Games

You can only move when it's night time! That's the number one rule of the game. Clear out your youth room and split the floor into four large sections with tape. Take four decks of cards and spread them out all over four sections. Challenge your students to find every card of one suit (Ace through King). You cannot move in a section that is daytime on the screen. If you do, you're out! The first student (or group) to collect all 13 cards of the same suit will win! 

Song Bite is a new game that plays short snippets from songs that you upload. Students have to guess the name of the song and the band based on less than a second of audio. You control what songs you use, what part of the song that plays, and how long it plays for! Just grab a bunch of mp3s of your favorite songs and you’re in business! 

Spinner is a fantastic tool that can be used for a bunch of different games. We'll give you some ideas, but you can really do whatever you want with this one. The app is simple: Just pick the number of players and the screen with be filled with a group of boxes. A little white dot shifts around while it counts down. Watch the walk-through video below to get an idea of what you can do with this one. 

The Stage Gauge is a great tool that makes your games way more fun! Imagine scoring a dance-off contest with a giant applause meter on the screen! Or create a head-to-head-to-head-to-head contest between freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Then use the Stage Gauge to show the winner! The possibilities are endless. You can set the color, size, and text of each section. To move the needle, simply hover your mouse over a colored rectangle in your dashboard. It's that easy! Check out the video below for a walk-through! 

Stop It! is a fantastic, no setup youth group game that challenges students to hit a button and stop a clock as close as they can to a given number without going over. Whoever gets closest within 1/100th of a second is the winner! This is the kind of game that has everyone going nuts when the clock stops on the winning number. Tons of fun, easy to explain, and not setup required. Just stop it! 

"Stop the Clock” has students trying to figure out how to stop the clock (hence the name). STC can be used in an escape room, during scavenger hunts, or on stage during your large group time. This STC is called, "Three Key" and requires students to find and plug three USB thumb drives into a USB hub to... Stop the Clock! 

Stopwatch is... a stopwatch (hence the name). It works exactly how you'd expect it to work! You can start/stop the time and save that time in up to three slots. This is perfect for relay-type competitions (or pretty much anything that would benefit a stopwatch timer). This is a great tool for your next game! 

You can play a lot of different games with Suits. At its very base, Suits is simply a game board that displays a bunch of boxes with different card suits. You can control how many boxes are on the screen, flip them, shuffle them, and even force them to be the suit that you want. So, give every student a playing card as they walk through the door. Then, use Suits to randomly pick a set of 8 suits. The first group of students who can form that set with their cards wins! That's just one of many games that you can play with Suits! 

Sword Drill is your classic, “First to find this verse in their Bible” type of game. Just set it up by entering the verses that you want to use. The reference will appear on the screen and your students will have to rush to flip to it in their Bibles. The first to stand up with the verse ready to be read gets a point! This is a fun way to get your students into knowing where verses are in their Bibles. 

Sword vs Shield is a “This or That” game that has your students battling it out between two rivals. Everyone needs to pose holding a sword or a shield. Then, two knights fly on to the screen in mid-battle. Just as the knight with the sword strikes the knight with the shield, the screen goes dark. Then, with the click of a button, the winner is revealed. The students making that pose win that round. 

We have a mathematical equation to bring some light as to why running talent shows at youth group is a good idea. Fun + Easy = Awesome. Now that we have all that nerdy stuff out of the way, let’s talk about why we love using the Talent Show Buzzer. If you want your talent show to feel legit, then you need judges. If you have judges, then you need to give them the power to destroy the confidence of the contestants. That’s common sense. This resource does that. 

Siri, predictive text, and virtual keyboards have spoiled this generation. Students don’t understand the struggle of texting before smartphones. Back in the day, we had to text to school in the snow, uphill both ways, like cave people. When it comes to old cell phones, the Nokia 3310 is the classic example of indestructible old tech. If you had a cellphone in the late 90s, it was the 3310. Text Me brings ’90s nostalgia to another level. We found an old Nokia manual and recreated the texting functionality for this app. Amaze your students with a glimpse into the past. 

Quick! Name a Superhero! Name another! Another! ANOTHER!!! Three Spree is a fast-paced category game that has students naming off items in a category as fast as they can, without repeating anything or running out the three second clock. You make up the categories ahead of time, so they can be generic or specific to your youth ministry (like naming off volunteers). 

True or false? Yey or nay? Fact or Fiction? Real or Fake? Thumbs is a great way to play all of those games with your students! At its core, Thumbs is a tool that displays a thumbs up and a thumbs down. Have everyone answer a question with their thumbs in the air. Then display the answer with the thumbs on the screen! It’s a great visual and adds some extra flare to your games. 

We’re not going to over-exaggerate anything here. Toaster Timer is the greatest toaster related timer in the world! You can use this utility app as a blind timer. A blind timer means the timer does not show the countdown clock. We use it for Hot Potato games and "minute to win it" games. 

Treasures is a fun, goofy game where you control the outcome. There are 5 treasure chests on the screen. Inside one is a bunch of coins. The others contain things like fish, rubber chickens, and poop. Give your students an opportunity to pick the correct chest. Little do they know, you’re pulling the strings and can decide which chest contains what on the fly. 

Tug of War is a really quick and fun game that requires zero setup. Just have your students split into two teams (guys vs girls, upperclassmen vs underclassmen, etc). The louder they cheer, the stronger their pull on the rope will be! In reality, the person running the computer is controlling the rope with their cursor, but the students don’t need to know that! 

"Unstand if..." is your classic, "Sit down if..." youth ministry game. The cool thing about this game is that you can quickly enter the conditions and start playing right away. Just have everyone stand up. If what's on the screen is true about them, have them unstand (aka sit down)! Since you can change the conditions in the dashboard, this is a great and simple game that can be played every week. 

"What's in the Box!?" has a bunch of different uses. You can create up to 26 digital shoeboxes and assign a color, letter, and prize/anti-prize to each one. Then create a real life shoebox for each one on the screen. Have your students pick a letter and that shoebox will be revealed on the screen. When you hit the spacebar, the lid flies off and a little sign appears with what is in the box.
One way to play is to have a student blindfolded, sticking their hand into a shoebox filled with... whatever you want! This is fun because you can fill it with gross stuff and reveal to the crowd what it is without the blindfolded person knowing. You can even use it as prize picker! 

What’s the Passcode is a game that has student trying to figure out a random 4- digit passcode with a series of clues that show up in the form of notifications. “The 3rd number is even”, “The 2nd number is three less than the 4th”, “The 1st number plus the 4th equals 5”, etc. The first student (or group) to correctly guess that passcode wins! Don’t worry, if they just aren’t getting it, you can force one of the notifications to straight up tell you one of the numbers. 

Do you need a quick crowd game that doesn’t require any set up? Wink n Blink is perfect for that! The big face on the screen will close his eyes and so will all of your students. Then, he’ll open his left, right, or both eyes! Students will open their left, right, or both eyes in hopes that they match the screen. If they don’t, they’re out! It’s a great, quick crowd elimination game! 

Follow the Heart is a Valentine's Day version of our classic, Follow the Queen game! It's really simple to play and requires no setup. Just show your students the 3 cards on the screen and have them keep their eye on the red heart. Then flip the cards and start shuffling. They have to guess which card is the red heart. You control the speed of the shuffle and which cards to flip. The best part is, you can force a card to be the right or wrong card. This is perfect if you need to help a student out... or force them out! 

Siri, predictive text, and virtual keyboards have spoiled this generation. Students don’t understand the struggle of texting before smartphones. Back in the day, we had to text to school in the snow, uphill both ways, like cave people. When it comes to old cell phones, the Nokia 3310 is the classic example of indestructible old tech. If you had a cellphone in the late 90s, it was the 3310. Text Me brings ’90s nostalgia to another level. We found an old Nokia manual and recreated the texting functionality for this app. Amaze your students with a glimpse into the past. 

Do you need a quick game for the summer to give out a prize? Maybe you need something to act as a tie breaker for a another game. Or do you want a simple, no-setup game for your ministry? Summer Three of a Kind is just that! Just hit the spacebar and three random summer-themed items will appear in the boxes. If a student gets three of a kind (hence the name), they win a prize! 

Do you need a quick game for Hallowen to give out a prize? Maybe you need something to act as a tie breaker for a another game. Or do you want a simple, no-setup game for your ministry? Halloween Three of a Kind is just that! Just hit the spacebar and three pumpkins will appear in the boxes. If a student gets three of a kind (hence the name), they win a prize! 

Monster Match is the best middle school game for getting the sillies out. We created it specifically for goofy middle school students and youth workers who occasionally behave like middle schoolers. It’s guaranteed to get your peeps laughing and having a good time. 

Pumpkin Drop is a super spooky Halloween version of one of our favorite games, Donut Drop. Just have a student yell, "Drop!" and watch as their pumpkin bounces through the pegs and hopefully lands in one of five boxes on the floor. The coolest part about this game is that you can hit a button that completely slows down time in the game! This is perfect for those moments when it looks like the pumpkin is about to fall into a box. Just hit the button and everything runs in slow motion! It's a ton of fun! 

Turkey Drop is a Thanksgiving themed version of our popular game, Donut Drop. Think Plinko with turkeys. Just have your students call out, “DROP!” and hit the spacebar. Watch at the turkey bounces around and hope that it lands in a pan at the bottom. If your students are able to get three turkeys in a pan, they’re the winners. This is a super easy, no-step game that’s perfect for the Thanksgiving season. 

Grab two bicycle pumps and two students! Have them inflate the turkeys on the screen until one of them pops. The first to pop their turkey is the winner! This funny game is easy to understand with hardly any setup. Every time a student pumps their bicycle pump, just hold down an arrow key on your keyboard. This will cause their turkey to inflate. If the turkey gets too big, "POP!", it explodes into a bunch of turkey pieces. Check out the, "How to Play" section below for more details. 

“Who Wrote It?” has students asking the question… “Who wrote it?” Before your youth group starts, have your students write what they are thankful for, along with their names, on pieces of paper. Take those papers and input them into this game. When you’re ready to play, just show each quote and see if your students can guess who wrote it! 

Extreme Gift Counting has students playing against each other to see who can count how many presents fly onto the screen. You control it by hitting any letter key on the keyboard. The game keeps track of every gift and displays the final number when you're ready. It's harder than it looks. You can go super slow, launching a few gifts at a time, or you can button mash and cause chaos! This is a great, no-setup game that can last as long as you need it to! 

Santa’s little helpers volunteered their time to spice up the classic Llama Llamalong game, by suiting the llamas up like Christmas elves! Fa La Llama Llamalong adds a great change up for those ministries that regularly play Llama Llamalong, but works great on its own. Students pick up on the rules quickly, but mastering it? Not so simple. Also, did we mention this youth group game takes no-prep and it gets more fun every time your ministry plays it? Fa La Llama Llamalong is most fun to play when your youth group has a weekly Fa La Llama Llamalong Champion. Each week, bring a student up to beat the highest score. If they do it, they become the new champ until someone beats their score, or until New Years. 

This Christmas-themed game allows your students all the fun of the classic Three Card Monte game, usually played curbside my scam artists and street thugs, but in the safety of your youth ministry. Follow the Red Nose makes for the perfect prize game. The best part? You can make whoever you want to win or lose. Playing fair? The England Patriots don’t play fair, and they have five Super Bowls! 

Santa Drop is a super jolly, Christmas version of one of our favorite games, Donut Drop. Just have a student yell, "Drop!" and watch as a Santa jumps from his sleigh, bounces through the pegs, and hopefully lands in one of five chimneys! The coolest part about this game is that you can hit a button that completely slows down time in the game! This is perfect for those moments when it looks like the Santa is about to fall into a chimney. Just hit the button and everything runs in slow motion! It's a ton of fun! 

Satna Slots offers all the fun of a slot machine minus the chance to win a bazooka load full of money. But! It’s Christmas themed. So, it does have that going for it. Santa Slots requires no setup and works great as a prize game or a tiebreaker! We use Santa Slots at the end of a scavenger hunt that has multiple winners and other tie-breakers. Invite the winners up on stage see who get the highest score. 

“Who Wrote It?” has students asking the question… “Who wrote it?” Before your youth group starts, have your students write what they want for Christmas, along with their names, on pieces of paper. Take those papers and input them into this game. When you’re ready to play, just show each quote and see if your students can guess who wrote it!