42 Funny Family Reunion Minute to Win It Games
Get everyone talking and laughing at your Family Reunion party with these hilarious Family Reunion Minute to Win It Games. The 60 second challenges are easy to set up, thrilling to play, and funny to watch as your family members race the clock.
They're quick family games that add the perfect dose of friendly competition and silliness to any family reunion celebration, getting everyone from kids to teens and grandparents involved.
Whether you're hosting a backyard BBQ, family picnic, or enjoying a cozy family game night at home, these fast-paced games are a guaranteed hit. They’re simple, require minimal supplies, and can be played with all age groups, making them the ideal family reunions games, holiday party games, or just a fun-filled weekend with the crew.
Ready to get everyone talking, laughing, and cheering each other on? Let’s dive into the ultimate list of fun Minute to Win It games for family reunions!
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Hilarious Minute to Win It Games for Family Reunions
If you're looking for great icebreaker games to play at your next family reunion, this is it! Your family is going to have so much fun playing, talking, and laughing at these funny Family Reunion Minute to Win it Games.
How to Play
Before you play, decide if you want to play on teams or compete individually. This will depend on how many players you have.
Next, pick the games you want to play and gather all the supplies for the game. There is a supply list with the printable game instructions below.
Lastly, decide if you want the quick games to be competitive or just for fun.
How to Win - The team member who completes the Minute to Win It challenges in 1 minute wins the game. If you are playing on teams or competitively, and two or more players complete the challenge, then the fastest player wins.
Grab my Printable Family Reunion Minute to Win It Games with Supply List and Group Score Card to make setting up the games easy. All the games below are included in the easy printable instructions.
1. Junk In Your Trunk
Supplies: Tissue Box, ping pong balls, belt or string
How to Play: Cut 2 slits in the back of a tissue box and slide a belt or string through it. Then, fill the tissue box with ping pong balls.
Players attach the box to their back and have 1 minute to shake as many balls out as they can. The winner shakes out the most ping pong balls.
Tip: Add the same number of ping pong balls to each box so you know how many fall out.
2. Cup Stacking
Supplies: 21 Solo Cups Per Team (any color)
How to Play: Give each player 21 solo cups to stack. They have 1 minute to stack all the cups like a pyramid and then unstack the cups before time is up. The first player to do this wins.
3. Backyard Relay Race
Supplies: Wooden or plastic spoon & ping pong balls
How to Play: Divide players into teams of 2 & give each a wooden spoon and a ping pong ball to balance on their spoon. Create a starting line and place a chair across for each team.
The first player has to walk with the ping pong ball on their spoon around a chair a short distance away & back without the ball falling. When they get back to the starting point, they'll pass the spoon and ball to their partner, who will repeat the task.
The first team back with the ball on their spoon wins.
4. Feather Float
Supplies: Feathers
How to Play: Players are each given a feather and have to keep it up in the air for 1 minute without using their hands.
5. Chopstick Pick Up
Supplies: Chopsticks, paper plates, plus either mini marshmallows, cotton balls, or pom poms
How to Play: Give each player 2 plates - One paper plate with mini marshmallows (or whichever item you have at home) and 1 empty paper plate.
Players have 1 minute to use their chopsticks to move all the marshmallows to the empty plate. The first player to move all the marshmallows or the player who moves the most wins.
Tip: Use different colored pop poms for holiday family reunions. ie, Red for Christmas
6. Balloon Balance
Supplies: Large wooden spoon, Balloon
How to Play: Fun indoor or outdoor race with players balancing a balloon on a large wooden spoon while trying to reach the finish line first.
7. Egg Bounce
Supplies: Egg Cartons, Ping-Pong Balls
How to Play: Across from each player on a table, set out an open egg carton. Players have 1 minute to try to bounce a ping pong ball into the egg carton.
The player with the most ping pong balls staying in the egg carton after 60 seconds wins.
8. Watermelon Ninja
Supplies: Watermelon, playing cards
How to Play: Cut the watermelon in 1\2 & set it up on a table with the red inside facing straight ahead towards the players standing 5-10 steps away (adjust to change difficulty).
Players have 1 minute to throw the playing cards & get them to stick to the watermelon like a ninja star. The player who gets the most cards to stick in 1 minute wins.
9. Cookie Face
Supplies: Oreo or Nila Wafer Cookies
How to Play: Players place a Nila cookie on their forehead and their hands behind their backs. They have 1 minute to try and get the cookie into their mouth using their facial muscles. Players can not use their hands. The first player to get the cookie in their mouth wins.
10. Suck It Up
Supplies: Jelly Beans, Skittles or pom poms, straws, and paper plates
How to Play: Give each player a plate filled with candy, an empty plate, and a straw. Players have 1 minute to use the straw to suck up the candy and drop it onto the empty plate. The player with the most candy moved to the empty plate after 1 minute wins.
11. Penny Stack
Supplies: Pennies
How to Play: Give each player a stack of pennies. They have 1 minute to stack as many pennies as they can into a single stack without them falling over. The player with the most pennies stacked when the timer goes off wins.
12. Sack Race
Supplies: Cloth Sacks
How to Play: Fun outdoor game with players standing in a cloth sack and racing from a start line to a finish line by hopping in the sack. First across the line wins.
13. Stick It To You
Supplies: Sticky Notes
How to Play: This is a simple game that all different age groups can play together. Break up your family into groups of 2-3 players. Give each group a stack of sticky notes.
Team members have one minute to stick the whole stack of sticky notes on one of their partners and then remove the sticky notes before the 1 minute is up.
Tip: Use about 30-40 sticky notes per team
14. Ping Pong Switch
Supplies: 6 Ping Pong Balls Per Team, a box of plastic spoons, and two plates per team
How to Play – Players try to move the ping balls from one plate to the other using a plastic spoon in their mouth. See who can move the most ping pong balls in one minute.
15. Mummy Wrap
Supplies: Toilet Paper Rolls or Streamers
How to Play: This is a good game for large groups as you can make several teams. Each team picks one teammate who will be wrapped with streamers or toilet paper. The team members have 1 minute to wrap their teammate in the whole roll of streamers. The first team to fully wrap their teammate is the winning team.
16. Water Balloon Battle
Supplies: Water balloons, large bins
How to Play: This is a fun outdoor group game. Fill up water balloons and put them in two separate large bins. Break up the family into two groups and have each group stand across from each other with a line dividing the yard in between.
Give the players one minute to try to hit a player on the other team. The team that hits the most players before the time is up wins.
17. Movin' Up
Supplies: 39 Red Solo Cups, 1 Blue Cup (use any colors you have)
How to Play: Give each player a stack of 39 red solo cups & place the blue cup as the first cup at the top. Players have 1 minute to re-stack all the red cups on top of the blue cup and keep going until the blue cup is back at the top of the stack. The first person to finish wins.
18. Flying Marshmallows
Supplies: Marshmallows, Plastic spoons
How to Play: Give each player 5 marshmallows & a plastic spoon. Players need to use the spoon to fling the marshmallow as far as they can. The player after 1 minute with the furthest flung marshmallow wins, or create a line and see who can fling it past the line. Younger kids will love this game!
19. Water Balloon Target
Supplies: Water balloons & buckets
How to Play: This is the perfect game to play in the summer as an outdoor game. Start by breaking up into teams of two. One player holds the empty bucket & the other player has a bucket of water balloons.
Have the players stand in a line across from each other. Teams have 1 minute to try and throw their water balloon into their teammate’s bucket. The team that gets the most balloons in the bucket after 1 minute wins.
20. You've Got Me Puzzled
Supplies: Cereal boxes
How to Play: Cut cereal boxes into pieces to make puzzles. Large pieces for young kids & smaller pieces for teens and adults.
Players have 1 minute to piece together the cereal puzzle pieces. The winner finishes the puzzle first or has the most pieces matched before 1 minute is up.
Tip: Number the back of puzzle pieces to make it easier to check afterwards.
21. Rubber Band Shoot
Supplies: Soda cans, rubber bands
How to Play: Set up on a table 6 soda cans in a pyramid. Then give players rubber bands & have them step 10-20 ft. away. Players then have one minute to fling their rubber band and try to knock over the pyramid of cans.
Tip: Adjust the distance you stand for different ages.
22. Water Dash
Supplies: Sponges, buckets
How to Play: Set out a bucket filled with water & sponges. Then set three buckets at a distance in a vertical row (like Bozo Buckets). Players have 1 minute to try and throw a wet sponge into all three buckets.
23. Thread the Rainbow
Supplies: Fruit Loops cereal or beads, and a pipe cleaner for each player
How to Play: Give each player a pile of fruit loops or beads & a pipe cleaner. Players will string their Fruit Loops onto the pipe cleaner. The player with the most Fruit Loops strung onto the pipe cleaner at the end of 1 minute wins.
24. Gold Digger
Supplies: Plastic Coins or flat chips, a blindfold & Easter grass or crinkle cut paper
How to Play: Fill a small bucket with crinkle cut paper and mix in gold coins. Players are blindfolded and have 1 minute to feel around the bucket and find as many gold coins as they can. The winner has the most gold coins after 1 minute.
25. Marble Roll
Supplies: Marbles, straws & painters tape
How to Play: On a table, create a finish line with painter's tape. Spread marbles on each side of the table so two players can compete at the same time. Players have
1 minute to use, their straw to blow as many marbles over the tape line as they can before time is up. The winner pushes the most marbles over the line.
26. Dice Stack
Supplies: Dice and chopsticks
How to Play: Each player will be given 4-8 dice and chopsticks. Players will stack as many dice as they can using the chopsticks without them falling. The player with the highest stack of dice wins.
Tip: Lower the number of dice to stack for younger family members & use cheater chopsticks.
27. Balloon Push
Supplies: Balloon and 1 ping pong ball per player, and painter’s tape
How to Play: At a table or desk, create a finish line with tape. On the opposite side, place a ping pong ball for each player. Players will then blow up their balloon without tying the end. They have 1 minute to use the air from the balloon to push the ping pong ball over the finish line.
28. Rainbow Switch
Supplies: Skittles or Pom Poms, tweezers, and two bowls per player
How to Play: Give each player a bowl full of Skittles, an empty bowl, and a tweezers. They have 1 minute to use the tweezers to move as many Skittles as they can to the empty bowl. The winner has the most Skittles in the previously empty bowl.
29. Cup & Roll
Supplies: Solo cups, ping pong balls, and painter’s tape
How to Play: Tape 2-5 plastic cups hanging off the edge of a table for each player. Give each player 8-10 ping pong balls. Players have 1 minute to try and roll as many balls into the cups as they can. The player with the most balls in the cups after 1 minute wins.
30. Separate The Rainbow
Supplies: Skittles or colorful pom poms & a bowl for each color, or a designated spot
How to Play: Give each player a pile of Skittles and an empty bowl for each color. Players have 1 minute to separate the skittles by color into each bowl. The first player to separate all the colors in under 1 minute or the player who separates the most Skittles, wins.
31. Defying Gravity
Supplies: Balloons
How to Play: Players are given 1-3 balloons, depending on their age. The more balloons, the harder the game will be. Players place one hand behind their back and have to keep all the balloons up in the air for 1 minute.
32. Water Bottle Shake
Supplies: 2 empty water bottles per player, jellybeans or small marbles, tape
How to Play: Players are given two empty water bottles and a bag full of jelly beans. Players need to fill 1 water bottle with jelly beans & then tape the other empty water bottle to the top of it. Lastly, they need to shake the jelly beans into the empty water bottle.
33. Pasta Stack
Supplies: Penne Pasta, yarn or string (you could also use beads to string)
How to Play: Give each player a long piece of string and a pile of penne pasta noodles. Players have 1 minute to string as many pasta noodles as they can before the time is up. The winner is the family member with the most pasta noodles strung.
34. Snowman Stack
Supplies: A Bag of Marshmallows and chopsticks
How to Play: This is a great winter reunion or Christmas game. Give each player 3-4 marshmallows. Players must stack at least 3 marshmallows using the chopsticks before the 1 minute is up.
35. Book Balance Walk
Supplies: Books, obstacle course items
How to Play: Set up a short obstacle course for players to walk through. They will place a book on their head and use no hands while walking through the obstacle course without the book falling. Players need to make it with the book on top of their head before the 1 minute is up. Best time wins!
Tip: You can make an easy obstacle course with chairs that players have to walk around in your backyard or the living room.
36. Dice Balance
Supplies: Dice, wooden popsicle sticks
How to Play: Give each player a popsicle stick and 4-5 dice. They have 1 minute to place the popsicle stick in their mouth and try to stack as many dice onto the end of the stick as they can without dropping any.
The player with the most stacked at the 1-minute timer wins.
37. Find the Ball
Supplies: Solo Cups, Cotton Ball
How to Play – Place 20 solo cups on a table and hide a cotton ball under one cup. Players have 1 minute to try to find the ball.
Write down the time each player finds the ball, and the player with the quickest time wins.
38. Noodle Pick Up
Supplies: Uncooked Spaghetti & uncooked Penne Pasta noodles
How to Play: Place the penne pasta 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 noodles before the 1-minute timer goes off.
39. Chandelier Stack
Supplies: 10 Empty Pop Cans & 4 paper plates per team
How to Play: Players can play this in small teams of 2-3 or individually. They must stack 1-2 cans, then a plate, then cans, then a plate as high as they can without the pile falling before the 1 minute is up. The team with the most cans stacked wins.
40. Block Tower
Supplies: LEGOs or Small Blocks
How to Play: Place a large pile of LEGOs or small blocks at a table with players. The players have 1 minute to stack the LEGO pieces as high as they can, only using 1 hand. So they can not hold the stack to keep it from falling. The player with the highest stack after 1 minute wins.
41. Apple Stacking
Supplies: 5 Apples per team
How to Play – 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.
42. Bottle Flipping
Supplies: ⅓ Filled Water Bottles
How to Play: Players are each given a water bottle that is one-third filled with water. They have one minute to try and flip the water bottle so it stands upright. The player who does this first in the 1-minute time frame wins.
I hope these Family Reunion Minute to Win It challenges are a huge hit at your upcoming Family Reunion Party, family holiday party, or family game night. It's a great way to spend quality time with the entire family!
Make sure to grab the Printable Family Reunion Minute to Win It Minute Game to make it easy to print and follow the directions when playing. Bonus group scorecard included too!!
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