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41 Thunderously Exciting Super Bowl Party Games for 2024

by: Kristy Bowen

Last Updated on Nov 14th 2024

Are you ready to play some of the most exciting Super Bowl party games before watching the championship match? Every winter, large crowds gather in stadiums, bars and in front of big-screen TVs to watch the game of all games, the Super Bowl. It’s partially about the game and sport itself, but also about the game day food, the big-budget commercials, the halftime performance and spending time with friends. It’s also a chance to play fun and lively games with a fierce or jovial sense of competition.

We’ve rounded up a selection of great options that can be played before, during or after the game for some crowd-friendly fun. Many are easy to set up with a little elbow grease and preparation. To increase the competitive spirit, offer fun prizes and incentives to the winners or playful penalties for the losers. Great prizes include game passes for the following year, sports merch and other sports-related items. Or include fun DIY-inspired prizes like a custom-cooked dinner, premium spots on the sofa, free babysitting or a perfect game day snack basket.

Hilarious Super Bowl Party Games

1. Puppy Bowl

Whether you're a football fan or not, one of the best activities has to be watching playful pups frolic on the field before the big game in the Puppy Bowl. Do your own version for your Super Bowl party games by inviting attendees to bring their pups decked out in costumes like sports jerseys and bandanas, mascots and other fun dress-up ideas. If you can't bring pets, you can also use videos and photos of your pet in their costume to compete. Great prizes include pet toys and treats.

2. Commercial Rating

Create paddles with popsicle sticks and cardboard to rate each commercial for one of the most fun Super Bowl party games, where all viewers judge the ads based on humor, product, celebs and more. Keep a tally and announce the best (or worst!) commercials after the game.

3. Football Hanging Donut Contest

For a fun, hilarious Super Bowl party game and an opportunity to enjoy a treat, hang several donuts on a string from a high place and have guests try to eat them with their hands behind their backs. It's kind of like a sweeter version of bobbing for apples. The first person to finish their donut wins a prize.

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4. Don’t Say It

Make a list of forbidden statements, words, expressions and comments and penalize players every time they utter them for one of the more contentious Super Bowl party games. Great options include easy-to-utter words like “Touchdown!” or “Score.” Combine it with a drinking game or a fun variation on indoor flag football where each time you slip up, you lose a flag.

5. Wing Eating Contest

Fun football party food ideas and Super Bowl party games are to make eating into a competition. For an extra challenge, introduce wings that are spicier and hotter with every new round. This is the perfect opportunity to create a handmade trophy for the winner.

6. Pizza Box Olympics

Pizza is a classic game-time food. For a hilarious Super Bowl party game, ask participants to balance a pizza box on top of their heads while mingling, doing ordinary tasks and watching the game. The winner is whoever keeps the pizza box on top of their head the longest without it falling.

7. Football Karaoke

Combine the big game with a performance and invite your guests to belt out their favorite sports song like “Super Bowl Shuffle” or “We Are The Champions!” The host is the judge and can give prizes for the best or most unique renditions for these exciting Super Bowl party games.

8. Cards Against Humanity: Football Edition

This fun card game has many special editions, including one with football-specific references and jokes. Pull out the deck for one of the most hilarious, and slightly inappropriate, Super Bowl party games with lots of humor and misconduct.

9. Funny Football T-Shirt Contest

For more humorous Super Bowl party games, have guests come in their favorite football t-shirts and then judge according to various categories like best design, most funny, best team, and so on. Or have guests design their own with fabric markers, iron-on transfers and puffy fabric paint.

Super Bowl Party Games for Adults

10. Super Bowl Drinking Game

There are many great drinking Super Bowl party games that center around football, including boxed card games like The Last Leg. You can also design your own game specifically for the occasion, inviting participants to drink with every field goal, every bad referee call, every foul or any other suggestion you can come up with!

11. Super Bowl Dance Off

Show off your end zone dance moves with a competitive spirit and allow other participants to judge the best celebratory dance. Create other titles like "most likely to get fined" and "funniest dance" for your movin' and groovin' Super Bowl party games.

12. Game Day Beer Pong

Set up a grouping of plastic cups on a tablecloth that looks like a football field for this twist on the classic party game. Fill the cups with beer, place them on various distance lines and compete against each other by tossing ping pong balls into your opponent's drink for raucous Super Bowl party games for adults.

13. Super Bowl Trivia

Test your guest’s knowledge of Super Bowls from the past by writing up rounds of questions. You can even make Jeopardy-style Super Bow, party games by placing categories on a board to help them select the kinds of questions they want to answer.

14. Football Bingo

For these indoor Super Bowl party games, purchase or create football-specific bingo cards featuring numbers and items you usually encounter during the big game. Mark off each item during the course of the game and give out prizes to those who fill a whole line on their cards.

15. Chili Cookoff

Chili is always a classic football party food idea. Turn deliciousness into competition by inviting your guests to bring their best batch for judging with prizes and laurels or medals for the best chili. Serve with toppings like sour cream, cheese and tortilla chips.

16. Outdoor or Indoor Flag Football

These Super Bowl party games can get you out of the house during breaks and halftime to indulge in a little sport of your own. Play classic flag football or modify an inside version that involves sneaky attacks, dares and challenges to steal flags during the game.

17. Football Movie Trivia

Test out your participants' knowledge of classic films or shows with football at their center like Varsity Blues, Friday Night Lights, Titans, The Blind Side or Jerry McGuire.

Prediction Super Bowl Party Games

18. Predictions Game

Print out a sheet of predictions for everyone at the game, including things like scores, athlete performance, commercials, crowd size, celeb sightings and more. Have everyone write down their answers pre-game and offer a prize to the person with the most accurate predictions.

19. Super Bowl Pick Em’

Similar to the predictions game above, these Super Bowl party games focus on answering a series of either/or questions you have to guess the answers to about the game itself. This could include things like coin toss results, the first team to score, the first team to get a foul and so on.

20. How Many Chips?

Fill a bowl with your favorite Super Bowl food and have your guests guess how many of them are in the container. Great options include potato chips, pretzels, peanuts or any salty or savory snack.

21. Divination Game

Use a classic divination tool like a Magic 8 Ball or Ouija Board to predict the winners, scoring and other trivia about the game. This is one of the freakiest Super Bowl party games — there may be an entity from another realm helping you get the end results to the big game.

22. Betting Pool

Always one of the more classic Super Bowl party games ideas, start a pool based on scoring, player performance, stats and similar items. Then, allow attendees to bet into a pool that goes to a winner or winners at the end of the game. You can also make bets on non-game subjects like celeb spottings, commercials and surprise half-time performers.

Indoor Super Bowl Party Games

23. Football Ring Toss

Set up a grouping of beer bottles and rings made of plastic or rope to have guests compete for prizes for one of the greatest indoor Super Bowl party games. For an extra challenge, paint the glass bottles different colors with acrylic paint with different point values to help determine the winner.

24. Game Day Darts

Turn an ordinary set of darts into fun indoor Super Bowl party games with a football-themed dart board available from various retailers online. These mimic the yardage lines and end zones of a real football game. You can even create your own by covering a regular dart board with green felt and painting lines and numbers with white paint.

25. Game Day Photo Booth

Post a challenge for guests to take the funniest or most clever photo with a photo booth set up that includes sporty backdrops and fun props like giant foam fingers and oversized helmets. Not so much one of the Super Bowl party games, but you can turn anything into a game by adding a bit of competition. The most outrageous photos can win, or you can post all your pictures on Instagram and the one with the most likes wins.

26. NFL Checkers

Play a few rounds of this classic game with a board and pieces that look like a football field. You can even get customized versions with field markings and game pieces designed in the colors of your favorite team.

27. Football Dice Game

GoLong! Is a football dice game that not only guides you as you play for points that progress and mimic a real football game, but also uses and teaches valuable math skills at the same time. So it's one of the top fun yet educational Super Bowl party games for kids.

28. Football Charades

Play this classic party game with a football twist. Choose subjects and scenarios related to gameplay for a lively and fun indoor Super Bowl party game that you can compete in with teams.

29. Football Costume Contest

Have your guests dress up in game- or team-related costumes for the big clash. Offer prizes in various categories like best dressed, most clever, funniest or other categories. Give extra points for originality, flare and comedic relief.

30. Hot Potato

For fun, low-commitment Super Bowl party games to play during time outs or breaks, pass a foam football back and forth among the crowd. Whoever is left holding the ball when the time-out ends has to take a penalty like lose a point, take a drink or do a fun dare.

31. NFL Monopoly

This limited edition board game fills the classic capitalist board game with football and team-specific challenges that make one of the longer Super Bowl party game ideas for indoors. While this one is a little harder to find as a limited edition, you can still find them second-hand on sites like Etsy or eBay. Or go for NFL-opoly which you can get from Amazon.

32. ELEVEN: Football Manager Game

This board game puts you in the position of a wheeling and dealing team manager as you make high finance deals for teams, star players and corporate endorsements with the goal of creating winning teams and amassing wealth. These types of Super Bowl party games should be played well in advance to the big game, after it or before and after — you need to concentrate, which will be difficult during the actual game.

33. Pin the Football on the Field

One of the most fun indoor Super Bowl party games for both kids and adults, this game puts a sporty twist on an old classic. Stick a felt football field on the wall, blindfold players and have them pin a football cutout on the field. Whoever gets closest to the opposing team’s goalposts is declared the winner.

Super Bowl Themed Games for the Office

34. Bean Bag Games

Play a few rounds of corn hole, a classic tailgate game or set up another bean bag toss game for a fun bit of competition before or during the competition. Add some extra charm with team regalia painted around the holes and bean bags shaped like real footballs.

35. Matching Mascots

For one of the most charming Super Bowl party games for the office, create a sheet or board with team names and pictures of team mascots and have players match them together to test their football league knowledge. For an even bigger challenge, include college and local high school teams in the mix.

36. Paper Football Tournament

Set up a makeshift field on a desk or table with green felt or paper and designate an end zone or goalpost. Have participants flick a folded paper football through the goalposts and into the end zone from various distances to determine the winners.

37. Football Charcuterie Contest

Up the ante on office snacks by having everyone in the office create football-themed charcuterie board ideas filled with goods both sweet and savory. Great ideas include a dessert spread with football-shaped brownies, a snack tray shaped like a stadium and other fun ways of presenting food. Give out prizes for most clever, most delicious or most creative.

38. Football Pictionary

Choose football knowledge and terminology to mount a Pictionary game with a marker and white board or giant pad of paper. Divide into teams in the office for some fierce competition.

39. Football MadLibs

For one of the great low-key Super Bowl party games for the office that allows you to create funny statements and stories about the game, create a sheet of mad libs that participants can collect and read off their results during halftime for funny hijinks.

40. Football Quiz Game

Test everyone’s metal when it comes to football rules and policies before the game starts with a massive quiz. It’s also great for kids or newbies to learn about the ins and outs of gameplay.

41. Ugly Football Sweater Contest

For a fun and sporty twist on seasonal ugly sweater parties, have watchers of the game wear their most atrocious fashion creations with a football theme. Or have them create jerseys or sweaters before or during the game with puffy paint, sequins, felt patches and other items. Judge them during halftime for a fun game day activity.

These fun Super Bowl party games are fit for both sports lovers and newbies alike, using all sorts of skills and the spirit of game day competition.

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