201 Challenges For Friends To Have Fun

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Friends are the ones with whom you can be yourself without being judged. Good friends light up your life and make you laugh hard. Fun challenges for friends are a great way to have a good time with your buddies and create beautiful memories together. Your friends bring a lot of happiness and laughter to your life. We bring you several fun challenges that you can try out with your friends in this post. Whether it’s a party, picnic, get-together, or you’re just having a gala time with your gang indoors, these challenges will make sure you have a blast with your besties.

201 Fun Challenges For Friends

These activities will leave plenty of hilarious memories for you all. However, make sure to take care of each other’s safety before you do any of these activities.

Food & Eating Challenges

These challenges can be fun, messy, and exciting for food lovers. They involve eating fast, tasting new foods, or guessing the ingredients.

1. Taste testing

It is one of the most anticipated challenges for foodie friends. Order or cook some exotic food items and ask your friends to identify them blindfolded. You can have variations in this game by asking them to taste and list out ingredients in a cooked dish. The one who gets the most right answers in this meal challenge wins!

Elucidating how she organized a blindfold taste test, Michele, a children’s librarian and blogger, says, “The teens were given blindfolds, water, a piece of paper, and a pencil. I kept the food covered and out of eyesight from the teens. I instructed them to put on their blindfolds, retrieved the items, and placed them in front of the teens. Then they tasted the food. Once everyone was done, I removed the cups that held the food, had them take off their blindfolds, and write down what they thought the food was. All of the teens were very closely tied with points (one point for one right guess), but one girl did win (i).”

2. Marshmallow, don’t swallow

This is one of the fun games to play with friends. The name speaks for itself, but here’s how it works. Each friend stuffs as many marshmallows into their mouth as they possibly can. No swallowing allowed. Whoever gets the most wins.

3. Hot pepper poppers

Yes, you got it—a bunch of hot peppers and friends with watering eyes and noses. See who can gobble the maximum number in the set time period. But if any of your friends is allergic, then don’t force them.

4. Bread Challenge

Ask your friends to eat two slices of white bread in under two minutes. They should not drink anything. The quickest to complete this challenge will be the winner.

5. A mouthful of cinnamon

Eating a spoonful of cinnamon is not fun, as your friends will discover if they sign up for this one. Although it works beautifully when added atop dishes, it is not quite something you want to eat by itself. So, don’t forget to tell them the rule: no drinking anything in between the cinnamon challenge!

6. Eat or wear

Get foods with a strong taste or smell, such as garlic, ginger, or wasabi. Make sure your friends can’t see them. The food items should be numbered; each friend picks a number and sees what they have. They can choose to eat it, but if they hate it, they have to wear it!

7. Ice-cream sand- which?

It can be delicious or dreadful, depending on what you pick out of the bag. For example, you can have a large bowl of ice cream, which goes over whatever you choose blind from the bag containing eatables such as cookies, waffles, crackers, lettuce, broccoli, fruit slices, chips, and bread.

8. Big meal challenge

Order a big meal from a restaurant. The participants have to eat this big meal alone. The one to finish it all the fastest wins. 

9. Stuff a pancake challenge

Whip up some huge pancakes and cover them with spicy sauce. Set a time limit. Whoever finishes them first is the winner.

10. Wasabi race

How much time would you need to down a teaspoon of spicy hot wasabii? Well, find out, along with friends, with a small challenge.

11. Sweet Vs. Spicy

Buy a sweet and spicy version of any snack. Do a draw to see who will eat the sweet version and who will get the spicy one. When the challenge ends, you will see some hilarious faces.

12. Ketchup challenge

Challenge the players to gulp down a bottle of ketchup. The one who finishes drinking first is the winner.

13. Invent a new recipe

In this challenge, you and your friends will have to create a dish with the available ingredients. The one who can make a palatable dish in the shortest time will be the winner.

14. Sweet or spicy

It is another blindfolded challenge involving taste buds, but the person has to guess whether the item being held out is sweet or spicy without touching or tasting it. They can sniff at it, though, and guess from the smell.

15. Banana and sprite

This is an intense yet fun challenge. Ask your friends to eat two bananas and then immediately down a can of Sprite. The one who completes the task without vomiting is the winner.

16. Guess the oreo

Get different flavors of Oreos and blindfold your friend and ask them to guess the flavor. The one who guesses the flavor correctly will be the winner.

17. Ginger challenge

Record yourself taking a spoon full of ground ginger and gulp it without any water. You can also use ginger root for this challenge.

18. Raw onion binge eating

It is a foodie challenge, and not for the faint-hearted. So eat as many raw onions as you can and win the title.

19. Cook a meal with the same recipe

All contestants will have to cook a meal using the same recipe. The one who makes the most delicious meal wins.

20. Sour lemon race

All you have to do is eat sour lemon slices and not make a face while eating it. How long can you last against your friends?

21. Pizza slicing

Order your favorite pizzas. Line up your friends blindfolded and hand them knives to cut the pizzas into equal slices. The one who slices the best wins.

22. Salad, anyone?

A master chef-worthy challenge, it is suitable for testing how culinary adept your buddies are. Pile up a bunch of salad-worthy items. Kale, cucumber, tomatoes, or cheese—take your pick. Your friends have to chop them all super fast and create a salad in the shortest time.

23. Lick the toothpaste

Put a generous amount of toothpaste on your friends’ brushes and ask them to lick it. The one who licks all the toothpaste first is the winner.

24. Cheez-its challenge

Pick a hot and spicy flavor of Cheeze-its. The person who finishes their bag first is the winner.

25. Guess the Pizza Challenge

Ask the contestants to taste a variety of pizzas and guess what type it is. The person with the most right guesses is the winner.

26. Cereal challenge

Choose a cereal and see which one of your friends can finish a whole bowl in five minutes without adding water. Give a special gift to the winner.

27. Habanero pepper challenge

Challenge your friends to eat as many Habanero peppers as they can within a minute. They shouldn’t be allowed to take water in between.

28. Powdered donut Challenge

Ask your friends to eat five donuts in under a minute. Whoever does it first wins the challenge. It can be quite harder than it sounds.

29. Pringle tasting

Pringles come in such a variety of flavors that every friend of yours may have a unique favorite. Find out how well they know their favs by getting in five different ones, pouring them out in bowls, and then getting your buddies to guess the flavors.

30. Marmite challenge

It’s a funny challenge that requires you to gulp spoonfuls of marmite. Share your video with your buddies and ask them to take up this challenge.

31. Warhead challenge

Warheads are candies that are very sour for the first couple of seconds. So ask your friends to eat as many candies as possible in a single try. The winner is the person who can gobble the most Warheads.

Quick tip

To make these games more exciting, announce rewards or prizes for the winners. It will encourage your friends to play it again, strengthening your bond.

32. Recipe book

List out three ingredients, and have your friends name the dishes that have all three. It is a good challenge for cooking aficionadosi.

33. Capri Sun challenge

Each contestant will have to drink 15 Capri Suns in 15 minutes. This drink can be swapped for any other drink of choice.

34. Food color

One friend calls out a color, and the others name all the foods that are of the same color.

35. Baby Food Challenge

Try out varied kinds of baby foods without spitting them out. You cannot drink water while eating baby food.

36. The best French fries

Get French fries from five different places. Take them all out of the packaging and put them in plain bowls separately. Your friends have to guess where each one came from.

37. Bubblegum challenge

Challenge your friends to chew as many sticks of bubblegum as they can at a single go. Some can even fit a whole box. The results will be amazing.

38. Gallon milk

All you have to do is down one gallon of milk in one hour. Easy? Well, maybe not. Experts say you can’t do the gallon milk challenge without throwing up. Why not find out?

39. Food can challenge

Remove labels from the food cans. Number the back part of the labels and put corresponding numbers on the cans. Put numbers on little pieces of paper and keep them in a bag. The participant will draw out a number from the basket and eat a spoonful of it from the corresponding food can. If they can swallow the food, they can get a point and another point if they can guess that food item correctly.

40. Exploding watermelon

Challenge your friends to explode watermelons using rubber bands. The one who completes this task first will be the winner.

41. Identify the veggies

Place different vegetables on the table and lead a blindfolded friend to them. They can touch and feel but not smell or bite into them. They have to guess what it is.

42. Lick it up

Put the smoothie in a saucer and lick it up while your hands are tied behind. The one who finishes it off first wins.

43. Recipe book challenge

List three ingredients and ask your friends to write as many dishes that can be prepared using those three ingredients. It’s a fun game for those with a flair for cooking.

44. Fruit roll-up challenge

Uncoil a fruit roll-up and try to eat as quickly as possible without using your hands. The hands must be clasped behind your back or down at your sides and the person who completes the task first is the winner.

45. Oreo stacks

A delicious challenge indeed! Stack up the Oreos and fit them in your mouth. The one with the biggest stack wins the title.

DIY & Art Challenges

Great for creative minds, these challenges include painting, crafting, or making cool things. They test imagination and artistic skills.

46. Painting party

Organize a painting party if you have sufficient supplies like brushes, paint colors, and canvas. See which one of your artistic friends can create a masterpiece.

47. Newspaper clothes challenge

It’s an amusing challenge wherein you make clothes from newspapers for your friends. Your friends will have to wear them and walk like models.

48. Photoshoot challenge

Use any camera and have a photoshoot. You can make any background using items and props in your house. See who comes up with the best photos.

49. Greeting cards challenge

Sit together with your friends and craft an enviable greeting card for your loved ones. You can collectively vote and decide the winner.

50. Paper mache sculptures

Have a layout for a sculpture or go without it. Let all your friends design some amazing paper mache sculptures and have fun in the process.

51. Blind artist

Blindfold your friend and get them to make a drawing. No need to do a Van Gogh, a simple cat or bird will do. Then see how much the final output resembles the brief.

52. Origami creations

Ask your friends to create animals, flowers, or shapes using origami paper. Set a time limit. The one who makes the best creations in time wins.

53. Paper plane challenge

What about a paper plane contest? Create paper airplanes with your friends and see whose plane gets to the farthest.

54. Brushing it off

You have all painted with watercolors. But have you done it with the brush in your foot instead of your hand? It is a good time to try. See which one of your friends can color within a given shape in the best possible way.

55. Impromptu fashion show

Get a friend to pick out random items of clothing from your wardrobe blindfolded. You have to wear those and do a ramp walk in a fashionista style. It is one of those challenges with friends that can give you plenty of photos.

56. One day designer

Ask friends to pick out three items blindfolded and then combine them in the most fashionable way they can. The most appealing ensemble wins.

57. Build a Fort Challenge

Get ready with your blankets and pillows and start building forts using them. The one who creates the best fort wins.

58. Makeover in the dark

Ask your friends to give a makeover to each other in pitch darkness. The person who gives the best makeover will be the winner.

59. Three minute makeup challenge

Do the whole makeup in three minutes. See who can do the best makeup within this short duration.

60. Don’t Rush Challenge

Showcase your fashion sense and aesthetics by carefully grooming yourself up. You and your friends can then create a video of their transformation.

61. Mirror less makeup

It is a variation on the blindfolded makeup test. Here, you do your own makeup, but without the aid of a mirror.

62. Duct tape fashion show

The challenge is to design an outfit using only duct tape. You may also conduct a fashion show after the contest.

63. Manicure challenge

Compete with your girlfriends and see who polishes the most number of nails correctly. To make it difficult, ask everyone to apply nail polish with their mouths.

64. Upside-Down Art Challenge

This challenge involves creating a drawing or painting with both the canvas and reference image turned upside down. This exercise encourages you to see shapes and lines in a new way, often leading to unique and interesting artwork.

Physical & Outdoor Challenges

Physical and outdoor challenges are great for people who love to move and play outside. These are active challenges like running, jumping, or obstacle courses. 

65. Tug of War Challenge

It’s a classic game and challenge where two teams pull a rope towards themselves. You cannot wear studded shoes or boots in this challenge. The team which pulls the opposing team toward themselves will win it.

66. Jump rope challenge

This challenge is not only entertaining but also helps you stay fit. Start skipping and see who can perform it the longest.

The one who gets back earliest to the screen gets the point.

67. Brain freeze challenge

The challenger has to stay in the cold water. Ask them questions and you can come out only when they answer a question correctly.

68. Hoverboard challenge

Take on your mates at the hoverboard challenge. See how long they can stay up. You will see some cool hoverboard tricks in this challenge.

69. Skateboarding Challenge

Ride the skateboard on your belly and try making it across the room. The one who finishes first is the winner.

70. Drinking and Push up challenge

Each shot that you drink should be accompanied by two push-ups. It’s easier said than done.

Point to consider

These fun challenges will help you relax, unwind, and feel better, especially if you lead a hectic life as a college student or a working professional. So consider it as a form of self-care.

71. Layer up

Wear as many layers of clothing as you can. The one who gets the maximum number wins the challenge. Make sure to click pictures.

72. Treasure hunt

It is a variation of the escape room with some treats hidden. Write down clues and send your friends on a merry hunt.

73. Ball in the air

The goal of this challenge is to keep the ball high up in the air for the longest time. To make the challenge difficult, blindfold the participants.

74. Aim crossbar challenge

This soccer challenge was popularized by the Brazilian legend Ronaldinho. You have to shoot and aim to hit the ball against the crossbar. Set a time limit or a score limit. The player with the highest number of successful tries wins this challenge.

75. Lemon/Egg spoon race

A large backyard or driveway is the ideal spot for a race that you probably remember from your school days. The lemon or egg goes on the spoon. The spoon goes in your mouth, the wrong side between your teeth. You have to get to the finish line first without dropping your precious cargo.

76. Sack running

Get the contestants to pull a sack up until their waste and begin the race. The one who reaches the finishing point first will be the winner.

77. Human Knot Challenge

Form a tight circle with your friends. Hold each other’s hands and try untangling yourself. See who can untangle themselves first.

78. Human pyramid challenge

Get on top of each other in creative ways to make a pyramid. See how high your pyramid can get. However, take all precautions to avoid mishaps.

79. Blindfolded keepie uppie

Blindfold your friend and ask them to do keepie -ups with a soccer ball. The one with the highest number wins.

80. Mini dodge ball

Your backyard is a good place for this challenge. All of you have to hit each other with the ball. If you score a hit, the other leaves the game.

81. Water gun fight

Have an epic battle with water guns. You may hold the fight outdoors or in your backyard. It’s a great challenge which guarantees a lot of fun memories.

82. Biggest bubble challenge

Bubblegum, a group of friends, and plenty of lung power—that’s all you need in this game to see who blows the biggest bubble.

83. The $10 challenge

Head out with your friends to stores like Target or Walmart with $10. The task is to buy something for the night. Winner is the one who gets the best of items.

84. Ball throw

Make two teams. Each team throws a ball, passing it from one to another without letting it fall. The team that lets the ball fall loses.

85. Level up challenge

This challenge can also serve as a fun workout session. Make tall stacks and try jumping over them. Keep increasing the height of this stack. The person who can jump without breaking the stack wins the challenge. However, make sure to take all precautions.

86. Hiking adventure

Select a suitable hiking point or a trail. Now, set out with your friends and go on a hiking trip. See who can hike the longest without feeling tired.

87. Color water balloons

It is a fun-filled outdoor challenge. Fill up balloons with colored water. Each friend gets a specific color. You have to color every one by throwing the balloon at each other. The one whose color gets on most of the players wins the game.

Dexterity & Coordination Challenges

These challenges test balance and hand control, like stacking cups. They require focus and a steady hand.

88. Dice pick up

Hand your friend an empty glass, place three or four dice on a table. Your friend has to swipe the glass over the tabletop, scoop up the dice within it. Once they have all the dice collected safely inside, they have to turn the glass right side up. The challenge is that they can only pick up the dice with the glass. No hands allowed there.

89. Shoelaces

It can be quite funny when you realize that you can’t tie your shoelaces in a matter of seconds, as you thought. Ask your friends to get the lowest time and don’t be surprised if no one gets under the 7 second mark.

90. Dice balance

All you gotta do is balance three dice on a butter knife held in your mouth. You can make this a race too, similar to the lemon and spoon race.

91. Cotton Ball Challenge

Keep two trays and several cotton balls. Blindfold each person and see how many cotton balls they can transfer from one to another plate.

92. Chopsticks challenge

All you need is a bean and deep bowl and, preferably, friends who have never used chopsticks in their life. Ask them to pick up the bean using the chopsticks. If your friends are pretty familiar with chopsticks, you can still play the game by greasing the bowl with butter.

93. Popsicle stick and Cup tower

Challenge each person or team to build the highest tower using popsicle sticks or plastic cups. This challenge will be thrilling from start to end.

Point to consider

These fun challenges will let you enjoy the day without having to spend loads of money on entertainment.

94. Hula hoop contest

Gather your friends and have some Hula Hoop rings handy. Now start Hula Hooping and see who can do it the longest.

95. No instructions challenge

Choose an exciting activity. It can be baking a cake or sewing a dress. Get all the supplies for this task, set a timer, and see who completes the task well. The catch is not to check the internet for any hints.

96. Cheese cracker house challenge

Give a layout of a house and ask your friends to build it using cheese crackers. See who can create the most stunning house.

97. Hairstyle challenge

Blindfold each participant and ask them to create a hairstyle on someone. Provide them the necessary items like clips and combs. The one who makes the best hairstyle wins.

98. Rice race

Transfer uncooked rice grains from one bowl to another using chopsticks. The one with the most grains at the end is the winner.

99. Race on a single leg

It’s a fun-filled fitness challenge one can enjoy. Simply hop with one leg and try reaching the finishing line.

100. Build a house with blocks

Arrange some building blocks and set a timer. Start building your houses and the player with the best structure wins.

101. Stack up

Plastic cups and plastic plates are all you need. Get your friends to make the tallest tower possible by stacking a cup and a plate.

102. House of cards

Everyone gets a deck of cards, each to make their own fabulous house of cards. The one who can manage to get theirs up and standing for 10 seconds is the winner.

Memory & Guessing Challenges

Memory and guessing challenges test how well you remember things or guess correctly. They include matching games, memory tests, or blindfolded guessing.

103. Foreign language challenge

Take the help of Google Translate and play a phrase in any language. Your friends need to guess the language that is played.

104. Well tuned

Play a 10-second snippet of a song by picking the lines from the middle. Your friends have to guess which one it is.

105. Photo memory game

Create a collection of pictures with your friends. The first one to recall where and when you took each picture wins.

106. Book memory challenge

It is a good challenge for book lovers. One person describes a scene from a book you all have read. Others have to guess which book it is from.

107. Linguists

Play a dialogue in a language your friends are unfamiliar with and ask them to guess what is being said. The one who gets closest to the right translation wins the challenge.

108. What’s in the box

Grab a few items and keep them in a box. Ask your friends to put their hands inside the box and guess the item by just touching it.

109. Read the lips

Guess what a person is saying by observing lip movements. The challenge becomes more fun when others misguide you.

110. I’ll never forget you

Tell a story that your friends have never heard before. They will try to find out who you are talking about in that story. The one with the best story wins.

111. Photo fun

Make a collection of childhood pictures from all your friends. Show them one by one, and the rest of the gang has to guess who it is.

112. Book worms

Read out the title of different books, and your friends have to guess the number of pages in each. The one who gets the closest guess wins.

113. Blind guess

Six bowls, some with edibles and some not. Your friends have to guess them without looking or touching them.

114. Guess the finger

Blindfold a person and then touch them with any finger. They need to guess the finger with which they were touched.

115. Yoga challenge

Challenge your friends to attempt a series of yoga poses. The person who can do every pose accurately wins.

116. Blindfolded touch challenge

One of your friends is blindfolded. Each of you takes turns touching the other’s palm as a test. The blindfolded one has to guess correctly who the other person is.

117. Guess the characters

Give the names of characters from movies, books, or TV shows. Make sure they aren’t the most famous ones. The friends have to guess the name of the show, movie, or book.

118. Superhero themes

It is a simple game that can be played using the themes used in superhero movies. Play the theme, and your friends have to guess which superhero or villain makes a grand entry.

119. Describe it

One person describes something in the room. The others have to guess what it is. Make sure to tell the most unusual things.

120. Blind guess

Hold out an object to a blindfolded friend and let them guess what it is. Get some cold things, slimy items, squishy ones, and wet things to make it more fun.

121. Memory mix up

The challenge can get embarrassing if you lack a good memory. Ask your gang of friends to write down the birthdays of everyone else. The one who gets the least number right has to go for an ice bucket challenge.

122. Memory game

Organize a table with different items and let your friends see them for just 10 seconds. Then cover the table and ask each person to list out the items. The one who remembers the most items wins the challenge.

123. Recall the word challenge

This task needs at least two people and four papers. One player will list 25 four-letter words. Then the other person will have 5 minutes to read through this list. After that, they will have to write down every word they remember.

124. Memory test

Lay out 20 different regular household items on a table. Your friends have 10 seconds to memorize everything before you cover it all with a sheet. They have to list out the items in there without peeking.

125. Memory test 2

A variation is to call out ten different names of people, fruits, countries and then ask friends to list out as many as they can recall.

126. Guess what I said

Give noise-canceling headphones to your friend, and whisper phrases. They have to guess correctly by reading the lips. Those who guess the most right answers win this whisper challenge.

Competitive & Strategy Challenges

These involve games where thinking and planning are key. They include board games, escape rooms, or team strategy games.

127. Tough typing

Decide on one phrase, say, ‘Good morning to you all.’ Now everyone types this text on their phone but with their non-dominant hand. The first one to get it right with no typos wins.

128. Minute to win it

Get your friends to attempt different one-minute challenges from TV shows. The person who nails most challenges will be declared as the winner.

129. Board game challenge

This one is for those who don’t want to try many new antics. Just play a classic board game with your besties and see who wins.

130. Spill proof

Fill up glasses with water up to the brim. Your friends take turns dropping coins into it. The one who makes the water spill over loses, and the coins inside go to the one who went right before them.

131. Up in the air

Get balloons of different colors, blow them up, and ensure they don’t touch the floor. Well, you can’t use your hands, though. All you can do is blow air at them when they start to get close to the ground. The one whose balloon stays up in the air for long wins.

132. Cereal box jigsaw

Cut one side of a cereal box into shapes and mix them all up. Get your friends to put it all back together as quickly as they can.

133. Staring Test

This challenge can be done in groups or with a single opponent. You just need to lock your eyes with your opponents and see who blinks the first and who can go on without blinking the longest.

134. Rock papers scissors

Play the ultimate game of rock papers scissors with your friends. Challenge your friends and see who beats everyone.

135. Q-tip dart Challenge

Draw targets on a plain shirt. Now dip your Q-tips in food coloring. One player will wear the shirt while the other will put a Q-tip in the straw one at a time and blow it out onto their target. The one who has the highest points in the end will be the winner.

136. Darts

You need a dartboard for this one; it’s a good investment if you regularly have friends over. Extremely challenging yet simple, the game will hone your aim and also improve concentration. You can amp up the game by making it a card throw challenge too.

137. Balloon animal challenge

It’s a fun challenge wherein you make balloon animals with your friends. Once they are made, try competing with these animals.

138. Color me___

One person calls out a color, and the others have to rush through the room and bring back as many things of that color as they can find.

139. Sweep whatever you have

Make a list of random household items. Now let everyone start finding these items in the house. The first one who secures the items and comes back is the winner.

140. Puzzle race

Keep various jigsaw puzzles and set a timer. Try completing the puzzles in time. You can make teams or play individually.

141. Paper Titanic

You have a paper boat in a tub of water, and your friends have to carefully place M&Ms inside the boat in turns without making it capsize or sink. The one whose M&M drowns the boat loses.

142. Bottle swordfight

Fight your friends using plastic bottles or other safe bottles. The person who drops their bottle first will be eliminated.

143. Candy pick up

Pick up candies and drop them in a bowl. The one who gets the most wins. Sounds easy? Well, you can only use a straw to pick them up.

144. Knotty problems

Knotted ropes and strong teeth are what you need. Your friends have to undo the knots with their teeth. Remember, no hands are allowed.

145. Escape room

You can make one in your home. Hide the key of the room and set up clues across the place. Make two or three teams, then each team tries to find the key in the least possible time.

Fun Challenges

These are silly and entertaining challenges made just for laughs. They can include joke battles, funny dares, or goofy tasks.

146. Ice bucket challenge

Let’s start with the classic that helped raise funds for Lou Gehring’s diseasei. The challenge involves getting your friends to have a bucket of ice cubes and ice water emptied over their heads while you film their reactions. It’s fun to do in summer, but make sure you have a nice big driveway or backyard where you can make the mess.

147. Dizzy task

Write simple tasks on a spin wheel. Ask your friend to spin around as fast as you can until you get dizzy. Now you spin the wheel and do the task even as your head is spinning. The dizzy challenge makes for some hilarious videos.

148. Try Not to laugh challenge

Get together with your friends and play the most funny YouTube videos. If a person laughs, they get a point against them. The person with the least points wins.

149. Squeaky speech

Play a dialogue in fast forward and ask your friend to repeat. The same can be done with super slow dialogues too.

150. Sing with a mouth filled with water

In this challenge, each player will have to sing their favorite song with water in their mouth. The one who can hold the longest wins.

151. Try not to sing

Make a Spotify playlist and ask everyone to add their favorite songs. Now listen to these song snippets and the one who never hums or sings is the winner.

152. Real or fake language?

Speak a few words in a different or made-up language and have your friends guess if it exists or you are faking them out.

153. Name changers

Assign yourself each other’s names and carry on a conversation. For example, you are now ‘Harry’, your friend Harry is now ‘Samantha,’ and so on. The first one to call you by your name loses.

154. Twister

It is another classic and fun-filled challenge. You can make your own twister ‘mat’ by coloring squares on your driveway with chalk and calling out the colors that each of your friends is supposed to put a limb on.

155. Pin the donkey’s tail

It is a simple game that is a time-tested classic. Each friend is blindfolded and has to pin the tail to the donkey’s picture in the right place.

156. Post a funny photo challenge

This challenge is not for the faint-hearted. Ask your friends to take funny pictures of themselves and post them online. The one with the highest number of reactions is the winner.

157. Clingfilm challenge

It’s a funny challenge wherein you trap a person on a chair using sellotape. The person who frees themselves first will be the winner.

158. Straight face

Play funny YouTube videos, crack jokes, or watch a hilarious show. But you can’t laugh or even smile. The first one to laugh loses.

159. Spin dizzy challenge

Blindfold a friend and make them spin until they become dizzy. Ask them to catch another person who will be the next one to get blindfolded.

160. Innuendo bingo challenge

Ask your friends to keep water in their mouths and listen to various innuendos or suggestive statements. The one who can keep their best poker face while holding water in their mouth wins.

161. Truth or dare

It’s a classic game wherein you ask questions or ask players to perform a dare. Make it more interesting by including hilarious dares.

Virtual & Social Media Challenges

Virtual and social media challenges happen online, like making videos, joining trends, or fun social media tasks. They are great for sharing and connecting with friends.

162. Recreate the image

Find an old picture of you and your friends and recreate it.. Post those images on Instagram later. The one with the most likes will win the challenge.

163. Skribbl

Easy, virtual, and fun, this game is great for when you can’t have friends over. Guess what the other is drawing as the clock ticks down.

164. Spot the item

You can overcome the obstacles of being stuck at home by playing a virtual challenge with your friends. It involves making a list of the most common household items we have at home. One person reads out each item, the others have to go grab it from wherever it is in their homes.

165. Music cover challenge

Choose any famous song and create its cover. Post that cover online and vote for the winner.

Trivia & Word Games

These challenges involve answering questions, solving riddles, or playing with words.

166. Alphabetic themes challenge

Choose a theme, say sports, and then each of your friends has to come up with a sport, going in alphabetic order. For example, aerobics, baseball, and it goes on. Go through the gang in circles until all the alphabets are done.

167. Lip sync

Let one friend start with a famous song or dialogue. Then, another has to lip-sync to perfection without facing each other. Ensure the song or dialogue is chosen out of a hat and is not known to the person lip-syncing.

168. Going Instrumental

Play the instrumental version of a song and have everyone guess which one it is. Make sure the song is not too famous.

169. What’s that BGM?

A variation of the instrumental game, needs you to find famous background music from movies or songs. Your friends have to guess where it is from.

170. Your last photo challenge

Choose some fun categories and don’t reveal them to your friends before the challenge starts. Ask them questions related to those categories. Some fun questions to ask friends include, “show us a photo of your furbaby,” or “show us your worst selfie.”

171. Accent challenge

In this challenge you and your friends take turns and imitate different accents. It can have a Jamaican, British, or Indian accent.

172. Acting chops

Act out a scene from a TV show and have your friends guess it.

173. Acting chops 2

Act out a scene with dialogues and accents, and your friends have to guess which actor or actress you are mimicking. It can be made into an accent challenge if you can mimic stars well.

174. Reality show fight

This one will have you and your friends dusting their acting skills. Pick a major reality show battle and create a script using it as inspiration. Now act it all out together.

175. Messy makeup

The challenge is suitable for a ladies’ night out, especially if you want to add some excitement by incorporating hurdles and difficulties. Blindfold the person who has to do the makeup and put out an assortment of cosmetics for them to use on another. Find out how good your friends are at wielding makeup products when they can’t see.

176. Backwards song

Play a famous song backward and see how many people guess it right.

177. Backwards song 2

In this version, write song names on pieces of paper. Your friends have to pick one each and have to sing the song lyrics backward.

178. Ping pong score

An empty tin can, ping pong balls, and a table are all you need. Get your friends to line up and try to score a hoop by throwing the ball right into the tin.

179. Mixed personalities

It can be a suitable challenge for those who love acting. Choose a famous movie or TV show scene. Now enact the opposite of what the character did. For example, if it is a tragic break-up scene, then do it by laughing uproariously, or a do funny clown dance.

180. Chilled feet

A little like the ice bucket challenge, involves putting your feet in a tub of ice and keeping them there for as long as you can. The one who keeps them in longest wins.

181. Ice cube tin

The challenge involves some great detective skills. Place a cube of ice underneath one tin or metal cup along with a couple of empty ones, all upside down. The other friend has to guess which one has the ice within 10 seconds without touching the cups or tins.

182. Impression challenge

Write the names of famous figures on a post-it and throw them in a hat. Every player will prepare an impression of the figure they have chosen. The one who impresses the best and gets others to guess the celebrity will be the winner.

183. Smell test challenge

Line up various things on a table and get your blindfolded friends to identify them by sniffing. No touching. And yes, smelly socks are allowed.

184. Mannequin challenge

In this challenge, each contestant will freeze like mannequins. You can take a tour of the room with them and make a video. The person who completes the task without moving will be the winner.

185. Mimics

Each friend mimics one of the others in the gang. It could be impressions, specific accents, special mannerisms, or anything. The others have to guess who it is.

186. Riff off challenge

Select a category and sign a song that falls under this category. One person will start a song and the other player has to sing a song with the same word as the previous one. If they fail, the first person or team will win the challenge.

187. 100 layers

Apply 100 layers of something you have in the house, such as nail polish, lipstick, shirts, etc. See who can apply the layers the fastest. You will have so much fun in the process.

188. Hit the polls

Create a questionnaire for your friends using Google Forms. It can be ‘Most likely’ or any other superlative form of questionnaire. Now ask your friends to fill it and watch the results.

189. Texting Lyrics challenge

Choose a song and send one of its lines to your friend. Try going the furthest in the song during the conversation. Whoever does it wins the challenge.

190. Nonstop prattle

Write down ten topics on pieces of paper and drop them into a jar. Each friend picks one and then has to talk for one minute on that topic. Pick out exotic topics like ‘hoopoe birdsi,’ ‘political situation in Lithuania’ so you don’t make this easy at all. The first friend to fumble for words loses.

191. Hand puppet

Ask a player to put their hands behind their back and get their partner to go behind them and loop their arms in front. This is a dome to gesture what the first player has to say. The team which synchronizes well wins the challenge.

192. Counting kings and queens

Empty a bunch of M&Ms in a bowl. All of you take turns guessing how many there are. The one closest to the right count gets them all.

193. Spray battle

You have balloons floating up in the air, each a different color for different people. The task is to get the balloon into a trash can at the other end of the room by only using the spray to direct it.

194. High five and selfie

Set a timer for five minutes. Every player will have to take selfies while giving high-fives. They may also get someone to record it. This challenge is best carried out in teams.

195. Acting challenge

Select an iconic scene and recreate the scene just the opposite. For example, if the scene is tragic, act something funny.

196. Backwards song challenge

Start playing a famous song backwards. See who recognises it first.

197. Which is a country?

Call out names of places and have your friends guess which of them are countries. This one will brush up your geography too.

198. Name them right

Choose a topic or field of work and have your friends name as many well-known people as they can from that field. The one to name the maximum within a minute wins.

199. Word chain

Start with a word. Your friend repeats your word and then their own word, and it goes on with each person repeating all the words given previously plus a new one. The first one to miss a word loses.

200. Alphabet number

The challenge is for the more serious crowd. Call out an alphabet, and your friends have to say which number it stands in the alphabet sequence. For example, B is two, Z is twenty-six.

201. Alphabet challenge

Choose a topic that starts with any letter, say A.Then pick a word starting with A that fits that topic. Keep doing it and see how far you can go.

Tips for Choosing the Right Challenges

Here are some tips to help you choose the right challenges for your group.

1. Match the challenge to the group: Choose activities that align with the age, interests, and skill levels of participants. This ensures that everyone can actively take part and enjoy the experience.
2. Consider group size: Some challenges are ideal for small teams, while others work best with larger groups. Make sure the activity keeps everyone engaged without long wait times.
3. Prioritize safety: Always consider the safety of participants by avoiding activities that pose risks of injury. If the challenge involves physical movement, ensure there is enough space and proper supervision.
4. Adapt to the setting: Indoor challenges should be suitable for limited space and avoid making a mess, while outdoor challenges can be more dynamic and physically engaging.
5. Ensure inclusivity: Choose activities that accommodate different abilities so that no one feels left out. Avoid challenges that might make certain participants uncomfortable or unable to join.
6. Incorporate rewards: Adding small rewards can boost motivation and participation.

Infographic: Fun Challenges For Friends

Have a gala time by challenging your friends to do exciting activities with you. But what activities, you ask? The following infographic will answer that question for you. You will find a list of fun challenges you can do with them and make new memories for life.

Illustration: Momjunction Design Team

Illustration: Challenges For Friends To Have Fun

Image: Dall·E/MomJunction Design Team

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