30 Fun Minute To Win It Games For Party (Printable Cards)
Looking for fun party games or ideas for a family game night? Here are the best Minute to Win It games for kids and adults that are perfect for get-togethers, birthday parties, team buildings, or any occasion where you want to add a burst of excitement and laughter!
Minute to win it games are a fantastic way to bring people together, whether it’s for a family game night, birthday party for kids or adults. These games are quick and easy to set up, and guaranteed to deliver fun for all ages.
Whether you’re hosting a birthday bash, a family game night, or just want to add fun to your weekend, these best minute-to-win-it party games will have everyone laughing and cheering.
Why These One Minute To Win It Games Are Perfect for Any Party?
We love playing minute to win games at our parties and it’s so easy to guess why! These one minute challenges (aka games) bring a unique blend of excitement and laughter, making them a fantastic addition to any gathering.
- Quick and Engaging: Fast-paced 60-second games keep the energy high and everyone entertained.
- Easy Setup: Quick and Simple, budget-friendly games and sometimes you need everyday household items only.
- Fun for All Ages: Suitable for kids, adults, and mixed-age groups.
- Encourages Interaction: Great icebreakers that get people talking, laughing, and bonding.
- Inclusive and Competitive: Easy to play, ensuring everyone can join in the fun.
- Memorable Entertainment: Create lasting memories and add excitement to any party.
Adding these games to your party ensures everyone has a great time and leaves with a smile!
What Are Minute To Win It Games?
Minute to Win It games are 60 second challenges that you can play with friends and family. The goal is to complete a task or challenge in just one minute, which makes it super exciting! Whosoever,
These games are easy, fun, and can be played by both kids and adults.
Supplies For Minute To Win It Games
The best thing about Minute to Win It games is that they’re easy to set up with just a few everyday items.
These supplies depend on the game you’re playing, but in general, you’ll need a stopwatch, a scorecard, and common items like plastic cups, ping pong balls, straws, or balloons.
How To Play Minute To Win It Games
- Minute to Win It for Individual players– Man vs. Clock: One player tries to finish a challenge in under a minute. If they do, they win a prize!
- Minute to Win It for Groups (Duel Play): Two players face off against each other, trying to complete the game faster than the other.
- Minute to Win It for Teams: Divide the group into teams. For each game, one player from each team competes against the other team’s player(s).
How To Prepare To Play These Minute To Win It Games
Please read all the games and supply lists in advance. This printable list includes games for all ages. Sometimes easy games are more fun than difficult ones.
Choose the games you’ll like to play and gather supplies. Write the names of the games you’ll be playing on the scorecard. You can use your phone timer to keep a track of time.
Record each player/team’s time taken or count (based on individual game instructions) on the scorecard. Award winners with prizes and have fun! Don’t forget to take pictures and have a great time!
Holiday Minute To Win It Games
Looking to add some festive fun to your holiday celebrations?
Holiday-themed Minute to Win It games are a great way to bring holiday cheer and excitement to any gathering!
Whether it’s Christmas, Halloween, or Thanksgiving, there are plenty of creative and seasonal games that fit perfectly with the holiday spirit.
Check out these holiday-specific one minute game ideas that will make your celebrations even more memorable!
- Christmas Minute To Win Games
- Halloween Minute To Win Games
- New Years Minute To Win Games
Best Fun Minute To Win It Games For Adults And Kids
1. Cereal Box Puzzle
✔For Kids and adults
What you need: Cereal box cover, scissors
Cereal Box Scramble is a fun game where the objective is to reconstruct the puzzle pieces of a cereal box cover.
It is a simple game that can be played by anyone, and all you need is an empty cereal box and a pair of scissors. This game is not only fun but also an excellent way to improve your problem-solving and cognitive skills.
It is a great activity for kids, as it helps them develop their hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness.
How to play: In Cereal Box Scramble, you need to put the puzzle pieces of a cereal box cover back together.
- Make the puzzles by cutting up the front of empty cereal boxes.
- Stack the pieces and set a timer for one minute.
- The first person to fix the cereal box picture wins!
2. Cookie Face
✔For Kids and adults
What you need: A cookie
Cookie Face is a fun game where players place a cookie on their forehead and use their facial muscles to move it down into their mouth without using their hands.
It’s a great party game that improves facial muscle coordination and can relieve stress.
How to play: To play Cookie Face, you will need a cookie for each player, preferably a cookie that is flat and lightweight.
Each player will place the cookie on their forehead, and when the game begins, they have to use their eyebrows, nose, and mouth to move the cookie down their face and into their mouth.
💡The game can be played with a timer or without one, and the player who successfully gets the cookie into their mouth without dropping it or using their hands is the winner.
3. Scoop It Up
✔For Kids and adults
What you need: Ping Pong balls or cotton balls, spoons, bowls
Scoop It Up is a fun and interactive game that can be played by kids and adults alike.
How to play: The objective of the game is to scoop up as many small objects as possible using a small spoon or a spoon before the time runs out.
- Gather small objects such as cotton balls or ping pong balls.
- Place them in a bowl or a flat plate
- Set a timer for a minute.
- Players use a spoon or a scoop to pick up items and move them to a bowl
- The player with the most objects at the end of the game wins.
Scoop It Up is an excellent way to improve hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills, making it a great game for children.
4. Cup Stack
✔For teens, tweens and adults
What you need: 36 cups
Cup Stack is another fun game that anyone can play (just not very young kids) and one of the best to play in a team of 2.
Cup Stack is a great game as it helps improve hand-eye coordination and motor skills, making it perfect for children as well.
How to play: The game involves stacking cups as fast as possible in a pattern.
- To play Cup Stack, you will need 36 cups and a flat surface, such as a table or desk.
- Players try to build a pyramid, break it back down and re-stack the cups in a minute.
- The player/team who completes the pyramid first wins the game.
5. Defy Gravity Game
✔For kids and adults
What you need: Balloons
Defy Gravity (Balloons Up in the Air) Minute to Win It Game is an exciting and fast-paced game that challenges players to keep balloons in the air for as long as possible.
It’s perfect for all ages, and great for all types gatherings.
How to play: The game is simple and requires only a few items: balloons, a timer, and a large open space.
- To play the game, players inflate 3 balloons and toss them into the air.
- Players try to keep them up in the air for one minute using only one hand and other parts of the body.
- If a balloon falls, you lose the game.
💡You can decrease the number of balloons to 1 or 2 for younger kids.
Defy Gravity Minute to Win It Game is an excellent way to improve hand-eye coordination, reflexes, and concentration in kids.
6. Apple Stack Game
✔For kids
What you need: Apples
The game is a simple, and fun game for kids. The goal is to stack apples on top of each other without them falling over.
How to play:The player who stacks the most apples (5) without them falling over wins the game.
This is a great game for hand and eye coordination and can be played anywhere.
7. Suck It Up
✔For kids
What you need: Skittles or M&Ms, Straws, Bowls
“Suck It Up” is a super fun game my kids love to play. The game is also a great way to test your motor skills, dexterity, and speed.
How to play: In this minute to win it game for kids, players use a straw to suck up and move as many candies (use Skittles or M&Ms) as possible from one plate to another.
The player who transfers the most candies to the second plate within a minute wins.No hands or other body parts are allowed.
8. Toothpick Words
✔For preteens and above.
What you need: Toothpick box
Challenge dexterity and vocabulary with this fun and engaging toothpick word game!
How to play: Using a pile of toothpicks, players must carefully form three-letter words without breaking or bending any of the toothpicks. The player who successfully spells out the most words within one minute is the winner.
9. Popsicle And Dice Stack
✔For kids, preteens and teens
What you need: Popsicle sticks and dice
This Popsicle stick and dice game is a great way to test kids’ coordination, balance, and fine motor skills.
How to play: In this game, players must balance five or six dice on a popsicle stick held between their teeth for three seconds. The player who successfully balances the dice for a minute wins.
10. Rice bowl
✔For kids, and adults
What you need: Sharpie-colored rice grains
Rice bowl game is a fun and challenging game for all ages.
How to play: The goal is to transfer colored rice grains using chopsticks!
- To play, prepare a bowl of rice and mix in six Sharpie-colored rice grains.
- Give each player a pair of chopsticks.
- Instruct the players to use one hand and the chopsticks to search for and transfer the six colored rice grains from the bowl to another empty bowl.
- The player who successfully transfers all six colored rice grains first wins the game.
💡For an extra challenge, choose smaller rice grains or increase the number of colored grains.
11. Penny for Your Thoughts
✔For kids, and adults
What you need: 25 pennies
Penny for Your Thoughts is a fun activity to do with friends and family, and can also be a great party game that tests your dexterity and concentration.
How to play: The objective of the game is to stack 25 pennies using only one hand within a minute.
- Each player is given a supply of pennies.
- Instruct the players to use only one hand to stack 25 pennies within a minute.
- The player who stacks all 25 pennies using only one hand the fastest is the winner.
12. Movin’ On Up Game
✔For teens and adults
What you need: Plastic cups
“Moving on Up” is a popular game that challenges players’ speed and concentration, as they race against the clock to move the cups from the top of the stack to the bottom and back up again.
While this game may sound simple, it is highly engaging and super fun, making it an entertaining activity for players.
How to play:
- Set up a stack of plastic cups with the blue cup at the top of the stack with red cups underneath it.
- The objective of the game is to move the blue cup from the top of the stack to the bottom, and then move it back to the top again, by rearranging the cups.
- The player must use only one hand to move the cups, and must move them one at a time.
- The player has one minute to complete the task.
- If the blue cup is back at the top of the stack within one minute, the player wins the game.
13. Nose Dive
✔For teens and adults
“Nose Dive” is a hilarious minute to win game that is perfect for parties, team-building exercises, and family game nights.
What you need: Petroleum jelly, cotton balls, bowls
Add it to the list of your party games as this game is sure to provide lots of laughs and entertainment.
How to play: With no hands allowed, it requires players to use only their sticky nose to transfer cotton balls from one bowl to another.
- As the timer starts, players must dip the tip of their nose in a jar of jelly.
- Players then put their face into a bowl of cotton balls to stick a cotton ball with their nose.
- Once they have a cotton ball on their nose, players must transfer it to another bowl placed on the other side of the room by dropping it in.
- Players can shake their head but cannot touch the ball with their hands.
The player who transfers the most cotton balls from one bowl to another using only their nose within one minute is declared the winner.
14. Hanky Panky
✔For kids and adults
What you need: Tissue boxes
How to play: In this game, players have to take out tissues from a tissue box using only one hand. You can’t use your other hand. You have to be careful and take out one tissue at a time.
It’s a little tricky, but it’s fun to play with friends and family. It’s a great game for a party or when you’re hanging out at home.
15. Separation Anxiety (Candy Sort)
✔For kids and adults
This is the best game for candy lovers to test their self-control!
What you need: 50 M&M’s candies of 5 colors (10 of each color)
The objective is simple – sort a pack of M&M’s by color using only one hand and place them in corresponding glasses. But there’s a catch – you can’t eat any of the candies while playing!
Perfect for people of all ages and suitable for birthday parties, family game nights, or anytime you want to add some excitement to your day.
How to play: You’ll need 50 M&M’s candies of 5 colors (10 of each color), table to play and 5 glasses for each color of M&M’s.
- Set up 5 glasses in a row in front of the player, with one glass for each color of M&M’s.
- Pour the pack of M&M’s out onto a flat surface.
- Using only one hand, the player must sort the M&M’s by color and place them in the corresponding container.
- The player can only use one hand to sort the M&M’s.
- At the end of the minute, count the number of correctly sorted M&M’s in each container.
- The player with the highest number of correctly sorted M&M’s at the end of the game wins.
16. Yank Me
✔For teens and adults
What you need: Paper cups and paper slips
The cup stacking game is a simple yet fun balancing game suitable for teens and adults.
How to play: This game requires 4 paper cups, 3 paper slips and can be played individually or in teams.
- Set up the game by placing a stack of cups on a table and inserting a paper slip between each cup.
- Players try to remove the paper slips one by one.
- The cups must fall onto another cup until all the papers have been removed.
- The first player/team to successfully remove all the paper slips without any mistakes is the winner of the game.
16. Thread It
✔For adults
What you need: Thread, needles
How to play: Players try to thread as many needles as they can in a minute. The player with the most needles with threads wins!
17. Ping Pong Bounce
✔For teens and adults
What you need: Ping pong balls, cups, table
How to play: Set 6 plastic cups evenly spaced on a table. Your challenge is to bounce a ping pong ball into each cup within one minute. It sounds simple, but it’s trickier than you might think!
18. This Blows
✔For teens and adults
What you need: Balloons, cups, table
How to play: Blow up a balloon & use the air inside to knock down 24 plastic cups arranged on a table. Count how many total cups players can blow over in the shortest time. Winner is the player to blow maximum number of balloons!
💡Reduce the number of cups for young kids to play!
19. Mummy Wrap
✔For kids and adults
What you need: Rolls of toilet paper Game:
How to play: Work in teams of two and “mummify” partners by wrapping them up in toilet paper.
The team with the best wrapped mummy in a minute (the least amount of visible skin or clothing) wins!
20. Post It Notes
✔For teens and adults
What you need: Post-it notes
How to play: In 60 seconds, see how many post-it notes players can stick to their faces. The winner is the person with the most notes.
21. Name That Tune
✔For kids and adults
What you need: Pen, paper, music player
How to play: Play five-second snippets of 12 songs (total one minute). Have players write down the songs they think they just heard. Winner is the person with the most correct answers!
22. That’s a Wrap
✔For teens and adults. Can be adapted for any holiday season.
What you need: Wrapping paper, tape, scissors, empty boxes,
How to play: Great game for teens and above! Have players wrap as many gifts as possible in a minute. Winner is the person/team with the most wrapped gifts.
23. Junk In The Trunk
✔For kids and adults
What you need:Empty tissue box, ping pong balls, belt/rope
How to play: In this super fun game, players tie a tissue box filled with eight ping-pong balls to their rump with a belt or rope. The opening is the box towards outwards.
The goal is to shake all the balls out of the tissue box without using hands in one minute or less. The first one with an empty box wins.
24. Elephant Nose
✔For kids and teens
What You Need: Pantyhose, a pair of socks, 6 cups
How to Play: Arrange 6 cups in a circle. Put the socks inside the pantyhose and then wear the pantyhose on your head. Swing your “elephant trunk” to knock over all 6 cups within one minute.
25. Shake Your Tail Feathers
✔For kids and teens
What You Need: An empty tissue box, a pack of feathers, and string
How to Play: The goal is to shake out all the feathers from the box within one minute!
Fill the tissue box with feathers. Punch two small holes on either side of the box, thread the string through, and tie it around the contestant’s waist like a belt.
26. Blow Over
✔For kids
What you need: Straw, crumpled piece of paper
How to play: Crumble up a small piece of paper. On a smooth surface (such as a table or floor), set the paper on one end and see who can blow the piece of paper from one end of the room to the other the fastest.
27. Sticky Situation
✔For teens and adults
What you need: Bread slices, Peanut butter, Ping Pong balls
How to play: In this game, players attempt to bounce a ping-pong ball from one end of the table or a set distance to land it on a piece of bread covered in sticky peanut butter within a minute.
The player who successfully sticks the ball in the shortest time wins!
28. Fruit Loop Thread
✔For kids
What you need: Pipe cleaner, fruit loops
How to play: Players have 60 seconds to thread as many fruit loops as possible onto a pipe cleaner using only one hand. Player with the most fruit loops wins.
29. Baby Rattle
✔For teens and adults
What you need: x2 2-liter bottles (empty), a filling of your choice
How to play: Fill one 2-liter bottle with something (Lucky Charms, Jelly Beans, etc.) then tape to another 2-liter bottle – players have to transfer all from one bottle to the other in a minute and less.
30. Ball Drop
✔For kids and adults
What you need: Chair, plastic cup, 3 ping pong balls
How to play: Stand on the chair and place an empty cup in front of it.
Each player will try to get all three ping pong balls into the cup without them bouncing out. The player who completes this task in the shortest time or within a minute wins!
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