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Eighteen of the most popular & new Minute to Win It Games. This Minute to Win it Games List PDF will keep you organized at your next gathering. Use for youth groups, family game night, classroom parties or even birthdays. Age appropriate for kids of all ages including youth, teens, tweens, and adults.

Toss out the traditional party games like musical chairs, Pictionary, sack race, and pin the tail on the donkey. Embrace these new Minute to Win it Games for Youth, Teen, Kids and Even Adults. These games can be celebrated at your next family gathering, birthday party, neighborhood gathering, classroom party. Enjoy indoors or even outdoors.

What is a Minute to Win It Challenge?

Most people know Minute to Win it as a show franchise. In the Minute to Win It show, contestants are given one minute to perform a challenge using objects are are commonly available in the home. What makes this show a great success, is these 60-second challenges can be adapted to your own home and group of friends.

Using a supply list of cookies, cotton balls, cups, plates, bowls, pennies and more, these funny Minute to Win It games will liven up a room. They create laugher and a fun atmosphere as teams complete to be called the winner and gain the Minute to Win It Trophy (is there one?)

18 Minute to Win It Games

Enjoy the following popular Minute to Win It Games for groups including youth, tweens,  & adults – they are perfect for kids of all ages.

Junk in the Trunk

Each player is given a rectangular empty Kleenex box with 8 Ping Pong Balls. The box is strapped around the waist, tape works great. On the start of go, the participants try to get the balls out of the Kleenex box using only movement. No hands. The first player with an empty box wins. You can play until there is one man standing if you want to award points based on first, second, third places, etc.

Supplies: Kleenex box, pink bong balls, tape.

Face the Cookie

Each person is given a cookie. An OREO works great. Each player places the cookie on their forehead and has to get it into their mouth without using their hands and only movement. The winner that gets it done first. In one minute is through, the winner is the player with the cookie closest to their mouth. If the cookie is drop, you must start from the beginning forehead spot.

Supplies: OREO cookie.

Stack Attack

Players have one minute to stack 10 plastic cups in a pyramid, take them down in a diagonal fashion, and then reverse stack them back to the in the diagonal position. If the pyramid tower falls at any point, the must start over. Whoever completes this first is the winner! Point awarded for how does it the fastest or without dropping a balloon.

Supplies: Plastic cups.

Defy Gravity

The goal of this game is to successfully keep three balloons in the air for one minute. Players can only use one of their hands to do it! If a balloon falls, that team looses the round. Point awarded for how does it longest or without dropping a balloon.

Supplies: Balloons.

Ping Pong Bounce

In this game, players have to bounce ping pong balls into six cups. First to get a ball in each cup, wins. Or the person who gets the most in a set period of time, wins.

Supplies: Ping pong balls, plastic cups.

Apple Stack

In this game, players are given five apples each. The first one to stack all 5 apples in one vertical stack is the winner! To make the game fair, put ten apples in the center of the table and let opponents pick apples one by one until each player has five.

Supplies: Apples.

Suck It Up

In this game, each player has a package of Smarties, two plates and a straw. The player must transfer the Smarties from one plate to the next using only the straw. The first who transfers all candies, is the winner. Or the player that transfers the most in the one minute, is the winner.

Supplies: Smarties, plates, straws.

Spray Off

Players will be given a spray bottle filled with water, and the aim is to guide a floating balloon toward a trash can by using
only the spray. If the balloon hits the ground, the player has to start to start over. First to get the balloon in the trash can is the winner.

Supplies: Spray bottle, balloons, trash cans.

Movin’ on Up Cup Game

Each player starts with a stack of 30 plastic cups, with 29 red cups and one blue one at the top. Players must move the cups one at a time from the top of the stack to the bottom, continuing until the blue cup returns to the top of the stack. First one to reveal their blue cup wins! Use a timer, one player at a time, to find the fastest player or double the number of cups to have a side by side challenge.

Supplies: Plastic cups: 29 red, one blue.

Roll-On, Buddy

In this game challenge, each player must roll a potato, onion, or egg across the floor from a starting line to a finish line only their nose. First one across the finish line, wins.

Supplies: Potato, onion or egg.

Penny for Your Thoughts

Contestants must stack 25 pennies in under a minute using only one hand. Player who stacks the most or gets 25 first is the winner. Use a timer, one player at a time, to find the fastest player or double the number of pennies to have a side by side challenge.

Supplies: Pennies.

Chopstick Race

In this minute to win it challenge, who can get the most cereal from one bowl to the other using only chopsticks?

Supplies: Cereal, bowls, chopsticks.

Stack It Up

In this fun minute game, see how many cookies you can stack in one minute. The player with the most cookies stacked at the end of time, is the winner.

Supplies: Cookies

State of Affairs

Have contestants write down as many state capitals in 60 seconds as they can. Player with the most wins.

Supplies: Pencil, paper.

Wanna Spoon?

In this silly minute to win it game, using nothing but a spoon in your mouth, transfer as many ping pong balls as you can from one bowl to another. No hands! Player with the most balls at the end of time, wins.

Supplies: Spoons, bowls, ping pong balls.

Worm Search

Get messy! Each contestant is given a bowl filled with whipped cream and six gummy worms hidden inside. Using only their mouths, players have one minute to retrieve as many worms as they can. When retrieved , they grab the worm and place it on plate beside them. The player with the most worms retrieved and placed on the plate, wins.

Supplies: Whipped cream, gummy worms, bowls, plates.

Nose Mover

Add a bit of Vaseline to the tip of each contestants nose. Using only their nose, players transfer many cotton balls as they can from one bowl/plate to the other. Player with the most at the end of time, wins.

Supplies: Vaseline, cotton balls, bowls or plates.

Pile of Kisses

Contestants will compete to see who can unwrap the most Hershey Kisses in one minute. They can use their hands. You can make it a harder challenge, by players using their mouth only.

Supplies: Hershey Kisses

Minute to Win It List PDF

Stay organized at your next gathering. Your can print out these 18 Minute to Win It Rules with games directions and supply list. These are minute to win it games with household items you can find in your pantry or home.

Minute to Win It Games for Kids, Teen, & Adults

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Games for Kids

We believe every party should create a good time and every time I plan a party, I ask myself what are some fun party games?

We have done the work for you and put all your favorite fun party games into one place. Keep the kids buy and entertained with these 50+ Kids Party Games. This bundle includes our 18 Minute to Win It Games PDF printable.

Use these party games for kids in for the classroom, field days, youth groups, parties, and more. Teens, Youth, Adults – perfect for kids of all ages.

We have more party games, take a look at our full list of Party Games for Kids. Each set comes with game direction and supply list.

• Kids’ Party Games
• Beach Games
• Indoor Games
• Outdoor Games at Night
• Sleepover Party Games
• … More Party Games

Need a visual? You can also look at our Family Approved Minute to Win It Games. Pin to Pinterest.

Need to see it? Take a look at these Visual Kids Party Games.  Pin to Pinterest.

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