MINUTE TO WIN IT

With these games you have a MINUTE to WIN it!

Most games have a link attached to the title to watch a video guide on how the game works.

FACE THE COOKIE

Place a cookie on someone’s forehead. They have to use only their face muscles (no hands) to
get it into their mouth.

Supplies Needed: Oreo Cookies

DEFYING GRAVITY
Give each player three balloons. They have to keep all three balloons up in the air for a minute.

Supplies Needed- 3 (or more) balloons

BABY RATTLE
Fill one 2-liter bottle with something (Lucky Charms, Jelly Beans, etc.) then tape to another
2-liter bottle – players have to transfer all from one bottle to the other.

Supplies Needed- x2 2-liter bottles (empty), a filling of your choice

SHAKE IT UP
Tape an empty Kleenex box to a pair of pantyhose, fill with ping pong balls, then tape around
someone’s waist. They have to shake until all the balls fall out.

Supplies Needed- Empty Kleenex box, Ping Pong balls

DIZZY MUMMY
A two-player game where one person has to wrap the other person in streamers, toilet paper, or
something else.

Supplies Needed- Streamers

IRON MAN
Use a chopstick to stack iron nuts on top of each other

Supplies needed- Iron nuts, Chopstick

CHOOSING CUPS
Set out 25 cups, filling all of them partway with water. Put a sticker on the bottom of some of the
cups. Players have to pick one cup at a time, trying to find a sticker.

Supplies Needed- Plastic cups, marker or sticker

CEREAL PUZZLE
Outline with pencil on the back of a cereal box. Cut up the cereal box into small pieces and see
who can reassemble it back in 1 minute.

Supplies Needed- Cereal box, scissors

CHOPSTICK PICK UP
Give each team two plates with 20 pieces of candy on one plate. Have the players move each
piece of candy to the other plate using chopsticks in under a minute.

Supplies Needed- Candy, Chopsticks

MOVING ON UP
Stack 20 Cups of one color (blue) together then add one to the top of the stack in a different
color (red). When the timer starts, players put the blue cup on the bottom and start restacking
the cups until they get the blue cup back up to the top of the stack.

Supplies Needed- Plastic cups

A BIT DICEY
Players place the plastic spoon in their mouth and try to stack 6 dice onto the end.

Supplies Needed- Plastic spoon, 6 dice

NOODLING AROUND
Place uncooked penne pasta noodles on the edge of a table. Players try to pick up the penne
noodles using a spaghetti piece they have in their mouth. See who can pick up the most in one
minute

Supplies Needed- Uncooked penne noodles, uncooked spaghetti noodles

COIN STACK
Players need to stack 25 pennies up in a minute. Bigger groups could try and see how many of
their players can stack up 25 pennies in a minute. The team with the most players finishing the
stack wins.

Supplies Needed- Pennies.

APPLE STACKING
Each team tries to stack 5 apples in 1 minute. This is a more challenging game so it could be
done individually or as a team to figure out the best way to keep them stacked.

Supplies Needed- 5 Apples

STRAW RACE
Each team gets two plates with one plate having 10 pieces of candy while the other is empty.
Players then use a straw to suck up the candy and transfer it to the other plate. The one with the
most transferred candies wins.

Supplies Needed- 2 plates, Candy, plastic straw

BALLOON AIR
Each player blows up their own balloon. Then they line up at a table or along a hard surface
floor with a ping pong ball in front of them. Players release the air from the balloon to try and
see who can make the ping pong ball go the furthest.

Supplies Needed- Ping pong ball, balloon

FRUIT LOOP THREAD
Players have one minute to use a pipe cleaner to string as many fruit loops as they can onto
their pipe cleaner. The tricky part is you can only use one hand.

Supplies Needed- Pipe cleaner, fruit loop

CANDELIER
Players must stack all 15 cans up using 4 paper plates in between. Each team can work
together on their strategy to get them all stacked in under 1 minute. There is no one way to
make this work so it’s fun to see each team’s strategy.

Supplies Needed- Empty soda cans, paper plates

CARD NINJA
Slice a watermelon in half and lean against a chair or boxes to prop it up so the red part of the
watermelon is showing. Kids then throw the playing cards like a ninja at the watermelon and see
how many they can get to stick in one minute.

Supplies Needed- Watermelon, Playing cards

BABY RATTLE
This game involves makeshift rattles. The rattles are actually two soda bottles taped together.
They both have the same number of gumballs inside them. Each player will be playing with two
rattles. At the start of the game, all the gumballs are in one bottle. The goal is to shake the
bottles until all the gumballs slip into the other bottle.

Supplies Needed- 2 2-liter bottles, gumballs

NOSE DIVE
Here the contestants rely on petroleum jelly (or something similar) and a bowl full of cotton balls.
The goal is to rub the jelly on your nose and use it to pick up the cotton balls. Once the cotton
ball has stuck to your nose, you will need to walk across the room and deposit the ball in
another bowl. You will then need to go back and repeat the process. This is how you will need
to do it.

Supplies Needed- petroleum jelly, cotton balls, 2 large bowls

SEPARATION
The players are each given a group of colored candies. There are also several glasses in front
of them. This is equal to the number of colors of the candies. Only one color can be placed in
each glass, according to a particular order. Using just one hand, the players will sort the candies
into their specific glasses.

Supplies Needed- Colored candies, plastic or glass cups

WHIPPERSNAPPER
Each player will be given a towel or a rug and will have a box a certain distance away from
them. The front part of the cloth will be weighted down. A ping pong ball will be placed on the
rug. You will need to flick the cloth – and the ball – upwards using the two free ends of the cloth.
You will need to get the ball into the box with this method.

Supplies Needed-towel or rug, box, ping pong ball

PAPER DRAGON
The two players have two rolls of streamers set in front of them, on the ground. There is one roll
for each hand. A small length of the streamers are unloosed, and the players hold onto them.
Once the game starts, the players will have to unwind the roll by waving their arms in a circular
motion. The person to unspool all of it first is declared the winner.

Supplies Needed- Streamers

PUDDLE JUMPER
Each player is faced with two rows of cups and as many columns as desired. The cups are filled
with water, and a ping pong is balanced on the row nearest to the players. The players must
then blow on the ping pong, make it leap from one cup to another. If the ball falls on the ground,
the player has to try again.

Supplies Needed-Plastic cups, ping pong balls, water

FLOATATIOUS
The players each get a bowl that is filled with water. They must then place a plate inside the
bowl. They will then have to start off by stacking a soda can on this plate. Once that is balanced,
they will have to continue to place the cans, one on top of the other. This can be continued as
long as the tower remains standing.

Supplies Needed- Large Bowl, water, plate, empty soda cans

DON’T LOSE THE KING

The idea behind this game is easy, but the actual execution of it is not. Each contestant is given
their own space which contains a bunch of cards faced down on the table. All of the Kings are
face up so that you can see them. It is up to the player to blow all the cards off the table except
for the Kings.

Supplies Needed- Playing cards

BACKFLIP
Each player has twelve pencils in front of them, divided into sets of two. This means there are
six sets of pencils in front of them. The players have to start by bouncing two pencils off the
back of their hand and catching it before it lands. If the player is successful, they have to place
four pencils and try again. This continues until the player tries to catch all twelve pencils.

Supplies Needed- 12 pencils

PADDLE POPPERS
This is an alternative way to play ping pong. Here, the ping pong paddles are kept upright on
posts or high surfaces. It is the players’ jobs to knock the paddles down by throwing the ping
pong balls from a certain distance away. Each player has their own set of paddles to knock
down as well as a collection of ping pong balls.

Supplies Needed- Ping pong balls,paddles

BOUNCEE
There is a row of water glasses lined up in front of each contestant and they are given a box of
ping pong balls. They need to bounce the ping pong balls off of a flat surface and have it land in
the first glass. They will need to keep trying until they get it in that glass. Only once it is in can
they move onto the next glass.

Supplies Needed- Cups, ping pong balls

SPOON FROG
The contestants are each given a row of empty glasses. In front of each of the glasses, there
are two spoons positioned, one in front of each other. The tip of one spoon rests underneath the
head of the other spoon. The players have to hit their hand on the first spoon, causing the
second to fly up. They need to get one spoon into each glass.

RAPID FIRE
A stack of empty cans are placed in pyramid formation. There is a stack for each contestant.
The players must stand a certain distance away from this stack. The only tool that they have at
their disposal are rubber bands. They must use these to knock all of the cans down. The first
one to do so wins.

Supplies Needed- Empty soda cans, rubber bands

COFFEE TOPPER
Each contestant is provided with a stack of CDs that is placed on a table. On the ground, there
is a plastic cup. The participants must drop one CD at a time onto the plastic cup. They will
need to do this from a height of at least three feet. They will need to make sure that one CD falls
and remains flat on the top of the cup.

Supplies Needed- Plastic cup, CD

STICK THE LANDING

The players are given a water bottle. There is a table a short distance away from them. They
need to toss the water bottle at the table. First, though, they need to make sure that the water
bottle rotates 360° in the air before landing on the table. If this does not happen, the players
need to keep trying until it flips before it lands on the table.

Supplies Needed- Bottled water

SPEED ERASER
Each player has a row of glasses in front of them. They are also given a stack of pencils to use.
The goal here is that each player must bounce the pencil on the table and get it to land in the
cup. Only once a player has managed to complete this with the first cup are they allowed to try
with the next one in line.

Supplies Needed- Cups, Pencils

PULL IT
The players are provided with plastic cups and index cards. They must place a plastic cup face
down on the table and then place an index card over it. They will then need to place another cup
on top of the paper and so on until all of the cups are balanced this way. Then, the contestant
must pull the topmost index card and have the cup on top to fall onto the cup below. They must
continue this until all the cups are stacked on top of each other.

Supplies Needed- Plastic cups, index cards

STRAW TOSS
There is a row of tall water glasses placed on a table in front of each contestant. They will have
to stand some distance away from the glasses. They are then given a stack of straws. They will
need to toss the straws and try to get it into the water glasses. They will need to get a straw in
the first glass before moving to the next glass.

Supplies Needed- Water glasses, Plastic straws

STACK ATTACK
Each contestant is given a certain number of plastic cups. Using these, they will need to create
a pyramid out of the cups. Then they will need to break down the pyramid but in a very specific
way. The players will need to make sure that they stack the cups in a diagonal fashion. Once
this is done, they need to stack all of the cups together.

Supplies Needed- Paper Cups

HANG IT UP
The participants are handed a stack of hangers. Above each of them is a bar. They need to
hang the hangers from this bar. The first hanger will be hung from the bar by its hook. The
second hanger must then be balanced on the base of the first hanger by its hook as well. This
must be continued as long as the hangers don’t fall off.

Supplies Needed- Hangers

PING TAC TOE

This game takes tic tac toe to a whole new level. In the middle of the two players, there are nine
water glasses filled with water. They are in a grid formation. Each player is given a collection of
ping-pong balls, but they each get different colors. The goal here is to get three of their ping
pong balls in a row before the other player.

Supplies Needed- Ping pong balls, glasses

KICK OFF
This game uses soda cans and buckets. The players need to kick their soda cans into a bucket
that is placed across the room. The person with the most number of cans in their bucket at the
end of sixty seconds wins the game. There is only one try per can.

Supplies Needed- Soda Cans, Bucket

KEEP IT UP
Players must use only their breath to keep two feathers in the air for a full minute…or for as long
as they can.

Supplies Needed-Feathers

MAD DOG
Attach two opened Tic Tac boxes to the ends of a ruler, resembling a dog bone, with the open
ends up. The object of the game is to empty all of the mints from the boxes within, just by
shaking your head with the ruler in their mouth.

Supplies Needed- x2 TIc tac boxes, ruler, tape

HUMAN RING TOSS
Gather up some hula hoops or round pool floats and let the game of ring toss begin! This is a
partner or team game, with one player serving as the “post” that the rest of their team will try to
throw the loops around. The person or team who gets the most rings around their partner wins!

Supplies Needed- Hula hoops

STRAW RACE
Set up a start and finish line for your race course, then line up 5 marshmallows, cotton balls,
pompoms, or similar objects for each player at the start. They must use a straw to blow their
objects across the finish line. The first one finished or the one with the most over the line after a
minute is up is the winner!

Supplies Needed- Tape for start and finish line,Straw, Cotton balls

BLINDFOLDED BOWLING
Set up several bowling pins. If you don’t have pins then you can use plastic bottles or cans.

Supplies Needed- “Bowling Pins’, Blindfold, bowling ball

POST UP
How many post notes can you put on your face in 60 seconds? Something tells me this looks
easier than it is!

Supplies- Post it notes

DRAWING CHALLENGE
You will need a stack of paper plates for this challenge. This drawing game is a fun challenge.
You must draw a bird (for example) while the plate is on your head. Consider other ideas like a
house, cat, dog, car, etc.

Supplies Needed- Paper plates, Markers or pencils

COTTON BALL CHALLENGE
Players are blindfolded and try to spoon cotton balls from the bowl on their lap into the bowl held
on top of their head. Have the player sit down blindfolded. Give each player two bowls and a
plastic spoon. Fill one of the bowls with cotton balls and put it on the player’s lap. Have the
player hold the other bowl on his/her head. On go, have the player try to spoon cotton balls from
the bowl on his/her lap into the bowl on his/her head. The player with the most cotton balls in
the second bowl after a minute wins!

Supplies Needed- 2 Bowls, Cotton Balls

MARSHMALLOW TOSS
Have players team up. Members of the team sit or stand approximately 10 feet away from each
other. At the start, player A has a cup filled with mini marshmallows and player B has an empty
cup. Once the timer begins, player A throws as many mini marshmallows into player B’s cup as
they can in 60 seconds. After one minute, have team members switch cups and repeat

Supplies Needed- 2-4 Empty cups, marshmallows

ONE HANDED BRACELET

Using one hand only the entire time, players must make a bracelet by threading the pipe cleaner
through at least 5 pieces of cereal, tie the bracelet and somehow get it onto their wrist.

Supplies Needed- Pipe Cleaners, “Beads” (fruit loops)

PAPER BAG RACE

Get 5 paper grocery bags and cut each one to a different height. Line up the bags on one end of
a room or hallway. Each player must move all 5 bags from one end of the room or hallway to the
opposite end. The trick is they can only use their mouths to pick up the bags and their hands
cannot touch the ground to help them maintain balance when they bend over to retrieve the
bags. The player that accomplishes the task the fastest, wins.

Supplies Needed- Paper grocery bags

GUMMY BEAR CONTEST

Fill a plate with whipped cream and hide a bunch of gummy bears in them. Players have to hold
their hands behind their back and retrieve all of the gummy bears by using just their mouths.

Supplies Needed- Plate, Gummy bears, whipped cream

DONUT EATING
Hang donuts from a string and make the players stretch to eat them. You can make it harder by
blindfolding them or making them stand on a line that you create by placing tape on the floor.

Supplies Needed- String, Donut

SNACK TOSS
Divide into 2 teams. Each team picks two players to place shower caps and shaving cream on
their heads. The rest of the team has to stay behind the line and toss as many cheese puffs on
top of the shower capped heads as possible.

Supplies Needed- Shower cap, Shaving cream, cheese puffs

S’MORES IN A BUCKET-
Place a line on the ground and line players up behind it. Place buckets about 10 feet away.
Players have 1 minute to toss as many marshmallows into the bucket as they can. The player
that gets the most in the bucket wins!

Supplies Needed- Bucket, Marshmallows

S’MORES RELAY-
This is a classic relay, but to give it a fun, summery twist, players carry a S’more on a spatula
from one designated spot to another. The team that gets the most S’mores across the line in
1-minute wins!

Supplies Needed- S’more Supplies, Spatula

BUILD A S’MORE
Give the players all of the ingredients needed to make a S’more and two chopsticks or kabob
sticks. They have to build a kabob using only the sticks. Each player races to make as many
S’mores as possible in one minute.

Supplies Needed- Graham crackers, chocolate bar, marshmallows, chopsticks

STICKY SITUATION
With this game, players must bounce a ping pong ball just right in order to land it on a piece of
bread covered in peanut butter.

Supplies Needed- Piece of bread, Peanut butter, Ping Pong balls

MEGA BUBBLE
The player acts the part of the lion tamer, or should we say “bubble tamer,” and works to
manipulate a bubble through a hoop five feet away using only their breath!

Supplies Needed- Bubbles, Hoop

BUCKET HEAD
The point is to bounce the ping pong ball off the floor, and then the wall, and catch it in a bucket
balanced on top of the head with one hand.

Supplies Needed- Bucket, Ping Pong ball

ELEPHANT MARCH
Put an object in the end of a pair of pantyhose and put the pantyhose over your head. Try to
knock over two rows of Water bottles with the object by just swinging your head.

Supplies Needed- Pantyhose, object ( orange, potato, tennis ball), Bottled water

READY SPAGHETTI
Line up 6 empty cans on a table and using a partner, thread a dry spaghetti noodle through the
lid. Pick up the cans and transfer them to a table, with each extra can, stack them to form a
pyramid.

Supplies Needed- Empty soda cans, Dry spaghetti noodles

FORK IT OVER
Place an upside-down fork at the end of the table. Stand or sit at the opposite end of the table
and attempt to roll a quarter in between the prongs of the fork. Award points to players who can
successfully complete the task in under a minute.

Supplies Needed- Fork, Quarters

TILT-A-CUP
Start with one cup. Bounce a ping pong ball on the floor and catch it with your cup.
Stack a new cup on top of the ping pong ball and repeat the process until you have
caught 6 ping pong balls.

Supplies Needed- Ping pong balls, Plastic cups