Christmas Party Games You Can Run With a Spin Wheel
A spin wheel turns almost any Christmas party game into something you can run with no prep: put the options on a wheel, spin, and play. Below are ten games that work for office parties, classrooms and family gatherings, with ready-to-paste lists. Every one is clean, needs nothing more than a phone or a laptop, and takes two minutes to set up.
Try it: paste any list below into the wheel (one item per line), choose a colour style and press Spin.
Build a Christmas wheelWhat games can you play with a spin wheel at Christmas?
1. Christmas charades
Players act out a word while their team guesses. Open the charades generator for random words, or paste a Christmas list onto a wheel: Santa stuck in a chimney, wrapping a present, building a snowman, decorating the tree, reindeer, ice skating, singing carols, a snowball fight, opening a stocking, eating too much at dinner.
2. Christmas bingo or tambola
Hand out bingo cards (or tambola tickets in India) and let the bingo number generator call the numbers. It shows a board of called numbers, can call automatically every few seconds and can read numbers out loud – handy when the host also wants to play.
3. Gift-opening order
Put everyone's name on the wheel of names, turn on "remove winner", and spin before each gift is opened. Nobody argues about who goes first.
4. Holiday would you rather
Use the would you rather questions, or write your own festive ones: Would you rather wrap every gift or cook every dish? Snow on Christmas Day or a beach on Christmas Day? Only Christmas songs all December or no Christmas songs at all?
5. Christmas movie night pick
Everyone adds one film to the wheel and you spin for tonight's movie. Paste your family's favourites – Home Alone, Elf, The Polar Express, The Grinch, Klaus, Jingle All the Way – or use the what movie to watch wheel for Bollywood, Filipino and Hollywood picks.
6. One-minute challenges
Spin for a challenge, then the player has 60 seconds: stack 10 plastic cups into a pyramid, unwrap a chocolate wearing oven gloves, name 10 Christmas songs, draw a reindeer with your eyes closed, keep a balloon in the air using only your head, sort a bowl of candies by colour. Keep anything fragile away from the game area.
7. Forfeit wheel for the losing team
The punishment wheel has harmless forfeits. Add festive ones – sing a line of a carol, speak like a reindeer for one round – and leave out anything that could embarrass someone.
8. Christmas trivia by category
Spin for the category, then the quizmaster asks a question from it: Christmas songs, Christmas movies, food around the world, Santa and reindeer, winter facts, "guess the year". Split the room with the random team generator first.
9. Carol karaoke roulette
Put song titles on one wheel – Jingle Bells, Feliz Navidad, Last Christmas, All I Want for Christmas Is You, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Ang Pasko ay Sumapit – and names on a second wheel. Spin both: that person sings that chorus.
10. The Secret Santa draw itself
Make the draw part of the season: run the Secret Santa generator a few weeks before, then use the party for the reveal. Our guide to Secret Santa at work covers budgets and rules, and Filipino groups can follow the Monito Monita guide.
How do you run the wheel at a party?
- Big screen: open the wheel on a laptop connected to the TV or projector and press the full-screen button.
- Two wheels at once: add a second wheel (for example players and challenges) and spin both together.
- Remove what's done: turn on "remove winner" so the same challenge or person does not come up twice.
- Save it: save the wheel in My Wheels or create a share link so next year's party is ready in seconds.
Which games suit which party?
| Party | Best games |
|---|---|
| Office | Trivia by category, charades, gift-opening order |
| Classroom | Bingo, charades, one-minute challenges |
| Family | Tambola, movie pick, carol karaoke |
| Online or hybrid | Trivia, would you rather, gift-opening order on screen share |