Baby Shower Games for Large Groups (15–60+ Guests)

How to play

After guests are seated and settled with a drink, hand out the answer sheets and pens. Hold up the bag, give it a quick shake, and say the rule out loud: "You'll reach in, feel one item with your hand for about ten seconds, write down what you think it is, then pass the bag to the next person. No peeking, no double-dipping, no asking your neighbor." The pinky-promise tone keeps it light. Demo with your own arm so the angle of the reach is obvious.

Hand the bag to the first guest. They feel item 1, write a guess on line 1 of their sheet, and pass the bag to the next person — who also feels item 1, writes their guess on line 1, and passes it on. Once the bag has gone all the way around the room for item 1, the host (or a helper) takes it, sets item 1 aside, and the bag goes back around for item 2. Repeat for all fifteen items. It moves faster than it sounds because each round is just ten seconds per guest.

When all fifteen items are out of the bag, set them on a tray and call them out one by one. "Number one — pacifier. Number two — rattle." Guests check their own sheets. Whoever has the most right wins. If two guests tie, the tiebreaker is whoever guessed the trickiest item (look at the sheets — the one that fewest guests got right). Hand the prize over right away, then box up the baby items and stack them with the mom-to-be's gifts.

How to play

As guests arrive, walk them to the photo board and explain the rules: "Match each numbered baby photo to a person you see in the room. Write the name next to each number on your sheet." Hand them an answer sheet and a pen. Give the room an open 30–45 minutes — they can fill it in slowly while they eat, mingle, and walk back to the board for second looks. No pressure to finish in one go.

After most sheets are submitted, gather everyone for the reveal. Read the answers out loud, one number at a time: "Number 1 — the chubby baby with the pink bow — is…" and the actual person stands up and waves. Pause for the reactions. The reveals are where the game lives — guests gasp when they realize the cousin they've known for ten years was the baby with the wild hair in photo seven.

After every number is read, guests circle their correct guesses. Highest count wins. If two people tie, the tiebreaker is naming the year the mom-to-be's baby photo was taken. Hand the prize over right there. Then carefully take the board down and pack it up — it goes home with the mom-to-be as one of the best keepsakes from the whole shower. Most hosts also snap a photo of it for the group chat before it leaves.

How to play

Gather everyone in the main room with their phone and checklist. Read the rule out loud — "You've got ten minutes to find a photo on your phone that matches each prompt. Check the box when you've got one. No staging new photos. No Googling. Only what's already in your camera roll." Start a ten-minute timer on your phone and call it. People dive in immediately. The room gets quieter than you'd expect — everyone's scrolling.

Walk around with the master sheet while guests play. People will ask questions: "Does my niece count as a baby?" "Is a screenshot of a baby OK?" "This is a dog in a stroller — does that work?" Be loose on the loose ones ("yes, your niece counts; a screenshot is a maybe; the dog gets half a point") and let the mom-to-be settle the bigger calls. Some guests will share their finds with their neighbor — encourage it. The cross-table "oh my god, look at this one of my mom in 1992" moments are why the game works.

When the timer hits zero, call time and have everyone count their checked boxes. Most checks wins. For a tiebreaker, look for the rarest checked prompt — whichever prompt fewest guests got, the tied guest who found that one takes it. Hand the prize over right then, and walk the room asking the winners (and a few losers) to show one favorite photo. That moment is the social currency of the game — guests are still talking about "that picture Linda found" two showers later.

How to play

Once everyone's seated with a sheet, a pen, and something hard to write on, walk through the rule out loud: "You've got ninety seconds. Write one baby-related word for each letter A through Z. Real words only. Loose definition of "baby-related" — anything you'd see in a nursery, a pediatrician's office, or attached to a newborn counts. One word per letter. Go." Don't take questions before the timer starts; just hit start and let people scramble. Half the questions answer themselves in the first ten seconds.

Walk the room while the timer runs. Don't help anyone write words, but you can confirm broad questions silently — a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to "is this OK?" gestures from your right. The energy in the room is the best part of this game: pens scratching, the occasional groan when someone hits Q, a quiet laugh when someone scribbles desperately at letter twenty-three. Keep the timer visible on a counter or hand it to the mom-to-be to call "thirty seconds!" and "ten seconds!" as the round closes.

When the timer hits zero, pens down. Have each guest count their filled rows out loud, going around the circle. Most letters filled wins. If two guests tie, the tiebreaker is the hard-letter showdown — whoever filled in a word for Q, X, or Z wins. If they're still tied, do a five-second lightning round on a single letter the host calls out. Hand the prize to the winner. Then, just for the laughs, ask each guest to read their Z word aloud — that's almost always the funniest moment of the entire shower.

How to play

Once guests are seated, bring the covered tray to the center of the room and explain the rule: "Eighteen baby items are under this cloth. I'll lift it for thirty seconds — look, don't touch, don't write. When the cover goes back on, you'll have three minutes to write down everything you remember. Most items wins." Lift the towel and start the timer. The room goes silent. Some guests lean in close; others squint and try to mentally categorize ("two feeding things, three hygiene, four clothes..."). The clever guests count items first, then memorize.

When the thirty seconds end, drop the towel back over the tray. Hand out blank sheets and pens. Start a three-minute timer. The recall happens in waves — guests confidently write the obvious items first (pacifier, bottle, diaper) and then get stuck around item 10. The forgotten ones are almost always the small or boring items: the baby comb, the burp cloth, the nail clippers. Don't help, don't give hints, and don't react if a guest scribbles a question mark next to a wrong guess.

After three minutes, pens down. Read your master list of items out loud, one at a time. Guests check off the ones they wrote and call out their own scores. Most items wins. For a tiebreaker, ask who remembered the most unusual item (the one fewest guests got — usually the nail clippers or the pacifier clip) and that breaks the tie. Donate the tray of items to the mom-to-be in a small gift bag afterward — every item is genuinely useful for a newborn and turns the baby shower game into a real gift.

How to play

Line each team up single-file behind the start line. The first runner on each team takes the "baby" in the required position — egg on a spoon held out in front, water balloon cradled in two hands, doll pressed to the chest. On the host's "go," both first runners race down to the finish line and back, then pass the baby to the second teammate, who does the same. The whole team is cheering — that's half the fun.

If the baby drops at any point during a runner's leg, that runner returns to the start line, grabs a fresh spare baby from the host, and restarts that leg from zero. Their teammate does not restart — just the runner who dropped. This rule is what makes the race chaotic and where the laughs come from. No re-do for "close" catches; if it touches the ground, it dropped.

Each team finishes when every player has completed the course. The first team across with all members through wins. Hand the prize over right there. Take a photo of the winning team holding their final "baby" — that's the photo that ends up in the group chat.

How to play

Open the baby shower trivia round with a short host intro: "Twenty-five questions, four categories, prizes for the winning team. Teams have ten seconds to confer after each question. First buzz with the right answer takes the points." Keep it tight — every minute of host monologue is a minute the energy drops. Read the first question off the card, repeat it once for the slower listeners, then watch the buzzer light up. Call out the team that buzzed first by name, give them five seconds to lock in their answer, and award the points right then on the whiteboard.

Run the deck in chunks of five. After every five questions, call a one-minute break: "Stretch, grab a drink, check the score." The break is what keeps energy alive — without it, you'll feel the room start checking phones around question 12. Mix the categories so teams can't specialize: open with an easy pregnancy fact, hit a baby animal one, then a tougher pop culture, then a mom-to-be question, then a curveball. The mom-to-be questions are where the room genuinely lights up, especially the ones about her favorite show, her labor playlist, or what she's craving this week.

End on the final "name three things" hard question, which usually decides the round. Tally the scoreboard, announce the winning team by name, and hand a prize to each winning team member individually — not one shared prize. Take a quick photo of the final scoreboard and text it to the mom-to-be after the shower. The total runtime is about twenty-five minutes including breaks. If you finish early, run the bonus speed round (see variations) instead of ending flat.

How to play

As guests arrive, hand each one a Find the Guest bingo card and a pen at the door. Don't leave them to figure it out — say the rule out loud: "Walk the room and find a different person who matches each square. They sign that square. One person can sign your card only once. First full row, column, or diagonal yells BINGO and takes the prize." Three sentences and most baby shower guests get it. Re-announce the rule loudly once when about two-thirds of guests are seated, because late arrivals always miss the door speech.

From that moment, the room turns into a slow-motion icebreaker. Guests wander around with cards in hand, asking questions like "have you ever lived outside the country?" or "did you actually change a diaper today?" Half the conversations end up running way past the question — that's the real point of the game. The host's job is to float, make introductions where you see two people who'd never approach each other on their own (grandma + the dad-to-be's college roommate is a classic), and answer questions about the prompts.

Around the twenty-minute mark, somebody yells "BINGO!" Walk over and check their card — every signature should be a different name. If two squares share a signature, that row doesn't count and they keep playing. If the card checks out, announce it to the room, hand the prize over, and let the game keep running for a few more minutes. Anyone who completes a full card during that final stretch gets the backup prize. Then move on to the next part of the shower. Cards go in the gift bag for the mom-to-be — she'll get a kick out of reading who signed what later.

How to play

Split the room into teams of 3–5 guests. Each team picks one volunteer to be the "baby" — usually the dad-to-be, a brother, or whichever guest agrees first. The rest of the team are the wrappers. The volunteer stands still with arms held out slightly from their sides. Hand each team their stack of toilet paper rolls.

Set a 5-minute timer and call "go." Wrappers race to fully cover their volunteer in toilet paper from neck to ankle. Layers can overlap. No tape, pins, or anything other than the toilet paper itself — the wrap has to hold by friction alone. Faces stay uncovered, no exceptions. The room gets loud fast and the toilet paper goes everywhere; that's normal.

When the timer runs out, wrappers freeze and the mom-to-be (or the host) walks around to judge each team. She picks the winner based on whatever she wants — most complete coverage, most creative diaper shape, best photo. Photograph every team in their final wrap before anyone moves. The actual unwrap takes 10 seconds — the photos are forever. Hand the prize to the winning team and start the cleanup.

How to play

Once guests are seated with answer sheets and pens, kick off the baby shower game with a quick rule: "Twenty slides, each one a celebrity holding their baby. Write your guess next to the number. Ten seconds per slide, no Googling, no calling out. Highest score at the end wins." Roll the first slide. The room goes silent for about three seconds, then somebody whispers a name to their neighbor and the whole party starts. Don't be a stickler about whispering — that's the fun. Just stop people from yelling answers out loud.

Click through the slides at a steady ten seconds each. Use your phone's stopwatch or just count in your head. Some slides will land in under five seconds (the room recognizes Beyoncé fast), others will sit for the full ten with guests squinting and second-guessing. The deep cuts are where you'll hear groans and laughs — "who is that?" from the front row, "that's Tori Spelling, come on!" from the back. The harder slides are the ones people talk about after the shower.

After slide 20, run a quick reveal round. Click back to slide 1, name the celebrity out loud, let guests mark their own sheet correct or wrong. Tally as you go. The high score wins. If two guests tie, ask who got the hardest slide right (whichever celebrity nobody else caught) and that breaks the tie. Hand over the prize right then. Save the slide deck to your Google Drive — it'll get reused at the next baby shower in your friend group.

How to play

Once everyone's seated in the circle with a drink in hand, hand the parcel to one guest — usually whoever's next to the mom-to-be. Hit play on the music. Guests pass the parcel around the circle, one person to the next, while the music plays. Underhand passes are fine, lobbing is not — the parcel's a forty-five-minute wrapping investment and you don't want it splitting open mid-flight. Anyone caught holding the parcel and not passing while music plays loses their next unwrap.

After fifteen to ninety seconds (the music-controller picks), the music cuts. Whoever's holding the parcel right then unwraps exactly one layer. They keep the small prize attached to that layer — a mini candy bar, a lip balm, a lottery ticket — and read the task note if one's folded inside. Task notes are where the laughs live: "Sing the chorus of any lullaby," "Give the mom-to-be one piece of parenting advice you wish someone had given you," "Do an impression of how the dad-to-be looked when he found out." The guest performs the task right there before passing.

Restart the music after each unwrap. Repeat all the way down — fifteen layers, fifteen pauses, fifteen reveals. The pace is naturally slow and that's the whole point; people watch each unwrap closely. Whoever opens the final layer wins the center prize. Take a quick group photo of the winner holding the prize with the mom-to-be — that's a clean transition into cake or gift-opening, whatever comes next on your shower timeline.

How to play

Once the mom-to-be settles into the gift-opening chair, hand each guest a card and a dauber. Read the rule out loud — "Each gift she opens that matches a square on your card, mark it off. Five in a row in any direction — horizontal, vertical, or diagonal — yells BINGO and wins a prize." The center square is FREE for everyone; that's already a starter mark. Some guests will immediately scan their card for which gifts they're hoping for. That's the whole game.

Run the gift-opening as normal. The mom-to-be holds up each gift and announces what it is — "a pack of newborn onesies from Aunt Linda!" Guests scan their cards, mark off any square that matches, and the room actually pays attention. The first BINGO usually hits around gift eight or nine, depending on how randomized your cards are. When someone yells "BINGO!" verify their row (a quick visual check is plenty) and hand them a prize on the spot. The mom-to-be keeps opening.

After the first BINGO, the room re-engages and the second BINGO is usually right behind it. Hand out the second prize. For the rest of the gift pile, keep going for full-card blackout — whoever marks every square first wins the third prize. That usually doesn't happen until gift twenty or so, and it keeps the longest-running guest in the game. When the mom-to-be opens the last gift, call any unmarked cards and wrap up. Total time tracks exactly with gift-opening, which is usually thirty to forty-five minutes.

How to play

Split the room into two teams. Easiest method: divide by which side of the family or by where guests are sitting — the kitchen-side versus the living-room-side. Six to eight per team is the sweet spot. Teams sit on opposite sides of the playing space. Set the bowl of slips in the middle. Pick which team goes first by coin flip or by whoever yells "us!" loudest. Teams alternate turns. Each turn, one player from the active team grabs a slip, reads it silently, and starts acting.

Set the timer for sixty seconds and call go. The actor mimes only — no talking, humming, mouthing letters, pointing at real objects, or writing. Their team shouts guesses. "Diapering!" "No, swaddling!" "OK, but what kind of swaddle?" If they guess the exact phrase within sixty seconds, the team scores one point. If the buzzer hits zero before the right answer, no point — pass to the other team. The room gets noticeably louder by round three. Encourage the actor to commit; the half-acted slips are the boring ones.

After every player has had a turn (or the bowl runs out), tally the team scores on the scratch pad. Highest score wins. If both teams tie, run a final lightning round: one player from each team acts out three slips in ninety seconds, head-to-head, with their team guessing. Most correct breaks the tie. Hand the team prize to every guest on the winning side (small gift bags work) and award the MVP prize to whoever drew the loudest reactions of the night — the room knows who it was.

How to play

After food and before gifts, split the room into two teams seated on opposite sides of the playing area. Pick a team to go first with a coin flip. The first drawer from team one walks up to the whiteboard, pulls a slip from the bowl, reads it silently (don't show the other team), and waits for the host to call "go." The 60-second timer starts. The drawer can use shapes, symbols, arrows, hearts, question marks — anything except letters, numbers, or written words. They can't speak or point at objects in the room either.

The drawer's team shouts guesses non-stop for 60 seconds. The room gets loud fast and stays loud. If the team lands on the correct prompt before time runs out, they score one point — call it the second they say the right answer. If they don't guess in time, no point, and the slip goes back in the bowl (or in a discard pile, your call). Then the second team takes a turn. Alternate teams until every guest has had at least one drawing turn or the bowl is empty.

After all turns are done, tally team scores. Highest total wins. If two teams tie, run a 90-second lightning round — one drawer from each team draws three slips in 90 seconds, and the team with the most correct guesses takes it. Hand the prize to the winning team right there. Take photos of the funniest finished drawings before you erase the whiteboard — those photos always end up in the post-shower group chat.

How to play

Split the room into two teams of 3–5 players each. Have each team line up behind their rope. The first player from each team holds out one hand, and the host (or a teammate) gently ties their non-dominant hand behind their back with the soft scarf — looped to a belt loop or wrapped around the wrist works. The free hand stays free for the diaper work. Start the 5-minute timer and call "go."

On "go," the first player on each team starts hanging diapers on their clothesline using ONLY their free hand. They grab one diaper, grab a clothespin from the bowl, pinch the clothespin one-handed (this is the hard part), and clip the diaper to the rope. Once their diaper is up, they tag the next teammate, who repeats with their own one-handed setup. The crowd cheers, laughs, and probably starts shouting "use your knee!" The one-handed clothespin manipulation is genuinely tricky.

When the 5-minute timer hits zero, count diapers on each rope. Whichever team hung the most diapers wins. If there's a tie, run a 60-second lightning round with the team captains. Hand the prize to the winning team right there. Carefully untie any clothespins and stack all 30 diapers back in the pile — they all go home with the mom-to-be, unused and ready for actual use.

How to play

Call players up one at a time. The player stands at the start line with their pile (doll, bottle, phone, empty tote bag). On "go," the stopwatch starts. The player has to: cradle the doll in one arm, hold the bottle to the doll's mouth (feeding pose), wedge the phone between their shoulder and ear, sling the tote bag over their other shoulder, and start walking. The crowd starts laughing within the first 5 seconds.

The player walks to the distraction table mid-course. They have to pick up all 4–6 distraction items and load them into the tote bag — without dropping the doll, bottle, or phone. This is where it falls apart for most players. The toy slips, the blanket droops, the phone wobbles. Drops = restart that leg. Once they have everything, they walk to the destination chair and unload carefully.

Stop the timer when the player sets everything on the chair successfully. Note their time. Reset and call the next player. After all players run, the fastest CLEAN run (no drops) wins. If everyone dropped something, the fastest run with the fewest drops wins. Hand the prize to the winner. Take photos of every player mid-race — the chaotic juggling is the photo every shower group shares afterward.

How to play

Gather guests in a circle or U-shape around the speaker — usually right after gifts as the closing high-energy round. Read the rules out loud: "I'm playing 5 seconds of each song. First person to shout the correct title scores a point. After 5 seconds, the song stops. We play 15 to 20 songs total. Highest score wins." Start the first song. The host's job is to pause the playback after exactly 5 seconds (use your phone's stopwatch or count out loud).

After each song, announce who got the point — "Sarah, that's one for you!" — and mark it on your score sheet. If nobody got it within 5 seconds, no point is scored for that song. Then move to the next one. The room gets louder as guests start beating each other to the punch. Mid-playlist, the room is shouting over each other and laughing at near-misses. That's the energy you want.

After all 15–20 songs are played, tally the score sheet. Highest count wins. If two guests tie, play one final tiebreaker song that wasn't in the original 20 — first to shout wins. Hand the prize to the winner. Save the playlist file and share it with the parents afterward — it doubles as a starter kid-music playlist for the baby's first year of music time.

How to play

Hand out the worksheets and pens during the seated portion of the party — right after food, before gifts. Read the rules out loud: "For each nursery rhyme, fill in the missing line from memory. You have 10 minutes. No phones, no asking grandma to read your card. Guess on every blank even if you have no idea — blanks always lose." Start the timer and say "go."

While guests scribble, walk around once at the 7-minute mark to check on stragglers. Some guests breeze through; others grind. When the timer hits zero, call "pens down." Read each rhyme aloud one at a time — read the lines they HAD on the sheet, pause dramatically, then say the correct missing line. The room reacts with groans ("OH that one") and small cheers from whoever nailed it. The reveals are the fun.

After all rhymes are read, ask each guest to count their correct fills. Highest count wins. If two people tie, look at the most obscure rhyme on the sheet (Pat-a-Cake or Three Blind Mice usually) — closer answer takes it. Hand the prize to the winner. Older relatives often win this one because they sang these rhymes more recently than the under-30 crowd.

How to play

As guests arrive, point at the bottle and tell them the rule once: write a guess and your name on a slip, drop it in the jar. That's the whole baby shower game from the guest's side. Most people guess in the first ten minutes; some quiet types circle back after seeing other guests submit, which is half the fun. Don't let anyone pick up the bottle and shake — shaking changes how the candy settles, and a settled bottle reads differently than a fresh one.

Let the game run in the background through gifts and food. You don't need to announce anything mid-party. If guests forget, give one nudge during the lull between dinner and dessert: "If you haven't dropped a guess in the jar yet, last call." The slips pile up quietly while the louder games take the center stage.

Right before cake or gift-opening, pull every slip out of the jar and sort them. Find the guess closest to the real number on your hidden master note. Announce the actual count first — guests love hearing how off they were — then call out the winner. Hand them the whole bottle on the spot. If two guests tie (one over, one under), the over-guesser wins, Price Is Right style. Announce the tiebreaker rule upfront so nobody argues at the end.

How to play

Split the room into two teams of 4 to 6 players. Mix friends with family on each side so it's not the bride-team versus the dad-team. Each team picks a captain who'll handle the buzzer for the first question — captains rotate every two questions so everyone gets a turn. Read the rule: "I'll read a question. First captain to slap the buzzer answers first. If your answer is on the board, you score the points and your team keeps guessing the rest. If you whiff three times in a row, control passes to the other team."

Read question one in your best game-show voice. "We surveyed twenty new parents — name something you wish you'd packed in your hospital bag." Pause. Let the buzzer slap happen. The winning captain answers; if their answer is on the board, hit the reveal slide and shout "Survey says..." while pointing at the screen. Drama matters here — a five-second pause before the reveal is the difference between a baby shower game and an actual game show moment. Award the point value and let the team keep guessing until they hit a wall or clear the board. Strike out three times and control flips.

Play through 8 to 10 questions, swapping captains every other round, tracking running team scores on the whiteboard. Highest score after the final question wins. If teams tie, run the lightning bonus round: one final question, both captains buzz in fast, top answer wins. Hand prizes to every member of the winning team within two minutes of the final reveal. Photograph the scoreboard before you erase it — the mom-to-be will want it in the shower album later.

How to play

Once everyone has arrived, hand out a checklist and a pen to each guest. Read the rule out loud: "There are 18 baby items hidden around the venue. Find them, write where you found each one on your sheet, but leave the item where it is so other guests can find it too. The first guest to fill in all 18 wins." Set the kitchen timer or your phone for 20 minutes loud enough that the room hears the buzzer. Some guests will pair up — that's allowed; their teamwork is its own punishment if they only finish 12.

Hit go. The room scatters. Kids head low, adults head high, and somebody always finds the easy ones first and gloats. Walk the venue once as a host to make sure nothing's been actually pocketed and no kid is balancing on the back of a couch. After the 12-minute mark, give a one-time hint nudge for any items nobody's found yet: "There's still one in the kitchen, one in the entryway." The hint keeps the energy from collapsing in the last five minutes.

When the timer beeps, call "pens down." Collect every checklist. Sort by who found the most items; the highest count wins. In a tie, the guest who finished first wins (use the photo timestamp on your phone if guests texted you when they finished). Walk the venue once more with the mom-to-be to gather every actual item into the basket — that becomes her shower-night haul. Hand out the prize on the spot.

How to play

Line guests up at the start. Read the rule once for the whole group: "Start with the doll in your hands, place the doll in the stroller, push through every cone, take the doll out, click it into the car seat, unbuckle and pull it out, unfold the high chair, place the doll in. I stop the clock at the finish line." Hit them with the disqualifiers: drop the doll, redo the leg. Skip a cone, redo the cones. The first player runs solo while the rest of the room watches and cheers — having an audience is half the energy.

Start the stopwatch on "three, two, one, go." Walk alongside each player without touching the gear — your job is to call out the running time at the 30-second mark and again at 60 seconds. Most players nail the stroller leg fast, then completely fall apart at the car seat. The five-point buckle takes 20 to 40 seconds for first-timers, and the high chair unfold trips up everyone who hasn't done it before. Call out the time the second the doll is seated in the high chair. Record it on a notepad or your phone notes.

Run every guest who wants a turn — 8 to 12 will volunteer out of a 20-guest crowd. After the last player, announce the top three times. Hand the prize to the fastest. Award a "realest dad moment" honorable mention to the slowest finisher (usually the dad-to-be) — pair it with a small gag prize to keep the energy warm. Photograph the winner with the doll in the high chair as the trophy moment. Return every piece of borrowed gear with a thank-you within 24 hours of the shower.

How to play

At the shower, open the saved quiz on your laptop and project to the biggest screen you can find — a TV through HDMI works, a real projector is even better. A six-digit PIN pops up on screen. Announce it to the room: "Pull out your phones, go to kahoot.it, type in this PIN, and put your real name so the leaderboard makes sense." Walk one or two of the older guests through it so nobody feels stuck. Wait until every name shows up on the lobby screen before you hit Start.

Each question lands on the screen with four colored answer tiles. Guests have 30 seconds to tap the matching color on their phone. Faster correct answers score more points, which is what makes Kahoot Baby Trivia different from a flat trivia game — speed counts. After every question, Kahoot reveals the answer with a little victory animation and updates the top-five leaderboard. Lean into the reveals. Read the leaderboard out loud. Cheer the new entries. The energy lives in those 15 seconds between rounds.

Run through all 15 to 20 questions, then stop on the final podium screen. Kahoot displays the top three with a gold-silver-bronze graphic. Hand out the prizes right then, take a quick group photo of the podium with the mom-to-be in the middle, and save a screenshot of the final leaderboard to text her later. Total game time is about 20 to 25 minutes — short enough to drop in between food and gifts without dragging.

How to play

Gather guests near station 1 and explain the Baby Stroller Olympics format in 60 seconds. "Three stations, one combined time, lowest score wins gold." Demo each station once — push the stroller through the slalom yourself, do the one-handed fold, do the canopy push with the doll. Don't make it look easy. The room needs to see this is harder than it sounds, or the first few players won't try. Pick the order — younger guests first usually works, since they break the ice for the grandmas who follow.

Each player rotates through all three stations back to back. On the slalom, the stopwatch starts when their hands touch the stroller handle and stops when the back wheels cross the finish line — every cone touched adds 2 seconds. On the one-handed fold, the clock starts when they grip the stroller and stops only when it's fully collapsed flat. On the canopy push, they have to walk the 15 feet with the doll balanced on top of the canopy. If it falls, they go back to the start line — no time-out, just restart. Each runner's three times get summed.

After every guest has gone, sort the scoresheet by lowest combined time. Hand out gold, silver, and bronze on the spot. Stage a tiny medal ceremony — the mom-to-be hangs out front, the top three line up by height, somebody pulls out a phone for the photo. If a player completely failed a station (couldn't fold one-handed, doll wouldn't stay), they get a "fail" score of double the next-slowest player. Total round time for a 12-person guest list is about 40 minutes.

How to play

Gather everyone into the chair (or floor) circle and explain the rules in 60 seconds. "One tapper walks the outside of the circle, taps each head saying 'duck, duck, duck' — and when they pick a goose, the goose chases. Catch them before they sit in your seat, you win a wrapped prize. Don't catch them, you're the new tapper." Pick a kid or a confident guest to start as the first tapper. The first round usually goes slow because nobody knows whether to take it seriously. The second round is when it clicks.

The tapper walks the circle calmly, taps each head, and at some point yells "goose!" The goose stands and chases. If the tapper makes it all the way back to the goose's empty seat first, the goose becomes the new tapper and nobody wins a prize. If the goose catches the tapper before they sit, the goose grabs a wrapped prize from the basket — they keep it sealed for now, so everybody else stays curious — and the tapper becomes the new goose. Use the optional "soup pot" rule (a chair in the middle for caught tappers) only if there are kids; adults usually skip it.

Run the round until all 5 prizes have been won. Total game time is about 12 to 15 minutes for a circle of 10 to 12 guests. At the end, the winners unwrap their prizes one at a time so the room gets one more shared moment — the scratch-off-ticket reveal especially gets a cheer. The unwrap-at-the-end ritual is what makes Duck-Duck-Prize feel like a game-show finish instead of a kid-game wind-down.

How to play

Split the room into 2 to 4 teams of 3 to 5 players each. For smaller showers, every guest is their own team. Explain the Baby Song Showdown rules in 30 seconds. "Teams take turns shouting a song with the word baby in the title. You've got 10 seconds. No repeats. If you can't come up with one, your team's out." Announce your phones-yes-or-no rule loudly so nobody pretends they didn't hear. Start the first team's clock and call "go!"

Team 1 has 10 seconds. Most teams crush their first turn easily — Bieber's "Baby," Britney's "Baby One More Time," "Baby Got Back," "Hey Baby." Write each song on the board as it lands. The clock starts the second the previous team's song is confirmed. Around the third rotation, the obvious songs are gone and teams start whispering frantically — that's when Baby Song Showdown gets fun. Watch for the deep-cut moment when grandma drops a Ronettes song or the dad-to-be remembers "Baby Beluga" and the room loses it.

A team that fails to name a song in 10 seconds is out. A team that names a repeat is out. The last team still standing wins. Total round time is about 10 to 15 minutes for 3 to 4 teams. For bigger groups, run a quick "tiebreaker round" — the winning team gets 30 seconds to name as many baby songs as possible solo. Their score becomes the shower record. Hand out the prize on the spot. Take a photo of the song board — guests always want to screenshot the final list.

How to play

Hand every guest a Famous Baby Photo Match worksheet and a pen at the same moment. Explain the rules in 30 seconds. "Twelve celebrity baby photos on the left, twelve adult photos on the right, scrambled. Match each baby to its grown-up. You have 10 minutes. Most correct wins." Start the timer. The first 60 seconds, everyone scribbles confidently. The next 9 minutes are when the room goes quiet and you can hear the cousins second-guessing their Drake guess.

After 10 minutes, call time and pull out the answer key. Have the mom-to-be read each baby's number out loud — "Number 1 is..." — and pause for two seconds before revealing the celebrity. That dramatic two-second beat is the difference between a flat reveal and a moment. Guests cross-check their own sheets and call out their score. Track scores on the whiteboard as you go. The reveal portion takes about 8 minutes for 12 pairs.

After all reveals, tally the scores. Highest score wins. For tiebreakers, look at the most obscure match — whichever pair the fewest guests got right. Whoever got that one correct breaks the tie. Hand out the prize, take a phone photo of the winner holding the worksheet, and send the worksheet PDF to the mom-to-be afterwards so she can reuse the game format at her next shower. Total round time is about 20 minutes.

How to play

About 30 minutes into the baby shower, gather guests near the TV and split them into two or three teams of 4 to 6 players each. Pair team captains by birthday months or alphabetical order so the splits feel random. Hand each captain a buzzer (or open JeoBuzz on their phone). Explain the Baby Shower Jeopardy rules in 60 seconds. "Pick a category and dollar value. I read the clue. First team to buzz in answers in the form of a question. Right = score the dollar value. Wrong = lose the dollar value, other teams steal." Start with the team that has the youngest player choosing first.

The chosen team picks a category and dollar value — "All About Mom for $300, please." Click the cell on the board to reveal the clue. The buzz-in window opens once you finish reading. Whichever team buzzes first answers. A correct answer in the form of a question ("Who is Pedro Pascal?") scores the dollar value. Wrong answer or a non-question format loses the value, and the next team to buzz gets a steal. Track scores on the whiteboard as you go. Run through all 25 questions. Watch for the All About Mom category to land — that's the round where the dad-to-be usually scores hardest and the room loses it.

After all 25 questions, run Final Jeopardy. Show the final category, hide the clue, and have each team wager up to their current total on a slip of paper. Reveal the clue. Each team writes their answer. Highest-final-total team wins. Hand out the winning team's prizes — one for each member. Take a podium photo. The total round time runs 35 to 45 minutes, which makes Baby Shower Jeopardy the centerpiece of the shower's middle hour, not a quick filler.

How to play

Gather guests near the Diaper Cake Decorating tables and explain the rules in 60 seconds. "Each team builds one three-tier diaper cake. The mom-to-be picks her favorite when time's up. Every finished cake goes home with her, so build it well — your design will sit in the nursery for the first month and then become real diapers." Split into teams of 4 to 6, one team per station. Start the 25-minute timer. Cue the YouTube tutorial on each station's phone.

Teams roll each diaper individually and snap a rubber band around it to hold the shape. Tight rolls stack cleaner than loose ones — that's the whole secret. Once a team has 30 to 40 diapers rolled, they place them upright in a circle around the paper-towel tube on the biggest cardboard round. Once the bottom tier's full, wrap ribbon around the outside to hide the rubber bands. Build up — middle tier, top tier, ribbon, decorations on top and threaded through. Watch the room — the bench-resting grandma usually has the best decorating eye and the dad-to-be's friends will absolutely build their cake too fast.

At 25 minutes, call time. Walk the mom-to-be past every finished diaper cake for the judging round. She picks her favorite based on whatever criteria she wants — most balanced, most decorative, most useful, most likely to survive the car ride home. Hand the winning team their prize. Take a phone photo of every cake before they leave the table — those photos almost always end up on the mom-to-be's Instagram or in the baby's first-year scrapbook. Total round time is about 35 minutes from intro to prize handoff.

How to play

Once guests are seated with a worksheet, pen, and clipboard, walk through the Baby Scattergories rules out loud. "You'll get one letter. Two minutes on the clock. Write one baby-themed answer per category that starts with that letter. Real words only — no made-up names. The catch is the unique-answer rule: if two guests wrote the same answer, both score zero for that category. Aim for the answers nobody else will think of." Roll the letter die — let's say it's B. Hit start on the two-minute timer.

The room goes quiet for about ten seconds, then guests start scribbling. Walk around with the answer key in your back pocket so you've got rulings ready. Some guests will quietly ask if a name like "Bella" counts for Baby Names — say yes. Loose definitions keep the round fun. Keep an eye on the timer and call "thirty seconds!" and "ten seconds!" to keep energy up. The unique-answer rule is what makes the game — guests who write "Banana" for Baby Food are gambling that nobody else picked it.

Buzzer hits, pens down. Go around the circle category by category. "Baby Names starting with B — who has what?" Each guest reads their answer. If it's unique to the room, they score a point. If two guests share an answer, both get zero. Tally on the side. After all five categories are read, total scores and announce the winner. Best part of the round is hearing all the desperate finger-snapping over "Baby Foods with X" (xigua? a watermelon? sure, counts). Hand the prize over and either move on or run a second round with a fresh letter.

How to play

Once everyone's seated in the circle, hand the "baby" to one guest — usually whoever's next to the mom-to-be. Walk through the rule out loud. "When the music plays, pass the baby around the circle. When the music stops, whoever's holding it is out. We play until one person's left." Pose the doll into a cradle position so passing is a real motion, not just a flick. Tell the music controller to pause at random intervals — anywhere between fifteen and forty-five seconds. Hit play.

Guests start passing. Quick passes, careful passes, sometimes a flying lob from a coed cousin who's trying to ditch it fast. The baby zigzags around the circle, the music plays, the room watches. When the music cuts, every guest freezes. Whoever's holding the doll is out — they step back from the circle, grab a Hershey's Kiss from the consolation basket, and watch the round from outside the ring. Music restarts after each elimination. As guests drop out, the circle shrinks and the pace gets faster.

Continue until one guest is left holding the doll the moment the music stops the final time. That last guest wins. Hand the named prize over right then, and toss the doll into the mom-to-be's gift pile — it travels home with her. The whole round runs about ten to fifteen minutes for a group of fifteen. After the prize is awarded, transition into the next thing on your shower timeline. Hot Potato is a great palate cleanser between two seated games.

How to play

Once guests are seated in the circle, hand the wrapped prize to anyone — a guest with quick reflexes is a good pick to start. Walk through the rule once: "I'm going to read a story. Every time you hear the word 'left,' pass the prize to your left. Every time you hear 'right,' pass it right. Whoever's holding it when the story ends keeps it." Take a sip of water. Start reading slow. The first three or four "lefts" come gentle and the room laughs at the awkward first passes.

Then pick up the pace. The story should have left-right pairs back-to-back — "she turned left, then right, then left again" — and the prize zigzags between the same two or three guests for ten seconds while the room laughs. Speed up further. Lean into the chaos. The story might also have "all that was left" and "right after that" — those count too, so every word triggers the pass. The whole reading should take two to three minutes. Don't skip lines; read every word, even the boring connective tissue, because hitting one missed "left" at full speed is the joke.

When you reach the last word of the story, freeze. Whoever's holding the prize at that exact moment wins. Hand the prize over right then with a quick photo — every shower's got a group chat that'll get the photo within twenty minutes. The whole Left-Right baby shower game runs about five minutes total. If the room wants a second round, you've got the backup story printed and ready — different prize, different starting player, same chaos.

How to play

Once everyone's seated in the circle, hand the Saran wrap ball to the first player and the dice to the player on their left. Walk through the rules out loud. "You unwrap with bare hands as fast as you can. The person next to you is rolling these two dice over and over. The instant they roll doubles — any pair, two ones or two sixes — they grab the ball from you. Whatever fell out of the ball before that moment is yours to keep. Then they're unwrapping and the player to their left is rolling. We keep going until the ball is gone and someone finds the grand prize."

Call go and watch the chaos start. The unwrapper is shredding plastic with bare hands while the dice player is rolling at top speed — two dice, two dice, two dice, until doubles hit. Sometimes that's three seconds, sometimes it's a full minute. Whoever's holding the ball when doubles hit hands it off, and the ball keeps moving around the circle. Prizes fall out as layers come off — players pocket them quickly. The whole game is loud, fast, and exactly the kind of chaos that ends with someone bumping into a coffee table. Watch elbows, watch glassware.

Continue around the circle until the final layers come off and the grand prize is revealed. Whoever unwraps the layer with the grand prize wins it. Hand the prize over right then and let everyone collect the small prizes they pocketed along the way. The whole Saran Wrap baby shower game runs about fifteen to twenty-five minutes for a circle of ten to fifteen players. Take a group photo with everyone holding their prizes — that's the photo every shower group ends up sharing in the group chat afterward.

How to play

Once teams are seated in the alternating pattern, hand the device or first index card to a starting player. Set the Catchphrase timer with a long-range mode if available so the buzz time is unpredictable. The first player sees a baby word, then uses any words, sounds, or gestures (but cannot say the word itself or rhymes) to make their team guess. The instant their team gets it right, they hand the device to the next player in the circle — who's on the opposite team. That's the whole rhythm: see word, describe fast, pass on guess, the next team picks up.

The buzzer-timer runs at unpredictable intervals — sometimes thirty seconds, sometimes ninety. Whoever's holding the device when the buzz hits loses the round, and the other team scores a point. Fast guesses pass the device along; slow guesses or fumbling under pressure lose rounds. The panic moment when the device buzzes mid-clue while you're describing "colostrum" to your aunt is the running joke of the entire shower. Run rounds back-to-back. The word-judge calls fouls quietly when a player accidentally says the word or a rhyme.

First team to seven points wins. Or play a fixed number of rounds (five to seven total) and total points across all rounds. Hand the team prize — small gift bags for everyone on the winning side — and the MVP prize to whoever drew the biggest laugh of the night with a single guess or wild description. The room knows who that was. The whole Catchphrase baby shower game runs about fifteen to twenty minutes for a circle of twelve to sixteen players. After the prize, transition into cake or the next thing on your shower timeline.

How to play

When the baby shower needs a high-energy moment — usually after gifts open and before cake — gather everyone outside near the piñata. Explain the rule out loud: "Three swings each, blindfolded, foam bat only. Stand back. Kids first." That's the entire baby shower game. Run the kids first if any are present — bring the piñata down to their height and let them go first with the lightest swings. Three swings each, then rotate to the next kid until they've all had a turn.

Then it's adults. Blindfold the swinger with the bandana, spin them around once gently, point them at the piñata, and step back fast. They get three swings. The room shouts directions — "left! UP! you missed!" — and the swinger swings wildly. Half the time they hit empty air, twice they graze the piñata, the third time they connect solidly and the whole crowd whoops. Rotate through 4–6 adult swingers and the piñata cracks. Stop everybody when the breakage happens — you don't want somebody mid-swing when the candy hits the ground.

The moment the piñata bursts, the contents pour onto the tarp. If you went with the confetti version, blue or pink tissue puffs into the air and floats down — that's the photo every shower group ends up sharing in the group chat afterward. Have somebody on phone-camera duty for this exact second. Let kids dive for the candy first (they will whether you say so or not). Adults scoop up their share, the mom-to-be gets the lottery scratchers, and one good cousin always grabs the broken piñata pieces as a keepsake. Fold up the tarp with all the trash inside and you're done.

How to play

Gather the players in a loose circle around the chairs. Explain the rule out loud: "Music plays, walk around the chairs. Music stops, sit. Whoever doesn't get a chair is out. One chair gets removed each round. Last person seated wins." That's the whole baby shower game. Start the playlist. Players walk around the chair circle while "Hush Little Baby" plays. The first round is usually calm — everyone's still warming up.

The music ref pauses the song without warning. Players scramble for chairs. Whoever's left standing is out and steps to the side to cheer. Remove one chair before the next round. Restart the music. The energy ramps fast — by round three guests are doing little jogs around the chairs and stealing seats from each other with elbows out. Don't let the dives get reckless on hardwood floors. The mom-to-be can sit out and DJ the playlist if she wants — or just cheer from the corner with the late-pregnancy crowd.

By the final round, two players walk around a single chair while the music plays. The pause hits, both dive, one wins. The room cheers. Hand over the prize on the spot. For a bonus, snap a photo of the winner sitting on the last chair with the runner-up making a fake-mad face — that's the photo the friend group ends up sharing in the group chat afterward. Total runtime for a 10-player game is about 8–12 minutes. Fold the chairs back to their original spots and move on to the next part of the shower.

How to play

Gather guests in a circle or U-shape around the speaker — usually as a closing high-energy round after gifts. Read the rules out loud: "I'm playing 10 seconds of each song. Write down the song title AND the artist. Both score points. We play 15 to 20 songs. Highest score wins." Start the first clip and time it exactly 10 seconds on your phone stopwatch.

Play through each song's 10-second clip. After each clip, give 15 seconds for guests to write before moving to the next. Don't reveal answers between clips — the reveals come at the end. The room gets louder around clip 6 as guests start whisper-shouting their guesses to themselves and laughing at wrong recognitions.

After all 15–20 songs are played, go back and reveal each one — read the title and artist out loud while playing the clip again briefly. Guests check off their correct answers (1 point song, 1 point artist). Tally scores. Highest count wins. If two people tie, the tiebreaker is the most obscure song on the playlist — closer answer takes it. Hand the prize. Share the playlist with the parents afterward.

How to play

Line up the first player at the throw line with 5 pacifiers in their hand. On their turn, they throw all 5 pacifiers one at a time, trying to land them in any of the three buckets. The scorekeeper tallies points as the player throws — 1 for the close bucket, 3 for the middle, 5 for the far one. Missed pacifiers stay on the ground until the player finishes their round, then someone gathers them and the next player steps up. The whole turn takes about 90 seconds per player.

Run through every guest who wants to play. Encourage kids to throw from a shorter line — 5 feet closer is fair and keeps them in the game. Dads will absolutely throw harder than they need to and pacifiers will bounce out of buckets; that's part of the fun. The host's job is to keep the rhythm going ("who's up next?"), spot any near-misses for the scorekeeper, and call out big throws to keep the crowd engaged. A pacifier that bounces in and then back out doesn't count — pacifier has to stay in the bucket.

After everyone's thrown, the scorekeeper announces the highest total. Hand the prize to the winner on the spot. Pacifiers all go to the mom-to-be at the end — they're brand-new and unused, perfect for the baby. If she doesn't want them, most US areas have diaper banks or local moms' groups that gratefully take pacifier donations. Snap a photo of the buckets after the last player throws — the spilled pacifiers around the buckets are a sweet visual keepsake.

How to play

Line up the first player at the throw line with 5 rolled diapers. They toss them one at a time, trying to land each diaper in any of the three holes. The scorekeeper tallies points as the player throws — 1, 3, or 5 based on which hole. Diapers that bounce off the board or miss entirely don't score. The player's turn takes about 60 to 90 seconds. After they throw, gather the diapers and let the next player step up.

For team play, split into two teams of 3 to 5 and alternate throws. Each team's points add up; first team to 21 wins the round. For solo play, run every guest through one round and the highest total takes it. The host's job is to keep the rhythm — call out big throws ("that's a 5!"), narrate the score for the room ("team blue is up by 6"), and keep the diapers cycling back to the throw line. Kids should throw from a closer line (5 feet closer) so they stay in the action.

After the final round, the scorekeeper announces the winner. Hand the prize to the winning player or team. The diapers all go to the mom-to-be — they're unused, rolled neatly, and effectively a baby shower gift wrapped inside a backyard game. If you went with the reusable beanbag version, the parents keep those as a baby-shower keepsake to take to future cornhole tournaments. Snap a photo of the board with diapers scattered around it — it's the visual the parents will share on Instagram later.

How to play

Line up 2 to 4 players at the table, each with a doll laid on the surface and a clean diaper folded next to it. The host blindfolds each player one at a time, double-checks that nobody can see, and says "go" as they start the stopwatch. Players use both hands to put the diaper on the doll — figuring out the front and back, getting the tabs in position, and fastening them. Most players spend the first 20 seconds patting around to figure out which end is which.

The host keeps the timer running and announces incremental times — "30 seconds!", "one minute!" — to keep the energy in the room loud. Players have to fasten both diaper tabs and the diaper has to be on the correct end (legs through the leg openings, tabs in the back). If the host pulls off a player's blindfold to check and the diaper is on backwards or only one tab is fastened, they re-blindfold the player and the round continues. Most players finish in 90 to 180 seconds. Take phone photos throughout — the facial expressions mid-attempt are the keepsake shot.

After all players have gone, the fastest correct time wins. Hand the prize to the winner on the spot. If you ran four players at once, run a second heat with anyone who didn't get a turn and crown a final winner between the two heat winners. Donate the cheapest dolls and unused diapers to the mom-to-be — the dolls are now baby toys, the diapers are real diapers. The photos from this game end up in every shower's group chat for weeks afterward.

How to play

Split your guests into teams of four to six and have each team line up shoulder to shoulder. Hand the first player on each line one of the frozen baby ice cubes. The frozen baby pass baby shower game runs on a simple rule: the cube has to keep moving, hand to hand, in one direction. No pockets, no setting it down. Start the timer when every team has their cube in hand.

On "go," each team passes their cube down the line, person to person. When the last player gets it, they walk it back to the front and start the lap over. Players will scream the second the cube hits their palm — it's part of the fun. Some teams try to slow the pass to keep palms cool; smart teams keep it moving so no one person bears the whole cold. The chaos is the point.

Stop the timer at the five-minute mark and have each team hand their remaining cube to the mom-to-be. Eyeball or measure with a ruler — the team with the biggest piece wins. If two teams look close, weigh both cubes on a kitchen scale. Hand out the prize before the cubes finish melting. If anyone's cube has fully broken into pieces, the rule is whichever team still has the plastic baby visible wins.

How to play

Line up runners single file behind the start line. The first runner grips the stroller's handle and waits for "go." The stroller push relay baby shower game starts the timer the second they take off. They push the stroller through the slalom cones — touching a cone or knocking one over adds a five-second penalty. The crowd will yell every time a wheel grazes a cone, so the mom-to-be doesn't have to keep score.

At the diaper change station, the runner stops, pulls out the doll, swaps the dirty diaper for a clean one, and re-fastens the tabs (yes, both sides — guests cheat constantly). The diaper has to actually close. They pop the doll back in the stroller, then keep pushing toward the finish. Halfway between the station and the finish line, they dodge around the folding chair (the "phone call") — touching the chair adds another five seconds.

When they cross the finish line, stop the timer. Write the time on a scorecard or yell it out loud. Reset the diaper, reset the cones, line up the next runner. Disqualifications: dropping the doll on the ground, leaving the diaper hanging open, or skipping a cone entirely. Fastest clean run wins. For a team variation, split into four-person teams and add up each team's total time.

How to play

About 60 minutes into the shower, gather everyone in the main room with the TV in view. Open the baby shower Kahoot quiz baby shower game in "Classic" mode and a 6-digit PIN appears on the screen. Tell guests: "Pull out your phones, go to kahoot.it, type the PIN, and use your real name." Wait until at least 80% of guests have joined — names pop up on the screen as they sign in. Late arrivals can join mid-quiz at any time.

Hit "Start." Each question appears on the TV for 20–30 seconds. Guests tap the matching color/shape on their phone to answer. Faster correct answers score more points — Kahoot's dramatic music and on-screen timer are the whole vibe. After each question, the leaderboard updates in real time and the top 5 names flash on the screen. Pause for groans, laughter, and the inevitable "how did grandma get that one?" reaction.

After all 20 questions, Kahoot reveals the top 3 with a podium animation and trumpet sound. The dad-to-be is almost always shocked by who actually won — usually a cousin who has not slept since college. Hand out the three prizes immediately. Save the quiz file so the next shower in your friend group can reuse it with new questions about a different mom-to-be.

How to play

About an hour into the shower, gather everyone around the screen and explain the baby shower Wheel of Fortune baby shower game in three lines: spin for points, guess a consonant, reveal all instances of that letter to score that point value. Vowels cost 250 points to buy. Solve the puzzle when you think you can spell the whole phrase. Split the room into 3 teams of 4–6 if you have more than 12 guests — it cuts down on "whose turn is it again?" chaos.

First team spins the wheel. The host calls the result out loud — "600!" — and the team picks a consonant. If the letter appears, reveal every instance on the board and credit the team 600 per letter. They spin again. If the letter's wrong (or they hit BANKRUPT), control passes to the next team. Vowel purchases come out of the team's existing points. Any team can attempt to solve the entire puzzle at any time during their turn — first correct solve wins all puzzle points.

After 8–10 puzzles, total the scores. Highest team wins. Run an optional Bonus Round where the leading team gets one final puzzle with 4 free consonants and one vowel — 15 seconds to solve. Trumpet-noise reveal, prize handoff, and you're done. Plan 30–40 minutes total runtime.

How to play

About an hour into the shower, gather everyone around the TV and announce the who wants to be a baby millionaire baby shower game. Pick the first contestant (dad-to-be is the obvious opener) and walk them to the hot seat. Read the rules: 15 questions, increasing difficulty, three lifelines. Two safe levels at $1,000 and $32,000 — get to those and a wrong answer drops you back, not to zero. Hit play on the Millionaire intro music for full effect.

Read each question and the four answer choices out loud. The contestant talks through their thinking, asks the audience, calls a friend on speaker — every lifeline is a comedy moment. "Is that your final answer?" should be said in your most dramatic voice every single time. If they're right, the prize ladder lights up on the screen and the room cheers. Wrong, the screen drops them back to the last safe level and the next contestant rotates in.

Cap each contestant at 5 minutes max so the game doesn't drag. After 4–5 guests have played, total each contestant's final dollar amount. Highest winnings wins the real $25 gift card; runners-up get the consolation prize. The contestant who walked away with the fake $1,000,000 gets to give a small acceptance speech — that's the photo every shower group shares in the group chat afterward.

How to play

About 75 minutes into the shower, gather everyone around the envelope table and announce the baby shower Deal or No Deal baby shower game. Pick the first contestant — the mom-to-be or dad-to-be is a great opener. They walk to the table and pick one envelope to set aside unopened. That envelope is theirs at the end of the game unless they take a deal.

Round 1: the contestant opens 5 of the remaining 19 envelopes one at a time. After each reveal, the room reacts (a real $5 Starbucks card = cheers; a single sock = groans). When the round ends, the bell rings. The Banker (your friend in another room or behind a partition) calls the host. The host announces the offer: "The Banker offers… a $10 Trader Joe's gift card. Deal or no deal?" The contestant decides. If they take the deal, the game ends and they get the offered prize. If they say "no deal," Round 2 starts with 4 more envelopes to open, then another offer.

Continue through 4–5 rounds. By the final round, only 2 envelopes remain — theirs and one other. The Banker makes one last offer. They take it (and walk away with a known prize) or risk it (and open their envelope for whatever's inside). Hand over the prize on the spot. Rotate to the next contestant if time allows — plan 10–15 minutes per round.

How to play

Gather everyone near the station table and explain the baby shower Minute to Win It rules in 30 seconds. Each guest gets one minute per station. Complete the challenge inside the minute and you score a point. Most points after all six stations wins. Anybody can sit out a station they can't physically do — late-pregnancy guests usually skip the chugging one and grandma usually skips the cotton-ball transfer. Read the room and don't push.

Run the stations in pairs to keep the energy up — two guests start at station one and station four at the same time. Your scorekeeper hits the timer and watches both. When the buzzer goes, two new guests rotate in. Don't make people line up by station — that kills the pace. Just call out who's up next from the scoreboard and let people drift over. Cheer the wins, cheer the fails harder. The bottle-chugging station is always the loudest — save it for the middle of the rotation when the room is warmed up.

After every guest has tried every station they want to try, total the scores on the whiteboard. Most stations completed wins. If two people tie, run a tiebreaker round at whichever station the room cheered loudest for. Hand the prize over right then — don't drag it out. Take a photo of the winner, the dad-to-be mid-bottle-chug, and grandma trying to balance a pacifier on her nose. Those three photos are the reason this game exists.

How to play

As guests arrive, hand them a photo bingo card and a pen and walk them through the rules in 15 seconds. Take a photo for each prompt anytime during the baby shower. Scan the QR code to upload to the shared album. Check off the box on your card once the photo is uploaded. First to fill a full row, column, or diagonal yells bingo. First to fill the full 16-square card wins the grand prize. The card runs in the background of the whole party — guests don't have to set anything aside.

About 30 minutes into the shower, walk around once and remind guests the game is on. Most people forget by then because they're chatting. A quick wave of the card and a one-line plug — bingo's running, the album's filling up, somebody's already got two rows — usually re-energizes the room. The mom-to-be does not play. She gets to be the subject of half the prompts, and chasing her own bingo at her own shower is no fun.

Call the winner at gift-opening or right before cake. Whoever has the most boxes checked at that moment wins. Tie? The first guest to upload a photo of the entire group, including the photographer, takes it. Hand the prize over right then so nobody has to track you down. After the party, send the mom-to-be the album link in a text. She'll have hundreds of photos she didn't have to take, and the photo every shower group ends up sharing in the group chat afterward is in there somewhere.

How to play

Open the Mommy Olympics baby shower segment with a 30-second intro that sounds like a real Olympic broadcast. Walk through the six events fast, point out the leaderboard, and announce that gold medal winner takes the grand prize. Call up the first competitor. The scorekeeper starts the timer, the host narrates the round, the audience watches and cheers. Each guest hits all six events in the same order — running everyone through the same path keeps the scoring fair and the audience hooked.

Score each event on the scorecard the second the guest finishes — don't try to score five rounds at once at the end. Rock the Baby is judged on how steady the rocking stays plus whether they actually picked a real lullaby. Diaper Bag Pack is one point per item that ended up in the bag right-side up. Cry Decoder is one point per correct guess from the five clips. Dress the Doll is binary — finished in 60 seconds or didn't. Stroller Slalom is fastest time gets the most points. Pacifier Toss is one point per pacifier that lands in the bowl. Total at the bottom. The host updates the leaderboard between competitors so the room can see who's leading.

After the last guest competes, run a real medal ceremony. Call gold, silver, and bronze up one at a time, hang the medal around their neck, take a posed photo. Hand the gold medalist the grand prize on the spot. The mom-to-be does not compete in Mommy Olympics — she's the honorary judge for the rocking and lullaby events. Give her a special honorary medal at the start so she's not standing on the sidelines empty-handed. The medal ceremony photo always ends up in the group chat after — that's the point of the whole game.

How to play

Open the Daddy Olympics baby shower segment with a 30-second sportscaster intro. Introduce the six events fast, point at the leaderboard, and announce that gold takes the grand prize. Call up the first dad — start with the dad-to-be if he's playing because his round sets the energy. The scorekeeper hits the timer, the host narrates like a real Olympic broadcast, the room cheers and heckles. Run every dad through the same six events in the same order. Mixing the order between competitors makes scoring impossible.

Score each event right after the round ends. One-Handed Diaper is binary — finished cleanly in 60 seconds or didn't. IKEA Assembly is fastest time wins (start the clock when they pick up the first piece, stop it when the crib stands up by itself). Sports-and-Soothe is judged on whether the doll stops crying first or the dad starts watching the game first — the audience votes. Bottle Prep is one point per ounce within range of the target. Stroller Slalom is fastest clean run. Father-of-the-Year Speech is judged by audience cheer volume — let the crowd score it. Update the leaderboard between competitors so the room can see who's leading.

After every dad has competed, run a real medal ceremony. Hum the Olympic theme. Call gold, silver, and bronze up one at a time. Hang the medal around their neck and shake their hand on camera. Hand the gold medalist the grand prize on the spot. The Father-of-the-Year speech moment is usually the photo every shower group ends up sharing in the group chat after — make sure someone other than the host is filming when it happens.

How to play

Once guests have a checklist, a pen, and their purse in their lap, read the rule out loud — "Go through your bag and check off every item you actually have in there. Each item is worth the points listed. No running out to your car, no borrowing from a neighbor — only what's in your purse right now." Give them five to seven minutes. The room immediately fills with the sound of zippers and people laughing at what they find.

Walk around with your master copy while guests dig. The questions come fast — "does a tampon count as a safety pin?" (no), "this is a dog treat, is that a granola bar?" (no, but bonus laugh), "I have three lipsticks, do I score it three times?" (your call — usually once). Be loose and quick with rulings, and send the genuinely tricky ones to the mom-to-be. Guests will start showing each other the weird stuff they've unearthed, and that cross-table "why do you have a single AA battery?" chatter is the whole point of the game.

When the timer runs out, have everyone add up their points and call out their total. Highest score wins. If two guests tie, the tiebreaker is whoever has the rarest high-point item — check whose ten-pointer the fewest other guests scored. Hand the prize over right away, then ask the winner (and a couple of runners-up) to hold up the strangest thing in their bag. That show-and-tell moment is what guests retell later — the game is really an excuse for it.

How to play

Hand every player a balloon and have them tuck it under their shirt for an instant baby bump — the bigger the balloon, the bigger the laugh. Give them a second to settle it and adjust, because half the comedy is watching twenty people suddenly waddle. Then explain the round: in the task version, you'll call out everyday things to do; in the relay or survival version, the goal is to finish the course or outlast everyone without popping the belly.

Run the round. For the empathy version, call tasks one at a time and give the room a moment on each — "tie that shoe… now pick all the toys up off the floor… now sit all the way down in that low chair and stand back up… now bend down and touch your toes." Guests groan, laugh, and discover exactly why the mom-to-be has been avoiding the bottom shelf. For the relay, send teams down the course and back, tagging the next player. For survival, keep calling harder tasks until only one unpopped belly is left.

Crown the winner — last balloon standing, fastest team, or whoever completed every task without a pop. It's a short game by design, so keep it to five or six minutes total and end on a high note. The best closer: ask the mom-to-be which task the guests struggled with that she's been living for months, and let her take a well-earned victory lap. Hand out the prize, sweep up the popped latex, and roll into the next game while the energy is still up.

How to play

As each guest arrives and gets a drink, drop an ice baby into their cup and explain the one rule: "There's a tiny baby frozen in your ice. Watch your drink — the moment your baby melts free, jump up and shout 'My water broke!' First one to do it wins." That's the entire game. It hooks guests immediately because everyone's now quietly monitoring their own cup, and it gives strangers an instant thing to talk about — the perfect arrival icebreaker.

Then let it run in the background. There's nothing for the host to do — the game plays out on its own through the first stretch of the party while guests mingle, snack, and settle in. Part of the fun is watching guests not-so-subtly swirl their drinks, add a warm splash, or cup the glass in their hands to speed the melt along. A little gentle cheating is half the entertainment, so let it slide.

Sooner or later a guest's baby drops free and they leap up yelling "My water broke!" — usually mid-conversation, to a big laugh from the room. That first guest wins. Hand over the prize right then. If you want to keep it going, let it ride and award a second small prize to the last guest whose baby finally breaks free — the slow-melt straggler always gets an affectionate cheer too. Then it's done, no cleanup beyond a few rinsed plastic babies.