7 Fun Thanksgiving Drinking Games

‍Our Top 7 Thanksgiving Drinking Games

1. Thanksgiving "Drink When..."

This one’s a classic because it requires zero setup. It’s the perfect game to play low-key at the dinner table with your cousins.

How to Play:

Get your group and your drinks, and agree on the rules. You take a sip every time a predictable Thanksgiving thing happens.

Drink when:

• Someone asks about your love life (or if you're "still single").
• Someone mentions the turkey is dry.
• Someone opens the oven "just to check".
• A pet successfully begs for food.
• Someone asks you to explain social media or your job.
• Someone mentions Black Friday.
• A political argument almost starts.
• Someone unbuttons their pants at the table.

2. Boomit Party (The High-Tech Hot Potato)

Okay, this is our app, but it’s honestly perfect for this. If you’re stuck with cousins you haven't seen all year or want to kick off Friendsgiving, this is it.

How to Play:

Download the free Boomit Party app (it's on iOS and Android). Start a game of "Pass It On."

The app flashes a "most likely to" or category question. You answer fast and pass the phone (the ticking bomb) to the person who fits the answer.

• Example 1: "Most likely to fall asleep on the couch first?" Pass it to your uncle.
• Example 2: "Name a Thanksgiving side dish." Say "stuffing," pass it on. The next person has to name a different one.

Whoever is holding the phone when the bomb explodes has to drink or do a dare. It’s fast, chaotic, and way more fun than just sitting there.

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3. Never Have I Ever (Thanksgiving Edition)

This is the best way to find out what really happened at everyone else's family dinner.

How to Play:

Everyone holds up five (or ten) fingers. Going around the circle, each person says "Never have I ever..." followed by something they've never done.

If you have done it, you put a finger down and take a drink. The last person with fingers up wins.

Thanksgiving-themed prompts:

• "Never have I ever... secretly hated a side dish but eaten it to be polite."
• "Never have I ever... faked a food coma to get out of cleaning."
• "Never have I ever... gotten into a real argument at Thanksgiving."
• "Never have I ever... hooked up with someone at a Friendsgiving."

4. Drunk Jenga

If your Friendsgiving is more of a party, this is a must. It’s just classic Jenga, but with consequences.

How to Play:

Get a Jenga set and write rules on the blocks with a Sharpie. When you pull a block, you have to do what it says. If you knock the tower over, you finish your drink.

Block ideas:

• Take 2 sips
• Give 3 sips
• Waterfall
• Tell an embarrassing story
• "Turkey" (everyone who has eaten turkey drinks)

-> Read more about Drunk Jenga here!

5. "Most Likely To..." (The Low-Tech Version)

This is the game Boomit is based on, and it works great with no tech.

How to Play:

One person asks a "Most likely to..." question to the group. On the count of three, everyone points to the person who they think best fits the description.

You have to take a sip for every person pointing at you.

Prompt ideas:

• "Most likely to... win the wishbone pull?"
• "Most likely to... eat three full plates?"
• "Most likely to... be the first one drunk?"
• "Most likely to... marry a celebrity?"

Most Likely within an app? Play Boomit!

6. Flip Cup

You've probably played this, but it's a Friendsgiving staple for a reason. It's loud, messy, and perfect for a big group.

How to Play:

Split into two equal teams on opposite sides of a long table. Everyone has a cup with an equal amount of their drink.

It's a relay race. The first person in line chugs their drink, places their cup on the edge of the table, and has to flip it so it lands face-down. Once they land it, the next person on their team can go. The first team to finish all their cups wins.

7. Drinking Charades (Thanksgiving Edition)

This one turns a family-friendly classic into something... well, less so.

How to Play:

Split into two teams. Write a bunch of Thanksgiving-themed words or phrases on slips of paper. (e.g., "Food Coma," "Awkward Silence," "Turkey Pardon," "Trying to explain your job to your aunt").

One person from a team draws a card and has one minute to act it out for their team to guess.

• If your team guesses correctly, the other team drinks.
• If your team fails to guess in time, your team drinks.

Whatever you end up playing, have fun, drink responsibly, and maybe avoid starting "Most Likely To..." with your really conservative relatives.