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Pregnant man.
Another competition for men only. The host calls several guests and invites them to test themselves as women. Each participant has large inflatable balloons taped to their stomach. Matches are scattered in front of the participants. The participants' task is to collect all the matches without bursting their balloon. The winner is declared to be a potentially good woman.
Male legs.
Only men can participate in this competition. The presenter informs the male participants that their task is to collect as much cosmetics from the floor as quickly as possible (which were scattered in advance, you can use candies). The winner can give the collected cosmetics to his beloved.
But there is also a secret part of the competition - the men’s legs will be judged by the girls. Therefore, the presenter informs the men that for the convenience of collecting objects, they should roll up (raise) their trousers as high as possible. After all the cosmetics or candies have been collected, the presenter announces to the men the real essence of the competition, and the girls choose the winner and award him a medal.
Starting the motorcycle
This is probably the funniest prank competition ever. For it you will need one box, and one participant who is good with humor and who is already a little tipsy. The presenter invites the victim participant to take a coordination test. The essence of this test is that the player must lift a box of matches using only two matches. You need to take each match with two fingers and rest it on the sides against the box.
After some time, the participant in the competition manages to do this, but the presenter reports that this is just the beginning, and the main task is to raise the box to head level, holding it with these two matches on outstretched arms, and stomp with your foot. At this time, the participant’s face will be so joyfully stupid that it’s time to turn to the audience and say, “This is how they start a motorcycle in a madhouse.” Everyone laughs, and so does the victim participant.
Find the heart
Hearts are laid out around the room or hall. The host gives the guests a task: to find as many hearts as possible, which are hidden in the most unexpected places. The guests begin their search. Whoever finds the most hearts wins the competition and, accordingly, receives a prize.
Match
Everyone who wants to participate in the competition is given a match. When the first player enters the center of the hall, his match is set on fire. Before the match burns out, he must tell as many details about himself as possible. All players do the same. At the end, they count who said more details.
Draw the word
The host and the guests come up with a word and say it to one of the competition participants. His task is to depict this word on paper without using letters and numbers. The participant tries and draws. The task of the team of players is to guess what word is being talked about. The one who guesses first will receive a prize.
Dress
Two (or more) couples participate in the competition. After the presenter talks about this season's fashion, each man from the couple is given a roll of toilet paper, from which he will need to make a dress for his partner. But the dress should only be made of toilet paper! Knots and tears are allowed, but paper clips, pins and other objects cannot be used. Couples are given 10-15 minutes to prepare the dress, after which the partner returns in a new “dress”. The jury, having assessed the appearance of the dress, invites the couples to dance. How gracefully, beautifully and slowly this fragile work disintegrates! :)
Simple pencil
This competition involves two teams, each with 3-5 people (alternating men and women). The essence of the competition is that you need to pass from the first participant to the last and back a simple pencil, which the competition participants clamp between their upper lip and nose! Of course, it is forbidden to touch the pencil with your hands, but everything else is allowed!!! :)
Information by gestures
Before the competition, you need to prepare leaves or cards with written information, for example: twins, a boy and a girl, 2.8 kg each. A boy was born, a black man, big brown eyes. Girl, height 48 cm, weight 3 kg, small ears. And so on according to the meaning. Pairs are selected from the audience: “father” and “mother”. The cards are given to girls, whose task is to tell “dad” with gestures the information that they received. The winner is the young “father” who most accurately understood and conveyed the meaning of what was written.
Find your wife
Three married couples are needed for this competition. Husbands are placed opposite their wives at a distance of several meters, after which bottles of any alcoholic drink are placed on the road between them. Then all men need to be blindfolded and turned several times, but so that he stands facing his wife. During this time, while they are not looking, the women are changed places and the bottles are taken out of the way. The task is to reach your wife and hug her, while everyone else is asked to remain silent and not prompt.
Competition "Dreamers"
You can play right at the festive table, but you need to prepare in advance identical, but unfinished drawings on a festive theme (multiply the pre-prepared drawings on a printer). The players' task is to complete the drawings as they imagine them. The winner is the one who not only guessed what should be depicted, but also coped with the creative task best of all.
Competition "To the Knot"
A knot is tied in the center of the cord, and pencils are tied along the edges. 2 men must compete and wind a cord around pencils to be the first to reach the knot.
Couples participate in the competition: a guy and a girl or a man and a woman. The women have a grater between their legs and stand with their backs to the men. Men have carrots between their legs. The task of each pair is to grate the carrots on the women's grater. It will be a fun and funny competition. And the couple with the biggest pile of grated carrots wins a prize.
Cuckoo cuckoo bought a hood
This competition involves those interested who are ready to show their announcer skills at speed. Each participant holds two nuts in his mouth, and the leader has a stopwatch in his hands. Each person in turn, with nuts in their mouths, says a simple tongue twister: “The cuckoo bought a hood. Put on the cuckoo's hood. How funny he is in the hood! You can choose another one. Whoever tells the tongue twister in the shortest time without dropping the nut from his mouth wins.
Do, re, mi...
The presenter brings cards with notes “do”, “re”, “mi” and so on. One note - one card. Guests with their eyes closed draw a card. Next, everyone looks at what note is written on their card and says a toast that begins with that note. If the note is “do”, then the toast can begin with the word “dobra”.
Funny penguins
For this competition, teams can be formed, or it can be held for individual participants. The task of the contestants is to get to their goal, for example, to the ice cream table, the fastest. In this case, the participants’ hands are tied around the waist with tape, and their legs are also tied at the knees. The results will be fun and funny races. The participant runs to the target, takes his prey and runs to the starting place. Whoever manages to overcome the path faster in such an interesting situation will receive loud applause and a wonderful prize.
Guess what's changed
One person is invited to participate in the competition. It is shown to the participants, and everyone remembers what he is wearing and so on. This person is then taken to another room and something in his clothing is changed. When the person returns, the guests must guess what has changed in his appearance.
Fire
Several players are invited to participate in the competition, and they are given two sheets of paper. They must imagine that there was a fire in their home and decide which item they would save first. They should draw this thing on the first sheet. On the second sheet they must depict the reason why they will save this particular thing.
All papers are placed in two boxes, the first box is the “subject”, the second is the “reason”. Then the presenter pulls out a sheet from both boxes. And it turns out to be an interesting story: “I will save the TV, because it’s nice to walk on it.”
Hedgehog
Guests take an apple and insert as many matches into it as possible to make a hedgehog. A couple consisting of a guy and a girl is invited to participate in the competition. They take turns pulling a match out of an apple and saying a kind word to each other. At the end, the couple is awarded a prize.
Vacuum cleaner
Select 2-3 participants. For each of them, they make their own path on the table from edible items, for example, dragees, raisins, peanuts or other small products. At the command “start”, the participants begin to “vacuum clean” their path, while the participants’ hands are tied behind them. Whoever is the first to “vacuum” and clear his path will win a prize.
I give the birthday boy...
Each of the guests takes turns taking out their own forfeit, in which a specific word is written. The guest must say: I have a “word” and I give the birthday boy _____, and instead of a dash, he names an item of clothing that rhymes with this word. For example, the word “mustache”, I have a mustache and I give the birthday boy underpants, whiskey - socks, jellyfish - a bra, jellyfish - leggings, and so on. It will be interesting and fun to listen to who and what they can do with such gifts.
Dangles between the legs - starts with “x” (answer: crispy vegetable)
Each participant has a carrot or cucumber tied to his belt on a rope of equal length (approximately at knee level). At the “start” command, participants begin to eat their vegetable. Whoever is first is well done.
A birthday celebration should be truly interesting and memorable not only for the birthday person, but also for all invited guests. Therefore, the celebration program should include entertaining moments that will enliven the holiday atmosphere and allow guests to feel at ease and fun. We are talking about games and competitions at an adult birthday party, which can be held both at the table and on the playgrounds of the banquet hall.
Entertainment without interruption from the feast
Table games set the tone for the entire holiday, help guests get to know each other and serve as an excellent reason for making regular toasts.
Our compliments
This game is played at the beginning of the banquet, after the first toasts. Its essence lies in the fact that the guests take turns telling the birthday boy one compliment, expressed in the form of an adjective; words cannot be repeated. The last person to give a compliment will be the winner of the competition.
Let's get acquainted!
One of the guests is given a roll of paper towels. Next, the task of each participant is to tear off as many small pieces from the roll as he wants and pass the roll to his neighbor. Everything must happen very quickly so that the roll goes around the entire table while the music is playing. After this, guests are invited to count their pieces of paper - and everyone tells as many interesting facts about themselves as the number of pieces they counted.
Funny synonyms
The host invites guests to name synonyms for the word “drink.” The one who pronounces the last synonym is declared the winner and makes a toast to the birthday person.
Like - don't like
Guests are invited to take turns saying the phrase “The neighbor on the right, I like...” (a body part or item of clothing is called) and don’t like (a word is also called). After all the guests have said their phrases, they are invited to kiss what they like and bite what they don’t like. This game causes cheerful excitement among all its participants.
Nectar of funny wishes
The host gives one of the guests a glass; those present are invited to say an unusual wish for the birthday boy and at the same time pour a little alcoholic drink into a glass, passing the vessel around. The one who fills the glass to the brim with his gesture makes a toast to the hero of the occasion and drinks “nectar” to the health of the host of the evening.
Mass games and competitions
In order for the holiday party not to turn into a social gathering, from time to time it needs to be enlivened with active entertainment, which is held on a conveniently located playground and involves a large number of participants. These are great birthday contests at home and on the street.
“On my birthday I wish...”
4–5 guests are invited to participate in the game. Each of them says: “On my birthday I wish...” and continues the phrase with three wishes for the hero of the occasion. When all the wishes have been said, each participant receives a lollipop. Now the contestants must repeat their wishes with the candy in their mouth (you cannot bite or swallow the candy). Next, the number of candies increases until one of the participants can no longer pronounce the phrase clearly: such a contestant drops out of the game, and the competition continues. The winner is the participant who “talks out” everyone else with a mouth full of candy.
The fastest!
The presenter invites 10-12 guests to participate in the competition. Participants are located on both sides of the competition organizer at a distance of 3-5 meters from the table.
The game begins with the words of the host, “Bring me from the table...(the object is called),” after which the competitors must run to the table to the music, find the right thing and return to their place with it. The latecomer is eliminated from the game. You can start the game with napkins, then the task becomes more complicated - the items include cell phones, watches, and so on; and closer to the end, participants are asked to bring socks or shoes.
An important condition of the competition: you cannot bring your own things!
The last one to reach the final wins. This game is equally liked by both competitors and spectators, who take an active part in it, helping participants with the search for the desired item.
Merry milkmen
Three teams of 3 people are invited to participate in this game. Each team is given a glass and a medical glove with pierced fingertips. In front of those present, the presenter fills the gloves with vodka (in fact, it is water, but neither the guests nor the contestants realize this). The gloves are tied and the game begins.
The task of the teams: while the music is playing, “milk” as much “milk” as possible. In this case, one of the contestants holds the “udder”, the second holds the glass, and the third acts as the milker. The team whose “yield” is higher wins.
After which the milkmen raise their glasses to the health of the birthday boy. Since the participants think that there is vodka in the glass, it is very interesting to watch their faces as they absorb the “alcoholic drink”, of which there is usually a lot in the glass!
Supermacho
The presenter invites three couples to participate in the competition. The conditions are as follows: while the music is playing, the ladies must, with the help of the other guests, put on their gentlemen as many items of clothing and accessories as possible; and the result should be the image of a “real macho”. As a result, the number of items is counted (they are not removed!), and the audience must determine the winner.
Then comes the second, no less interesting, part of the competition: moving to an erotic melody, men take off their clothing and accessories. The “King of Striptease” is also determined by the audience.
Who is my husband?
5-6 married couples participate in the competition. The ladies are blindfolded, after which the men are seated on chairs with their backs to the participants, whose task is to find their match in the following sequence: by nose, by hair, by hands, by eyebrows and by shoes. The winner is the couple in which the wife correctly identified her husband the most number of times.
Concert from guests
This entertainment program is usually held in the middle of a festive evening and requires advance preparation. To do this, you need to attach creative tasks for guests under the seats of the chairs in advance (for example: sing a song, read a poem, act out a pantomime, and so on). At the moment when the party is in full swing, the host announces that the guests have prepared a concert for the birthday boy, and invites those present to take out and announce their “concert numbers”. 5 minutes are given to prepare, and the entertainment program begins. Each “artist” receives a prize for their performance.
Let's have fun with music!
Musical outdoor games set a lively tone for the holiday and serve as a kind of transition to a disco break, during which guests can dance; ladies - to clean themselves up, and men - to chat and smoke.
Jumping Orange
All guests are invited to sit on chairs located close to each other and place their hands on the shoulders of their neighbors. The presenter places an orange on the knees of the last participant. The participants' task is to throw the orange to their neighbor as quickly as possible while the music is playing, without using their hands. Anyone who does not have time to get rid of the fruit is eliminated from the game. The last competitor takes the place of the eliminated one, and the game continues until a pair of winners remains.
Congratulatory rap
Three men are invited to participate in this music competition. They are all given rap caps and glasses, then the appropriate music is turned on, and they must take turns performing verses wishing the birthday boy in rap style.
To help the performers, girls from the audience are called into the support group, who must also move to the music and, if necessary, help the “artists.” The winner is determined by the birthday boy with the help of his guests.
Temperance Competition
All guests stand in a large circle, and the host hands one of the participants a liter bottle of vodka. The participant's task is to get rid of the bottle before the music stops playing. Those who do not have time are eliminated, and the competition continues. It's especially fun to watch the last two contestants as they struggle to hand the bottle to their opponent with a look of panic on their faces. In this game, the loser gets a bottle of vodka as a consolation prize, while the winner receives the main prize - champagne with a portrait and autograph of the birthday boy.
Dance Marathon
The host announces the name of the competition and invites all the guests to line up one after another, after which he asks the question: “Does our (the hero of the occasion’s name is called) have a beautiful waist?” The guests answer: “Yes!” Then the host invites everyone to grab the neighbor standing in front by the waist, and the guests dance the lambada. Then, using the same principle, the guests take each other’s hands and dance sirtaki. The list of musical compositions can include “dance of the little ducklings”, lezginka, “seven-forty” and other popular dances. The musical break ends with a “stream”, from which the couples are invited to take their places at the table.
To help the presenter
If you have taken on the role of toastmaster at a holiday party, but do not yet have sufficient experience in holding holidays, perhaps a few simple tips will help you on how to properly organize the course of the evening and build a competitive program:
Good luck to you - and a bright holiday for the birthday boy and his guests!
Hello, dear friends and guests of the blog about original gifts and congratulations! Let's discuss fun birthday contests for adults?
So, I give the floor to Lena.
Hi all! I think that before the next holiday, which you plan to celebrate at home, you are also visited by a variety of thoughts. How to prepare a delicious table, how to clean and decorate an apartment or your own yard. But for the celebration to be remembered not only by fatigue and a bunch of envelopes with money, special emotions are needed. And achieving this state is much easier than you might think. All you need is an interesting event program.
What does this include? And everything your imagination can suggest: games and fun competitions, unusual ways of giving gifts and even various theatrical performances. Previously, our birthdays left a very ambiguous feeling. They all looked alike. And sometimes this routine even brought tears to my eyes on a seemingly solemn day.
But now, before every holiday, I try to arrange something new so that not only the guests, but also we, the hosts, have pleasant emotions from the time spent.
In general, I’m sharing my work today! I really hope that this article will help you create your own interesting and colorful holiday program with your own hands. All the elements of the entertainment program that I will give below have already been successfully tested by us. So feel free to use it if you like something.
This article is dedicated to birthday competitions. So, choose for joy!
Competition "Rhymemaker"
Until the guests are very warmed up, there is no point in taking them away from the table. Therefore, you can start with “sedentary” competitions. This competition is simple, its essence is that participants are given cards on which any 3 words are written. The task is to compose a poem in honor of the holiday, the birthday boy and other heroes of the occasion, using all these words in the text. The number of participants is not limited.
The one who comes up with the most creative, fun poem wins.
A variation of this competition: a famous poem is given. The task is to remake it to fit the meaning of the holiday and certainly to rhyme. We played this at a friends wedding; there were two teams with a fairly large number of participants. Let me tell you, we laughed non-stop.
Competition "Fairytale"
This competition can also be held while sitting at the table. 2-3 participants (or two or three teams) are selected who need to tell a famous fairy tale in the genre of comedy, thriller, melodrama, horror film, etc. Participants choose genres in a lottery. The most exciting tale wins.
The competition is actually very unusual, it requires a creative approach, but it’s worth it! We made fun of the pockmarked chicken so much :)
Competition "Sausage"
This game is also a “sedentary” game, but it is better to play it when the guests have had enough fun. Everyone plays! The task is this: the presenter asks questions. And the participants take turns answering them with the word “sausage” or similar-root adjectives, participles, adverbs (for example, sausage, sausage, etc.). Everything would be simple, but you only need to answer with a serious face. The one who smiled, and even more so laughed, is eliminated. The most persistent one wins. You can even get a diploma for endurance.
The more inappropriate, the merrier. By the way, it is better to think through the list of questions in advance and make it as long as possible.
The guests enjoyed playing this game; it was a lot of fun, especially when there were some not very appropriate and not very decent questions.
Well, is it time to leave the table?
Competition "Ideal Gift"
Fun birthday competitions for adults can be not only fun, but also lively and noisy!
To participate, 2-3 teams of 2 people each are needed. And also props: wrapping paper (you can use thin corrugated paper, which is sold in any stationery store), ribbons and blanks for boxes with small gifts for the birthday boy. It is better if these boxes are of a non-standard shape, for example, round.
Team members sit/stand next to each other and have one hand tied (that is, one left, the other right). Hands are free at the edges of the tandem. Task: in 5 minutes, pack a gift box in paper as neatly and creatively as possible, tie a beautiful bow. And then present your work to the birthday boy, saying, of course, your sincere congratulations.
The catch is that participants can only use one of their hands. The second hand is the partner’s hand. Try to change your mind right away)))) We tried it, the gifts turned out just right 🙂!
Paper Shredder Competition
You need 2 participants, 2 A4 sheets, 2 bowls and a stopwatch. Task: in 30-40 seconds (maximum minute), tear a sheet of paper into small pieces into a bowl with one hand. The winner is the one who has the smallest piece of paper left in his hand (well, or no paper left at all). You cannot cheat, and the pieces in the bowl must be small!
Competition “Catch it, ball!”
We need 2 teams of 2 participants. Props: 2 plastic bowls, a pack of ping pong balls. In each team, one of the participants holds a bowl at chest level. And the second participant moves away to a distance of 3-4 meters. Task: within a minute he must throw as many balls as possible into that bowl. Naturally, the team that throws the most balls wins.
The funny thing is that the balls bounce off easily and it’s very difficult to keep them inside the bowl even after they seem to hit.
Creative birthday competitions (my favorites)
These competitions allow you to show your talent, which many may not even know about.
Competition "Clip"
The essence of this competition is to show a famous song using acting skills: facial expressions, gestures, characteristic sounds. Be sure to prepare several of these songs. So, the song starts, and then the participant(s) comes out in character and begins to show everything that is sung about in the selected composition.
We tried this for the New Year to the song “A Christmas tree was born in the forest”, and in 2 versions - one year as a team, and another time one person showed. It was very interesting and fun.
Competition "Universal Artist"
I won’t say which show exactly the meaning of the next competition is close to, because... I just don’t watch TV, but the point is this: you need to sing a song in the style of a famous person.
Props: cards with the words of songs on the theme of the holiday or just the birthday boy’s favorite songs, cards with famous characters (politicians, show business stars, cartoon characters and other public figures). The number of cards in both categories must be the same.
Participants (there should be no more than character cards) take turns first drawing a piece of paper from the first pile, and then from the second.
We staged a real show, where I was the host, announcing, as expected, each participant. Of course, there was applause, standing ovations and a lot of positivity. Especially when V.V. Zhirinovsky appeared on the stage. I highly recommend this competition, it’s not like you’re looking for clothespins on someone else’s body :)
In fact, you can still find a lot of interesting and fun birthday competitions for adults on the Internet. I have given you just a small part of what was tested and remembered recently (and how much more is lost in the depths of memory!).
So try it, don't sit at the table. It’s good if you have somewhere to run and look for gifts. But even in an ordinary apartment, you can organize a real fun holiday, without disturbing your neighbors with your stomping and getting real positive emotions. And I talked about how to organize a holiday in nature on my blog Domovenok-Art (see the article at the link).
These are the kind of fun birthday contests for adults that each of you can arrange. I am very grateful to Lena for this interesting material. I hope that you will definitely use the information prepared by Lena and have an unforgettable holiday! Write your opinions and your favorite competitions in the comments below this article!
