Funny party games for adults: 15 to play with friends

The funniest moments at a party come from the guests, not the box. The best funny party games hand everyone a prompt, a pen or a secret and then get out of the way. That way the quiet friend gets as many laughs as the loud one.

This list starts with games the whole room plays at once on their phones, where nobody waits for a turn. Then come games that need no props at all, the card and board games worth buying, and what works on a video call. The first four are Decka's, and the first is a game where everyone writes and the funniest answer wins.

Funny party games the whole room plays on their phones

Every game in this section runs the same way. A laptop puts the game on a TV or a projector, and everyone joins by scanning the QR code on the screen. They play in their phone's browser, with no app and no account. Only the host needs a Decka account, and it is free.

1. Mic Drop, where the funniest answer wins

Mic Drop is a comedy game for the whole room. Each phone gets two silly prompts, and every prompt goes to exactly two players, who answer in secret. You get 60 seconds to write, and up to 80 characters an answer.

Then the two answers to one prompt face off on the big screen with no names on them, and everyone else votes on their phone for the funnier one. The applause meter fills with the vote and the names come out. Take every vote, with at least three people voting, and that's a mic drop, worth 250 points on top of the votes.

The last round is the headliner round. Everyone answers the same prompt, then picks up to three favourite answers on their phone, never their own. Anyone stuck for a line can take a safety joke from the pack, for half points.

Pick a prompt pack to suit the room: Office, Party, Christmas, Family or Classroom. The Party pack is written for adults, and the game describes it as "cheeky, never hateful". You can add up to 20 prompts of your own, played before the pack's, which is where the jokes about the guest of honour go.

For a mixed crowd, turn on the family-friendly filter. Each answer is checked before it reaches the big screen, and an answer that might not be suitable is shown only to the person who wrote it.

It needs at least three players, and up to 16 write in pairs. From 17, a round becomes open mic: everyone answers the same prompt, each phone judges five random pairs, and the top four answers play out on the big screen. Late arrivals vote from the audience and write from the next round.

Quiplash, from Jackbox Games, plays a similar game. Its page lists it for three to eight players, with up to 10,000 more voting as the audience, and you buy it as a Steam code or for another platform. The difference that matters at a big party is who writes. Past eight, Quiplash's extra guests vote, while in Mic Drop everyone writes, and a room of seventeen or more plays open mic.

To try a line on your own first, the free Daily duel posts one prompt a day, the same for everyone. Write the funniest line you can, judge ten duels between other players' lines with no names on either, and come back for your rank. There is no sign-up.

2. Draw the Suspect, a sketch of someone in the room

Draw the Suspect is a drawing game where the subject is one of the guests. Players can take a mugshot as they join, and each case one of those faces is picked in secret as the suspect. One to three witnesses, depending on the size of the group, peek at it on their phones for three seconds in all, and type one clue each. Everyone else sketches the suspect from those clues.

The sketches go up side by side on a line-up wall. The room votes for the best likeness, guesses who it was, and then the mugshot drops in with an IDENTIFIED stamp. Nobody needs to draw well, and a terrible likeness of a friend is half the fun.

Anyone can skip their mugshot, and a player who skips is never the suspect. The free Daily line-up plays five cases a day on your own, with no sign-up.

3. The imposter game, a bluff with one word missing

Every phone shows the same secret word, except an imposter's, which says they are the imposter and, by default, shows the word's category. Each player gives a one-word clue, and the clues go up on the big screen as they are sent. Then the room argues and votes, and a caught imposter still gets one guess at the word. A right guess steals the round.

The laughs are in the clues: an imposter is trying to fit a word they have never seen. Make an imposter game, and read how to play the imposter game for the rules or the imposter game words page for a list.

4. Guess the Doodler, a vote on who drew what

Everyone gets the same prompt and doodles it on their phone. The drawings come up on the big screen, the room votes on who drew each one, and the reveal names the artist. It works best where people know each other's names, since guessing the artist is the whole game. Make one with Guess the Doodler.

Funny party games with no props

These need nothing but people, plus paper and pens for a few of them.

5. The laughing game

One player stands in the middle and tries to make everyone else laugh, with faces, voices and terrible jokes, but no touching. Everyone else keeps a straight face. The first person to laugh or smile takes the middle.

For a bigger group, play the chain version. Everyone lies on the floor with their head on the next person's stomach. The first says "Ha", the next says "Ha ha", and each adds one more down the line until somebody cracks.

6. Reverse charades

Split into two teams. Instead of one person acting for a whole team, the whole team acts out the word together while one teammate guesses. Six adults miming a washing machine at once is funnier than one. Give each word a minute and keep score. The charades ideas page has lists sorted by how hard they are to act, and the free charades generator deals words at random.

7. Party quirks

An improv game for a confident crowd. One player hosts a party and leaves the room. Meanwhile, each of the others gets a secret quirk on a slip of paper: one thinks they are a cat, one can only speak in questions, one is a spy. The guests arrive one at a time, in character, and the host has to guess every quirk.

8. The salad bowl

Everyone writes five names on slips of paper and drops them in a bowl: famous people, characters or people in the room. Two teams then play three rounds with the same slips. First you describe the name without saying it, then you get one word only, and then you act it out with no words at all. By the third round, every slip has a joke attached from the first two.

9. Paper telephone

Everyone writes a sentence at the top of a sheet of paper and passes it on. The next player draws the sentence, folds the paper to hide the writing and passes it on. The next writes what they think the drawing shows, folds and passes, and so on, writing and drawing in turn until each sheet comes home. Then read them out, one at a time, from the first line.

10. Fill in the blank, on slips of paper

This is the paper version of a funniest-answer game. One player reads a prompt with a blank in it, such as "The worst thing to say in a job interview is ___". Everyone writes an answer on a slip and folds it, the reader reads them all aloud, and the room votes for the funniest.

It works, with two catches. The handwriting gives people away, and the reader has to get through every slip with a straight face. Those two are what the phone version fixes, since every answer goes up with no name on it.

11. Most likely to, and other question games

A good question gets a laugh with no setup at all. For "most likely to", read a question out and have everyone point at the same moment, on three. The most likely to questions page has the questions. So do two truths and a lie, never have I ever, hot takes and funny debate topics, for a party that likes to argue.

Funny card and board games for adults

If you would rather buy a box, these four are built for laughing.

12. Telestrations

The boxed version of paper telephone, from The Op. Everyone sketches and guesses at once in their own sketchbook, passing them round, in a game The Op sums up as guess what they drew, then draw what they guessed. The eight-player box is for four to eight players, aged ten and up, in about thirty minutes.

For a room of adults, The Op also sells After Dark, which it calls the adults-only version, for eighteen and up.

13. Ransom Notes

From Very Special Games. Each round, a prompt is drawn, and everyone answers it by piecing together an answer on their magnetic tray from a handful of random word magnets. The most hilarious answer wins. It is for three to six players, aged fifteen and up.

Some prompt cards are adult. Its makers say pulling about 20% of the prompt cards makes it family friendly.

14. What Do You Meme?

From Relatable. One player judges each round. A photo card goes on the easel, everyone else picks a caption card from their seven to go with it, and the judge picks the funniest meme. It is designed for ages seventeen and up.

Cards Against Humanity is the fill-in-the-blank cousin. In its makers' words, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest white card. They also offer it as a free download to print at home.

15. A Fake Artist Goes to New York

From Oink Games, for five to ten players. Everyone draws one picture together, one line at a time, on a theme the game master wrote on their cards. One player is the fake artist, who does not know the theme and has to fake it. Then everyone votes on who the fake is, and a caught fake still wins by guessing the theme.

The drawings get stranger as everyone tries to prove they know the theme without making it obvious. Oink lists an online version for Nintendo Switch, Steam, iOS and Android.

Funny games to play online with friends

On a video call, the big screen is your shared screen. Share the window the game is on, and everyone joins from their phone by link, as they would in a room. Mic Drop, the imposter game and Guess the Doodler all play this way.

For friends who can't meet at the same hour, the free daily games work as a running contest. Everyone plays the same Daily duel prompt and the same five Daily line-up cases, and each game makes a card you can share.

Funny party games for adults, without drinking

Plenty of lists of adult party games are lists of drinking games. Leave those out unless you know the room well. In Gallup's 2025 poll, 54% of US adults said they drink alcohol, the lowest share in Gallup's records. A game built on drinking leaves out close to half of an American room, and every game on this page plays as well with a soft drink in hand.