The best family Christmas games let a seven-year-old and a seventy-year-old play together. Start with a game everyone plays from their own phone on the TV, then mix in a classic like charades or pass the present.
Who's most likely to open a present early? Grandparents to grandkids vote on their phones, and the TV names who the family picked.
Pick it if you want every generation laughing at once.
Twenty questions for the table, from the best present ever to the year somebody tried to catch Santa. The screen picks who answers.
Pick it if you want stories, not just points.
Hot cocoa or eggnog, Elf or Home Alone. Two taps a question, so even the littlest cousins can play.
Pick it if you have little kids in the room.
A game show board of Christmas trivia on the TV, with every phone as a buzzer, from our sister site LiveGameShow. There's an easy set for kids.
Pick it if your family likes to compete.
Christmas word bingo with a card on every phone, or printed cards for the kids' table, from our sister site LiveBingo.
Pick it if you need something for a big, mixed group.
Act out Santa, building a snowman or a Christmas movie title without words while your team guesses.
Pick it if your family likes to ham it up.
One person wears a pair of antlers while the others toss rings onto them. Closest ring wins.
Pick it if you have a headband and a few rings.
Hide clues around the house that lead to one last present. Tie each clue to a carol or a movie.
Pick it if you can set it up the night before.
Wrap a small gift in many layers. Pass it while music plays, and whoever holds it when the music stops unwraps a layer.
Pick it if you want a game the youngest can win.
Teams build gingerbread houses, then the family votes on the best one. Run the vote on phones so it's secret.
Pick it if you have an afternoon and a lot of frosting.
Lay festive cards face down and take turns finding pairs.
Pick it if you want a quiet game for small kids.
Toss cotton balls or white socks into a bucket from farther and farther away.
Pick it if you want something indoors and mess-free.
Open the game on a TV, a laptop or a projector. The screen shows a six-digit code and a QR code.
Everyone scans the QR or types the code at LivePartyGames.com. Nobody has to install an app or make an account.
Every phone answers in secret, then the big screen shows what the room picked.
Christmas this or that, memory match, snowball toss and pass the present.
Christmas trivia, charades and the scavenger hunt.
Christmas questions for the family and most likely to. They can play from the couch.
Games every age can play at once: Christmas most likely to or this or that on the TV, charades, pass the present and a scavenger hunt.
Yes. They scan a code, tap a name and watch the reveal on the TV. Nothing to install and no account.
Yes. Share the game screen on a video call and they play from their own phones.
Open it on the TV, share the code, and ask the first question in under a minute.