Minute to Win It Games: Easy Ones for Kids and Parties

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Minute to win it games are quick challenges you try to finish in 60 seconds, such as stacking cups or moving a cookie from your forehead to your mouth with no hands. They need only household things and a timer.

Games With Cups and Paper

Cup Stack: build a pyramid of paper cups, take it down into one stack, and repeat as often as you can. Paper Plane Target: land a paper plane in a bin from five big steps away, as many times as you can. Cup Flip: flip a row of six cups upside down, one at a time, by their rims.

Games With Food

Cookie Face: put a cookie on your forehead, and move it to your mouth using only your face. Chopstick Sort: move wrapped candies from one bowl to another with chopsticks. Check for allergies first, and skip the food games with very young children.

Games That Get Kids Moving

Spoon Walk: carry a ping pong ball on a spoon to a line and back, as often as you can. Balloon Up: keep two balloons in the air with no hands. Book Balance: walk across the room with a book on your head, and pick up three socks on the way.

How to Run It

Set up one game per table, and let players take turns while everyone else counts. Put a one-minute timer on a phone or the big screen, so the whole room can see it run down.

For a party, split into teams and score a point for each finished challenge. Spin a wheel of your games to choose the next one, and of your names to choose who plays.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need for minute to win it games?

Only household things, such as paper cups, cookies, spoons, paper and balloons, and a timer everyone can see.

How many games should I plan for a party?

Five or six fill about half an hour, once you add setting up and cheering between the games.

Run the Clock on the Big Screen

A big countdown the whole room can read, set to one minute and ready to start. It’s free, with nothing to install.

Open the 1 minute timer

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