This Chinese New Year celebrate with friends and family and enjoy celebrating Spring Festival with an evening of games and fun! These printable party games can be enjoyed by the whole family and are an ideal way to connect and spend time celebrating together. Here are our top 5 printable family games for your Chinese New Year.
5 of the Best Family Games to Play This Chinese New Year!
1. Lantern Riddles
The tradition of the Lantern Riddles began in the 13th Century where scholars would write riddles on slips of paper and attach them to lanterns for crowds to solve. Those who were successful won a small gift as a reward.
The object of the game is to correctly solve riddles, hung off lanterns hidden around your house. For each riddle you answer correctly you score one point. The player, or team, with the most points at the end is the winner.
2. Chinese New Year Forbidden Words
Chinese New Year Forbidden Words is a fun group party game that the whole family can play and enjoy. Can you get your team to correctly guess the word without saying a forbidden word, you'll best be quick the timer has started and you don't want to pass and lose a point for your team.
How would you get your team to answer Yin and Yang without using the words black, white, connected, opposite and force?
3. Chinese New Year Fast Answers
Fast Answers is a fun party game that the whole family can play and enjoy over Chinese New Year. The object of the game is to correctly give three answers to a question before the time runs out. For each card that you complete you earn points depending on how quick you answer.
The youngest player starts ; the player to their left should draw a card and read it aloud to them. A 10 second timer is immediately started and the player should answer verbally to the group as quickly as possible. All cards require three answers. If a player succeeds and is able to provide three answers the timer is stopped and the remaining time is recorded - this is their score for the round. If a player fails to provide three answers, bonus points are available to the group.
4. Chinese New Year Roll the Dice Gift Exchange Game
This Chinese New Year play our fun gift exchange dice game - a fun party game for groups! Take it in turns to roll 3 standard six sided dice and perform the action. Peek at gifts, unwrap some and swap. Keep your eyes peeled on the bonus gift - only one player can walk away with it. Will it be you?
5. Chinese New Year Act It, Draw It
Act It, Draw It is a fun party charade style game that the whole family can play and enjoy ; there is no limit to how many people can participate. To play, each team should take it in turns for one player to flip a coin. If the coin is HEADS they must ACT out the card. If the coin is TAILS they must DRAW out the card. Strictly no speaking, pointing to objects or writing words. Each card a team can correctly guess is worth 1 point.
