Christmas Games for Adults: Free Printable Bingo, Trivia and More (PDF)

Here are free printable Christmas games for adults in one 6-page PDF: two pages of adult Christmas bingo (four different cards), 20-question Christmas trivia, a 20-word Christmas word scramble, a read-aloud Left Right Christmas gift game, and an answer page for the host. Download the Christmas games PDF (free, US Letter, no email), print one copy per player and you have a full evening covered. Below is how to play each one, plus six more games for adults that need nothing printed. Christmas Day 2026 is a Friday, so most parties land on the weekend of December 19.

The free printable Christmas games

1. Christmas bingo for adults

Players: any number. You need: one card each, a pen.

This is not the kids’ bingo with snowmen and candy canes. The squares are things that happen at every grown-up Christmas: “A gift still has the price tag on,” “Someone falls asleep on the sofa,” “A present needs batteries nobody has,” “When are you two having kids?”, “Someone says just one more glass.” Hand the cards out before dinner, mark squares quietly as they happen, and the first person with a full line shouts “Ho ho ho!” and picks the next film. The free square in the middle says “Pour a drink,” which is the only rule anyone remembers.

The PDF has four different cards, two per page, so neighbours never have the same layout. With more than four players, print the pages twice and let people swap cards between rounds.

2. Christmas trivia for adults

Players: 4 or more, in teams. You need: the trivia page per team, the answer page for the host.

Twenty questions pitched at adults rather than at kids: which film’s Christmas party happens in Nakatomi Plaza, which country sends London its Trafalgar Square tree every year, what Iceland’s Christmas book flood is, which fast-food chain is a Christmas dinner in Japan, and how many gifts “The Twelve Days of Christmas” adds up to if you count every repeat (the table will argue about that one). Teams write their answers, the host reads the key, one point each. If a question starts a fight, the host’s answer stands.

3. Christmas word scramble

Players: any number, alone or in pairs. You need: one sheet each, a timer.

Twenty scrambled Christmas words, from the easy (SLEIGH, TINSEL) to the ones that hold people up (POINSETTIA, NUTCRACKER), with a few grown-up ones in the mix: MULLED WINE, SECRET SANTA, UGLY SWEATER, LEFTOVERS. Two-word answers stay as two scrambled words. Start a five-minute timer; the first correct sheet wins, or the most correct answers when time runs out. It is the quietest game in the pack, which makes it a good one to hand out while the food is still in the oven.

4. The Left Right Christmas game

Players: 6 or more. You need: one wrapped gift per person, the story page, one reader.

Everyone sits in a circle holding a small wrapped gift (set a budget, $10 works). The host reads the story aloud, and every time they say LEFT, everyone passes their gift to the left; every time they say RIGHT, to the right. Our story is an original one about the Wright family’s chaotic Christmas Eve, with 19 cues, and it ends with a twist line that tells everyone to keep whatever gift they are holding. Read it at a steady pace for the first paragraph, then speed up. The confusion is the point.

More Christmas games for adults (nothing to print)

These six are different from the sixteen in our Christmas games for adults to play at home list, so you can mix both without repeating yourself.

5. The plastic wrap ball

Before the party, wrap small prizes (chocolates, lottery scratchers, mini bottles, a $5 bill) into a huge ball of plastic wrap, layer by layer. Players sit in a circle. One person unwraps as fast as they can while the person on their left rolls a pair of dice; when the roller gets doubles, the ball moves on. Whatever you unwrap, you keep.

6. Snowball confessions

Everyone writes one true, slightly embarrassing Christmas memory on a sheet of paper, without a name, scrunches it into a “snowball” and throws it into the middle of the room. Each person picks up a random snowball, reads it aloud and guesses who wrote it. Expect to learn who once opened every present in the house at 4 a.m. and re-taped them.

7. Mystery stocking

Fill a thick stocking with ten odd household objects (a cookie cutter, a bauble, a wine cork, a tea light, a clothes peg). Each player gets 30 seconds to feel through the fabric and write down what is inside. Most correct guesses wins the stocking and whatever is in it.

8. Christmas film in three words

One player describes a Christmas film in exactly three words, and the room shouts guesses. “Boy, burglars, paint cans” is easy; “Office, terrorists, shoes” is a classic for a reason. Score a point for the describer and the first right guess.

9. White elephant with a twist

Run a normal gift swap, but every steal comes with a forfeit: the stealer has to tell the room which gift they would actually re-gift and to whom. It speeds the game up and stops the same three people stealing the same bottle of gin.

10. Party Roulette on one phone

For the stretch after dinner when nobody wants to organise anything, Party Roulette runs the game for you. Pass one phone around and spin: truth, dare or drink. It has 15 game modes and more than 700 prompts, it is built for adults (18+), and the whole group plays from a single phone. If your crowd prefers confessions to dares, Never Have I Ever works the same way: one phone, one question at a time.

How to run a Christmas game night for adults

• Print the night before. Two bingo pages, one trivia page per team, one scramble per player, one story, one answer page. About 15 sheets for eight people.
• Start quiet, finish loud. Bingo runs in the background all evening; the scramble fills the wait before dinner; trivia goes after the main course; Left Right and the plastic wrap ball go last, when people are full and silly.
• Keep prizes small and silly. Last slice of pie, first pick of the film, out of dish duty. Real prizes make people play to win and stop playing to laugh.
• Mixed ages? Every printable game here is clean. The adult bits are the bingo squares and the jokes, not the content, so grandparents and older teens can play too.

Common questions

Are these Christmas games really free to print?

Yes. The PDF is free, with no email and no sign-up. Print it at home or at a print shop as many times as you like for personal and party use.

Does the PDF print on A4?

It is set to US Letter, and it prints fine on A4 at 100% or with “fit to page”; nothing important sits near the edges.

What is the best Christmas game for a big group of adults?

Bingo, because it scales to any number of players and runs in the background while people eat and talk. For a big group that wants something active, the plastic wrap ball and the Left Right game both work with 10 or more.

How do you play the Left Right Christmas game?

Everyone sits in a circle holding a wrapped gift while one person reads a story aloud. Pass your gift to the left when you hear LEFT and to the right when you hear RIGHT. When the story ends, you keep whatever you are holding.

What Christmas games can adults play without printing anything?

Snowball confessions, Christmas film in three words, the mystery stocking and a phone game like Party Roulette need nothing printed. Our at-home Christmas games list has sixteen more, and the Thanksgiving printable works for a November warm-up.