Party Game Wheel

Nothing on this wheel needs a box

Every game here can start within thirty seconds using only the people in the room and, at most, a phone or a pen and paper. That constraint is what makes the wheel useful — a list that includes games nobody owns just produces re-spins.

The list spans group sizes. Charades and Telephone work with four; Mafia and Musical chairs want eight or more; Two truths and a lie scales to any number.

Delete whichever do not suit your group before you spin. A wheel with three games you would refuse to play on it is a wheel you will spin four times.

What's on the Party Game Wheel wheel

All 16 options are on the wheel to start with. Edit, delete or add to them — the wheel redraws as you type.

• Charades
• Two truths and a lie
• Never have I ever
• Would you rather
• 20 questions
• Celebrity
• Pictionary
• Categories
• The name game
• Mafia / Werewolf
• Telephone
• Scavenger hunt
• Musical chairs
• Heads up
• Story in a circle
• Freeze dance

Running a party off the wheel

1. Cut the list to what fits your group — ages, size, energy level, whether people know each other.
2. Turn on remove-after-spin so you work through games rather than repeating.
3. Fullscreen on the TV so everyone sees the spin and nobody thinks you picked.
4. Spin for teams too with the random team generator, and for turn order with who goes first.

The reason a wheel works better than someone suggesting games: nobody has to volunteer an idea and risk it falling flat. The wheel takes the social cost out of it, which is most of why party games stall.