Minute to Win It Party Ideas Want to throw a minute to win it party and challenge your friends to try and complete wild and wacky challenges in a minute or less! To plan a minute to win it party you’ll need to choose a selection of minute to win it games for the challenges. The great thing about minute to win it challenge games is that the props needed are ordinary household objects! Take a look at some of my favorites below. I like to pick games that are not only fun to play, but also fun to watch!

For scoring I incorporated the idea of an auction. For every minute to win it game I gave $30 in minute money (printable theme money I created myself) for 1st place, $15 for second, and $5 for 3rd. When all the games were finished I gave a bonus grand prize of $50 for the person who had won the most money. Now it was time for the auction. For my Minute to Win It auction I purchased a bunch of fun articles at the dollar store, gag store, and clearance section at my local mall. I also invited my guests to donate items to the prize auction too!

You don’t have to choose the auction route, you can choose to give out prizes, ribbons, or awards for each individual minute to win it game or for the best total score all together. For this you will need to come up with a way to keep score. If you are not going to do the auction you can score by simply awarding a certain amount of points for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners for each game.

I set up my minute to win it games where there was no elimination. Players could choose which games they wanted to try and the goal was to do better than the other players. As you’ll see below most of my minute to win it games are alternative versions from the show. They has been revised to be more party friendly!

In this minute to win it game a player will take one end of the toilet paper and hold it in their hand. The roll is held on a holder, broom stick, or by another player next to them. When the clock starts the player must spin around as fast as they can as the toilet paper wraps around them. On the game show the goal was to have the toilet paper completely removed from the roll and wrapped around you at the end of the minute. For party purposes I would just time each player and award places based on who did it in the fastest time.

In the game Keep it up players must work to keep two feathers in the air using only their breath for one minute. In our version the players must keep an inflated balloon in the air using only their heads. They cannot touch the balloon with their hands, feet, or any other body part from the neck down. If the player’s balloon touches the ground they are out. Places are awarded by who keeps their balloon in the air the longest.

Each player must place a party cup over each hand and try to stack as many dice as they can on top of each other in a minute using only their “cup hands”. At the end of the minute the dice tower must be free standing and the player with the highest tower wins.

This game is not only fun to try, but absolutely hilarious to watch. The “ring” in this game is a ring of party cups set up with about a 5ft radius. The “elephant” is the player. The player uses a pair of panty hose to create the “elephant”. They place an orange in one foot and wear the other end over their head, letting the empty leg hang free. Place a small mat in the center of the ring. The player must stand on the mat and on the start of go they have one minute to knock down as many cups as they can using only the hanging orange. They must not touch the panty hose or orange with their hands but only use their head to propel it around the ring to knock down the cups. The players who knock down the most cups are the winners.

I have also created a whole set of Minute to Win it Party printables that include an invitation, candy bar wrappers, water bottle wrappers, cupcake toppers, game labels, and contestant badges, minute money for if you want to use the auction idea! Check them out here!