Nothing feels quite as cozy as when it’s time to break out the holiday candles with seasonal scents that smell like sugar cookies, evergreen trees and eggnog. Round up a bunch of your favorites with super unique names and scents and have a blind sniff test, where participants have to guess the scent of each candle. The quirkier the scent the harder it is to guess!

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Time to see who really has major wrapping skills. Your guests might be able to wrap presents that come in standard-sized boxes, but what about unusually shaped things, like a football or a lava lamp? Round up some odd-shaped items or buy some from the dollar store and see how well your guests can wrap the gift. Judge on individual wrapping skills or split into teams and make it a group event.

Have everyone bring their favorite board games and make it a giant tournament. Let everyone rotate around and play whatever they want or turn up the heat on the competition with a bracket system and have the participant pool narrowed down by winners of each round until it’s just one winner left standing

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Everyone receives four slips of paper, and on them, participants write down two great Christmas gifts and two terrible ones. However, only one of each are things they’ve actually received. The other two are made up. Throw all the filled-out slips into a bowl, and take turns pulling them out and guessing which gifts are real and which are fake.

Cookie decorating might seem like a pretty basic activity, but there’s nothing wrong with a classic, especially since cookie decorating makes us feel nostalgic for celebrating the holidays when we were kids. Have participants all recreate the same design or let everyone do their own thing and have a panel of judges declare the winner.

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Who is the best bartender in the group? Time to find out. Have everyone bring ingredients for and be ready to make a holiday-themed cocktail (enough for all drinking participants to have at least one!) and have everyone vote on which is the best. Not only does the creator of the cocktail get bragging rights, but the hostess will be thankful for the drink contributions from the group. Want to make sure you win? Take some inspiration from one of our Christmas cocktail recipes at the link below.

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Everyone has to complete an easy craft, like decorating a felt Christmas tree or ornament, blindfolded. All competitors only have five minutes to decorate, and then the group will judge which ones take 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. The winner gets first grabs when the Christmas cookies are put out for dessert.

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When you’re stuffed from some delicious appetizers or a big Christmas meal and you want a game you can play while still lounging around, look no further than “Name That Tune.” All you need is someone with a phone who has all the great Christmas classics queued up and ready to be played. Have someone be the DJ, and see who can guess the festive songs first after only hearing a few notes.

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Colder weather means a lot more layers, but ever wonder how many layers you can actually get on? Grab a bunch of clothes and accessories, preferably stretchy and of various sizes, and a stopwatch. Give players one minute, or a time frame of your choice, to see how many layers they can get on their body before time runs out. The person with the most wins!

An accessory and a game all in one! At the start of the party, each player gets a Santa Claus hat to wear. One person is designated the “leader” and their job throughout the party is to take their hat off at one point. Once the leader takes off their hat, the goal is then for every other player to realize and take off their own hat before they’re the last one wearing the Santa Claus hat. Instead of being a winner, the last one wearing the hat loses!

An easy and free game to play! When guests come through the door, have them guess how many ornaments are on your Christmas tree. At the end of the night, the person with the best guess wins a fun prize or gets to open the first present of the night.

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Write up a stack of cards with characters from traditional Christmas movies and TV shows. Every guest must pick one (no peeking!) and attach it to an elastic headband. They then must spend the night asking other guests questions to try to figure out which character they currently have on their headband. The first one to figure theirs out wins!

Once the kids are tucked in bed, it’s time for the adults to have some fun. Make this classic game more holiday-themed by posing questions like, “Never have I ever regifted a gift” to see what things your friends and family are guilty of doing. You can play the traditional way by having anyone who has done the deed take a sip of their drink or simply use a point system and reward the winner with a gift.

This is an easy, no-setup game that you can play everywhere, from a home get-together to an office party. While everyone sits in a circle, one person starts by singing a line from a holiday song, and the person to the right has to sing the next line of this song, and so on, says Kaitlin Moss of The Every Hostess. Pick from the classics like “Jingle Bells” or try a more modern holiday hit like Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” You might know the first few lines of all these songs, but it gets challenging really quickly!

Set a timer for a minute, and see who can make the most “snowmen” by stacking mini marshmallows on top of each other. You need three to make a stack (but, no, they don’t need faces or arms). Too easy? Try making everyone use chopsticks. Use the leftovers in some cocoa.

Here’s a throwback: Remember playing the card game Spoons, the one that sent everyone diving into the middle of the table to grab a spoon, and whoever was left without one was the loser? This is the same thing, only candy canes replace spoons. Bonus: You get to eat the candy canes when the game is over.

A “Favorite Things” gift exchange is essentially a positive spin on a white elephant gift exchange, says Tara Berger, founder of One Stylish Party. Instead of a silly gag gift, each guest brings three, low-cost items they absolutely love. The gifts are placed on a table and everyone takes turns picking out three items to keep. “It is a great way to introduce your friends to some of your must-have items and it doesn’t require you to tailor the gift to a specific person.”