27 Fun Bachelorette Party Games for 2024
Being the maid of honor and responsible for planning fun bachelorette party games is no joke. Between dress fittings, emotional support and all the other things that being the bride’s right-hand lady entails, it’s easy to see how planning the bachelorette party on top of all of that — venue, games and all — might leave you feeling swamped.
The good news? You’re not the first maid of honor to feel the heat, and those who came before have tried just about every bachelorette party game there is — that means you get to reap the benefits of their trial and error. If you don’t know how you’re going to pull this party off, take a little off your plate by ripping a page from a tried-and-true book.
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- How To Choose Games for a Bachelorette Party
- Bachelorette Party Games for Foodies
- Free Bachelorette Party Games
- Outdoor Bachelorette Party Games
- Bachelorette Party Games at Home
- Combined Bachelor and Bachelorette Party Games
- More Group Activities In Cities Near You
How to Choose Games for a Bachelorette Party
You’ve gathered your bachelorette party ideas, the venue is chosen and everything is loosely in place — so how do you go about choosing the right bachelorette party games for your event?
Even if it’s tempting to think you could wing it when it comes to bachelorette party games, they’re actually one of the most important parts of a bachelorette party to plan. Nothing kills the vibe like having to stop the party to look up the rules to a game or realizing you’ve forgotten to bring an important piece of equipment, so the more prepared you are, the less likely you are to lose momentum — and the guests’ attention.
Plus, a lot of games require props and might take longer than you think to set up, so choosing bachelorette party games in advance is necessary to make sure you have what you need and have timed everything to a tee. But how do you choose which games to prepare?
You’ll want to think about a lot of aspects: the bride’s personality, the number of guests, how well they know each other, the venue — the list goes on. But what’s really critical is that you remember why people play games at bachelorette parties in the first place.
Bachelorette parties often bring together people from totally different social circles in the bride’s life, and playing a bachelorette party game can be a great way to get them to loosen up and get to know each other. They create a sense of camaraderie that reminds everyone of their common purpose here: celebrating and supporting the bride, who’s really the only thing connecting you all.
Bachelorette Party Games for Foodies
1. Culinary Team Building Activities
One of the biggest challenges in planning bachelorette party games is the need to find things that’ll get a group of people who might not know each other to open up a little. If you want to warm everyone up and get them bonding fast, then a team building activity might be a great first choice.
If you’re planning a party for a foodie, food and drink can easily be a part of that. Try incorporating cooking or cocktail-making competitions into your event, pitching two teams against each other, working in pairs or crafting individual delicious concoctions for the bride-to-be to taste test.
As long as you get your guests working together, a team building activity makes an ideal bachelorette party game and can take any form you want.
2. Cooking Classes
If either fine dining or useful life skills are high on the bride’s list of interests, consider educating the guests in the culinary arts by looking for cooking classes near you. It’s a fun bonding experience when you throw in an element of competition, as well as a great way to learn kitchen tips that’ll actually be of use in everyday life.
A cooking class is a great activity for a foodie bride-to-be, especially when you throw in some competitive bachelorette party games, like seeing which team can flip the most crêpes or make the best guacamole. Getting into teams and creating some healthy competition is a sure way to get everyone lively and feeling included fast.
3. Online Mixology Classes
If the bachelorette party you’re planning is already going to involve a few cocktails, why not turn that into an organized activity? With an online mixology class (perfect for guests who can’t attend the fun in person), the group will learn how to mix their own drinks from the comfort of wherever you are.
You may even end up inventing a few variations of your own! To turn this activity into more of a bachelorette party game, split into groups and have each team create a signature cocktail (or mocktail), then let the bride-to-be decide whose is best.
4. Cook-Off or Bake-Off
If your bride-to-be’s guests are good in the kitchen, put those skills to use with a bachelorette party game that everybody wins. It’s simple: pick a type of food, ask the guests to make and bring their take on it and then let the bride decide who made it best.
Whether the bride likes mac and cheese, macarons or brownies, she’ll have a great time taste-testing her friends’ takes on her favorites, and at the end, everyone else will get to swoop in for the leftovers.
5. Desserts Crawl
For a bride-to-be with a sweet tooth, indulge her (and your guests) in a sweet take on the bar crawl concept. This is a very simple bachelorette party game idea: just find a few places to try (you can stick with a theme, such as ice cream or cake, or mix it up to include all sweet treats).
Once a route is mapped out, spend an afternoon or evening on the town trying the best desserts she’ll eat before they cut the wedding cake. To turn this into a game, you could create rating sheets to fill in and grade each dessert for appearance, flavor, texture and whether you’d recommend it to a friend.
Alternatively, use it as an opportunity for the bride to sample lots of different wedding cake flavors and help her select the best one by the end of the tour — she can then use your collective feedback to choose her own wedding cake.
6. Blindfolded Taste Test
This bachelorette party game combines the shared experience of a potluck meal with the fun of a food contest. If your bride-to-be is a foodie, ask her what her favorite foods are, then divide the dishes up among your group to make for her.
Blindfold the bride, then feed her mouthfuls of food to grade them out of 10, and for an extra layer of challenge, ask her to guess who made which dish. Once the whole menu has been sampled, you can all tuck into the feast — don’t forget prizes for the bachelorettes who get the highest marks.
Free Bachelorette Party Games
7. Bride Trivia
This bachelorette party game idea puts all eyes on the bride — just the way it should be. Create a list of trivia questions about her and get her answers in advance, then have everyone compete to see who can answer the most right.
This bachelorette party game is a great starting point, but it’s equally great as a breather if everyone needs a little downtime from the action-packed schedule. It’s guaranteed to have everyone giggling, especially if you’re creative with the questions.
8. PowerPoint Night
Reclaim the piece of your soul that corporate life has sucked out of you by co-opting its technology for some chaotic, entertaining bachelorette party fun. It may not look like an obvious party game for bachelorettes, but if your bride-to-be is a little geeky, it might just make for the ideal bachelorette party game.
Ask each guest to prepare a PowerPoint on their topic of choice (to be delivered with passion and verve, of course) and accompany it with an activity or quiz. Extra points for presentations that feature the bride herself.
9. Truth or Dare?
Throw it back to your teenage years with a slumber party classic that works just as well as a bachelorette party game. Write up a list of revealing questions and entertaining dares before the party, then let everyone at them. After all, nothing makes you open up quite so quickly as a game that forces you to share some secrets.
No matter what the comfort level of the bride and guests may be, “Truth or Dare?” can be toned down or revved up to fit the vibe — just avoid some of the most scandalous dares if you don’t want to ruin friendships (or embarrass the mom of the bride).
10. One Has To Go
Verbal games are the best party games for bachelorettes on a budget, and this one is no different. The concept of “One Has To Go” is simple: choose categories, which guests will select randomly, and make each guest name three items in those categories.
The rest of the players then have to deliberate on which of those three items would be eliminated, if it had to be. This stagette party game is ideal for an outgoing crowd that isn’t afraid to make its opinions known. If you choose your categories cleverly, it’ll have a debate raging in the best way possible.
Outdoor Bachelorette Party Games
11. Gourmet Piñata
If helping plan your friend’s weddings has left you wanting to hit something really hard, and preferably with a baseball bat, then this bachelorette party game is sure to release some tension.
Why not fill up a piñata with something fun (fancy candy, the bride’s favorite snack or even mini cosmetics — anything a little luxurious will do) and have at it?
More than a way for the bride to work out her tumultuous emotions ahead of the big day, whacking a piñata around is a timeless party activity and therefore a bachelorette party game that will take everyone back to their childhoods.
12. Scavenger Hunt
Team-based bachelorette party games provide a great way to get people from different walks of the bride’s life to come together and put their heads together. Nothing quite gets guests bonding like old friends better than an outdoor scavenger hunt.
Compile a list of wedding-related clues, create teams that mix up the guests into groups they might not otherwise gravitate towards, and set everyone loose to compete for bachelorette party game glory.
13. Sardines
Nostalgia is fun and that’s no less true for bachelorette party games. But if you didn’t play “Sardines” growing up, this is all you need to know: it’s a modified version of hide and seek where one or two people are picked to hide first, and everybody else is then released to go find them.
When seekers find either of the hiding spots, they hunker down with the original hider, and this goes on until everyone has found a place to hide or the time runs out.
Whichever of the two people who originally hid is found by fewer people by the end is the winner. “Sardines” is a very simple bachelorette party game that requires nothing more than a big space with lots of places to hide — it's perfect for the beach, the forest or a park.
14. Ring Hunt
The bride might’ve spent months, or even years, looking for that ring — and now it’s everyone else’s turn. To play this bachelorette party game, which is pretty much a modified Easter egg hunt, you’ll only need a couple dozen rings — be those made of plastic, candy or anything else — and an outdoor space to hide them in.
Hide the rings wherever you can think to, explain the rules and watch chaos ensue as the guests scramble to find as many as they can before everyone else does. Make sure you’ve got a prize for the team that finds the most rings in the allotted time.
15. Prosecco Pong
Speaking of nostalgia, this bachelorette party game will take you right back to your college days — except that instead of cheap beer, you’ll be playing with prosecco. If you need to find bachelorette party games for a brunch party, this is a perfect pick.
All you’ll need to do is fill glasses (the cuter, the better) with prosecco, line them up on a table, and have plenty of ping-pong balls on hand to throw into the cups.
Take it in turns to throw, and whenever one team throws a ball that lands inside one of the cups, someone on the opposite team has to drink up. This is a bachelor party game for those who don’t mind getting tipsy fast.
16. Giant Jenga
Okay, admittedly, this one can also get a little violent. But “Jenga” is a classic, and who hasn’t wanted to play with one of those massive “Jenga” towers that come in a box almost as tall as you are?
Since it’s so universal, this is one bachelorette party game that you won’t have to explain the rules for, and it (usually) transcends both age and personality type. So if you’re nervous and looking for a surefire hit with guests, definitely consider keeping a giant “Jenga” tower stored in your trunk.
Bachelorette Party Games at Home
17. Test of Courage
Up the excitement by playing bachelorette party games that challenge the guests to do things that they otherwise might not. This bachelorette party game isn't so much a competition as a test of courage — who will be willing to brave the challenges you set?
Whether you invite them to jump in the pool at midnight, eat a lemon or try a ghost pepper, pushing the limits of the guests in safe and voluntary, but daunting, ways goes a long way toward building camaraderie.
18. Board Games
If your bachelorette party games need to be suitable for a fun but relaxed night at home, there are any number of board and card games that fit the bill. While many bachelorettes opt for games like “Cards Against Humanity,” your choices need not be scandalous; you have a whole universe of game options out there.
So if that’s the kind of entertainment your bride-to-be would enjoy, pat yourself on the back for getting off easy, stock up on board games you think your guests would love and let the party run itself. After all, sometimes the best bachelorette party games are simple ones you don’t have to overthink.
19. Casino Night
If you have a bride-to-be who’d rather be in Vegas on your hands, bring Sin City to her with a night of casino bachelorette party games, such as poker, blackjack and roulette. You probably won’t be able to pull off slot machines, and no one’s going to strike it rich, but many casino games require nothing more than playing cards (or poker chips).
Plus, they make great bachelorette party games that require strategic thinking and just a sprinkle of luck. If you want to give them an authentic taste of the gambling experience, hand out poker chips that can be redeemed for prizes at the end of the night.
20. Panty Party
The “panty party” bachelorette party game is definitely one for playing at home where the group can freely have a giggle at the slightly spicy theme. Make sure each guest knows the bride’s underwear size, then set them homework before the bachelorette party begins: everyone needs to buy a pair of panties that reflect their own personality.
Unwrap each brand-new set of underwear, lay them out and provide the bride with name labels with each guest’s name on them. The bride has to guess who bought each pair of panties and label them accordingly. Hilarity will ensue as the group watches on and she tries to work out the puzzle — at the end, she’ll have a whole new drawer of underwear to take home with her!
21. Kiss the Bride
Kind of like “Pin the Tail on the Donkey,” except that the donkey is a real person, and your objective is to plant a kiss on her. This bachelorette party game is pretty simple: have everyone pucker up, slather on the red lipstick and don a blindfold.
Then, have the bride stand somewhere in the room, and let the guests loose to try to find her and plant a lipstick-print kiss on her cheek.
Combined Bachelor and Bachelorette Party Games
22. Mr and Mrs
She may not be a newlywed quite yet, but this classic bachelor and bachelorette party game idea is free, easy to arrange and always juicy. It does require some prep, though: ask the bride and groom the same set of questions in advance and record their answers.
Put the bride in the hot seat and have her guess what her fiancé said in response to each question — then swap them over for the groom-to-be’s turn. This bachelorette party game puts the couple in the spotlight — great practice for their big day.
23. Battle of the Sexes
If you’re having a co-ed party, the opportunity to pit the guys and the gals against each other in tests of cleverness and skill is irresistible. So if you want to break the ice at a combined party, take just about any bachelorette party game and make it a competition, with the men on one side and the women on the other, and see who comes out on top.
You could try physical games like dodgeball and “Sardines” or something more cerebral like "Drink If...," an escape room or “Giant Jenga.” Play a few rounds to let everyone rack up points, then see who emerges the victor after a variety of activities.
24. I Liked It Before It Was Cool
“Guess That Song,” but with a nostalgic twist. This combined bachelor and bachelorette party game is a great way to break the ice with a little competition — and some very familiar pop culture references.
Just get a playlist of songs together from when the majority of the guests were teenagers, hit “play,” and see who can guess the title of the song fastest. No one will want to be outdone; nostalgia is more powerful than you’d think!
25. Manhunt
If you’re looking for a bachelorette party game that brings the bride and groom’s sides together on a bigger scale, “Manhunt” does just that. Divide the party into two teams and assign each competitor a target from the other team. Each team then fans out across town to try to get away from anyone who might be targeting them, while the other team stays in hot pursuit.
When a player finds their target, they have to tag them somehow (such as pinning a clothespin to their outfit or spraying them with a water gun) and bring the unlucky target over to their team. The bigger team at the end of the night wins.
26. Rom-Com Improv
A great option for the more extroverted ones in your group, this combined bachelor and bachelorette party game just needs two guests and an iconic scene from a rom-com queued up on your TV.
Mute the volume so that no one knows what the actors are saying, let the movie play and see what dialogue your couple of impersonators come up with off the top of their heads.
Make sure the would-be actors all know that their lines need not come from the movie, or make any sense at all — in fact, the wackier it is, the more fun the game will be. The appeal of this bachelorette party game lies in its entertainment value, not the skill or accuracy of the improv actors!
27. Mafia
“Mafia” knows no age limit, no gender barrier; it doesn’t exhaust introverts or bore extroverts; and there is almost no celebratory situation in which it doesn’t add to the fun. It’s free, it works with a group of any size, there’s no equipment necessary and almost everyone already knows how to play it.
This combined bachelor and bachelorette party game involves role-playing characters like mayor, mafia member, doctor and sheriff. Once everyone has their character assigned, mafia members will begin to “kill” other players and try to convince the group who the mafia is without revealing themselves.
You could even go the whole hog with this joint bachelor and bachelorette game and use costumes and props to bring the activity to life.
Bachelorette parties can be a very personal thing, so choosing bachelorette party games can be pretty daunting to get right. You want to please both the guest of honor and the whole crowd, and pick games that are a mix of familiar and fresh.
With these ideas, you’ve got a great starting point, and lots of inspiration if you want to come up with your own original ideas, too. Just remember: when it comes to bachelorette party games, very little is off-limits!
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