20 Fun Couple Games For Party And Private Times

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Couples’ party games are fun, entertaining and allow you to keep the spark alive. But love is often only seen holding each other’s hand or walking through a beautiful garden together, but it’s a lot more than that. Love is best felt when you both enjoy and have exciting and fun times together. Here is a curation of some of the best enjoyable games for couples to have a gala time together and cherish these memories for a long time to come.

Couple Games For Party

What’s a party without some creative, exciting, and interactive games? Here are some trust-building ideas you can use to keep the guests engaged. Your party can become festive, lively, and memorable for life.

1. Pyramid of coins

You will need:

• Glass
• Rice grains
• 硬币

How to play:

1. Take a glass of rice grains.
2. Give coins to the couples.
3. Each couple should make a tower with the coins in the rice.
4. Whoever builds the highest pyramid is the winner.
5. The time limit is one minute.

2. Flip the glass:

You will need:

• Plastic glasses
• Water/ juice

How to play:

1. Give the couples a half glass of water or juice to drink.
2. Each player has to finish the drink and flip the glass bottoms up.
3. When one player finishes flipping, the other player has to drink and flip the glass.
4. Whoever flips it right is the winner.

3. Button sewing game:

You will need:

• Thread and needle
• Cloth
• Buttons

How to play:

1. Give each couple a kit consisting of cloth, buttons, thread, and needle.
2. Every player has to sew buttons on the cloth, while their partner assists them.
3. The couple who sews the highest number of buttons within a minute is the winner.
4. If you sew the buttons loosely, they will not be counted.

4. Tricky game

You will need:

• None

How to play:

1. The couples should stand facing each other in a row.
2. The person conducting the game will give instructions.
3. The couples should do anything but follow the instructions. For example, if the leader says, ‘Sit’ you should stand or run but not sit.
4. Whoever follows the instruction is out of the game.
5. The couple who remains until the end is the winner of the game.

5. Famous couple

You will need:

• Paper labels
• Cellophane tape
• Pen

How to play:

1. Write the names of famous couples on labels.
2. Stick the label on the man/ woman’s back.
3. That person will ask theirpartner questionsabout famous couples to guess the couple whose name is written on their back.
4. The partner has to answer the question with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
5. The person who guesses correctly wins the game.
6. Continue the game till three couples guess the names right.

6. Find your mate

You will need:

• Paper bags

How to play:

1. Let the men and women be in different rooms.
2. Put a paper bag on each person’s head without covering the eyes.
3. They have to find their partner without speaking.
4. The couple who finds each other first will be the winner.
5. The other couples continue playing until they find their partners.

7. Tie a ribbon

You will need:

• Ribbon

How to play:

1. Cut the ribbon in different lengths.
2. Hide the ribbon pieces in various corners of the house.
3. Ask the couples to find them.
4. They need to find as many pieces and tie them together to make a long piece.
5. The game ends in ten minutes
6. Measure all the ribbon pieces of all the couples.
7. The one who makes the longest piece is the winner.

8. Truth and lies

You will need:

• A4 papers
• Pen

How to play:

1. Give every couple a piece of white paper.
2. One of the partners will have to write six lies and six truths.
3. The other partner has to segregate the lies from the truths.
4. The couples who make the correct guess will go to the subsequent round.
5. The game continues until only two couples remain.
6. In the final round, they have to play the game orally.
7. The one who guesses wrong will lose.

Balloon Couple Games

No, these are not as simple as blowing the balloons and hanging them up.

9. Pop the balloon

You will need:

• Balloons
• 秒表

How to play:

1. Distribute the balloons to all the couples
2. One of the partners should burst the balloon by pressing the balloon against the back of the other partner without using their hands.
3. The couple who pops the maximum number of balloons in five minutes is the winner.

10. Shave the balloon

You will need:

• Balloons
• Shaving cream
• Razor

How to play:

1. Give all the couples a blown balloon each.
2. Spray some shaving cream on the balloons.
3. One partner holds the balloon by their mouth.
4. The other partner should shave the lather using a razor.
5. The couple who manages to complete the task first without popping the balloon is the winner.

Tough Couple Games

If your guests are a group of energetic, playful, and enthusiastic people, then simple games might bore them. Choose games which are challenging and dynamic to play.

11. Spot the candy in the flour

You will need:

• Flour
• Candy
• Table

How to play:

1. Place a bowl of flour on the table with a candy buried in it.
2. The players have to keep their hands behind their back.
3. Blow the flour and take the candy with their mouth.

12. Bite the bag:

You will need:

• Paper bags

How to play:

1. Players should place their hands behind their backs.
2. While picking up the bag, one foot should be on the floor and the other off the floor.
3. Place a paper bag on the floor.
4. The players need to pick the bag with their mouth and hand it to their partners.

13. Cherry pie:

You will need:

• Cherries
• Table

How to play:

1. On a table, arrange plates with six cherries on each plate.
2. Ask the couples (players) to stand in front of each plate. The couple should face each other.
3. On the blow of a whistle, they should start eating all the cherries. They should use only their mouths and hands should be behind their backs.
4. The couple who eats all the cherries first wins the game.

14. Hoopla ring

You will need:

• Hoopla ring or hoola hoop
• Music

How to play:

1. Let all the couples face each other in a row.
2. Give one hoopla ring (or hoola hoop) to each couple.
3. Play the music.
4. At the start of the music, the couple has to go through the ring (hoop) from head to toe and pass on the ring to the next couple.
5. Stop the music, and if any couple remains inside the ring, they are out of the game.
6. Repeat the music and let the couples continue the game.
7. The couple who remains until the end wins the game.

15. How well you know your partner

You will need:

• Paper
• Scissors
• Pen

How to play:

1. This is a tough game because the questions are not easy to answer.
2. Cut a piece of paper into two equal parts, for men and women.
3. Have ten categories, such as, ‘favorite colors’, ‘favorite movies, and favorite foods’.
4. In each category, the person has to write the favorite color/movie/food of their partner on one half.
5. On the other half, they have to write their own favorites.
6. For every right answer, the couple will get one point.
7. Each couple has to take the test separately and the answers will be compared by the host.
8. The couple who gets the maximum points is the winner.
9. You can have as many questions as you want.

In the next section, we cover the questions you canask the couplesabout each other.

16. Cheese Puff Passing Game

You will need:

• Cheese puffs
• Paper plates
• Table

How to play:

1. Couples stand next to each other at the table with hands behind their backs.
2. Each couple gets 2 plates.
3. Put 6-10 cheese puffs on one of their plates.
4. “传球”(人with the puffs) picks up one at a time with their mouth and passes it to “receiver” partner .
5. The receiver uses their mouth to take the puff and places it on their plate.
6. If the puff drops on the floor, the couple is out the game.
7. The first couple to pass and receive all the puffs to the second plate wins.

Couples Game Questions for Parties

Here are some questions you can ask couples and match their answers.

About the partner:

1. What was the first thing you noticed in your partner?
2. Do you remember the first time you met your partner?
3. What’s your best moment with your partner?
4. What do you like best about your partner?
5. How do you like to spend time with your partner?
6. Is there something you dislike about your partner?
7. How would you describe your partner in five words?
8. What is that you look forward to from your partner every day?
9. What would be your ideal date?
10. What did you do on yourfirst date?
11. What scares you the most about your spouse?
12. What is the best thing you like about your spouse?
13. When did you first realize ‘he/she is the one for you’?
14. Which place did you go on your first date?
15. Do you remember the color of the clothes your spouse wore on your first date?
16. How would you describe your spouse the first thing in the morning?

About self:

17. 如果你是granted any three wishes, what would they be?
18. What is something you did as a teenager nobody knows about?
19. Who was your first crush?
20. Did you propose marriage to any other person?
21. What is the most embarrassing moment of your life?
22. Would you like your partner the same if he/ she looked different than now?
23. If you had just one day to live, how would you spend it?
24. What excites you the most?
25. What is your idea of aromantic date?
26. Is there something that you want to change about your life? What is that and why?
27. What is your wildest fantasy?
28. What is that you appreciate in your relationship and why?

This ends our party games part. Let’s now move to the games you can play with your partner when you both are alone.

Romantic Games For Couples

You can turn lovemaking much more interesting with romantic games. Here are some such games that can lead to a steamy aftermath.

17. Blindfolding your partner

You will need:

• Cloth for blindfolding

How to play:

1. Blindfold your partner.
2. Lead them slowly to your bedroom.
3. Tease them by touching them all over.
4. This can arouse them.

18. Romantic Scrabble:

You will need:

• 拼字游戏board
• Letters

How to play:

1. You need to form words just like in Scrabble game.
2. The rule of this game is to form romantic words only.
3. It can be a funway to express lovefor your partner.

19. Sexy Scrabble:

You will need:

• 拼字游戏
• Letters

How to play:

1. You need to form words of body parts only.
2. Your partner should kiss you on the body part (of the formed word).

20. Truth or dare:

How to play:

Prepare a set of crazy questions such as:

1. “If I were handcuffed, what would you do?”
2. “如果你必须给我吃冰淇淋,在哪里would you put and how would you eat?”