The holiday party pack

Holiday party games: Deck the Halls

Ten games for the holiday party: the family one, the friends one, or the office one. Gifts, carols, snow and one mystery about a missing charity tin. Friendly for every tradition and every age at the table. It also opens three Pro games that suit the occasion.

Get Deck the Halls — $19

Or get it with 3 more in The Holiday Collection: all 4 holiday packs for $49.

As coats come off

  • The Gift Exchange
    One true gift story from someone in the room, hidden among the fakes. Find the real one.
  • Great Minds
    Don't write your answer — write the room's. The biggest group scores; a tie scores nobody.
  • Holidays Past
    The year of the bicycle, the year the oven broke. Guess whose holiday it was.

Party games

  • Snow Statues
    Dance in your spot while the music plays. When it stops, freeze like whatever the screen shouts.
  • Carol Charades
    A secret holiday phrase gets mimed down a team's line, like silent telephone. The last one says what they think it was.
  • Ugly Sweater Doodles
    A phrase becomes a drawing becomes a guess, all the way round the room. See how far it drifts.
  • Naughty or Nice
    Finish a holiday dilemma so the room splits exactly down the middle. Then argue about it by the tree.
  • Kind Clash (also comes with Pro)
    The same face-off, played nice: the sweetest, cosiest, most hopeful answer wins the room.

Gifts and toasts

  • Secret Santa
    A rotating judge, a prompt, and everyone's answers with no names on them. Win the judge, not the room.
  • Toast Roulette (also comes with Pro)
    A one-line toast to someone you were dealt in secret.
  • Holiday Awards
    Secret votes for the titles of the season. Guess who the room picked before the reveal.

By the fire

  • The Office Party (also comes with Pro)
    Mince pies, Secret Santa, and the charity money gone from a locked cupboard — opened with the boss's badge while he was giving his speech. Read it aloud, then accuse someone — in secret.
  • Dear Next December
    Everyone seals a short note to next December. It opens the next time this group plays, and the room guesses who wrote it.

How it works

  • Paid once. $19, plus any tax where you live. Nothing renews, and it isn't part of Pro.
  • Kept by your group. You name the group when you buy; everyone with the group's link can play on the group's devices.
  • Guests need nothing. Only the host's screen needs the pack. Guests join on their own phones with a room code, or you pass one device round.
  • Refundable for 14 days from the pack's page, on the terms in our Terms.

Afterwards: the book

Whatever you seal at the end of a game — a toast, a piece of advice, a prediction — goes into your group's Almanac. From Deck the Halls's page you can then order the book of it: a 6 × 9 inch hardcover or a PDF made only from what was sealed in this pack's games. The book is bought separately.

Good to know

The games play on one screen; everyone else can join on their phones. Ages 10 and up.

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