So, you’re throwing a 50th birthday party for a group that likes to have fun, but doesn’t know what games to play. Here are some fun game ideas for a 50th birthday party.
Some of these 50th birthday party games will take some preparation, but they’ll be worth it. Your guest of honor and other partygoers are sure to have a great time and you will have created a memorable event.
world event game
Do some research and identify a dozen major events that occurred during the life of the guest of honor. Find a picture on the Internet and print it out with a brief description of the event. Give three choices of dates on which the event occurred. One will be correct and the others will not. Scatter these images around your party. Put them on the walls and tables. Give guests a list where they have to go through and find the events and guess the correct dates. You can make movies, songs, catastrophes, celebrity deaths, sporting events… be creative.
crazy truth
Distribute sheets of paper and ask guests to write down something wacky or wacky that has happened to them during their life; the funnier and wackier the better. Collect all the papers and have someone read them. Everyone will have a great time trying to guess who is going with who “Crazy Truth”.
guess the price
This can be a fun game and will really take your older guests back in time. The little ones will love it and will be amazed. It will require a bit of research, but it is well worth the effort. Research and identify 10 to 15 items that were popular fifty years ago. It’s especially fun if these items no longer exist or are obsolete. Find out how much these products cost fifty years ago. Like a movie ticket 25 cents, or a glass of milk 30 cents, Typewriter $9.99, three-bedroom house $7,999.00. Have your guests guess what the costs were back then. Play like the TV show and whoever comes closest will be the winner. This is best done with teams.
It’s your life
This isn’t so much a game, but something really cool to do at a 50th birthday party. Send a request to the quests with the invite. Ask them to write about something significant that they are aware of that has happened in the birthday celebrant’s life. Ask them to return it to you along with the RSVP. You can read this at the party. Remind them that the idea is to celebrate the guest of honor, not a “barbecue.”
The icebreaker “Who am I”
This can be a fun icebreaker game for guests at a 50th birthday party to warm everyone up and get people talking to each other. Make labels ahead of time with the names of celebrities, superheroes or mythical characters (whatever you want). As guests enter, they are given a name tag. The problem is that they cannot see who they are. You put the name tag on his back. The object of the game is for them to ask other guests questions to try to find out who they are. They can only ask yes or no questions. As soon as they correctly guess who they are, they can wear their name tag on the front of their shirt or blouse.
