10 party games for kids and adults

The best party games for kids and adults are quick, simple, and easy to play with a drink in one hand. Here are 10 games, each with setup, how to play, and a flavor tie-in that puts your frozen drink machine at the center of the fun.

Mix two or three kid games with a couple of grownup games. Keep every round short so guests can join and quit at any time. For spooky versions, see our Halloween party games.

Games for every age

1. Blind flavor taste test

• Setup: Small tasting cups, blindfolds or sleep masks, and a score card.
• How to play: Each player tastes three or four small samples with eyes covered and guesses the flavor. Most right answers wins.
• Flavor tie-in: Pour kids samples from the slushie bowl only. Adults can taste-test the margarita side. Strawberry, Watermelon, and Orange Mango are fun to guess.

2. Lotería night

• Setup: A lotería set (picture cards and boards) and dried beans as markers.
• How to play: One person calls each card with a short rhyme or clue. Players mark matching pictures. The first full row or full board shouts "¡Lotería!"
• Flavor tie-in: The winner picks the next flavor when you mix a new batch.

3. Piñata

• Setup: A piñata, a sturdy rope over a tree branch, a stick, and a blindfold. Mark a wide circle that only the batter stands in.
• How to play: Line kids up youngest to oldest. Each gets three swings. An adult works the rope and keeps everyone else outside the circle.
• Flavor tie-in: Pick a piñata in your bowl colors, like a green and red one for Lime and Strawberry.

4. Water balloon toss

• Setup: A bucket of filled water balloons and an open patch of grass.
• How to play: Pairs stand two steps apart and toss one balloon. After each catch, both step back. The last pair with an unbroken balloon wins.
• Flavor tie-in: Winners get first in line at the machine. Pick up broken balloon pieces right away.

Games for kids

5. Lime and spoon race

• Setup: Spoons and limes, plus a start and finish line.
• How to play: Kids balance a lime on a spoon and race to the finish. Drop it and you go back three steps.
• Flavor tie-in: Use the limes later as garnish for Lime margaritas or Cherry Limeade slushies.

6. Brain freeze dance

• Setup: A speaker and a playlist.
• How to play: Play music and stop it at random. Everyone freezes and holds their best "brain freeze" face. Anyone who moves sits out one round.
• Flavor tie-in: Run it right after a slushie refill, when brain freeze faces come naturally.

7. Color scavenger hunt

• Setup: A list of colors that match your flavors, and a paper bag for each team.
• How to play: Teams find one small object for each color (a blue cup, a red napkin, a green leaf). First team back with every color wins.
• Flavor tie-in: Build the list from your bowls: blue for Blue Raspberry, red for Cherry Bomb, green for Green Sour Apple.

Games for adults

8. Rim station race

• Setup: Empty cups, small plates of rim salt or sugar, and lime wedges.
• How to play: Players rim as many cups as they can in 30 seconds. Clean, even rims only. The judge is strict.
• Flavor tie-in: Use Lime Margarita Salt, Tajín Classic Seasoning, or Sweet Heat Cocktail Sugar. Each 4 oz package rims about 40 drinks, so the cups go right back into service.

9. Cornhole flavor league

• Setup: Two cornhole boards and a bracket on a whiteboard.
• How to play: Teams of two play short games to 11 points. Winners move up the bracket.
• Flavor tie-in: Name each team after a flavor: Team Mango, Team Rum Runner, Team Blue Hawaiian. The champions pick the flavor for the next batch.

10. Two truths and a lie

• Setup: Nothing but a circle of chairs.
• How to play: Each guest says three things about themselves, two true and one false. The group guesses the lie.
• Flavor tie-in: Add a frozen drink round: "My favorite flavor is Piña Colada" is a sneaky lie for a Lime loyalist.

Run the drink station during games

A two-bowl machine pours two flavors at once, so you can serve a kids slushie and a grownup margarita from the same machine. Label each bowl, and keep an adult near the margarita side while kids are playing. Set the machine near the games but out of the main running path.

One machine serves up to 100 guests. A margarita mix makes about 75 frozen drinks of 8 oz, and most fruit slushie mixes make about 50, so plan extra mixes for a long afternoon of games. Browse every option on our flavors page, and add crafts and face painting from our kids activities guide.

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