- Head-to-head: 2 to the winner, 1 to the other side.
- Team rounds and the birthday quiz: 5 to the winner, 2 to the other side.
- The final three rounds: a win is worth 10.
- A team 3 or more behind wins ×2, ×3 or ×4.
Free printable party games for 10–13 year olds Showdown's rules and birthday quiz
Every game, written out.
What to grab, how long it runs and the rules, the same as the sheets.
Stack Attack
1 v 1 · 60 sec
Build a 10-cup pyramid, then collapse it into one stack.
Grab: 10 cups per player
- First finished wins
- Neither finishes? It's a tie
Face the Cookie
1 v 1 · 60 sec
Move a cookie from your forehead into your mouth. No hands.
Grab: cookies
- It falls? Put it back on your forehead and go again
- First success wins
- Neither does it? It's a tie
Flight School
1 v 1 · 60 sec
Fold one paper plane. Then three throws each into the scoring zones.
Grab: paper, tape to mark three floor zones: 1, 2 and 3
- 60 seconds to fold
- Three throws each, from the same line
- Score where the nose stops. Outside the zones is zero
- Highest total wins
Sink It!
1 v 1 · 45 sec
Toss ping-pong balls into your container from behind the line.
Grab: ping-pong balls, the same number each, 2 identical containers, a throwing line
- Only balls that stay in count
- Helpers bring the balls back
- Most landed wins
Catch Crew
2 v 2 · 45 sec
One tosses, their partner catches in a cup.
Grab: ping-pong balls, 1 catching cup per team, a bowl to empty catches into
- Count the catches, emptying the cup as needed
- Switch roles at the halfway cue
- Most catches wins
Wrong Only
1 v 1 · 60 sec
Easy questions. The answer has to be wrong — and fast.
Grab: nothing — the questions are on screen
- Take turns, a different question each
- A clearly wrong answer inside 5 seconds scores one; too slow loses one
- Most wrong answers wins — both get equal turns
Flip Rush
Whole-team relay · 90 sec
Flip the cup off the table edge until it lands upright. Then pass it on.
Grab: 1 plastic cup per team, a table
- A landing finishes your turn
- Keep cycling through the team
- Most successful turns wins
Spoon Relay
Whole-team relay · 90 sec
Carry a ball on a spoon around the marker and back. Hand off.
Grab: 1 spoon and 1 ping-pong ball per team, markers for two equal courses
- It drops? Stop and put it back where you are
- Keep cycling until time's up
- Most completed trips wins
Stack Relay
Whole-team relay · 90 sec
Build a six-cup pyramid, collapse it into one stack, tag the next teammate.
Grab: 6 cups per team, a table
- Build it, stack it, tag out
- Keep cycling until time's up
- Most completed turns wins
Blowball
Everyone plays · 90 sec
Blow the ball off the other team's edge of the table.
Grab: a table, a ping-pong ball
- No touching the ball
- Everyone has an assigned spot
- Switch sides at the halfway cue
- The clock pauses after each goal for a reset
- Most goals wins
Paper Peak
Everyone plays · 90 sec
Build the tallest freestanding tower from two sheets of paper.
Grab: 2 sheets of paper per player, something to measure with
- No tape, no scissors
- It must stand for three seconds after the buzzer
- Top three score 3, 2 and 1 for their team
Who Knows Best?
Birthday break · 10 min
Fifteen questions about the birthday kid. Then they reveal their answers.
Grab: an answer sheet and pencil per player, the birthday kid's prepared answers
- Write your answers to all 15
- The birthday kid leads the reveal and sits out the scoring
- One point per match — equivalent answers count
- Highest team average wins
How the scoring works.
The birthday quiz questions.
Who Knows Best? Each kid writes what the birthday kid would say, and every match is a point.
- Favourite colour?
- Favourite food?
- Favourite animal?
- Favourite movie or show?
- Favourite game?
- Favourite subject at school?
- Favourite snack?
- Favourite sport or activity?
- Favourite song or singer?
- What do they want to be when they grow up?
- Where would they most like to travel?
- Favourite ice-cream flavour?
- Favourite holiday?
- Cats or dogs?
- What would they buy with a million dollars?
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