Games
Party Game Cards
Five printable decks: charades, pictionary, would you rather, conversation starters and trivia. Nothing branded and nothing that assumes a shared childhood, so any group can play. Or type your own deck and print that instead.
Four steps
How to print party game cards
- 1
Pick a deck
Charades, draw it, would you rather, conversation or trivia.
- 2
Or write your own
One card per line. A vertical bar separates a question from its answer.
- 3
Choose the size
Small for one evening, playing card size for a deck you keep.
- 4
Add backs if needed
Prompt cards on thin paper can be read from behind.
- 5
Print, cut and play
200 gsm or heavier if the deck will be shuffled.
Why nothing here is branded
Almost every printable charades list is films and characters. There are two problems with that. The first is that those names belong to somebody, which makes the sheet awkward to hand out at a school fair or use in a business. The second matters more at the table: a deck of films assumes everyone has seen the same things, and at a family party spanning three generations, or a class of thirty from different homes, that is simply not true.
Everything here is an action, an animal, a job, a feeling or an idea. Nobody is out of the game because of what they have not watched.
Making the deck yours
The built-in content is a starting point. Typing a list replaces it entirely, one card per line, which is what turns this from a fixed printable into something worth returning to:
- A lesson: this week's vocabulary as a pictionary deck.
- A party: in-jokes and shared history as charades.
- A dinner: your own questions as conversation cards.
- A quiz: your own questions and answers, separated by a bar.
On trivia that stays true
The built-in trivia is restricted to facts that do not move: the number of sides on a hexagon, the chemical symbol for gold, the largest ocean. Nothing asks who currently holds a record or who won something most recently, because a printed card cannot be updated and a deck containing a wrong answer is worse than no deck at all. If you want topical questions, write them in yourself and reprint when they age.
Related printables
Bingo cards and word searches cover the quieter end, scavenger hunts get people moving, and party printables handle the place cards and tags for the same event.
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