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Are the usual party games starting to feel a little old? If you’re looking for something new and exciting to do with your friends, you can always try one of the many challenges that have been made popular by social media—especially platforms like YouTube and TikTok. If that sounds interesting, read on for a handy list of challenges to do with friends! Whether you’re looking for a funny makeup challenge, a fitness challenge, or a food-based challenge, our list has something for every friend group.

Things You Should Know

  • Try a skill-based challenge like the Makeup Challenge, where you and your friends must apply makeup without looking in the mirror.
  • Do a few classic challenges with your friends, like Try Not to Laugh, which was made popular by YouTubers over the years.
  • Try a food-related challenge like the Oreo challenge or Guess the French Fries if you and your friends are also feeling hungry.
  • If you’re out in public, try a game like the Talk to a Stranger challenge, which requires participants to see who can talk to a stranger the longest.
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Blindfolded Drawing Challenge

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  1. Take turns putting on a blindfold. Grab paper and a pencil, and draw different prompts, like “a dog” or “your favorite food.” Then, when everyone has taken a turn, compare your drawings to see whose artwork best matched the prompt or led to the most hilarious results.[1]
    • Think of a list of prompts before starting the challenge. You could even use a game like Pictionary for prompts if you aren’t sure what kind of prompts to use!
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Guess The Song Challenge

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  1. Begin by writing the first verse or lyric to your favorite song on a piece of paper, and have all your friends do the same. Then, place all of the paper scraps in a bowl or hat and mix them up. Go around the group, and have each participant draw a paper at random. You must try to guess which lyrics come next, and whoever guesses the fastest (and correctly) wins.
    • If you draw your own piece of paper, toss it back in the bowl and grab another. Each participant should end up guessing a set of lyrics they didn't choose!
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Try Not to Laugh Challenge

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  1. First, put together a list of funny videos; then, gather your friends and play all the videos one after the other. This challenge is simple: the moment someone starts laughing, they’re out. Whoever lasts the longest without laughing wins the challenge. This challenge is popular with a lot of YouTubers—and, despite the name, always leads to a lot of laughs.[3]
    • You can keep the game going with a points system instead. For example, you could create a system where players start with 5 points, and every laugh loses a point.
    • Alternatively, you could do the challenge and have every laugh earn players a point, so the player with the least points at the end wins.
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20 Questions Challenge

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  1. To start, have one person think of a person, place, or thing. This could by anything from their favorite food to a fictional character! Once they’ve chosen, everyone else must ask up to 20 yes-or-no questions to figure out what they’re thinking of. Everyone in the group can work together or compete individually to see who guesses correctly first.
    • Remember, you can’t reveal who you’re thinking of until the group guesses correctly or until they’ve asked 20 questions and failed to guess the answer.
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Balloon In the Air Challenge

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  1. Blow up a balloon for each participant and begin the challenge, with everyone trying to keep their balloon in the air the longest. The catch is that you can’t use your hands to do so! You can kick the balloon with your knees, for example, or blow air onto it, but using your hands and arms is off-limits.
    • If you want to make it more competitive, you can also allow players to sabotage other players’ balloons, even if it’s at the risk of losing track of their own.
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Guess the French Fries Challenge

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Truth or Dare Challenge

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  1. Truth or Dare is a tried-and-true party game—but it’s popular for a reason! To play Truth or Dare, decide who will go first. That person must choose a “truth” or a “dare.” If they pick truth, ask them a question they must answer truthfully. If they choose dare, challenge them to do something funny or bold. Go around the group to give everyone a chance to play.[9]
    • There’s no real winner in Truth or Dare, but you could always award points based on who is willing to answer the most “truth” questions or perform the most dares.
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Greasy Bean Challenge

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  1. First, soak a single small bean in some melted butter until it’s totally greasy all over. Then, place the bean in a bowl, set out another bowl next to that one, and give each player a pair of chopsticks. Whichever one of your friends can pick up their bean using the chopsticks and place it in the other empty bowl wins the challenge.[10]
    • Even though you’ll have to run this challenge with two people at a time, the rest of you can spend the challenge cheering each friend on—or laughing if one of them gives up on trying to move that slippery bean!
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Funny Photo Challenge

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  1. It’s normal to feel a little self-conscious when you pose for a photo that you know will be posted on social media—but what if the point of a photo is to be as goofy as possible? For this challenge, take a photo of yourself in the funniest post you can pull off, post it online, and have your friends do the same.
    • Whichever photo gets the most reactions wins the challenge! It’s up to you to decide what that means based on the social media platform you use.
    • For example, on Twitter, you might decide that the player with the most likes wins the challenge.
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Jump Rope Challenge

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  1. Setup for this challenge is easy: grab jump ropes for whoever is participating and set up a timer. Then, as soon as you start your timer, have each participant start jumping rope. Whoever can successfully jump without tripping or falling the most amount of times within the limit wins the challenge.[12]
    • The time limit for this challenge is totally up to you. You could even start small, with a 30-second or 1-minute limit, and then make the next challenge harder—with a 5-minute or 10-minute time limit.
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