40 Hen Do Games

40 Hen Party Games for a Memorable Hen Night

No matter your plans for the hen weekend, we are sure you will want to add some fun games to the celebrations.

Hen night games are that little extra something that will transform your celebrations and make them even more enjoyable. We have put together our best 40 hen party games, perfect in restaurants, bars or at home, that you and the girls can try out below for free.


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Variety of free, classy, fun, clean, naughty, but all hilarious!

1. Hen Party Dares

You’ll need…

  • Your list of dares
  • Hat or small bag
  • A group of willing hens
  • Lots of alcohol in your system

How to play…

1. Before the night, you will need to put together a list of dares

2. Then, each hen takes turns pulling a dare out of a hat or bag

3. Each hen then has to complete their dare

4. If they don’t complete the dare successfully, they have to complete a forfeit

15 Hen Party Dares

1. Ask for free shots from the bar

2. Draw a moustache on your face for the night

3. Give a bouncer a hug

4. Drink a glass of wine in less than 20 seconds

5. Flirt with the bartender

6. Do the worm

7. Blow a kiss to a stranger and get one back

8. Dance on the bar

9. Ask for free shots from the bar

10. Take off one item of clothing

11. Wear all your clothes inside out

12. High-five as many strangers as possible in a minute

13. Act like a chicken for 3 minutes

14. Order a drink in another accent

15. Text a random person in your contacts something embarrassing

2. Mr & Mrs Quiz

You’ll need…

  • The groom
  • The bride
  • A quizmaster
  • Some quiz questions

How to play…

1. If you are playing this game on the hen night, you will need to ask the groom his questions before the hen party arrives

2. You will then get the bride-to-be in the hot seat, ready to answer the all-important questions

3. Once she has answered, you will then give her the groom's answer to see how they compare

4. If their answers match, they get a point!

15 Mr & Mrs Quiz Questions

1. What do you argue about the most?

2. What was his first impression of you?

3. What was your first impression of him?

4. Who is the best looking?

5. Who has the best sense of humour?

6. Who takes the longest to get ready?

7. Who wastes the most money?

8. Who said ‘I love you’ first?

9. Who has the funniest family?

10. What is his most annoying habit?

11. What did he say was your most annoying habit?

12. Who is the more dramatic one?

13. Who is the first to say sorry?

14. Who has more clothes?

15. Who is the better saver?

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3. Toilet Paper Wedding Dress

You’ll need…

  • The girls
  • Toilet paper
  • Stopwatch or phone timer
  • Sellotape
  • Hen party veils
  • Bouquets

How to play...

1. Split the group into smaller teams and let the bride-to-be sit out to judge

2. Nominate a bride for each group who will model the dress

3. The bride-to-be will set a 10-minute timer

4. Each team will then have to create a wedding dress out of the equipment given to them

5. When the timer runs out, each group has to sell their dress to the bride-to-be

6. The bride then scores each dress out of 10

7. The winners get a prize, and the losing team receives a forfeit

4. Hen Party Scavenger Hunt

You’ll need…

  • A scavenger hunt printable
  • Pens
  • Your phone

How to play...

1. Give each player a scavenger hunt printable and a pen

2. Then, throughout the night, complete different scavenger hunt challenges to win points

3. Each challenge needs photo evidence for when you add your points up at the end of the night

4. The girl with the most points at the end of the night wins!

15 Scavenger Hunt Ideas

1. Order a drink in another accent

2. Find a coin from the year the bride-to-be was born

3. Get yourself a free drink

4. Find a guy with the same name as the groom

5. Get a free drink for the bride-to-be

6. Get asked for ID

7. Copy a stranger's moves on the dance floor

8. Find another hen party and take a group selfie

9. Make a veil out of toilet paper

10. Get a selfie with a random group of people

11. Take a photo of you photobombing a photo

12. Find something blue

13. Dance on top of a bar or table

14. Take a selfie of the whole group inside a toilet cubicle

15. Get a selfie with a bouncer or bartender

5. Prosecco Pong

You’ll need…

  • Prosecco
  • Prosecco glasses
  • Pong balls

How to play...

1. Split the girls into 2 different teams

2. Line 6 glasses up at either end of the table in the shape of a triangle

3. Each team takes turns throwing the pong ball into the opposing team’s glass

4. If they get it in, that team has to drink the contents of the drink and vice versa

5. The winning team is the team to take out all the opposing teams' drinks!

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6. Never Have I Ever

You’ll need…

  • Never have I ever questions
  • The girls
  • Plenty of alcohol

How to play…

1. All sit around in a circle with plenty of drinks at the ready

2. Taking it in turns, say never have I ever question

3. If the statement is true, you don’t drink

4. But if the statement isn’t true and it is something you have done, you have to drink

10 "Never Have I Ever" Questions

1. Never have I ever got a tattoo

2. Never have I ever been refused entry into a club

3. Never have I ever gone skinny dipping

4. Never have I ever had sex in a public place

5. Never have I ever trespassed

6. Never have I ever flashed someone

7. Never have I ever peed in the shower

8. Never have I ever lied to get out of going to work

9. Never have I ever been sick in public

10. Never have I ever sent an embarrassing text to the wrong person

7. Naughty Bingo

You’ll need…

  • Bingo sheets with challenges on
  • The bingo challenges cut up and folded
  • A small bag or hat

How to play...

1. Give each player a bingo sheet with the challenges on

2. One by one, draw out the challenges from the bag or hat

3. Each time, the girls will cross off if they have the challenge

4. The first girl to get a line has to complete all the challenges in the line, then

5. Forfeits for any challenges the winner doesn’t do!

8. Guess the Dress

You’ll need…

  • Card or paper
  • Pencils
  • Some creativity

How to play...

1. The bride-to-be sits out of this game

2. Give each of the hens a piece of paper or card and some pencils

3. They will then have 10 minutes to draw out what they think the bride-to-be’s dress looks like

4. The bride can then judge and pick her top 3 guesses (if she wants)

9. Two Truths and a Lie

You’ll need…

  • A poker face
  • Your imagination
  • A drink

How to play...

1. One by one, take turns to say 2 truths and 1 lie about yourself

2. It is then down to the rest of the group to decide which is the lie

3. If they get it correct, you have to take a drink

4. If they get it wrong, they all have to drink

10. Don't Say a Word

You’ll need…

  • A good memory
  • Pen
  • Paper
  • Plenty of shots

How to play...

1. Before the hen party starts, put together a list of banned words for the duration of the hen party

2. Write them down on a piece of paper to keep with you

3. If someone says one of the banned words, they have to take a penalty shot

4. If someone calls someone else out for saying a banned word and it wasn’t a banned word, they have to take a shot

10 Banned Word Examples

1. Hen party

2. Wedding

3. Games

4. Drinks

5. Girls

6. Party

7. Grooms name

8. Drunk

9. Lipstick

10. Selfie

11. Dancing Queen

You’ll need…

  • Some music
  • Dancing queens (the girls)
  • Your rhythm

How to play...

1. Get into a circle and let the bride-to-be start by creating one dance move

2. The next person then needs to make that dance move and add her own on top

3. The third person then makes those two moves and so on, like a ripple effect

4. When all the girls have performed, and it's back to the bride, she then has to do the whole performance

5. If someone gets one move wrong or misses one out, she will be knocked out

6. There will be a dance-off until only one girl is remaining who will be crowned the dancing queen

12. Smile for the Camera!

You’ll need…

  • Your phone
  • No sense of embarrassment

How to play…

1. Split your group up into teams

2. Give each team a list of photo and video challenges

3. The team who completes the most challenges in 30 minutes will be the winners

4. Bonus points for the funniest or most creative photos

Video Dare Examples

1. Perform a scene from a movie

2. Use a quote from a song as a conversation starter for a stranger

3. Serenade a stranger

4. Do the worm

5. Downing 5 shots in a row

Photo Dare Ideas

1. Take a photo with the most muscular arms you can find

2. Hug the bouncer

3. Get your group in one toilet cubicle

4. Swap clothes with another player

5. Get behind the bar

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13. Bra Pong

You’ll need…

  • Various-sized bras
  • Wooden board
  • Ping-pong balls
  • Alcohol

How to play...

1. Put together your bra pong board by attaching the bras to the wooden board

2. The smaller the bra, the more points

3. Split girls into teams and give each team a set of balls

4. Take turns throwing the ball into the bra; it must bounce on the floor before going in

5. The team with the most points at the end wins

14. Hen Party Forfeits

You’ll need…

  • The girls
  • List of forfeits

How to play…

1. Before the night, you will need to put together a list of dares

2. Then, each hen takes turns pulling a dare out of a hat or bag

3. Each hen then has to complete their dare

4. If they don’t complete the dare successfully, they have to complete a forfeit

Forfeit Examples

1. Down your drink in one

2. Walk out of the loo with toilet roll tucked into your knickers

3. Have 5 shots

4. Mix a bit of everyone’s drink into one and down it

5. Order the strongest drink on the menu and enjoy

6. You can’t say yes or no, if you do, you drink

15. Pass the Parcel

You’ll need…

  • Wrapping paper
  • Small gifts
  • Main gift for the winner

How to play...

1. Sit in a circle and start playing some music

2. Pass the parcel around until the music stops

3. Whoever the music stops on has to unwrap one layer of the wrapping paper

4. Keep going until there is a winner who ends up with the main present

16. Who Am I?

You’ll need…

  • Sticky notes
  • Pens

How to play...

1. Write down a celebrity on a sticky note

2. Put the sticky note onto someone else’s forehead

3. Take turns asking yes or no questions

4. When you think you know who your celebrity is, take your guess

17. Advice For The Bride

You’ll need…

  • Pieces of paper or card
  • A pen

How to play…

1. Before everyone comes, write down different sentence starters on each piece of card

2. Then, when everyone arrives, pass them out and let them finish their sentences with advice for the bride

3. Once everyone has written theirs, pass them over to the bride to read out

10 Advice for the Bride Sentence Starters

1. Always try to…

2. Never…

3. Don’t forget to…

4. Enjoy…

5. Keep an open mind when discussing…

6. Every day…

7. My best piece of advice to you is…

8. On your honeymoon…

9. Never hide…from your husband

10. If in doubt, remember to…

18. How Well Do You Know The Bride?

You’ll need…

  • Pen
  • Paper
  • Questions

How to play...

1. Someone who knows the bride to be the most writes down a list of questions or the bride herself along with the answers

2. Then the bride-to-be reads out the questions whilst the rest of the girls note down the answer

3. After all the questions have been read out, the bride-to-be will then read out the answers and mark each one

4. Count up the scores and see who knows the bride to be the most!

19. Truth or Dare

You’ll need…

  • List of truths
  • List of dares

How to play...

1. Have a list of truths and dares on your phone or some paper ready for when you need them

2. Go around the group and ask the question, truth or dare?

3. Then pick the truth or dare at random on the list

20. Would She Rather

You’ll need…

  • Pens
  • Paper

How to play…

1. The bride-to-be will be the judge for the game

2. Put together a list of this or that statements

3. Each player will then circle the one they think the bride would rather out of the two

4. At the end, the bride-to-be will then say which she would rather from each statement

5. The person with the most points at the end wins!

10 "Would She Rather" Examples

1. Gin or Vodka

2. Chocolate or Sweets

3. Sweet or Salty

4. Sunset or Sunrise

5. City Break or Sun Holiday

6. Summer or Winter

7. Spring or Autumn

8. Jeans or Skirts

9. Trainers or Heels

10. No Lipstick or Mascara

21. Girls Night Confessions

You’ll need…

  • Paper
  • Pens
  • Box of chocolates
  • Hat or small bag
  • Shots

How to play...

1. Give each hen a piece of paper and let them write a fact or secret about themselves that nobody knows

2. Fold the paper up and place it in a small bag or hat

3. The hens then take turns pulling out a confession and reading it out to the group

4. Then take your guesses on who you think the confession is about

5. If you are right, you can have a chocolate; if you are wrong, you must have a shot!

22. Send to All

You’ll need…

  • No phones

How to play...

1. Phones are completely off limits

2. If any hen is caught on her phone, then she faces the consequences

3. The girls put together a text, and it has to be sent to all of her contacts

23. Bridal Pinata

You’ll need…

  • A Pinata
  • Sweets
  • Paper & pens
  • Empty jar
  • Blindfold
  • A big stick

How to play...

1. Before the hen party, get everyone to write out different advice for the bride, dares, forfeits and date night suggestions

2. Place them inside the pinata with the sweets

3. Take turns hitting the pinata blindfolded

4. When everything falls out, pick up the pieces of paper

5. If you pick up advice or a date night suggestion put it in the jar for the newlywed couple

6. If it’s a dare or forfeit, you must complete it!

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24. Behind the Bar

You’ll need…

  • Spirits
  • Mixers
  • Cocktail making tools
  • Garnishes

How to play...

1. One by one head up to your cocktail making station and choose up to 4 ingredients

2. Using these ingredients to make your cocktail

3. Once everyone has made a cocktail the bride will try them all and choose her favourite

4. She then gets to keep the winning drink

25. Sausage in the Hole

You’ll need…

  • Hot dog sausages
  • String
  • A bottle

How to play...

1. Tie a hot dog to a piece of string and then attach that to your waist so that the sausage dangles between your legs

2. Have a bottle on the floor with the lid off

3. As quickly and precisely as you can guide your sausage into the bottle’s hole

4. You can only use your knees no lifting your feet or using your hands

5. The first girl to successfully penetrate the bottle wins

26. Paper Lyrics

You’ll need…

  • Old newspapers and magazines
  • Your imagination
  • Paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue

How to play...

1. Split up into smaller groups

2. Grab your newspapers and magazines and rip out words, letters, and sentences to create your song lyrics

3. You can go as dirty or as meaningful as you want after all this is a hen party

4. Once you’ve got your lyrics sorted you will then perform them to the group!

27. Kisses for the Mrs

You’ll need…

  • A picture frame
  • Backing card for the frame
  • Pen
  • Lipstick

How to play...

1. Put together the picture frame and the backing card

2. Write at the top of the frame kisses for the Mrs

3. Take turns putting on some lipstick and kiss the card

4. Underneath your kiss sign it with your name

28. Balloon Mayhen

You’ll need…

  • A balloon
  • Group of hens
  • Forfeit at the ready

How to play...

1. The maid of honour has the blow up a balloon and release it into the air

2. Once it is in the air it has to stay there and not hit the floor

3. You can use any part of your body to keep the balloon floating

4. Whoever lets it touch the floor has to do the forfeit

29. Most Likely To

You’ll need…

  • Alcohol

  • Statements at the ready

How to play...

1. Sit in a circle and let the first person start by saying a statement.

2. A statement could be something like ‘most likely to get too drunk tonight.’

3. Everyone will then have to point to the person they think will be most likely to do so.

4. The person with the most fingers pointing at them will then have to take a shot!

30. Cards Against Humanity

You’ll need…

  • The cards against humanity set

  • A lot of alcohol & humour

  • A table or floor space for you all to sit around together

How to play...

1. Sit around a table or in a circle on the floor.

2. Pass out all the white cards with sentence fillers on them.

3. Then the first person will take a black card from the pile and read it out to everyone.

4. You all then have to choose which of your white cards suits the sentence the most.

5. Give them to the person who has the black card, and then they have to read out each one and pick their favourite.

6. This game is always funnier after a few drinks.

31. Where's the Water?

You’ll need…

  • Shot glasses

  • Alcohol

How to play...

1. Line up enough shot glasses for everyone who is playing.

2. Fill half of them with vodka and the other half with water.

3. Then everyone picks one and one by one takes the shot.

4. Everyone else will then have to guess whether you had water or vodka.

32. Flip Cup

You’ll need…

  • Red cups

  • Shots

How to play...

1. Line up your 2 rows of cups upside down on the edge of the table.

2. Then split up into 2 teams and have someone in charge of the timer.

3. Play as a relay team and keep flipping your cup until it flips and lands facing the right way up.

4. Then the next person goes onto their cup and so on until all your cups have been flipped.

5. The winning team is the team with all the cups the right way before the time is up.

33. Drunk Jenga

You’ll need…

  • Jenga game

  • Pens

  • Alcohol

How to play...

1. Pick up your own set of Jenga and grab a pen.

2. Write down different rules on each Jenga piece.

3. Then play a normal game of Jenga.

4. Once you have taken your piece out you then have to complete the dare or rule that is written on it!

34. Guess Who?

You’ll need…

  • Paper

  • Pens

  • Hat or glass

  • Shots

How to play...

1. Each person needs to write down a secret about themselves that nobody would know about.

2. Then place your paper inside of the hat or glass whatever you are using.

3.  Each person then takes out a secret and reads it to the group.

4. They then decide who they think the secret is about and tell the group.

5. If they guess right then the other person takes a shot, if they’re wrong they have to take a shot.

35. Higher or Lower

You’ll need…

  • Pack of cards

  • Alcohol

How to play...

1. Take turns being the dealer and the player.

2. The dealer will then place a card on the table and the player will have to decide whether the next card is higher or lower.

3. If the next card is the opposite of what the player said, they must take a shot.

36. Fuzzy Duck

You’ll need…

  • Alcohol

How to play...

1. Sit in a circle and start with the first person saying ‘fuzzy duck’ to the person on their left.

2. Then the next person says the same until someone decides to say ‘does he’ which will make the flow switch to the person on the right.

3. They then have to say, ‘ducky fuzz’ and the game continues until someone messes up the words.

4. When they do, they will then have to drink!

37. Shot Roulette

You’ll need…

  • Shot Roulette board

  • Alcohol

How to play...

1. First, you need a shot roulette board, and you will have to fill each shot glass with alcohol.

2. Place your bets on the roulette table and play the game.

3. If your bet comes in, then you take the shot!

4. Keep playing the game until there are no shots left to bet on and all the shots are drunk.

38. Ring of Fire

You’ll need…

  • Tall glass

  • Alcohol

  • Pack of cards

How to play...

1. Put a tall glass into the middle of a table and sit around it in a circle.

2. Empty a pack of cards onto the table and place them in a circle around the glass so that there are no spaces.

3. Take turns taking a card from the deck without breaking the circle.

4. Each card means a different rule; you can read more about the rules here.

39. Roxanne

You’ll need…

  • Alcohol
  • The song 'Roxanne - The Police

How to play...

1. Split up into 2 different teams.

2. Name one team ‘Roxanne’ and one team ‘Red Light.’

3. Play the song and when you hear your team word you drink!

4. The game ends when the song ends.

40. Beer Pong

You’ll need…

  • Alcohol

  • Red Cups

  • Ping pong balls

How to play...

1. Place 6 cups at each end of the table in the shape of a triangle.

2. Fill each cup with beer or any other alcohol you'd prefer

3. Then split into 2 teams and take turns throwing a ping pong ball and aiming it to go inside the other team's cups.

4. If you get a ping pong ball inside of their cup someone on that team has to drink the alcohol.

5. The team at the end that has got rid of the other team's drinks first are the winner! It’s as simple as that!


Hen Party Dare Ideas

Hen party dares are a classic addition to the celebration and one that nobody will forget any time soon! Whether you want something hilarious to add to your night out or you are looking for that perfect addition to the girl's night in, we've got you covered! Below you will find the ultimate hen party dares list with everything you need for a laugh with the girls.

1. Ask for free shots from the bar

2. Take off an item of clothing

3. Dance on the bar

4. Become a slave to another player for 5 minutes

5. Get someone to sign your chest

6. Act like a chicken for 3 minutes straight

7. Let your friends send a text from your phone to whoever they want

8. Twerk for a minute

9. Hug a bouncer

10. Get as many phone numbers as possible in 2 minutes

11. Find a policeman and take a picture with their hat on

12. Let the group post anything they want on your social media for 5 minutes

13. Convince a stranger that you used to be a man

14. High five the most people in a minute

15. Wear your clothes inside out

16. Do the worm

17. Blow a kiss to a stranger until you get one back

18. Drink a glass of wine in less than 20 seconds

19. Flirt with the bartender

20. Describe the bride-to-be using 3 actions


Hen Night Forfeits

What better way to add something a little different into the evening than with some hen night forfeits? Below we have put together a fun list of some hen party forfeit ideas that we are sure you will all love.

1. Neck it!

Simply down your drink in one!

2. Toilet problems...

Come out of the toilet with toilet roll tucked into your knickers and walk back to where the group is.

3. Banned words

An easy one, if you use the words 'yes' or 'no' you have to have a shot.

4. Hen's cup

Everyone puts some of their drink into a pint glass and the victim of the forfeit has to down it in one.

5. Seamstress

Find a bloke at the bar and measure his inside leg!

6. Candymen

Wear a candy necklace and get different men to take a nibble.


What’s the Benefit of Free Hen Party Games?

Free hen party games are perfect if your budget isn’t allowing you to spend any money on more extras for the celebrations. And when you think about it, you can always put together some hen party games without spending any money! That’s why we put together this list of free hen party games. The only equipment needed is mostly things that you already have in the house!

Top 10 Clean Hen Party Games

Clean hen party games are perfect if you are having a hen party with family members and you want to keep everything as clean as possible! Below we have a list of our top 10 clean hen party games.

Who Can Use These Hen Night Games?

Anyone can use these hen night games! Of course, as you can tell by the name, these games are aimed to be played by hen groups. But once you’ve used them for your hen party, you can then use these games wherever you like for any occasion. Once you’ve looked through all 40 of our hen night games, you can pick out your favourites and save them for the celebrations.

When is the Best Time to Play Hen Do Games?

The best thing about outdoor games is that they can be played anytime during the celebrations! They can be played before you head out for the night or in between any plans you have for the hen weekend. Hen do games are also perfect if you are having a hen party at home and you need some extra things to fit into what you have planned.

Top 10 Hen Party Drinking Games

Hen party drinking games are probably one of the most popular types of hen games around! That is perhaps because most celebrations involve a lot of alcohol, so it makes sense to incorporate it into a game. Below, we have compiled a list of the top 10 hen party drinking games.

Why Are Games for Hen Parties so Popular?

Games for hen parties are an extremely popular addition to the celebration and one that almost every group will have as an extra. This is because the types of hen games are varied, like dirty, rude, funny, unique and traditional games.

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