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23 games + free printables

Hens Party Games from sweet to cheeky

Good hens party games do three things. They get a mixed group laughing inside ten minutes, they put the bride at the centre without leaving her stuck there, and nobody has to perform unless they want to.

Find her games Pick a few that feel like her.

Here are 23 we’d actually play, from Mr & Mrs and most likely to, through never have I ever, the banned word game and prosecco pong, to a few cheeky ones. Each comes with what you need, how long it takes and how to make it fit your group.

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Sweet hens party games everyone can play

Start here when the group spans every part of her life, from school friends to family. These put the bride at the centre of the table, not up on a chair.

A laughing bride to be in a bow veil clinking a shot with a friend, holding a lime, in front of pink balloons and tinsel

1. Mr & Mrs, the partner quiz

Players
Any size
Time
20 to 30 min
Prep
A week out

You needHer partner’s answers to 15 questions. A quick video of them answering is gold.

How to play
  1. A week before, send her partner the questions: who said I love you first, who’s the worse driver, her usual order at the pub, the song that’s theirs.
  2. On the night, sit the bride front and centre and ask her the same questions.
  3. Reveal each answer straight after hers. A match gets a cheer. A miss gets a group ruling.
Make it work

Have everyone write down what they think she’ll say before she answers. The whole table plays, not just the bride, and the closest guesser wins a prize.

Free printable: 20 questions for the groom

Best at: a restaurant table or a private space with room to play

2. How well do you know the bride?

Players
Any size
Time
15 to 20 min
Prep
20 min

You needTwelve to fifteen questions, pens and answer cards, or a free phone quiz app.

How to play
  1. Write questions that cover her whole life: first job, worst haircut, the celebrity she’d leave the room for, her karaoke song.
  2. Add a fact or fiction round: read out statements about her, half of them made up, and everyone votes.
  3. Swap sheets, mark each other’s answers and crown the winner.
Make it work

Make sure every friend group can answer some of it (school, uni, work, family) so the newest friend isn’t doomed to last place.

Free printable: the 25-question bride quiz

Best at: a restaurant table or a private space with room to play

3. Memory lane

Players
6 plus
Time
20 min
Prep
A week out

You needOne memory card per guest and a jar or pretty envelope.

How to play
  1. Before the day, ask every guest for one memory with the bride. Sweet, ridiculous or both. Collect them privately so nobody writes on the spot.
  2. The bride draws a card, reads it out and guesses who wrote it.
  3. The writer tells the rest of the story.
Make it work

Keep the cards. Tied with a ribbon, they become the one hens keepsake that doesn’t end up in a drawer.

Best at: a restaurant table or a private space with room to play

4. Most likely to

Players
Any size
Time
10 to 15 min
Prep
10 min

You needA list of prompts. Optional but excellent: the bride’s and her partner’s faces printed and taped to paddle pop sticks.

How to play
  1. Read out a prompt.
  2. Everyone holds up the face they think fits: the bride or her partner.
  3. The bride has the final say, and the group gets to argue with her.
Make it work

Those face paddles make the photo of the night. Everyone holding up the same face at once is the shot.

Steal these prompts (8)
  • Cry first at the vows
  • Be late to their own wedding
  • Start a honeymoon spreadsheet
  • Adopt another dog without asking
  • Fall asleep first on the dance floor
  • Text the group chat at 2am
  • Know every word to the first dance song
  • Order dessert before mains

Best at: a restaurant table or a private space with room to play

5. Would she rather

Players
Any size
Time
15 min
Prep
10 min

You needTen to fifteen questions, and the bride’s answers collected beforehand (or she answers live).

How to play
  1. Read out each question and have everyone write down the answer they think she’d pick.
  2. The bride reveals her answers one by one.
  3. Most correct wins, and anyone with fewer than three right owes her a toast.
Make it work

Keep a second, spicier set in your back pocket, and let the bride decide if it comes out.

Steal these prompts (8)
  • Honeymoon in Paris or on a Bali daybed
  • Give a speech or dance solo at the reception
  • Wear heels all night or thongs to her own wedding
  • Espresso martinis or bottomless bubbles forever
  • A surprise flash mob or no speeches at all
  • Know every guest’s gossip or never hear any
  • Karaoke or a dance-off
  • Plan every detail or be surprised

Best at: a restaurant table or a private space with room to play

Icebreakers for when the friend groups haven’t met

Work friends, uni friends, sisters-in-law. These give everyone a reason to talk to someone new in the first twenty minutes, and nobody has to stand up and perform.

A large hens group together on a couch with pink and gold balloons

6. Hens bingo

Players
10 plus
Time
15 to 20 min
Prep
20 min

You needA bingo card for each guest (a four by four grid of find-someone-who squares) and pens.

How to play
  1. Hand out cards as guests arrive.
  2. Find a different person for each square and get them to sign it.
  3. First full line calls it. The bride hands over the prize.
Make it work

Put at least one square on every card that only the newest friend can sign. Suddenly she’s the most popular person in the room.

Steal these prompts (10)
  • Has known the bride since school
  • Has been on holiday with her
  • Met her at work
  • Has seen her cry at a movie
  • Knows how she met her partner
  • Lives interstate
  • Has danced on a table with her
  • Met her in the last two years
  • Knows her go-to karaoke song
  • Was at her 21st

Free printable: a different bingo card for every guest

Best at: wherever everyone’s arriving and mingling

7. Two truths and a lie: how I know her

Players
6 to 15
Time
15 to 20 min
Prep
None

You needNothing. Just the group.

How to play
  1. Each guest shares three things about her history with the bride: two true, one invented.
  2. The table guesses the lie.
  3. The bride confirms, and adds whatever detail the guest conveniently left out.
Make it work

It’s introductions without the round-the-table cringe. For 15 plus, split into tables and let the bride float.

Best at: a restaurant table or a private space with room to play

8. Pass the veil

Players
6 plus
Time
10 min
Prep
None

You needA veil or a sash.

How to play
  1. The bride starts, holding the veil: “I’m passing the veil to someone who…” and finishes the line.
  2. She hands it to whoever fits. That person finishes a new line and passes it on.
  3. Keep it quick. No speeches, just the line and a laugh.
Make it work

Start sweet (someone who made me feel at home in a new city) and let it get cheekier as the night goes.

Steal these prompts (7)
  • Would help me move house at short notice
  • Has seen me at my absolute worst
  • Gave me the best advice about my partner
  • I’d call from the back of a police car
  • Will definitely cry at the ceremony
  • Taught me how to do my eyeliner
  • Always orders the round

Best at: a table, a private space or on the go

9. The banned word game

Players
Any size
Time
All day or night
Prep
5 min

You needFive hair ties per guest (bangles work too) and three banned words.

How to play
  1. At the start, everyone slips five hair ties onto their wrist.
  2. Announce the banned words. Pick ones that slip out naturally: wedding, drink and her partner’s name.
  3. Catch someone saying one and claim one of their hair ties. Most hair ties at the end wins.
The My Ultimate Hens banned word game card in pink, with its list of banned words
Make it work

It runs by itself across every venue, so it keeps going in the car and between stops while you’re busy having fun.

Best at: a table, a private space or on the go

At the table hens games for dinner or a restaurant

Most of these are quiet enough for a shared restaurant and easy between courses. The hens high court is the loud one, so save it for a private dining room.

A hen in a gold sequin dress holding a pink cocktail at a warmly lit bar

10. The hens high court

Players
8 plus
Time
15 to 20 min
Prep
5 min

You needA gavel (a wooden spoon counts), a tiara, and a jar of sentences.

How to play
  1. Crown the bride as judge.
  2. Guests bring petty charges: stole my lip liner in 2017, left the group chat on read, still has my good jacket from that one festival.
  3. The judge hears each case and rules. The guilty draw a sentence: toast the bride, swap seats, sing her favourite chorus.
Make it work

The bride gets the spotlight with the power, not the pressure. Perfect for a bride who loves the fuss but hates being quizzed.

Best at: a private space with room to play

11. The emoji decoder

Players
Any size
Time
10 to 15 min
Prep
A week out

You needTen questions the bride has answered using emojis only, saved on your phone.

How to play
  1. Read out a question: how she met her partner, her dream honeymoon, her perfect Friday night.
  2. Show her emoji answer on your phone.
  3. The table decodes. Closest guess scores a point.
Make it work

Someone will insist the pineapple means true love. Let them explain.

Best at: a table, a private space or on the go

12. What’s in your handbag?

Players
Any size
Time
10 min
Prep
10 min

You needA list of items, each worth points.

How to play
  1. Read out an item.
  2. First to put it on the table scores the points.
  3. Tally up. Highest score wins, and the bride settles any disputes.
Make it work

If your group lives on their phones, play a camera roll edition (a photo with the bride from before 2020, a screenshot you should have deleted). Anyone can pass, and nobody hands over their phone.

Steal these prompts (7)
  • A receipt older than a month (2 points)
  • Hand cream (1 point)
  • A hair tie (1 point)
  • A photo of the bride on your phone (5 points)
  • Something borrowed from the bride (10 points)
  • Bobby pins (1 point)
  • A lipstick older than her relationship (5 points)

Best at: a restaurant table or a private space with room to play

13. Who am I? The bride’s life edition

Players
6 to 20
Time
15 min
Prep
10 min

You needSticky notes and a pen.

How to play
  1. Write names from the bride’s life on sticky notes: her sister, her first celebrity crush, the family dog, her partner, her favourite teacher.
  2. Stick one on each forehead without the wearer seeing it.
  3. Take turns asking yes or no questions until you work out who you are.
Make it work

Mix in people only one friend group would know, so the school friends need the work friends to win.

Best at: a restaurant table or a private space with room to play

14. Never have I ever, fingers down

Players
5 to 15
Time
10 to 20 min
Prep
10 min

You needPrompts on your phone, split into a mild pile and a spicy pile.

How to play
  1. Everyone holds up five fingers.
  2. The bride reads a prompt. Anyone who has done it puts a finger down.
  3. Put a finger down on a good one and the table will want the short version. Telling it is up to you. Last hand with a finger up wins.
Make it work

Start with the mild pile. The bride decides if and when the spicy one comes out, and nobody has to explain a finger they’d rather not.

Steal these prompts (8)
  • Never have I ever been late to something the bride organised
  • Never have I ever cried at a wedding I wasn’t in
  • Never have I ever sent a text to the wrong person
  • Never have I ever pretended to know the words to a song
  • Never have I ever been asked to leave a bar
  • Never have I ever given the bride advice she ignored
  • Never have I ever lied about where I was on a Friday night
  • Never have I ever kissed someone on a dance floor

Best at: a table, a private space or on the go

Want the table sorted too? See the packages in the city she’s celebrating in, with what’s included and the price per person. Where is she celebrating?

High energy hens games for a private space

These need a suitable private space with room to play, somewhere a bit of noise is welcome. Play them early, before the drinks take over.

A hens group in black with confetti falling in front of a disco ball and balloon backdrop

15. Dancing queen

Players
Any size
Time
All night
Prep
10 min

You needA bowl and slips of paper with songs you’ll definitely hear tonight.

How to play
  1. Everyone draws a song. The bride draws three.
  2. When your song plays, you’re up for the chorus, and anyone who wants to can join you.
  3. Rather not? Nominate a willing crew to take your chorus for you.
Make it work

The moment the whole table jumps up for one chorus is the moment the night takes off.

Need songs for the bowl? Here’s our hens night playlist

Best at: anywhere the music is playing

16. Prosecco pong

Players
4 to 12, two teams
Time
20 to 30 min
Prep
10 min

You needPlastic coupes or cups, a few ping pong balls and a long table.

How to play
  1. Set up six or ten plastic glasses at each end in a triangle.
  2. Take turns throwing. Land one and the other team drinks it and removes the glass.
  3. First team to clear the other side wins.
Make it work

Pour a splash, not a glass, and fill any cup with lemonade or a mocktail. The game is the throwing, not the drinking.

Best at: a private space with room to play

17. The toilet paper wedding dress

Players
8 to 30, in teams
Time
15 min plus the runway
Prep
5 min

You needTwo or three rolls of toilet paper per team, sticky tape and a runway song.

How to play
  1. Split into teams of three to five. Each team picks a model.
  2. Ten minutes to build a wedding dress out of toilet paper.
  3. Runway walk to the song. The bride judges.
Make it work

Every team has to work in one detail inspired by her style or the hens theme. Watch how well they know her.

Best at: a private space with room to play

18. The chocolate game

Players
6 to 15, in a circle
Time
20 to 30 min
Prep
5 min

You needA big block of chocolate, a die, a knife and fork, a feather boa and a pair of heels.

How to play
  1. Pass the die around the circle.
  2. Roll a six, put on the boa and heels, and start eating the chocolate with the knife and fork.
  3. Keep going until someone else rolls a six and takes everything off you.
Make it work

No alcohol needed and every age plays. It gets louder than any drinking game.

Best at: a private space with room to play

19. Truth tower

Players
4 to 12
Time
20 to 40 min
Prep
30 min

You needA block-stacking tower game and a marker.

How to play
  1. Write a prompt on every block: a truth, a dare, compliment the bride, swap seats.
  2. Build the tower and play as normal.
  3. Play your block or swap it for another, no questions asked. Whoever topples the tower picks the next song.
Make it work

Write the blocks at the pre-drinks and you have a second game for the morning after.

Best at: a private space with room to play

20. Photo scavenger hunt

Players
6 plus, in teams
Time
45 to 90 min
Prep
20 min

You needA list of photos to capture, and phones.

How to play
  1. Split into teams with a list: the bride with a stranger’s dog, a human pyramid, another wedding party, a recreation of an old photo of her.
  2. Teams snap as you move between venues.
  3. The bride judges the results over dinner.
Make it work

Mix the friend groups in every team. By dinner they’re a group.

Free printable: the 30-photo scavenger hunt list

Best at: on the go between stops

Making a weekend of it? Hens weekends come with accommodation in all six cities, so there’s somewhere to get ready together and swap stories after. Explore hens weekends

Cheeky hens party games with a wink

Innuendo, not humiliation. Check the bride’s hard nos first, play them with the people who’ll love them (sometimes that’s her mum), and give everyone a pass.

A bride to be in a veil and white sunglasses blowing a kiss to the camera

21. Undercover garter

Players
Any size
Time
All night
Prep
A garter

You needOne garter. That’s it.

How to play
  1. At the start, slip the garter to someone and announce the game.
  2. Whoever has it must pass it on without being caught: a bag, a jacket pocket, a clutch.
  3. At the final venue, whoever is holding it does the forfeit.
Make it work

Keep the forfeit fun, not mean: buy the bride’s next drink, lead the next toast or wear the L plates home.

Best at: a table, a private space or on the go

22. Truth, dare or sip

Players
4 to 15
Time
20 to 30 min
Prep
15 min

You needTwo bowls of cards: mild and spicy.

How to play
  1. The bride sets the spice level before anyone draws.
  2. Each turn, draw a card. Answer it, do the dare or take a sip and skip. Water counts.
  3. Pass whenever you like. Passes never run out.
Make it work

Write the cards so the joke lands on the bride or the whole table, never on one guest’s private life.

Steal these prompts (7)
  • Truth: the worst date you’ve ever been on
  • Truth: the most embarrassing thing you’ve done in front of the bride
  • Truth: your most embarrassing text sent to the wrong person
  • Dare: toast the bride in your best accent
  • Dare: let the table write your next Instagram caption
  • Dare: serenade the bride with one line of a love song
  • Dare: swap one accessory with the person on your left

Free printable: 24 dare cards, mild and spicy

Best at: a private space with room to play

23. Pin the junk on the hunk

Players
Any size
Time
10 to 15 min
Prep
5 min

You needThe poster (party shops sell them), a blindfold and a bit of wall.

How to play
  1. Blindfold the player and spin her three times.
  2. She sticks the piece wherever she thinks it goes.
  3. Closest wins. Most creative placement also wins.
Make it work

If the poster isn’t this group’s kind of cheeky, play pin the veil on the bride instead, with a printed photo of her. Same laughs, different blush level.

Best at: a private space with room to play

Want to be in the game too? A drag queen can host, or a topless waiter can join in. See hosted games

Free printables

Print, play, keep Free hens party games printables

Five of the games above, ready to print: the bride quiz, the questions for the groom, hens bingo cards, a scavenger hunt and a stack of dare cards. Type her name once and it goes on every sheet. Free to download, no sign-up.

Printable how well do you know the bride quiz with 25 questions and answer lines, under a veil and two champagne coupes
Game 2, ready to print

How well do you know the bride? 25 questions

Every friend group at her hens thinks they know her best. This settles it. The questions run from her first job to the proposal, so the school friends, the work friends and her sister all score somewhere, and nothing on here makes her want to slide under the table.

Print one per guest, read them out and let the bride give the real answers. Twenty-five is the full set; fifteen is plenty over lunch. Swap sheets to mark, and the top score picks the next song.

  1. What was her very first job?
  2. What did she want to be when she grew up?
  3. What’s her middle name?
  4. What was her first pet called?
  5. Who was her first celebrity crush?
  6. What’s her star sign?
  7. What’s her go-to karaoke song?
  8. What’s her usual drink order?
  9. What’s her Friday night takeaway?
  10. Which show has she watched start to finish more than once?
  11. What’s her most-used emoji?
  12. What’s the celebrity she’d leave the room for?
  13. Where was her best holiday ever?
  14. What can’t she leave the house without?
  15. What’s the one food she refuses to eat?
  16. What’s her secret talent?
  17. Morning person or night owl?
  18. What’s the best concert she’s ever been to?
  19. Where did she meet her partner?
  20. Who said I love you first?
  21. Where was their first date?
  22. How did the proposal happen?
  23. What’s her partner’s most annoying habit, according to her?
  24. What song would she pick for the first dance?
  25. Where’s the honeymoon, or where does she wish it was?
How to play it
Printable what did the groom say sheet with 20 hens party questions for the groom, with an envelope, a bow tie and a lipstick kiss
Game 1, Mr & Mrs, ready to print

Hens party questions for the groom (or her partner)

Send these to her partner a week out, or film the answers on your phone, because the pause before number eight is half the fun. Keep them well away from the bride. On the night she guesses what they said, you reveal, and every match gets a cheer.

Twenty to choose from. Fifteen is plenty on the night, so cross out any that don’t suit them.

  1. Where did you first meet?
  2. What was your first impression of her?
  3. Who said I love you first?
  4. What was she wearing on your first date?
  5. Who’s the better cook?
  6. Who’s the worse driver?
  7. What’s her usual order at the pub?
  8. What’s her most annoying habit?
  9. What does she do that still makes you laugh?
  10. Who takes longer to get ready?
  11. What’s her comfort food?
  12. Who’s more likely to get you both lost?
  13. Who wins the arguments?
  14. Who’s messier?
  15. What’s the song that’s yours?
  16. What will she cry at first on the wedding day?
  17. Who spends more?
  18. What’s her dream holiday?
  19. What’s one thing she does for you that you love?
  20. Describe her in three words.
How to play it
Printable hens bingo card, a four by four find someone who grid under a mirror ball on a plum background
Game 6, ready to print

Hens bingo cards: a different card for every guest

Sixteen find-someone-who squares from the 24 below, shuffled so no two guests get the same card and nobody fills a line off her neighbour’s. Every card keeps the square only her newest friend can sign, so the friend who’s only known her two years gets mobbed first.

Set the number of guests and print the lot in one go, each card different.

  • Met her in the last two years
  • Has known the bride since school
  • Has been on holiday with her
  • Met her at work
  • Has seen her cry at a movie
  • Knows how she met her partner
  • Lives interstate
  • Has danced on a table with her
  • Knows her go-to karaoke song
  • Was at her 21st
  • Knows her middle name
  • Knows her coffee order by heart
  • Has borrowed her clothes and kept them
  • Has been to a concert with her
  • Can name her first pet
  • Has met her partner’s family
  • Has had a sleepover at her place
  • Is also engaged or married
  • Has cried laughing with her
  • Can do her signature dance move
  • Has her saved under a nickname
  • Has been in a group chat with her for 5+ years
  • Has matching jewellery or a tattoo with her
  • Has helped her move house
How to play it
Printable hens party scavenger hunt list with 30 photos to snap and points, with a pink camera and two polaroids
Game 20, ready to print

Hens party scavenger hunt list: 30 photos to snap

Split into teams, set a time and hand each team the sheet. Points climb with the nerve required, from a heart in the latte foam to a stranger striking her signature pose. Ask before you snap anyone you don’t know, and the bride’s ruling on a disputed photo is final.

  • The whole team in one photo booth or lift, 5 points
  • The team mid-jump, all feet off the ground, 5 points
  • A heart spotted in the wild: latte art, graffiti, a cloud, 5 points
  • The bride’s favourite drink on a menu, 5 points
  • Something borrowed and something blue in one frame, 5 points
  • A mirror selfie with every team member in it, 5 points
  • The team’s best impression of the bride, all at once, 5 points
  • A flower she’d want in her bouquet, 5 points
  • Her partner’s name written somewhere unexpected, 10 points
  • The bride’s initial, spelled with your bodies, 10 points
  • A human pyramid, 10 points
  • A recreation of an old photo of the bride, 10 points
  • A street sign with the bride’s name on it, 10 points
  • A selfie with a bartender, 10 points
  • A team portrait posed like a wedding photo, 10 points
  • Someone wearing the bride’s favourite colour, 10 points
  • A sign that could be the title of her wedding speech, 10 points
  • The team recreating a famous album cover, 10 points
  • A slow-motion video of the team walking in a line, 10 points
  • Someone teaching the team a dance move, 15 points
  • The bride with a stranger’s dog (ask first), 15 points
  • Another wedding party or bride-to-be, 15 points
  • A couple married 20 years or more, and their best advice, 15 points
  • The team with a busker or a live band, 15 points
  • A stranger striking the bride’s signature pose, 15 points
  • A high five with a chef, 15 points
  • Proof you made a stranger laugh, 15 points
  • A photo of the whole team, taken by a stranger, 15 points
  • The bride’s go-to karaoke song, sung by the team on video, 20 points
  • One photo that sums up the bride. The bride judges, 20 points
How to play it
Printable hens party dare cards, twelve cut-out cards on a sheet with a popping champagne bottle and streamers
Game 22, ready to print

Hens party dares: 24 dare cards, mild and spicy

Twelve mild and twelve spicy, printed as cut-out cards for the truth, dare or sip bowls. Spicy means innuendo, not humiliation, and every joke lands on the bride or the whole table. She picks which pile comes out, and a sip is always a pass. Water counts.

The mild pile

  • Give the bride a compliment she’s never heard before
  • Toast the bride in your best accent
  • Do your best impression of the bride getting ready
  • Tell the story of how you met the bride in ten words
  • Serenade the bride with one line of a love song
  • Recreate the bride’s go-to selfie pose
  • Teach the table your signature dance move
  • Swap one accessory with the person on your left
  • Invent a new wedding tradition and sell it to the table
  • Let the bride choose your next drink (mocktails count)
  • Start the chorus of her karaoke song and get the table to join
  • Give a thirty-second speech as the bride’s future self

The spicy pile

  • Do your best catwalk to the bar and back
  • Flirt with the bride like she’s a stranger at the bar, for thirty seconds
  • Propose to the bride on one knee (a ring pop helps)
  • Welcome the bride to the honeymoon suite in your most seductive voice
  • Reveal your celebrity hall pass and argue your case
  • Rate her partner’s dance moves out of ten, with a demonstration
  • Do a slow-motion hair flip worthy of a shampoo ad
  • Whisper your best pick-up line to the bride, then deliver it to the table
  • Act out how she met her partner, with the person on your right
  • Slow dance with the bride for one full chorus
  • Describe your ideal date night in three emojis, then act them out
  • Put on the veil and do a runway walk while the table scores you
How to play it

Printing at home? A4, portrait, and tick fit to page. Print the bingo and dare cards on card if you have it: they get passed round, dropped near glasses and fought over.

Picking a few

Pick a few that feel like her. Leave room for the hens.

One game can be plenty around lunch, an activity and a night out. A games-focused night in might have room for three or four. Choose the ones you can picture your group enjoying, and leave space for the conversations that turn into their own entertainment.

One way it could flow. An example, not a schedule. Use one step or all four.

  1. While everyone arrives

    An icebreaker that needs no performing

    Hens bingo, or hair ties on for the banned word game, while people are still working out who’s who.

  2. Once everyone’s seated

    Her moment

    Mr & Mrs or memory lane, before the mains land. She’s the centre of it without being stuck up the front.

  3. In the background

    One that runs itself

    The garter or the banned word game keeps going in the car and between stops, with nobody having to run it.

  4. If there’s room to play

    The loud one

    Toilet paper dresses or prosecco pong, in a private space, while everyone’s fresh.

Four house rules

  • Ask the bride two things first: does she love games, and what’s a hard no. Her answer decides how many you play, including none.
  • Every game has a pass. Water counts as a sip, and nobody gets quizzed about their own love life.
  • Pick prizes she’d choose: her favourite lip gloss, a mini bottle of bubbles, the right to pick the next song.
  • Hand the question cards to another bridesmaid. You’re meant to be playing too.

Packing? Only for the games you pick. Each card says what you need, and plenty need nothing more than a pen or a phone.

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Where the games fit

A few games. A whole hens around them

Banned words set while everyone gets ready. A few stories about her over lunch. A queen taking the microphone while you get to play too.

The games can be the personal touches threaded through the celebration. They don’t have to carry the whole day.

  • Over a long lunch

    A short bride quiz or a few memory cards gives each friendship group something to share. Let the stories breathe. There’s no need to fill every course.

  • With a drag queen

    In some drag hens experiences the queen hosts the games, from drag bingo to the fiancé quiz, so you get to join in instead of reading every card.

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  • Across a hens weekend

    Getting ready together, a game before you head out, then the best stories back at the accommodation. There’s room to spread things out.

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Hosted games

Want to be in the game too?

Some hens experiences come with someone whose job is to hold the room, so you can play along instead of reading out the cards.

Drag queen games

A queen holding the room

For a bride who would love a queen running the show. Some drag hens experiences have the queen hosting the games, from drag bingo to the fiancé quiz.

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Games with a topless waiter

A waiter joining the fun

For the group whose version of cheeky includes a waiter. Some groups rope him into a game or two, like the ones in our waiter games guide.

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What two organisers said about their queen and their waiter

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Stacey and everyone at the hens had a great night! Our drag queen was fabulous and really got the party started.

The organiser of Stacey’s hens in Sydney. An excerpt from her review, with a photo sent in from the celebration. Read the full reviews
Four hens in feather boas and headbands, one in a pink hens hat, on the night

…even Stephs mum was getting in on the action and stealing him from everyone else for photos which was so funny! He couldn't do enough for us and … we even dressed him up in a toilet paper gown and he was such a good sport helping and making us all laugh

Debbie T, from Stephie’s hens in Brisbane. An excerpt from her review, with a photo sent in from the celebration. Read the full reviews

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Quick answers

Good to know about hens party games

What are the best hens party games?

The best ones suit the group, not the list. Mr & Mrs and memory lane are the favourites for a mixed crowd, hens bingo and pass the veil get strangers talking, and the banned word game runs all night without anyone having to organise it. The cheeky ones are for the groups who’ll love them.

How many games should you play at a hens party?

It depends on the day. One game can be plenty around lunch, an activity and a night out. A games-focused night in might have room for three or four. Pick the ones you can picture your group enjoying, and leave room for the conversations.

What hens games work when guests don’t know each other?

Hens bingo, two truths and a lie, pass the veil and the banned word game. Each one gives people a reason to talk to someone new without anyone standing up to perform. There are more ideas in what to do when the bridesmaids don’t know each other.

What hens party games can you play at a restaurant?

The quiet ones that keep the volume at dinner level: Mr & Mrs, would she rather, the emoji decoder, memory lane and never have I ever. Save the performance games, like the hens high court or truth, dare or sip, for a private room, and let the banned word game or the garter run quietly between stops.

Can hens party games work without alcohol?

Every game on this page works without a drink. Swap sips for points, forfeits or compliments for the bride. For the rest of the night, see hens party ideas when not everyone drinks.

Do you have to play games at a hens?

No. If games aren’t her thing, leave them out. A long lunch, an activity she loves or everyone together on the dance floor can be the celebration. These ideas are here for the groups who would enjoy them.

Are there free printable hens party games?

Yes. The bride quiz, the questions for the groom, hens bingo cards, a scavenger hunt list and 24 dare cards are all free to download or print from this page, with her name on every sheet. No sign-up needed.

Now for the hens itself

The games are one part. Here’s the rest of her hens

From the first drinks to the part nobody wants to leave, explore the packages in her city, with the inclusions and price per person there to see.

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