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MINUTE
TO
WIN IT
GAMES
& SUPPLY LIST
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Most of these Minute To Win It Games can be played with the following
common household supplies. Keep a small box of these items handy for
party games ready in a hurry!

plastic cups
pennies
toilet paper
cereal box
balloons
tissue box
ping pong balls
cotton balls
straw
popsicle stick
dice
timer
marshmallows
tabletop

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1. MUMMY WRAP
What You Need: toilet paper, extra person
How to Play: see who can wrap toilet paper around another person in
one minute. You must use the entire roll!
2. CEREAL BOX PUZZLE
What you need: empty cereal box, scissors
How to play: Cut up the front of a cereal box into a bunch of pieces like
a puzzle. Start your timer and see if the player can put it back together
in one minute.
3. COOKIE MONSTER
What you need: Oreos or small cookies
How to play: Set cookie on the contestant’s forehead. See if they can
wiggle the cookie into their mouth without using their hands!
4. BALLOON BATTLE
What you need: 2 balloons
How to play: Blow up two balloons. Next, with a hand behind the
contestan’ts back, see if they can keep two balloons floating in the air
the entire minute.
5. ELEPHANT NOSE
What you need: panythose, pair of socsk, 6 cups
How to play: Place 6 cups around in a circle. Place a pair of socks in the
bottom of the pantyhose and place them on your head. With the
pantyhose on your head, knock over 6 cups in one minute.
6. PENNY, PENNY, WHO’S GOT THE PENNY?
What you need: 25 pennies
How to play: See who can stack 25 pennies in one minute without them
falling. This minute to win it challenge is harder than you think!

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7. TISSUE PULL
What you need: box of tissues
How to play: In one minute, pull out all the tissues in a box.
8. SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHERS
What you need: Empty tissue box (use the one from the previous game),
pack of feathers (find at any craft store), and string
How to play: Fill the empty tissue box with feathers. Cut two small
holes on both sides of the tissue box. Put the string through both sides
of the box and tie around the contestant’s waist. From there, the
contestant will see if they can shake all of the feathers out in one
minute.
9. PING PONG BATTLE
What you need: 1 Ping Pong ball, 6 empty plastic cups, table
How to play: Set 6 plastic cups equally apart on a table. Using a ping
pong ball, bounce the ball into each cup in one minute. Sounds easy-
but is actually quite the challenge.
10. ULTIMATE COOKIE STACK
What you need: 5-10 cookies (depending on players)
How to play: This minute to win it game has two options. First option –
stack 3 cookies on your forehead and hold them there for at least 10
seconds. Option two- see how many cookies you can stack on your
forehead without them falling. The person with the most cookies
stacked is the winner!
11. COTTON NOSE
What you need: Vaseline or chapstick, 10 cotton balls, 2 bowls
How to play: Place 10 cotton balls in a bowl. Place the other bowl on
the other side of the room. Put vaseline or chapstick on your nose.
When the timer starts, see how many cotton balls you can get to to the
other side of the room. 5 is the goal!
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12. CHOCOLATE VACUUM
What you need: bag of M&Ms, straw, 2 bowls
How to play: Place of handful of M&Ms into a bowl on one end of the
room. Place the other bowl at the other side of the room. When the
timer starts, suck through the straw and pick up one M&M at a time.
With the M&M still on the straw, run it over to the other bowl. If the
M&M falls, you have to go back to the bowl and pick up a new one. See
how many you can get in a minute. 10 is the goal.
13. BLOW OVER
What you need: straw, crumpled piece of paper
How to play: Crumble up a small piece of paper. On a smooth surface
(such as a table or floor), set the paper on one end and see who can
blow the piece of paper from one end of the room to the other the
fastest.
14. DICE BALANCE
What you need: popsickle stick and dice
How to play: With the popsicle stick in your mouth, see who can stack
the most dice without it falling over. Option two- stack 3 dice on the
stick and see if you can hold it one minute.
15. THE GREAT CUP PYRAMID
What you need for this minute to win it party games: 10-20 plastic cups,
flat surface like a table
How to play: On a flat surface, see who can build a cup pyramid in one
minute. Depending on the age of children, you can change how many
cups you want to use. This is a really great minute to win it games for
kids.
16. HOLE ON THREE
What you need: 3 golf balls, flat surface
How to play: stack 3 golf balls in one minute. Oh! Did I mention that
they have to stay standing for 10 seconds? That is it. Simple and easy.
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17. JOHNNY APPLE STACK
What you need: 3-5 apples, flat surface
How to play: On a flat surface, stack 3-5 apples (depending on the age
of children) in a minute and let them stand for 10 seconds without
falling. This is another popular minute to win it games for kids.
18. EAT MORE “HOLE” FOODS
What you need: donuts and string
How to play: Put the donuts evenly spaced out on the string. Have two
people hold both sides of the string. Without using your hands, see who
can eat the donut in one minute! (Make sure it doesn’t fall off the string
either.)
19. SALTINE CRACKER CHALLENGE
What you need: 3 saltines
How to play: Without using any water, eat 3 saltines in one minute.
(Sounds easy but it so hard!)
20. QUICK STACK
What you need: 15 cups, marker
How to play: Draw a star on one of the cups and place it in the bottom
of the stack. When the time starts, move through the cups placing one
on top of the other until you go through all the cups. (The star cup will
indicate that you made it all the way through.)
21. IRON MAN
What you need: chopsticks, metal nuts
How to play: using a chopstick, stack iron nuts on top of each other in 1
minute
22. BALL DROP
What you need: chair, plastic cup, 3 ping pong balls
How to play: the player stands on the chair. Place the empty cup in front
of the chair. Each player must try to get all 3 ping pong balls into the
cup without them bouncing out.
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23. NOODLING AROUND
What you need: spaghetti noodles, penne noodles
How to play: The player puts the dry spaghetti noodle in their mouth.
They minute to win it challenge is to pick up 6 pieces of penne pasta
without using their hands!
24. WATERMELON CARD NINJA
What you need: watermelon, deck of cards
How to play this minute to win it games for kids: Cut the watermelon in
half. Place the open side on a table facing toward the players. Take
turns throwing cards into the watermelon. The player that gets the most
cards to stick in the watermelon wins.
25. PENNY HOSE
What you need: 2 pennies, pair of pantyhose
How to play: place one penny into each end of the panty hose. Each
player has a minute to get the penny out.
26. GO FISHING
What you need: straws, Goldfish crackers, bowl
How to play: Set the time for one minute. A player must use the straw to
suck up air and see how many fish they can get before the time runs
out.
27. SPONGE RACE
What you need: 4 buckets or bowls, 2 sponges, water
How to play: Divide into two teams. Fill 2 buckets of water and place at
one end of the yard. Place the empty buckets at the opposite end.
Teams must use their sponge to soak up water and run down to the
bucket. Then squeeze the water out of the sponge into the empty
bucket. The first team to fill up the empty bucket wins. Or you can set a
designated time and see which team gets the most water before the
time runs out.

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28. AIR HOCKEY
What you need: tabletop, button or coin, straw
How to play: Player starts at one end of the table and has to use the
straw to blow the coin or button all the way to the other side.
29. HULA-WHO?
What you need: hula-hoop
How to play: See which player can hula hoop the longest or keep it up
for at least one minute.
30. DICE BALANCE
What you need: dice, large popsicle sticks
How to play: the goal of this minute game is to see who can stack the
most dice onto the stick while it’s in a player’s mouth!

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