The Best 25 One-Minute Games for Family

If you’re looking for a fun way to spend an evening at home with your family, or if you’re planning a party, you’re probably looking for fun games for kids. That’s where games like “Minute to Win It” comes handy. Even if you’ve never played them before, you can still enjoy these wacky, completely unique, and the best 25 one-minute games for family (updated and improved) which are fun, exciting, and easy to learn.

Getting Ready for Minute to Win It Games

Each game requires very few materials and can be completed for any family game night. If you have the necessary things, you could even play the games with family members or friends in different states or countries via FaceTime or Skype! So, let’s start learning about the fun activities without further delay!

The Cup Stack Game

Let’s start the list of one-minute games for family with the most popular Cup Stack game. Begin with 15 cups in a single stack and see how quickly you can construct a pyramid with them. Disassemble it to make a single stack or see how many times you can assemble and disassemble the stack in 60 seconds for an added challenge.

By adjusting the number of cups and/or the complexity of the tower, you can customize the game for different age groups.

Cup to Cup Game

Make sure your players are seated in a single file line outside (have the last player sit back to back with the second to last player). Place one bucket at the front and one at the back of the line. Players then have to fill a small plastic cup from the first bucket and pass it over their heads to the last bucket. The winning team is the one that gets to the designated mark on the bucket first.

Face the Cookie Challenge

This is one of the popular one-minute games for family and it’s suitable for any age group. Without using your hands, try to get the cookie or Oreo from your eye into another player’s mouth. This is a great game for many players to play simultaneously and can be quite entertaining to watch.

Toilet Paper Roll Challenge

Unwind two rolls of toilet paper and place a heavy(ish) object at the end of each. Two players have to compete to re-roll their toilet paper without tearing it or tipping the item. The first player to finish rolling the paper and pick the heavy item from the unbroken end of the toilet roll wins!

Dive with Your Nose

Do you know what is the secret weapon of the very popular one-minute games for family? A dab of petroleum jelly on the nose. Players must move five cotton balls from one bowl to another using their noses (no hands allowed) before one minute is up.

Suck Up the Skittles

Players suck up a straw and move as many skittles as they can from one spot to another. The person who gets the most skittles to second place in a minute wins. It can be a two-player game or you can add as many players as you want for extra fun.

Drop the Ball Game

Make your players stand on a chair or a bench. Place plastic cups on the ground in front of them and provide three balls to each of them. The goal is to get all three balls into the cup without missing or bouncing any.

Eat the Cookie Challenge

This is a slightly modified version of the Face the Cookie Challenge. In this particular one-minute game for family, a player can play it alone. The players lean back and place a cookie on their foreheads or brows. They must bring the cookie to their mouth and bite it without using their hands. Sounds quite challenging, right?

Tracing the Shadows

Shadow Tracing is a must-try if you want your kids to spend some time outside. This activity encourages creativity while also working on hand-eye coordination in younger children. You will need toys that stand up, such as dinosaurs, dolls, cars, trains, and so on, and paper and pencil or sidewalk chalk for this game.
Simply assist your children in positioning the toys so that the sun casts the toy’s shadow onto the pavement. Alternatively, tape some paper to the ground and position a toy to cast a shadow on the paper.
Once the toys are set up, have your children try to trace the toy’s shadow onto the pavement or paper in a minute or less using chalk or markers/colored pencils/crayons.

Breakfast Scramble

Simple puzzles can be made by cutting the front panel of empty cereal boxes. The first person to reassemble the cereal box image correctly wins!

Scoop It Up

During this particular one-minute game for family, players must move ping pong balls from one bowl to another while keeping their hands behind their backs and a spoon in their mouth. The first person to move six ping pong balls successfully wins.

The trash in the Trunk

A tissue box, pantyhose, and ten ping pong balls are required for each player. Fill each tissue box with ping pong balls. The boxes should then be tied around each player. Kids have one minute to shake out as many balls as they can without using their hands. This is one of the best one-minute games for family.

Whipped Cream Face Targets

If you’re looking for a really messy but fun one-minute family game, this is it! Players smear whipped cream on their faces and either:
See how many marshmallows they can pick up in one minute with their face cream. Or throw marshmallows at each other in pairs to see who can get the most.

Chew on a Doughnut

It’s as simple as that! Children will devour this minute-to-win-it game. To begin, wrap a string around a doughnut and hang it between two chairs. The kids have to finish the doughnut in a minute without dropping it to the ground.

Resist Gravity

To successfully keep three balloons in the air for one minute is the object of this game. Only one hand can be used by players at a time!

Puddle Jumper

A row of plastic cups should be arranged in a way so that they are touching one another. Each cup should contain a full pour of water (to the top). The first cup in the row should have a ping pong ball on it. Every child must blow the ping pong ball from the first cup to the second, and so on. Without blowing it off the cup, a player must move the ping pong ball from one cup to the other. A fresh ping pong ball can be started on the first cup if the player reaches the end. Whoever can get through the line with the most ping pong balls in one-minute wins.

Apple Stacks

Each Apple Stacks player starts with five apples. The first person to arrange all five apples in one vertical stack wins!

Battle of the Bubbles

Players attempt to blow a bubble that successfully travels through a hoop set up 10-15 feet away in this distance-based bubble-blowing competition. The first player to complete the task wins!

Ponginator

You’ll need an empty egg carton and 12 ping pong balls for this entertaining one-minute game for family. The objective is to get the ping pong balls into the egg carton in one minute. If 12 ping pong balls seem too difficult, reduce the number to 8 or even 6 based on the player’s age.

Thread It

In this game, contestants attempt to thread as many needles as they can in one minute. It may appear simple, but the game can become very frustrating (not to mention competitive!) Perfect for adults.

Blow it down

Each player has one minute to inflate a balloon and then use the air inside to knock over 24 plastic cups arranged on a table. If there is still time on the clock, they can re-arrange the cups to see how many total cups they can blow over.

Fill It Up

Start a 1-minute timer and give each player a bag of puffy marshmallows. The players will try to stuff as many marshmallows into their mouths as they can, and the player with the most marshmallows wins!

Ninja Cards

This minute-to-win-it game is sure to make tweens and teens laugh. Cut a watermelon in half and place one half on a table or other flat surface. Give the children playing cards to toss (kind of like throwing arrows in a dart game). The person who can stuff the most cards into the melon in one-minute wins.

Chocolate Unicorn

Determine how many Oreos or similar cookies you can stack on your brow. You can also play in groups or pairs, with one person leaning back and another stacking the cookies.

Bangle Run

Put some bracelets on one cup, set it on the table, top it with another cup, and balance a wooden spoon on top. As you move the bracelets from one cup to the next, be careful not to knock the spoon off the glasses. You can play this as a group activity by having each player move one bangle before passing it to the subsequent player.

Hope you liked all the amazing ideas for one-minute games for family. You can easily arrange the ingredients and set up the one-minute games for the kids and adults in your house. Which one is your favorite? Let us know in the comments!

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