Want to play some minute to win it games but don’t have a ready-made list of games to play? That’s where we come in! Here are the 50 absolute best minute to win it games for kids. From classics and food-related challenges to races and more, we’ve compiled the most fun and hilarious minute to win it games for kids of all ages to enjoy. And don’t worry if you’ve got some teens and adults participating as well, as anyone can enjoy playing these games!
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BEST MINUTE TO WIN IT GAMES FOR KIDS
Let’s start off with some absolute classic minute to win it games that will be a hit at any kid’s birthday party.
1. FLIP CUP
To play this minute to win it game, all kids must stand on the edges of a table with a plastic cup on the edge facing up. Using a finger, the kids must flick the cup from the bottom of the cup so that it lands upside down.
2. CHOPSTACK
Give every kid a pair of chopsticks and some marshmallows for this minute to win it game! When the timer starts, each kid must try their hardest to stack the marshmallows on top of one another, using just their chopsticks—no fingers allowed!
3. ROLL WITH IT
To play this game, everyone must unroll an entire roll of toilet paper using just one hand. It’s a lot more difficult than it looks!
4. BALLOONS IN THE AIR
All kids must try their best to keep their two balloons in the air (but they cannot hold them). The moment one of their balloons touches the ground, they are out! If you want to challenge the kids further, allow them to only use one hand for the duration of the challenge!
5. EGG ROLL
In this minute to win it game, kids must roll an egg from the starting line to the finish line with only a spoon. But try not to crack the egg while you roll it!
6. TISSUE BOX SHAKE
This is a pretty fun game that’ll get all the kids’ energy up! Tie an empty tissue box on the back of each of the players and fill it with a number of ping pong balls. The goal? Shake all of the ping pong balls out without using your hands.
7. FEATHER BLOW
Give each player a feather that they must keep in the air. But they can only use their breath to do so. Try not to get too dizzy doing this challenge!
8. BLOW A BUBBLE
When you start the timer for a minute, everyone must put a piece of bubble gum in their mouth and chew, chew, chew! The goal of this challenge is to blow a bubble of a designated size.
9. EAT THE DONUT
To prepare for this game, tie a string around a donut and hang it between two chairs—one donut per player. Then, players must race to eat their donut without it falling on the floor!
This is a fun game to play outdoors on a nice day. Here are some other classic outdoor games for kids.
10. PING PONG BALANCE
In this game, each player holds a ping pong ball on a spoon. Then, when the minute starts, players must race to one end of the room and back, careful not to drop the ping pong ball. If you drop the ball, you must put it back on the spoon before you can continue the race.
11. SCOOP IT UP
This is another minute to win it challenge for kids that involves ping pong balls. But in this game, each player has two bowls in front of them, one of which has 6 ping pong balls. Then, to play the game, players must transfer the six balls from one bowl to the other using just a spoon, which they must maneuver with their mouth.
12. PENNY THROW
While throwing pennies seems like an easy task, do it blindfolded, and it’s definitely a challenge! In this minute to win it game, blindfold the players and have them throw as many pennies as they can into a cup within a minute.
13. MARSHMALLOW TOSS
This is a similar game that is just as fun. However, instead of blindfolding the kids, they must stand a distance away from a mug and throw as many marshmallows as possible into their mug!
FUNNY MINUTE TO WIN IT GAMES FOR KIDS
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14. COOKIE FACE
This is a super classic minute to win it game, and for good reason! All players must put a cookie on their forehead. And then, when the minute starts, all players must try to move that cookie down their face and into their mouth before the minute is up. But remember: no hands allowed!
This is an easy game you can play indoors on a rainy day.
15. POP THE BALLOONS
You’ve got to prepare for this minute to win it game for kids beforehand by blowing up a whole bunch of balloons. Put the balloons in a room and have the kids pop as many balloons as possible by stomping on them. The kids must count how many balloons they pop, as the player with the most popped balloons wins.
16. CHUBBY BUNNY
You might already be familiar with chubby bunny, as it was an internet sensation years ago. In this minute to win it game, all the kids must stuff their mouths with as many marshmallows as possible. But the final challenge comes when the players must successfully say “chubby bunny” with those marshmallows in their mouths!
17. NOSE DIVE
This is a super funny minute to win it game that everyone will enjoy. To play this, put some Vaseline on a plate in front of each player. Then, place two bowls in front of the player as well, one empty and the other filled with cotton balls. When the minute starts, players must race to put as many cotton balls into the empty bowl with their noses by using Vaseline to make their noses sticky. No hands allowed!
18. GUMMY WORM SEARCH
Everyone loves gummy worms! In this sweet minute to win it game, fill pie pans with gummy worms and then cover them with delicious whipped cream. Then, when the minute starts, players must race to find as many gummy worms as possible by digging their faces into the pie pans. As is the case with many other minute to win it games: no hands are allowed! Everyone will be covered with whipped cream by the end of this game, so make sure you have some towels handy.
19. PING PONG BLOW
In this challenge, players must blow a ping pong ball across a finish line on a long table (but the ball must remain on the table). Be careful not to drop the ping pong ball off the table at any point. If the ball falls off, you’ll need to start again from the starting point!
20. PAPER PLANE RACE
At the start of the game, give each player a few pieces of paper. Then, when the game begins, everyone must make paper planes and throw them into a specific target.
21. WATER TRANSFER
Who knew transferring water could be so difficult? In this challenge, players must move all of the water from one cup to the other using only a sponge or a turkey baster.
22. MITTEN RACE
In this minute to win it game for kids, all the players must put on oven mitts and complete a basic task. You can be creative about the challenge. Examples include:
- Opening 3 doors
- Unwrapping a candy bar
- Moving ping pong balls from one bowl to another
This is a minute to win it game you can play indoors or outdoors.
23. STICKER FACE
This is a super funny minute to win it games that younger kids will love! Give each kid a pack of stickers. And when the game begins, the kids must put as many stickers on their face as possible!
24. BALLOON WADDLE
Before the minute timer starts, give each player a balloon to put between their knees. And when the minute timer starts, players must race from one end of the room to the other. But if you drop the balloon at some point during the game, you’re out of the race.
25. PENNY HOSE
In this game, put two pennies at the bottom of a pair of pantyhose. Give a pantyhose to each player. Then, when the game begins, the players must race to get those two pennies from the bottom as fast as possible!
UNIQUE MINUTE TO WIN IT GAMES FOR KIDS
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26. ROLL THE DICE
In this minute to win it challenge, all players must roll a single die again and again in order to get the highest score amongst the other players. This is also a great game to test the arithmetic skills of the kids!
27. SORT THE CHARMS
Give each player a small bowl of Lucky Charms cereal. The players must race to sort the cereal into categories (hearts, rainbows, stars, clovers, etc.) before the minute is up!
28. PENNY TOWER
Here’s another fun minute to win it game that involves pennies! But in this game, players must have a pile of 25 pennies that they must stack into a tower. If you want to make the game a bit more difficult for older kids, allow them to only use one hand!
29. FASTER PASTA
Players must put an uncooked piece of spaghetti in their mouths. Using this piece of spaghetti, they must move uncooked penne pasta pieces from one bowl to an empty bowl.
30. JELLYBEAN SCOOP
This is another minute to win it game that involves food! This game is perfect for younger kids. All they have to do is scoop jellybeans from one bowl to another using a small teaspoon.
31. SOCK ROLL
We absolutely love this minute to win it game for kids, as it also helps them teach basic life skills. In this challenge, lay out a large pile of socks. Then, when the minute starts, players must race to roll socks into pairs. The goal is to match as many pairs as possible.
32. CLOTHESLINE HANG
This is another great game that’ll teach the kids some laundry skills. Give each child a hamper filled with the same number and type of clothes to hang on a clothesline. Then, when the minute starts, players must use clothespins to hang the clothes as fast as possible.
33. FIND THE STICKER
Fill around 25 cups halfway up with water and put a sticker on the bottom of one of these cups. In this challenge, players must race to find the cup with the sticker by picking up the cups one by one. Can you find the sticker in under a minute?
34. PROPER POSTURE
If you want to stop the kids from hunching over, teach them good posture with the help of this game. In this minute to win it game, players must balance a book on their head from the starting line to the finish line. If you have older kids playing, up the stakes by having them complete an easy obstacle course while balancing the book.
35. DON’T BLOW AWAY THE JOKER
Give each player a deck of cards, with the Joker card at the very bottom of the deck. Then, the players must gently blow away all the cards. But if you also blow away the Joker card at the bottom, you’ve lost the challenge.
36. NAME THE STATES/COUNTRIES
This is the perfect educational game for older kids. Players must list as many states as they can in one minute. If you are not American, feel free to switch it up and have the kids list countries instead. The player who manages to name the most states or countries in a minute wins.
37. SODA EXPLOSION
In this messy game that you should play outside, give each player a soda bottle and a mint. Have all the players drop the mint into the opened soda bottle and wait to see it explode. Whoever’s soda bottle explodes first is the winner.
38. DROP THE BALL
Have the kids stand tall on the ground. Then, from that height, they must drop a ping pong ball into a cup on the ground. This game is a lot harder than it looks.
TEAMWORK MINUTE TO WIN IT GAMES FOR KIDS
Not all games have to be individuals competing against each other. If you want to foster a sense of teamwork, here are the best team minute to win it games for kids. Most of these games are best played in pairs.
39. MARSHMALLOW TOSS
One partner holds a cup or bucket, while the other holds a small bag of marshmallows. Then, when the minute starts, the partner holding the marshmallows must toss them into the cup or bucket.
40. CUPSTACK RELAY
You may be familiar with cup stacking if you’ve played minute to win it games before. But this challenge is a relay. So, the first player stacks 10 cups and then races back to their teammates who unstacks them. The first pair to complete the stack and unstack wins. You can easily turn this into a team game by having the third player stack the 10 cups again and the fourth player unstack.
41. EGG AND SPOON RELAY
An egg and spoon relay is a classic game to play on a kid’s field day. In this game, teams must balance an egg on a spoon while racing from the starting line to the other end of the playing field and back in order to transfer the egg to the second player’s spoon. The first team to finish the race wins.
42. TENNIS BALL RACE
A game for pairs, in this game, two players must balance a tennis ball between their heads and walk it across a room without dropping it.
43. BALLOON VOLLEYBALL
The teammates must work together to keep their balloon (or multiple balloons if you want more of a challenge) in the air using only their heads.
44. MUMMY RACE
The teammates (except for one who is the mummy) must wrap their mummy with toilet paper. The best mummy wins.
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45. MARSHMALLOW-MAN
In this game, instead of making the best mummy, the teammates work together to create the best marshmallow-man. To do so, they’ll use a pack of marshmallows and toothpicks.
46. BUCKET HEAD
One teammate throws ping pong balls, while the other has a bucket attached to their head. The teammates must work together to get as many balls into the bucket as possible. But you cannot move your feet during this challenge.
47. FEED YOUR TEAMMATE
While this may seem like an easy task, it’s pretty difficult to execute. Blindfold one player. This player must feed their teammate with a spoon, with the second teammate giving directions to find the food and feed the spoonful to them as fast as possible.
48. SKETCH ARTIST
One teammate must describe a certain drawing to the second teammate. The second teammate, without looking at the original drawing, must attempt to replicate the art using just the descriptions given to them by their teammate.
49. CARD HOUSE
The teammates must work together to create the tallest card house using a single deck of cards.
50. CANDY TOSS
In this game, the partners must stand around three feet apart. One partner should hold a paper cup, and the other some candies. Toss the candies into the cup. The more candies you have in the cup by the end of the minute, the better.
HOW TO PLAY MINUTE TO WIN IT GAMES FOR KIDS
Minute to win it games are super easy to play. You’ll choose the games you want to play beforehand and set up a table with the game names and the names of the players competing. Minute to win it games can have outright winners or simply people who manage to complete the challenge.
Depending on the game, the scoring is as follows:
- 5 points for first place
- 3 points for second place
- 1 point for third place or for completing the challenge
After playing all of the minute to win it games prepared, calculate the scores to determine a winner.
You can play a mix of individual and team games.
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