss a die and land it in the opponent's cup while defending their own.
2How to Play Beer Olympics
Beer Olympics is not one game, it is a tournament — four teams, six events, ten minutes each, points after every one, and medals at the end. Here is the whole format.
3How to Play Beer Pong
The quintessential party game. Learn the official beer pong rules, table setup, throwing techniques, and house rule variations that make the game legendary.
4How to Play Buzz
Buzz is counting out loud with the number seven banned. Any seven, any multiple of seven, you say buzz instead, and the table rarely makes it to twenty.
5How to Play Cards Against Humanity
Cards Against Humanity is the darkly hilarious party game where players complete fill-in-the-blank statements with the most outrageous, offensive, or funny answers they can find.
6How to Play Cheers to the Governor
Cheers to the Governor is counting to twenty-one around a circle. Get there clean and the table toasts together, and whoever said 21 gets to change the rules.
7How to Play Flip Cup
The fast-paced team relay drinking game. Learn the rules, technique, and variations for Flip Cup — the ultimate party starter.
8How to Play Jenga Drinking Game
Drunk Jenga takes the classic block-stacking game and adds personalized rules on every piece — pull a block, follow its rule or drink. The tower doesn't last long.
9How to Play King's Cup
The classic drinking card game where every card has a rule. Learn the standard King's Cup rules, popular variations, and tips for an unforgettable game night.
10How to Play Medusa
Medusa is heads down, count of three, everyone looks up at once. Lock eyes with someone looking straight back at you and you are both drinking.
11How to Play Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever is the ultimate get-to-know-you party game — say something you've never done, and everyone who HAS done it drinks. The confessions get wild fast.
12How to Play Power Hour
Power Hour is the ultimate endurance drinking challenge — take a shot of beer every minute for 60 minutes. Simple concept, legendary execution.
13How to Play Quarters
Quarters is a classic bar drinking game where players bounce a quarter off the table into a glass — make it and you choose who drinks.
14How to Play Rage Cage (Stack Cup)
Rage Cage — also called Stack Cup — is a fast-paced group drinking game where two ping pong balls race around the table and you drink if you get caught in the middle.
15How to Play Ride the Bus
Ride the Bus is a brutal card-based drinking game where you answer four guesses about each card drawn — get it wrong and you drink. The real punishment comes at the end when someone has to 'ride the bus.'
16How to Play Sink the Biscuit
Sink the Biscuit has one cup in the middle and no turn order at all. Everybody bounces at the same time, and the first ball in decides who drinks.
17How to Play Slap Cup
Slap Cup is two balls chasing each other around the table, a cluster of cups in the middle, and a slap that is exactly what it sounds like.
18How to Play Spoons
Spoons is a fast-and-furious card game where you race to collect four-of-a-kind and grab a spoon — but there's always one fewer spoon than players.
19How to Play Thumper
Thumper is a table full of people drumming, a hand sign for every player, and a chain of signs that only breaks when somebody's brain goes blank.
20How to Play Up and Down the River
Up and Down the River is a prediction-based card game where you bet on how many tricks you'll win each round — get it wrong and you drink.
21How to Play Waterfall
Waterfall is one deck, one circle, and four suits that each do something different. Hearts drink, Diamonds point, Clubs write the rules, and Spades start a chain nobody can break early.
HOUSE PARTY TIPS FROM THE PROS
Start with a Group Game
Kick off with King's Cup or Flip Cup— they're easy to explain, get everyone involved immediately, and break the ice fast.
Have a Tournament Option Ready
Set up a Beer Pong bracket or Spicy Trivia tournament for the competitive crowd. Print our score sheets.
Keep Card Games on Deck
When the party winds down, switch to Spades, Rummy, or Ride the Bus for smaller groups.
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