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I've hosted Friendsgiving for my friend group for 6 years running, and the Friendsgiving games are the part my friends ask about every year. I've played every game on this list with my friends. Some of them have turned into traditions now.
The list starts with Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, and other smart TV games on the Weekend app, then covers icebreakers, trivia about your group, a potluck guessing game, and after-dinner classics.
If your Friendsgiving dinner includes the people you live with, check out our roommate games for even more fun.
Friendsgiving games: TL;DR
- Jeopardy!: Best for a group with a trivia know-it-all
- Song Quiz: Best for settling who has the best music taste
- Wheel of Fortune: Best for the friend who swears they're bad at trivia
- Short List: Best for splitting a big table into 2 teams
- BFFs: Best for friends who think they know each other well
- Sketchy AF: Best for waking everyone up after the meal
- Guess the Emoji: Best for fast and fun visual puzzle lovers
- Find Someone Who: Best for mixing 2 friend groups before dinner
- Two Truths and a Lie: Best for a table of old friends and new partners
- Would You Rather: Best for filling time while the turkey rests
- Gratitude Round: Best for the moment before the first plate
- Friend Group Trivia: Best for friends who've known each other for years
- Thanksgiving Trivia: Best for a group with a few new faces
- Guess Who Made It: Best for a potluck-style Friendsgiving
- Thanksgiving Pictionary: Best for getting people moving after dinner
- Charades: Best for a group with at least 1 performer
- Taboo: Best for a competitive end to the night
How do I make Friendsgiving more fun?
As a hostess with a lot of experience, I’ve noticed that these hosting choices make a bigger difference than how many games you have ready.
Spread the games across the night
Plan about 1 game per hour instead of saving everything for after dinner. I open with an icebreaker while people arrive, play trivia once everyone's plates are cleared, and save Pictionary or Taboo for when the table's cleared.
Mix the friend groups on every team
Put a new partner or coworker on a team with the friends they know least. It's the fastest way to get the 2 halves of your guest list talking.
Give the kids their own plan
If anyone's bringing kids, you can set them up in another space with these Thanksgiving activities at home, so they have their own games going while the adults finish a round.
Friendsgiving games: Quick comparison
Which Friendsgiving games should you choose?
The right game depends on where you are in the night. People have different amounts of energy when they first walk in, while they're eating, and once the dishes are cleared, so I match each game to that moment.
- While guests arrive: Guess the Emoji, Find Someone Who, or Two Truths and a Lie gets people talking before everyone's even taken their coat off, and it gives the friends who've never met an easy way in.
- Before the first plate: Pull out Would You Rather while the turkey rests, then do a Gratitude Round right before you eat.
- During dinner: Guess Who Made It works with the food that's already on the table. Expect plenty of debate over who made the stuffing.
- Once everyone's seated after the meal: Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, Wheel of Fortune, Friend Group Trivia, and Thanksgiving Trivia all suit a full, happy group that isn't ready to get up yet.
- After the table's cleared: Short List, BFFs, Sketchy AF, Thanksgiving Pictionary, Charades, and Taboo are the louder games I save for when everyone's ready to stay up late.
Weekend TV games for Friendsgiving
These 7 are in the Weekend app on your smart TV, and the app keeps score, so nobody has to find a pen after dinner. For the rest of the year, here are more games to play on TV with friends.
1. Jeopardy!
Every friend group has someone who's waited years to prove they'd win on the TV show. Jeopardy! on Weekend gives them that shot, and the rest of us get to watch them bet everything on a Daily Double and miss.
Key features
- Officially licensed clues, categories, and music
- Casual, Classic, and Expert modes, so everyone can join in
- Answer out loud in the form of a question with the remote or a paired phone
Pros
✅ Everyone already knows the rules
✅ Final Jeopardy! wagers keep the score close
Cons
❌ Casual players fall behind on Expert, so start on Casual or Classic
❌ Friends who dislike trivia tune out
Best for
A group with a trivia know-it-all
Pricing
7-day free trial, then $12.99/month for Weekend’s full library.
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2. Song Quiz
Song Quiz is how my friends settle the music-taste argument we have every year anyway. The 2000s round always ends with the whole table singing a chorus nobody admits to knowing.
Key features
- Tens of thousands of songs, from Elvis to this year's hits
- Pick a genre or decade each round
- Name the artist, the title, or both for the most points
Pros
✅ No reading or writing, just listening
✅ Rounds take a few minutes
Cons
❌ Clips end fast if you hesitate
❌ Whoever knows the chosen decade wins unless you rotate
Best for
Friends with strong opinions about music
Pricing
7-day free trial, then $12.99/month for Weekend’s full library.
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3. Wheel of Fortune
The friend who swears they're bad at trivia always joins Wheel of Fortune, since solving takes letters and a lucky spin, not facts. Landing on BANKRUPT gets the loudest groan of the night at my place, and the Wheel of Fortune rules take 2 minutes to explain.
Key features
- Spin the wheel, call letters, and solve the puzzle
- Categories from the show, like "Before & After" and "Movie Title"
- The wheel-spin sound and BANKRUPT tone from TV
Pros
✅ One lucky spin can put the last-place player back in it
✅ A format every guest grew up watching
Cons
❌ BANKRUPT wipes out your round score
❌ Slower than a quick-fire trivia round
Best for
The friend who avoids trivia
Pricing
7-day free trial, then $12.99/month for Weekend’s full library.
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4. Short List
Short List is Weekend's office-themed game show, and it rewards thinking like everyone else instead of being clever. My most competitive friend hates that his obscure answers score nothing, which is half the fun for the rest of us.
Key features
- Say answers into your phone's mic to fill a board of sticky notes
- Typing on your phone is only for steals
- The 5 O'Clock Rush buzzer round ends each game
Pros
✅ Rival teams can steal unclaimed answers, so nobody's out of it
✅ An office theme that's easy to joke about
Cons
❌ Shy guests have to say their answers out loud
❌ Everyone playing needs a phone
Best for
Splitting a big table into 2 teams
Pricing
7-day free trial, then $12.99/month for Weekend’s full library.
5. BFFs
In BFFs, you find out how similar you and your friends are, which fits a holiday built around friends. My group argued about the final compatibility scores long after the round ended.
Key features
- Pick a side on each question, like Cats vs. Dogs, or Pizza vs. Spaghetti
- Guess wrong and you're out, until 1 friend is left standing
- 345 would-you-rather cards, with no repeats until the deck runs out
Pros
✅ The final screen scores every pair of players
✅ No trivia knowledge needed
Cons
❌ Early knockouts have to watch
❌ Light on strategy, since it's all opinion
Best for
Friends who think they know each other well
Pricing
7-day free trial, then $12.99/month for Weekend’s full library.
6. Sketchy AF
Sketchy AF is the loudest game at my Friendsgiving. A mystery drawing appears 1 line at a time, and the confidently wrong guesses halfway through get bigger laughs than the right ones.
Key features
- Everyone guesses at the same time
- Guess with hold-to-talk on your phone
- Earlier correct guesses score more points
Pros
✅ Nobody has to draw
✅ Quick to restart between rounds
Cons
❌ Fast talkers have an edge
❌ Not on Roku
Best for
Waking everyone up after the meal
Pricing
7-day free trial, then $12.99/month for Weekend’s library.
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7. Guess the Emoji
Guess the Emoji is my pick for the lull between dinner and dessert. It also works well at the beginning of the evening, when people are arriving. A string like 🦁👑 comes up, and you have to decode what it is. For example, in this case it would be The Lion King.
Key features
- Emoji strings hide movies, songs, sayings, and pop culture references
- Each category has an easy and a hard mode
- On Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, and LG
Pros
✅ Anyone who texts in emojis already knows how to play
✅ Short rounds, so it's easy to stop when the pie comes out
Cons
❌ Movie buffs get the film strings first
❌ Hard-mode strings stump most of the group
Best for
Fast and fun visual puzzle lovers
Pricing
7-day free trial, then $12.99/month for Weekend’s full library.
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Icebreakers and mingle games
Apart from the printed sheet for Find Someone Who, these need nothing but your guests, and they work as indoor games with friends the rest of the year too.
8. Find Someone Who
Find Someone Who is the fastest way to get 2 friend groups mixing before dinner. Guests who've never met end up comparing stuffing recipes within 5 minutes.
Key features
- A printed sheet of 12 to 16 prompts, like "has deep-fried a turkey"
- Guests mingle and collect a different name for each square
- The first to fill a row or the full sheet wins
Pros
✅ Pairs up strangers without forced introductions
✅ Ends on its own once someone finishes
Cons
❌ Needs a printed sheet
❌ Works best with 8 or more guests
Best for
The first 20 minutes while people arrive
Pricing
Free, plus a few pages of printing.
9. Two Truths and a Lie
Even friends of 10 years learn something new with this game. Last year, what I thought was my shyest friend's "lie" turned out to be true, and nobody believed she'd won a pie-eating contest.
Key features
- Each player shares 3 statements, 2 true and 1 false
- The group votes on which one is the lie
- Works for 3 players or a full table
Pros
✅ Nothing to prep
✅ Odd, detailed truths make the best rounds
Cons
❌ Drags without a turn limit in a big group
❌ Needs everyone willing to share
Best for
A table of old friends and new partners
Pricing
Free.
10. Would You Rather
Would You Rather fills the gap while the turkey rests and nobody wants to start a full game. The Thanksgiving versions start the best debates, like "Would you rather lose the pie or the mashed potatoes?"
Key features
- One person reads 2 options, and everyone picks a side
- Each person defends their choice
- Any group size
Pros
✅ Easy to theme for the holiday
✅ No prep if you pull a list up on your phone
Cons
❌ Gets stale without good prompts
❌ No winner or score
Best for
Filling time before the food's ready
Pricing
Free.
11. Gratitude Round
Of everything on this list, a Gratitude Round is the closest to what the holiday is about. Keep it to a sentence each, and you'll hear things from your friends that never come up otherwise.
Key features
- Go around the table before anyone eats
- Each person names 1 thing they're grateful for this year
- Guests can pass if they'd rather not share
Pros
✅ Takes about 5 minutes
✅ Sets a warm tone before the games
Cons
❌ Not a competition
❌ Feels awkward if the host doesn't go first
Best for
The moment before the first plate
Pricing
Free.
Trivia about the friend group
Trivia gets competitive fast at Friendsgiving, and these tips for hosting a trivia game cover scoring and teams.
12. Friend Group Trivia
Friend Group Trivia rewards years of shared history, and it's the game my oldest friends start asking about in October. The best questions come from specific moments, like who got lost driving to the lake house.
Key features
- Write 10 to 15 questions about your guests ahead of time
- Teams write their answers, then you read them out
- The person each question is about confirms the answer
Pros
✅ Fully custom to your group
✅ Funny even when you guess wrong
Cons
❌ Takes about 15 minutes to write
❌ New guests start at a disadvantage
Best for
Friends who've known each other for years
Pricing
Free.
13. Thanksgiving Trivia
Thanksgiving Trivia puts new guests on equal footing, since nobody has an inside-joke advantage. Most guests don't know the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was in 1924, so the history round gets close.
Key features
- Split into 2 teams
- Mix questions on history, food, and the parade
- Pull extra rounds from these food trivia questions and U.S. history trivia
Pros
✅ Holiday questions keep the night on theme
✅ Teams keep shy guests from being singled out
Cons
❌ Needs a question list ready ahead of time
❌ History buffs can run away with it
Best for
A group with a few new faces
Pricing
Free.
Food games for Friendsgiving
Dinner is the setup for this one, and these dinner party games for adults add more options for the table.
14. Guess Who Made It
Most Friendsgivings are potlucks, so Guess Who Made It uses the food you already have. Watching friends try to match the cranberry sauce to the person who made it had everyone laughing through the meal.
Key features
- Label each dish with a number, not a name
- Guests taste and write down who they think made each one
- Reveal the cooks at dessert, and the best guesser wins
Pros
✅ Gets everyone trying every dish
✅ Only extra supplies are pens and sticky notes
Cons
❌ Only works if most guests bring something
❌ Store-bought dishes are easy to spot
Best for
A potluck-style Friendsgiving
Pricing
Free.
After-dinner party games
These are the games I bring out once the table's cleared. For a bigger crowd, these large group games work for 10 or more people.
15. Thanksgiving Pictionary
Thanksgiving Pictionary gets everyone off the couch after a heavy meal. A turkey drawn against a 60-second timer never looks like a turkey, which is the point.
Key features
- Split into 2 teams
- Draw a Thanksgiving word from a bowl, like "gravy boat" or "Plymouth Rock"
- Your team guesses before the timer ends
Pros
✅ Paper and a marker are enough
✅ Bad artists are the most fun to watch
Cons
❌ Hard to see in a big room without an easel
❌ Someone has to write the word list
Best for
Getting people moving after dinner
Pricing
Free.
16. Charades
Charades is the game for your most dramatic friend, and every group has one. Acting out "Black Friday shopping" without a word gets bigger laughs than any card game, and these charades ideas save you from writing your own prompts.
Key features
- Teams take turns
- One player acts out a word or phrase without speaking
- Teammates guess within 60 seconds
Pros
✅ No supplies at all
✅ Works with any group size
Cons
❌ Shy guests may pass on their turn
❌ Needs room to move
Best for
A group with at least 1 performer
Pricing
Free.
17. Taboo
Taboo is my closer, because it's fast and competitive without dragging on. Describing "pie" without saying crust, apple, pumpkin, dessert, or bake is harder than it sounds after a big meal.
Key features
- Four or more players in 2 teams, ages 13 and up
- Describe the card's word without the 5 taboo words listed
- The other team uses the squeaker when you slip
Pros
✅ Over 100 cards with the word lists already written
✅ Rounds are fast
Cons
❌ Expect arguments over what counts as a slip
❌ Costs money, unlike most picks here
Best for
A competitive end to the night
Pricing
From $13 to $20 at U.S. retailers. For more ideas, here are the best party games for adults.
Free and no-prep Friendsgiving games
You don't need to spend anything to have a great game night. Most of the games on this list are free, and several need no prep at all. Two Truths and a Lie, Would You Rather, the Gratitude Round, and Charades only need the people around your table, so you can start any of them the minute everyone's settled.
Find Someone Who takes a little planning, since you'll want to print the sheets before guests arrive. The trivia games and Thanksgiving Pictionary need some paper and a few minutes of prep, and that's about it.
If it's a smaller group this year, these games to play with 3 people work well when only a few friends can make it.
Bring Weekend to your next Friendsgiving
The TV games on this list are all in the Weekend app, and the same subscription includes the rest of the library.
- Jeopardy! puts officially licensed clues and Final Jeopardy! wagers on your TV.
- Song Quiz is music trivia across decades and genres, and you pick a genre or decade before you start.
- Wheel of Fortune has you spin and solve with categories from the show.
- Guess the Emoji puts a string of emojis on screen, and you name the movie, song, or saying behind it.
- Short List is an office-themed game show where only the most popular answers score.
- BFFs sees which friends think alike, 1 would-you-rather card at a time.
- Sketchy AF rewards the earliest correct guess on a mystery drawing.
- Spot On is a race to drop the closest pin on a 3D globe, from world cities to famous landmarks.
- Wit's End plays like D&D with no prep, and you create your hero by describing them out loud.
- Karaoke (on Roku) scores each singer on lyrics and pitch.
- Meme Supreme has a player write a scenario and everyone answers with a meme.
Search for the Weekend Games app on Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, and LG. Start a 7-day free trial and access the full library.
FAQs
What games do you play at Friendsgiving?
Friendsgiving games usually start with an icebreaker like Find Someone Who, then trivia after the meal and party games like Taboo once the table's cleared. Weekend's Jeopardy! and Short List cover the trivia part with no prep.
What are good icebreaker games for Friendsgiving?
Good icebreaker games for Friendsgiving include Find Someone Who, Two Truths and a Lie, and Would You Rather. All 3 games take a minute to explain, and Find Someone Who gets guests mixing before anyone sits down.
What are fun Friendsgiving games for adults?
Fun Friendsgiving games for adults include Friend Group Trivia, Taboo, Charades, and Weekend's BFFs. They're built around shared history and fast competition rather than kid-friendly rules.
What are free Friendsgiving games?
Free Friendsgiving games include Two Truths and a Lie, Would You Rather, a Gratitude Round, Charades, and Guess Who Made It. None needs anything beyond the people and food already there.
How do I make Friendsgiving more fun?
To make Friendsgiving more fun, spread 1 game per hour across the night instead of saving them all for dessert. Mix friend groups on every team, and give any kids their own activity.
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