Holiday party games
Games the whole party plays at once, each person on their own phone, with Christmas questions already loaded. Free, and nothing to print.
Free · up to 20 players · no app, no signup
Most Christmas party games are built for one person reading from a sheet while everyone else watches. That works for six people around a table. It falls apart at a work party, a family gathering of twenty, or anywhere half the room is too shy to shout out an answer.
The games below work differently. Everyone answers at the same time on their own phone, the answers come up together, and the whole room reacts at once. The quiet cousin scores as easily as the loud uncle, and there is nobody stuck waiting for a turn.
One person starts a room
Pick a game and press create. You get a room code and a link to share.
Everyone joins on their phone
Each player opens the link or types the code. No app, no download and no account.
Put it on the TV if you like
Most games have a "Put it on the big screen" button in the lobby. Open herdgamesonline.com/tv on the TV and type the code it shows.
Each one opens with its Christmas questions loaded, ready to play.
Everyone answers the same question, like "Name a Christmas movie" or "What do you leave out for Santa?", and you score by giving the same answer as most of the room. It is a bit like Family Feud, except the answers come from the people in the room, so every reveal gets a reaction.
Snowy cabin or sunny beach? Real tree or a perfect fake one? Everyone votes, the split comes up, and the arguments start. It takes ten seconds to learn, so it is the easy first game while people arrive. Anyone who comes late joins the next game with the same code. All 60 questions are on the Christmas Would You Rather page too.
A live Christmas quiz: carols, films, traditions and reindeer. The host runs it, everyone answers on their own phone, and the leaderboard decides who wins. Put it on the TV and it feels like a proper quiz night.
One person asks a question like "What should Santa’s side hustle be?" and everyone writes an answer. The asker picks a favorite and everyone else bets on which one it will be. The best answers are the ones that make the asker laugh.
A random letter and a list of Christmas categories, like "Something on a Christmas tree" or "A reason to be late for Christmas dinner". You only score for answers nobody else wrote, so it gets competitive fast.
Split the room into two teams. Describe the word without saying the five banned words while the other team watches for slips. Good for the middle of the evening when the room needs a lift.
Say Anything and Herd Mentality are the ones adults keep asking to play again, because the answers are about the people in the room. For an adults-only night, the "adults" and "funny" sections of Christmas Would You Rather are a good warm-up.
Pick games where everyone answers at once: Team Trivia, Herd Mentality and Would You Rather. A free room holds up to 20 players. For a bigger crowd, see the larger rooms.
Start with the kids’ Would You Rather questions and Christmas Scattergories, and pair the youngest players with a grown-up on one phone. There are more ideas in Christmas games for the family.
Office parties need games that get the quiet people playing and work for a mix of people in the room and on a call. See office Christmas party games, or virtual holiday party games if everyone is remote.
Run the whole hour as a party night: the games back to back, everyone's phone moving from one to the next by itself, and one scoreboard with a winner at the end.
Games where everyone answers at once rather than waiting for a turn. Herd Mentality with Christmas questions (you score by giving the same answer as most of the room), Say Anything with Christmas prompts, and Christmas Would You Rather all work well, and all of them are played on your own phone.
Games where the whole room answers at the same time, so nobody waits for a turn. Team Trivia and Herd Mentality both work like that. Each person plays on their own phone, so a big group is just a longer leaderboard.
Yes. Every game here runs in the phone’s web browser. One person starts a room and everyone else joins with the link or the room code. There is no app to download and nobody needs an account.
No. The questions are already in the game, and each player sees them on their own phone. If you would rather read questions aloud, the Christmas Would You Rather questions are all listed on their own page.
Yes. Every game is free to play, with up to 20 players in a room. For a bigger party there are paid plans for larger rooms.
Yes. Send them the room link. They play on their own phone wherever they are, and you can keep a video call open so everyone can see and hear each other.
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