The New Year's Eve pack

New Year's Eve party games: Countdown

Ten games to see the old year out, with predictions that open next New Year's Eve. The year's awards, its best stories, and resolutions sealed until this time next year. It also opens four Pro games that suit the occasion, a mystery among them.

Get Countdown — $19

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

Early evening

  • The Year That Was
    One true thing from someone's year, hidden among the fakes. Find the real one.
  • Ballpark: The Year in Numbers
    How many books did Lee read this year? Everyone guesses; closest without going over wins.
  • The Year in Doodles
    A phrase becomes a drawing becomes a guess, all the way round the party. See how far it drifts.

The year in review

  • The Year in Review
    One person at a time: the best of the year, the hardest part, and the hope for the next one.
  • Whose Year Was It?
    The best day, the first time, the song of the year. Guess whose year it was.
  • Glow Up (also comes with Pro)
    Everyone writes a true before and after. The room sees the before and guesses whose glow up it is.
  • The Year Awards
    Secret votes for the titles of the year. Guess who the room picked before the reveal.
  • Season Superlatives (also comes with Pro)
    Yearbook titles for the season. The winners get sealed into the Almanac.

Counting down

  • Midnight Face Off
    Two of you answer the same prompt. Everyone else votes for the one that made them laugh.
  • Resolutions, Maybe
    Finish a New Year's dilemma so the room splits exactly down the middle. Then argue about it until midnight.
  • The Resolution Committee
    A rotating judge, a prompt, and everyone's answers with no names on them. Win the judge, not the room.
  • The Early Midnight (also comes with Pro)
    New Year's Eve at Grandma Rose's: the countdown, the cheer, the kiss — and then, a little later, the church bells start to ring. Somebody moved midnight. Read it aloud, then accuse someone — in secret.

Before midnight

  • This Time Next Year
    Predict something about yourself. It opens next time you play — next New Year's Eve, say. Did it come true?
  • Letters Forward (also comes with Pro)
    A short note to this group, opened next time. First 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 Countdown'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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