15 Best Games for Family Fun Night at Home (Minimal Supplies Needed!)

Here are the 15 best family fun night games you can play at home with little to no supplies, guaranteed laughter & family bonding.

15 Fun Family Games to Play at Home

We’ve been trying as a family to turn off screens and devices more and more. In fact, our new rule is no television or screens (computers, phones) after 6pm Monday – Friday which means I’m always looking for fun ideas for activities to get us to spend quality time together. Sure, we love reading, taking family walks, sitting outside by the fire, or shooting hoops but the weather isn’t always ideal for some of those outdoor and physical activities.

And who doesn’t love a good family game night without having to buy any board games or materials? Me!

Don’t worry, these games don’t require a lot of prep work or purchasing supplies. Easy prep and hassle free is the name of the game!

Most of these games you might need to print off a piece of paper or two, and grab a few pencils, but that’s it. Bring your creative minds and let’s have some fun!

1 – Guess The Ingredients

Can you guess what’s cooking in the kitchen?

This is a hilarious activity that may have you laughing, gagging and plugging your nose all within the hour.

Break your group into teams of 1 – 2 depending on your family size and get to work in the kitchen. The goal is to use up to 5 ingredients and do a blind taste-test, trying to name all the ingredients used. You’ve been warned, this may taste great, or it may taste terrible.

Groups get one point for each correctly guessed ingredient and chefs have three minutes to prepare their unique concoctions before sharing the final creation… or abomination. Who knew maple syrup mixed with pickle juice and lemon could have such distinguished tastes?!?

The team with the most points after a few rounds (the number of rounds are up to you) wins.

2 – The Sentence Game

This is a group game with 8-9 people to really mix it up and work, but a smaller group of 5 – 6 with a few taking multiple turns can work too! It really gets the creative juices flowing and is a combination of Pictionary and Telephone with hilarious results that may have you crying from laughing so hard.

How it’s played:

Each person receives a copy of the paper and fills out the first line with a statement about themselves.
The paper gets passed to the left and the next person has to draw a picture to match the statement.
The top top statement gets folded over and the next person has to make a statement based on the picture alone.
This continues on and on until all the lines are filled going back and forth between writing and drawing.

instructions and Sample of the Sentence Game

Printable Template of The Sentence Game

3- Two Lies and a Truth

There isn’t anything needed for this game except some creativity and a straight face! Each player will take a turn making three statements about themselves, but only two of them can be true. After all is said, the other players will come to a group agreement about which statement is a lie.

4- Scatteegories Family Lists

This game requires at least two (2) players.

This DIY Printable Sattergories Game is super cute and easy to prepare – all you have to do is print and grab a few pens for however many players there are.

How it’s played:

The objective is to score points by uniquely naming objects that fit the categories in a timed setting.
Creativity is the key! Based off the initial letters, you need to come up with something creative in the category for that letter.
For instance, you can have a fruit category and must name fruit that starts with the corresponding letter.
However, the key is that you cannot have duplicate answers as other players or you don’t earn points!

Instructions and Sample of Scattegories Game

Original Scattegories Game

5- Water Bottle Flip

If you have a few plastic water bottles on hand, this is a fun game that can be modified between two or 10 people!

All you need are a table and two full plastic water bottles.

How to play the game:

Split your group into two teams.
Form a line behind each team member or wind around the table (whichever you prefer)
The first person from each team begins at the same time, trying to flip the water bottle around in a complete circle, landing perfect back upright.
Once the person has successfully flipped the water bottle without it falling over, the next person in line gets a turn.
if you only have 2-4 players, see how many times the water bottle can successfully flip and stand up on it’s own in 30 or 60-seconds.
The first team to finish or the person with the most full flips in the allotted time wins.

6- The Name Game

This is a hilarious guessing game!

How it’s played:

Each person playing receives 5 -10 small slips of paper that they write down a name of one person. This can be a fictional, real, dead or alive person. You want to make sure it’s a recognizable name that can be guessed by many of the players!
Put all the folded slips of paper back into the bowl.
Divide everyone into 2 groups.
Round 1: Each person has 30 seconds to guess as man names as possible as the other team members using any clues (except the name itself) help. once a name is correctly guessed, the slip stays out of the bowl. After 30 seconds, the bowl moves to the next person who does the same thing. Each team keeps a pile of the names they guessed and this is the score for round one.
Round 2: Putting all the same slips back into the bowl, one team member begins guessing again with the other members giving them only a ONE word clue. ONLY ONE WORD. If they say more, they have to put the name back. Each player has 30 seconds to get as many names as possible – total guessed correctly is the final score for round 2.
Round 3: Putting all the same slips back into the bowl, one team member begins guessing again with the other members by acting out the clues. no words can be spoken, only actions can be demonstrated. Each player has 30 seconds to get as many names as possible – total guessed correctly is the final score for round 3.
Add up the total scores from rounds 1, 2 and 3 and the highest score wins!

Instructions and Sample of The Name Game

7 – Table Pong

No, this is not beer pong but an beverage-free kind of game you can actually play with your kids.If you happen to have some solo cups (or something similar), and ping pong balls laying around the house, you’ve got a game of pong ready to go!

Set the cups up in a pyramid shape (or however you’d like depending on what you have and how many), and split into teams of two. Each person gets two turns to get a ping pong ball in the cup. Once a ball lands in the cup, the cup is removed from the table. Once all cups are eliminated from one side of the tame – the team who just completed this challenge wins!

8- Who is Telling the Truth?

This is a super funny storytelling game, where the truth may not be all that clear once you start playing! Will you be able to tell who is lying and who is telling the truth? It’s really easy to set-up and play with players coming up with silly statements that may or may not be the truth.

How it’s played:

Give everyone an index card or small sheet of paper and have them write their name on the top.
The cards are gathered into a pile. Then 3 people including of the people whose card was selected are called up to the front of the group.
The statement is read aloud and all 3 people need to convince the audience it’s the own statement.
The audience then decides who is telling the truth and who is lying.
For example: Dad, Brad and Brian are called up. You have Brad’s card that says “I only brush my teeth in the morning and not at night.” All three pariticpatns have to tell a quick story trying to convince everyone it’s them. Brad would tell a true story and Brian and Dad would try to make up a convincing story with facts on the card. Then the audience decides whose story it really is.

I nstructions and Sample of Who is Telling the Truth Game

9 – Suck It Up

All you need for this game are straws and piles of torn paper of pieces of paper (or cut into squares.0

Give everyone the same amount of paper and let the competition begin! Using only a straw and the air in your lungs, each player needs to suction the paper from their pile and move it to the designated area on the other side of the table. No hands or pushing with the straw allowed! The first person to finish by moving their entire pile of paper wins!

10 – Psychiatrist

The idea is that everyone in the room has the same psychological problem and someone else in the room is the psychiatrist and the psychiatrists’s job have to figure out and diagnose the illness. So, someone is chosen as the psychiatrist and they leave the room while everyone else discusses the ONE problem they all have. Then the psychiatrist comes back in the room and starts asking people questions and everyone responds to the question in the manner of the illness they have.

Here are some sample “illnesses:”

ou all cross your legs when you tell a lie – and uncross them when you are telling the truth
Each answer begins with the next letter in the alphabet. (So the first person gives an “A” answer, and the next gives one that starts with a “B”…)
Everyone thinks they are the person to their right
Whoever the psychologist is questioning, the people on both sides of them get itchy
Everyone thinks they are the shoes they are currently wearing
Everyone thinks they are in the Napolean Dynamite movie
You have to use a number in your answer
You all time traveled here

Instructions and Sample of Psychiatrist Game

11 – Blindfolded Taste Testing

It’s time to put the whole family to the test using their sense of taste, smell and touch. Using combinations grouped in categories such as drinks, liquids, sauces, spreads, desserts or anything you’d like to compare that are a like – just don’t let the taste testers see!

Tie a blindfold or bandana on each player and one by one let them taste test. See if they can guess what each is, without knowing what the options are.

You can keep notes and reveal all at the end to see who the winner was who had the most correct.

12 – Name That Tune

This game is similar to the hilarious game show “Name that Tune” except you’re at home trying to name that song! You play a song, you try to guess songs, and you earn points!

You will need a playlist or access to Spotify themed song playlists so you can easily jump from one song to the next.

How it’s played:

Split the group into two teams.
Play your first song from your playlist. When you play a song, both teams will try to be the first one to shout out the name and artist of the song. The first team to guess the song and artist will earn points for their team.
Points can be split across the two teams for each song if one team guesses the song first. You can also give additional points for correctly guessed artists, and if the song is from a movie, musical, etc.

13 – Minute to Win It Games

If it’s time to take up the friendly competition a notch, minute to win it games will do the trick! You might have most of these game supplies at home already to do a few games right now. They never get old and they never lose their hilariousness!

14 – Would You Rather

This is such a simple game but a great way to get to know the entire family a little better while laughing out loud. Go around in a circle taking it in turns to ask questions, such as:

Would you rather drink a cup of tomato sauce or pickle juice?
Would you rather be a duck or a emu?
Would you rather have 20 fingers or 20 toes?
Would you rather have a pig snout or a monkey tail?

If you can’t come up with ideas, check out our FREE WOULD YOU RATHER PRINTABLE LISTS that you can use on your phone or print out.

15 – Scavenger Hunts (Indoor or Outdoor)

Who doesn’t love a good treasure hunt, especially if at the end there’s a sweet treat or bowl of ice cream

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15 Best Games for Family Fun Night at Home (Minimal Supplies Needed!)