150+ Fun Baby Shower Games Your Guests Will Actually Enjoy (Coed, Virtual, Last-Minute & More)

How to play

As each guest walks in, hand them a clothespin yourself rather than pointing at the basket. Clip it to their collar, sleeve, or a shoulder strap. Say the rule out loud — "don't say baby, if you do, somebody takes your pin" — because half your guests skip the sign. The rule kicks in the second the pin is on. Late arrivals join when they show up.

From that point, the game runs itself in the background of the party. Every guest is half-listening for a slip from every other guest. When somebody catches a "baby," they walk over, pop the pin off the offender's shirt, and clip it to their own. A guest with zero pins can still steal — they just need to listen sharper than the room. The dad-to-be plays. Cousins play. Even the quiet uncle in the corner plays once the first steal happens.

Call the end of the game at one clear moment — cake-cutting is the usual stop. Everyone counts their pins, and whoever has the most wins. If two people tie, ask a single tiebreaker question about the mom-to-be (something like "what year did she and the dad-to-be start dating?") and the closer guess takes it. Hand over the prize on the spot so nobody has to chase you down later.

How to play

Hand out the sheets and pens during the seated portion of the party — right after food, before gifts. Give the room ten quiet minutes to fill in their guesses. Tell guests to guess every question even if they have no clue — blanks always lose, and the wrong answers are usually funnier than the right ones.

After ten minutes, collect every sheet and read each question out loud, one at a time. After each one, the mom-to-be says her real answer and tells the short story behind it if she wants to. Guests circle every correct guess on their own sheet. The stories are the actual payoff here — guests walk away learning things about the mom-to-be they never knew.

When all ten questions are read, ask everyone to add up their circled answers. Highest score wins. If two people tie, use your tiebreaker. Hand the prize to the winner right there, in front of everyone. Save the stack of filled-out sheets and give them to the mom-to-be afterward — they're a sweet keepsake page for her shower scrapbook.

How to play

Hand out the sheets and pens during the seated portion of the party, right after food. Give the room ten quiet minutes to walk up, pick up items if they want a closer look, and write a price guess for each one. The mom-to-be plays too — most parents-to-be have no idea what baby gear actually costs until the registry hits.

After ten minutes, collect every sheet. Read each product's real price out loud, one at a time. For each item, the closest guess that didn't go over scores one point. If every guess on a product went over, no point is awarded for that product — "closest without going over" is strict on purpose, otherwise people just write a million dollars on every line.

Once all 8 prices are read, ask everyone to add up their points. Highest total wins. If two people tie, use the cart-total tiebreaker from the bottom of the sheet — closer cart-total without going over takes it. Hand the prize to the winner right there, then carry the whole lineup of baby products over to the mom-to-be — she takes everything home.

How to play

Pick 4 to 6 players from the crowd — coed mix usually plays best, but a dad-only round is its own kind of perfect. Line them up at the front of the room, each holding their bottle. Read the rules out loud so nobody disputes the win: "You drink through the nipple only. No unscrewing the cap. No removing the nipple. No squeezing the bottle to force-flow. The only suction comes from your mouth. First to drain wins."

Set the 2-minute timer and say "go." Players start drinking. Within 15 seconds the crowd starts laughing — grown adults sucking on baby bottles is funnier than it sounds before you see it. The host's job is just to watch the timer, encourage photos from the audience, and call the winner the second a bottle drains. If two players finish within a second of each other, call a tie and split the prize.

If nobody finishes in 2 minutes, call time anyway. Whoever has the least liquid remaining at the buzzer wins — eyeball the bottles or compare them side by side. Hand the prize to the winner with one of the towels (they'll need it). Take a group photo of all the players holding their bottles mid-pose — that's the photo that ends up in everyone's camera roll.

How to play

Pick two teams of 2–3 players each. A coin flip decides which team throws first. Players take turns trying to land a ping-pong ball into a cup on the opposite side of the table. Standard beer-pong rules: bounce shots are usually disallowed, no leaning over the table line. The room will start trash-talking within the first two throws — that's the energy you want.

When a ball lands in a cup, the team that got hit has to do two things before they can take their drink. First, a teammate grabs a fresh diaper and folds it onto the baby doll correctly — the diaper has to actually stay on the doll if you hold it up. Then, only after the diaper passes the "it stays on" test, the player whose cup got hit drinks the 2 ounces inside. The empty cup gets pulled off the table for good.

Play continues with teams alternating throws until one team has cleared all of their opponent's cups. That team wins the round. If a game stalls (one team can't sink a single shot), set a 10-minute timer — whoever has fewer cups left when time runs out wins. Hand the prize to the winning team right there. Pile up all the folded diapers and present them to the mom-to-be — she just got 20 pre-folded diapers as a side bonus.

How to play

As each guest arrives, hand them their drink with one frozen-baby cube dropped in. Tell them the rule out loud, every time: "When your ice melts and the baby pops out, yell 'my water broke!' as loud as you can. First person to do that wins this prize over here." Point at the prize so they remember. Repeat the rule for every guest because guests will absolutely forget by the time their cube melts 25 minutes later.

The game now runs itself for the rest of the party — no host involvement needed. Some guests sip slowly to nurse their cube; others chug their drink and end up with a slowly-melting cube sitting on top of an empty glass. Both strategies work. The host's only job is to occasionally re-explain the rule when a guest looks confused at their now-loose plastic baby floating in their wine.

When the first guest's baby floats free and they shout "my water broke!" the room laughs, the host announces the winner, and the prize gets handed over right there. If two guests free their babies at nearly the same time, the louder one wins (be the judge). Most guests keep their plastic baby as a memento. After the shower, collect any uncalled-for babies and freeze a few extra in case someone wants a second drink — the game can keep running.

How to play

Gather everyone in the main room with their phone and checklist. Read the rule out loud — "You've got ten minutes to find a photo on your phone that matches each prompt. Check the box when you've got one. No staging new photos. No Googling. Only what's already in your camera roll." Start a ten-minute timer on your phone and call it. People dive in immediately. The room gets quieter than you'd expect — everyone's scrolling.

Walk around with the master sheet while guests play. People will ask questions: "Does my niece count as a baby?" "Is a screenshot of a baby OK?" "This is a dog in a stroller — does that work?" Be loose on the loose ones ("yes, your niece counts; a screenshot is a maybe; the dog gets half a point") and let the mom-to-be settle the bigger calls. Some guests will share their finds with their neighbor — encourage it. The cross-table "oh my god, look at this one of my mom in 1992" moments are why the game works.

When the timer hits zero, call time and have everyone count their checked boxes. Most checks wins. For a tiebreaker, look for the rarest checked prompt — whichever prompt fewest guests got, the tied guest who found that one takes it. Hand the prize over right then, and walk the room asking the winners (and a few losers) to show one favorite photo. That moment is the social currency of the game — guests are still talking about "that picture Linda found" two showers later.

How to play

Once everyone's seated with a sheet, a pen, and something hard to write on, walk through the rule out loud: "You've got ninety seconds. Write one baby-related word for each letter A through Z. Real words only. Loose definition of "baby-related" — anything you'd see in a nursery, a pediatrician's office, or attached to a newborn counts. One word per letter. Go." Don't take questions before the timer starts; just hit start and let people scramble. Half the questions answer themselves in the first ten seconds.

Walk the room while the timer runs. Don't help anyone write words, but you can confirm broad questions silently — a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to "is this OK?" gestures from your right. The energy in the room is the best part of this game: pens scratching, the occasional groan when someone hits Q, a quiet laugh when someone scribbles desperately at letter twenty-three. Keep the timer visible on a counter or hand it to the mom-to-be to call "thirty seconds!" and "ten seconds!" as the round closes.

When the timer hits zero, pens down. Have each guest count their filled rows out loud, going around the circle. Most letters filled wins. If two guests tie, the tiebreaker is the hard-letter showdown — whoever filled in a word for Q, X, or Z wins. If they're still tied, do a five-second lightning round on a single letter the host calls out. Hand the prize to the winner. Then, just for the laughs, ask each guest to read their Z word aloud — that's almost always the funniest moment of the entire shower.

How to play

Once guests are seated with answer sheets and pens, kick off the baby shower game with a quick rule: "Twenty slides, each one a celebrity holding their baby. Write your guess next to the number. Ten seconds per slide, no Googling, no calling out. Highest score at the end wins." Roll the first slide. The room goes silent for about three seconds, then somebody whispers a name to their neighbor and the whole party starts. Don't be a stickler about whispering — that's the fun. Just stop people from yelling answers out loud.

Click through the slides at a steady ten seconds each. Use your phone's stopwatch or just count in your head. Some slides will land in under five seconds (the room recognizes Beyoncé fast), others will sit for the full ten with guests squinting and second-guessing. The deep cuts are where you'll hear groans and laughs — "who is that?" from the front row, "that's Tori Spelling, come on!" from the back. The harder slides are the ones people talk about after the shower.

After slide 20, run a quick reveal round. Click back to slide 1, name the celebrity out loud, let guests mark their own sheet correct or wrong. Tally as you go. The high score wins. If two guests tie, ask who got the hardest slide right (whichever celebrity nobody else caught) and that breaks the tie. Hand over the prize right then. Save the slide deck to your Google Drive — it'll get reused at the next baby shower in your friend group.

How to play

Once guests are seated, bring the covered tray to the center of the room and explain the rule: "Eighteen baby items are under this cloth. I'll lift it for thirty seconds — look, don't touch, don't write. When the cover goes back on, you'll have three minutes to write down everything you remember. Most items wins." Lift the towel and start the timer. The room goes silent. Some guests lean in close; others squint and try to mentally categorize ("two feeding things, three hygiene, four clothes..."). The clever guests count items first, then memorize.

When the thirty seconds end, drop the towel back over the tray. Hand out blank sheets and pens. Start a three-minute timer. The recall happens in waves — guests confidently write the obvious items first (pacifier, bottle, diaper) and then get stuck around item 10. The forgotten ones are almost always the small or boring items: the baby comb, the burp cloth, the nail clippers. Don't help, don't give hints, and don't react if a guest scribbles a question mark next to a wrong guess.

After three minutes, pens down. Read your master list of items out loud, one at a time. Guests check off the ones they wrote and call out their own scores. Most items wins. For a tiebreaker, ask who remembered the most unusual item (the one fewest guests got — usually the nail clippers or the pacifier clip) and that breaks the tie. Donate the tray of items to the mom-to-be in a small gift bag afterward — every item is genuinely useful for a newborn and turns the baby shower game into a real gift.

How to play

As guests arrive, hand each one a Find the Guest bingo card and a pen at the door. Don't leave them to figure it out — say the rule out loud: "Walk the room and find a different person who matches each square. They sign that square. One person can sign your card only once. First full row, column, or diagonal yells BINGO and takes the prize." Three sentences and most baby shower guests get it. Re-announce the rule loudly once when about two-thirds of guests are seated, because late arrivals always miss the door speech.

From that moment, the room turns into a slow-motion icebreaker. Guests wander around with cards in hand, asking questions like "have you ever lived outside the country?" or "did you actually change a diaper today?" Half the conversations end up running way past the question — that's the real point of the game. The host's job is to float, make introductions where you see two people who'd never approach each other on their own (grandma + the dad-to-be's college roommate is a classic), and answer questions about the prompts.

Around the twenty-minute mark, somebody yells "BINGO!" Walk over and check their card — every signature should be a different name. If two squares share a signature, that row doesn't count and they keep playing. If the card checks out, announce it to the room, hand the prize over, and let the game keep running for a few more minutes. Anyone who completes a full card during that final stretch gets the backup prize. Then move on to the next part of the shower. Cards go in the gift bag for the mom-to-be — she'll get a kick out of reading who signed what later.

How to play

Once the mom-to-be settles into the gift-opening chair, hand each guest a card and a dauber. Read the rule out loud — "Each gift she opens that matches a square on your card, mark it off. Five in a row in any direction — horizontal, vertical, or diagonal — yells BINGO and wins a prize." The center square is FREE for everyone; that's already a starter mark. Some guests will immediately scan their card for which gifts they're hoping for. That's the whole game.

Run the gift-opening as normal. The mom-to-be holds up each gift and announces what it is — "a pack of newborn onesies from Aunt Linda!" Guests scan their cards, mark off any square that matches, and the room actually pays attention. The first BINGO usually hits around gift eight or nine, depending on how randomized your cards are. When someone yells "BINGO!" verify their row (a quick visual check is plenty) and hand them a prize on the spot. The mom-to-be keeps opening.

After the first BINGO, the room re-engages and the second BINGO is usually right behind it. Hand out the second prize. For the rest of the gift pile, keep going for full-card blackout — whoever marks every square first wins the third prize. That usually doesn't happen until gift twenty or so, and it keeps the longest-running guest in the game. When the mom-to-be opens the last gift, call any unmarked cards and wrap up. Total time tracks exactly with gift-opening, which is usually thirty to forty-five minutes.

How to play

Gather your players around the table and explain the rule out loud: "You've got sixty seconds to build the tallest tower of diapers you can. It has to stand on its own at the end — no hands holding it up. Stack them flat, on edge, however you want, as long as it's one tower." That's the whole baby shower game. Two sentences and people get it. Show them the pile they're working with so they can plan a beat before you start.

Hit the timer. Watch what happens — the first ten seconds are calm, then someone notices the edge-stacking trick and starts going vertical fast. Around the forty-second mark, somebody's tower wobbles and they freeze halfway through placing the next diaper. Around fifty seconds, at least one tower will collapse and the player has to start over, which is genuinely the funniest moment of the round. Don't help them. Just keep the timer going.

When the buzzer hits, call "hands off!" loud. Every player steps back from the table. Walk around with the tape measure and read each tower height — top of the highest standing diaper to the table surface. Towers that have fallen don't count. If two towers tie within a half-inch, ask a tiebreaker question about the mom-to-be (something like "how many siblings does she have?") and the closer guess wins. Hand the prize over right then. Sweep all the diapers into a bag for the mom-to-be — every one of them comes home with her.

How to play

Hand out the sheets and pens during the seated portion of the party — right after food or right before gifts is the sweet spot. Read the rules out loud: "You have four minutes. Unscramble as many words as you can. No phones, no helping your neighbor, no shouting answers. The tiebreaker is at the bottom — fill it in if you finish early." Start the timer and say "go."

While the room scribbles, the host quietly watches the timer and the room. If everyone looks done at 3 minutes, no need to drag it to four — call time early. If the room is still working hard at 4 minutes, give one more minute. The rule is "pens down" the second time is called — no extra writing under the table.

After time's up, read each scrambled word out loud, then the unscrambled answer from your master key. Guests circle every correct answer on their own sheet. Highest count wins. If two people tie, look at the tiebreaker row at the bottom — closer answer takes it. Hand the prize over right there. If nobody finished the tiebreaker, the tie just stays a tie — split the prize, or hand out two.

How to play

Get the room's attention and explain the rule out loud: "Sixty seconds, write every baby name you can think of. Real names only, any culture, any language, boys or girls. Most readable names wins." Three sentences, no slideshow needed. Pens up. Start the timer. The first ten seconds are easy — Emma, Liam, Noah, Olivia. Then around fifteen seconds the obvious names dry up and you can see guests' faces shift from confident to mildly panicked.

Don't help. Don't read a list of names out loud. Don't even hint. The whole baby shower game is the brain freeze that hits at the thirty-second mark — guests forget their own kid's name, their best friend's name, every name in their family. The teachers and the writers and the new parents in the room will be way ahead because they think about names professionally. Watch the clock and call out the time at thirty seconds and fifteen seconds, otherwise stay quiet.

When the timer dings, pens down. Have each guest count their own list, crossing off duplicates as they go (only unique, readable names count). The host walks around and writes each total on a small piece of paper. Highest count wins. For the tiebreaker, give the tied guests another thirty seconds for letter-specific names — "all your names must start with R, go." Read the funniest entries from a few lists out loud at the end — that's the part guests laugh hardest at. Hand over the prize and roll into the next part of the shower.

How to play

During the seated portion of the party — before or after gifts — point guests to the prediction-card table. Read the rules out loud: "Fill in your best guess on every line. Drop the finished card in the box. After the baby is born, the parents will pick the closest combined guess and mail the winner a prize." Give the room 10 minutes — most guests finish in 5.

While guests are writing, walk around with the box and answer questions. Common ones: "Is the due date the same as the birth date?" (No — guess the actual birth date, which is usually 1–10 days off the due date.) "What if my guess is way off?" (Submit it anyway — surprise guesses sometimes win.) Once everyone's submitted, take a clear photo of all the cards laid out flat. That photo gets sent to the parents that evening as a digital backup in case any physical cards get lost in the move home.

After the shower, hand the closed box of cards directly to the mom-to-be. Remind her how to score: closest birth date wins automatically; if two guests tied on date, closest weight breaks the tie; then closest length. About a week after the baby's born, the parents pull out the box, find the winner, and mail the prize. Most parents text the winner first so they don't think it's spam in the mailbox.

How to play

As each guest arrives, point them at the advice station. Tell them once: "Write a piece of advice for the new parents — any time during the party works." No pressure on length. Some guests will write one sentence, others a full paragraph, others will write three different cards. All fine. The advice station stays open the whole party — guests should be free to come back to it after they've had a glass of wine and an idea hits.

Around the middle of the party (after cake, before gifts is the sweet spot), give one gentle reminder out loud: "Hey everyone, don't forget the advice cards by the door — if you haven't written one yet, now's a good time." Some guests forget completely until they're nudged; others were waiting until they felt settled. The reminder usually gets 3–4 more cards into the box.

Before the shower ends — usually right after gifts — collect the cards into the box and tie it shut with the sage-green ribbon. Hand the closed box directly to the mom-to-be at the end of the party as part of the goodbye moment. Take a photo of the box first as a digital backup in case any cards get lost. The parents will read the first few that evening, save the rest for the first weeks home with the baby, and re-read them across the first year. Some couples even re-read them on the baby's first birthday.

How to play

As each guest arrives, point them at the book basket if they haven't already dropped theirs in. Guests who forgot to inscribe their book in advance can use the pens right there — most write a quick note in under two minutes. Don't push anyone; some guests prefer to take a book home, inscribe it carefully that night, and bring it to the parents later. Both are fine.

Mid-party — usually right after the cake and before gifts — the mom-to-be can pull a few books out of the basket and read the inscriptions aloud if she wants. Most do, and the messages range from sentimental ("This was my favorite when I was four — I hope you love it as much as I did") to funny ("Read this one when she's testing your patience"). The room laughs and tears up in equal measure. This is the moment that makes the game worth running.

After the shower, the basket of books goes home with the parents — that's the whole prize. Take a photo of the full basket before the parents leave so you have a digital record of the collection. The parents use the books from the first weeks of life, and the kid eventually reads the inscriptions back when they're old enough to recognize the handwriting. Books with inscriptions also tend to survive the toddler purge that destroys most baby gifts.

How to play

As guests arrive, point them at the wishes jar station. Tell them once: "Write a wish for the baby on a slip and drop it in. Any time during the party works." Some guests will scribble one quick line and move on; others will sit down and write a longer note. Both are perfect. Don't put pressure on length or content — "anything you want to say to the baby" beats "a meaningful wish for their future" because guests freeze on prescribed wording.

Mid-party, give one gentle reminder out loud: "Don't forget the wishes jar by the door if you haven't dropped a wish in yet." Some guests get busy chatting and need the nudge. Walk by the jar once or twice during the party to check it's filling up and that pens haven't disappeared into someone's bag. If a guest writes something inappropriate (it's rare but happens once in a while), the host quietly pulls the slip and replaces it with a blank — the parents don't need to see it.

Before the shower ends, screw the lid on the jar tight. Run a piece of masking tape across the underside of the lid (a small seal) so it doesn't get opened accidentally during cleanup or moves. Hand the jar to the parents with clear instructions: store it somewhere they'll actually see — a shelf in the nursery, the bookshelf in the living room — not the basement, where humidity ruins paper. The open date stays visible on the label. The jar waits.

How to play

Hand each guest a sheet and a highlighter. Walk through the rule once: "Twenty baby words are hidden in this grid — across, down, or diagonal. Words can be in any direction, including backwards. You've got four minutes. Most words circled wins." Don't read the word list aloud unless you want to — it's printed on the sheet, and reading it gives a slight memory advantage to whoever's still listening at the end. Start the timer the second the last sheet is handed out.

The room goes quiet fast. That's the whole point — it's a four-minute breather between louder games. Walk around and watch the energy. Some guests will hit twelve words in the first ninety seconds, then hit a wall. Others will scan slowly and find the diagonal ones last. Don't help; just enjoy the silence. If a guest finds all twenty before the timer ends, have them flip the sheet over and write the funniest baby word they know on the back — small bonus laugh for later.

When the timer hits zero, highlighters down. Count circled words. Most circled wins. For tiebreakers, look at the back of the sheet — whoever wrote the funniest baby word (mom-to-be picks) takes it. Or do a five-second lightning round: the host names one word and the first guest to point to it on their sheet wins. Hand over the prize, gather the sheets back if you want them for a memory book, and move into the next thing on the schedule.

How to play

Call guests up to the spin station one at a time. Blindfold the guest with the bandana, hand them a paper pacifier with their name written on it (so you can track who hit closest later), and gently spin them three times in place. Three is the right number — fewer feels skippable, more and people fall over. After spinning, a helper guides the guest by the elbow toward the wall. When they touch the wall, they stick their pacifier wherever they think the baby's mouth is. Remove the blindfold and let them see how close they came.

Repeat for every guest. The poster fills up with pacifiers in increasingly random places — the forehead, the ear, two feet to the left of the baby entirely, sometimes on a teammate's shirt. The misses are the whole entertainment. Photograph the poster at the halfway point — guests laugh harder at the cumulative chaos than any single attempt. Skip the spinning step for very pregnant guests, very elderly guests, or anyone with balance issues; just point them toward the wall and let them try.

Once every guest has had a turn, measure (eyeball it) which pacifier landed closest to the target circle. That guest wins. Hand the prize over right there. Take the final photo of the poster covered in pacifiers — it's the keepsake the family group chat will laugh at for weeks. The poster goes home with the mom-to-be as one of the wackier shower memories.

How to play

Once everyone's circled the lane, call the first bowler up to the painter's tape line. They get two rolls per turn. Underhand only — overhand rolls send the ball ricocheting off bottles into a wall or a guest's drink. After the first roll, count the bottles that went down and leave them lying there. Set up the rolled-down bottles for the second roll only after every bottle has been knocked over or after both rolls are used. Write the player's total bottles on a small scoreboard or just call it out and have the host remember.

Pass the ball to the next player and reset the bottles into the triangle. A kid is the best person for this job — they treat it like a real Saturday-morning bowling alley. Continue around the room until every player has had five turns, or just go until you've burned through twenty minutes and the kids are about to revolt. The vibe is loose; nobody's tracking strict ten-frame scoring like real bowling.

After everyone's gone five turns, add up the total bottles knocked down across the whole game. Highest total wins. If two adults tie, run a single-roll bowl-off between them — one ball each from the painter's tape line, most bottles down takes the prize. Hand the prize over in front of the room. The bottles all go in a bin and travel home with the mom-to-be, washed and ready for actual use.