Occasion guide · EOY season 2026

End of year party games for work that actually land

The end-of-year party has one job: people leave saying "that was actually fun." Here are thirteen games that work for 20 to 200 people, plus a 90-minute run-of-show you can steal. Everything below runs from one laptop, one big screen and the phones already in everyone's pockets.

The thirteen games

1. Survey Showdown (the Family-Feud-style opener)

Two teams race to guess the top answers to surveys about your own company — "what's the most-used Slack emoji?", "name something always missing from the kitchen." Guaranteed shouting. How it runs →

2. Last One Standing (the 1%-Club-style knockout)

Everyone starts standing. Questions get harder each round — 90% of people get the first, 1% get the last. Wrong answer, you're out; last person standing wins the prize. The single best "whole room at once" format we know. How it runs →

3. Big Screen Bingo

Cards on phones mark themselves, winners are verified instantly on the big screen, and a called false BINGO is the best moment of the night. How it runs →

4. Quiz Night (the one people ask for by name)

Tables, four rounds and a picture round, with one captain who has to commit the answer for everybody. Nobody needs the rules explained, which makes it the safest thing on this list to open with if your room is shy. How it runs →

5. The Elimination Round (the money-chain quiz)

A team walks a chain of questions banking prize money before somebody breaks it — then votes someone out. Prime-time television energy. How it runs →

6. Outrun the Expert (the chase)

One colleague at a time builds a cash pot, then has to outrun your resident know-it-all down the board. Everyone else watches and heckles. The most television-shaped fifteen minutes here. How it runs →

7. The Expert Round (specialist-subject buzzers)

Four brave colleagues, each with a specialist subject ("90s cinema", "our product's release history"), buzz in from their phones. How it runs →

8. Code Break (the table race)

Every table races the same chain of puzzles on their own phones, in the same order. A wrong answer locks your table out while everyone else keeps moving — which is exactly where the noise comes from. How it runs →

9. Live Vote (the People's Choice awards)

Best dressed, quote of the year, rookie of the year — the room votes live and the results land on the big screen. How it runs →

10. Guess Who (the baby photos one)

Everyone submits a photo — baby pic, pet, chaotic desk — and nobody signs it. The room then works out whose is whose. Ten minutes, no rules to learn, and it works just as well on a team that has never met in person. How it runs →

11. Challenge Roulette

Spin the wheel, get a table challenge. Choose your spice level. How it runs →

12. Pick Me (the fair prize selector)

Everyone scans in, the rainbow spins, winners are revealed one at a time — and nobody's phone can spoil the reveal early. How it runs →

13. Badge Draw

The classic raffle, minus the paper tickets and the shoebox. How it runs →

A 90-minute run-of-show you can steal

Got longer than ninety minutes, or a room that would rather sit than stand? Run Quiz Night instead of the middle three segments — four rounds and a picture round fills a whole evening on its own, and the prize finale still lands the same way.

The logistics answer everyone asks

No app downloads, no accounts: players scan a QR on the big screen and they're in on a web page. The host runs everything from a phone or laptop; the display needs one HDMI cable. The AI question writer builds rounds about your company in seconds — type "our 2026 highlights" and review what it writes. Rehearse the entire night first — your trial includes runs to an empty room.