9 Housewarming Party Game Ideas

Make sure your housewarming party is more than just a parade full of endless house tours with these fun housewarming party games. They'll show off your new home and get your guests laughing all at the same time.

Since you've recently moved, all these games are easy to set up and use items that you probably already have. This will make the party fun for you too, with an easy setup and no stress fun.

If you're looking for something a bit more general, these party games for adults would be great to incorporate into your housewarming party.

If you'd like to give away small prizes for the winner of these games, a great idea that everyone will love is gift cards. To keep the home theme going, give out gift cards from Home Depot, Lowe's, Michaels, or Jo-Anns. Other ideas include kitchen accessories, plants, candles, candy, and keychains. Anything house-related will be a hit but you can choose just about anything and your guests will love them.

Keep Your Key

Keep Your Key is a game all about what you shouldn't say. You'll want to choose some forbidden words that your guests can get caught saying at a housewarming party. Some examples of forbidden words that you can choose include house, home, mailbox, paint, kitchen, TV, etc. Print off some key stickers or labels and fill them in with a different forbidden word for each guest. When guests arrive at the party, stick a key sticker on them and let the fun begin. The guest is not allowed to say the word on their key for the entire party.

When a guest hears another guest say the word you've chosen, then they can steal their key sticker for themselves. This adds another word that the guest can not say during the party. The person with the most keys at the end of the party is the winner.

New House Scavenger Hunt

A great way to get your guests to pay attention to those special new home details is a scavenger hunt. You can ask guests to find answers to questions about your new home, neighborhood, decor, and more.

You could create your own scavenger hunt, or print off this How Well Do You Know Us? free printable that's all ready to go. They ask questions like the model of your car, your house number, the number of closets in the home, and many more fun questions that will make sure your guests notice everything about your new home.

Room Memory

Here's a housewarming game that will test your guests' memories while they work in small teams or families. Pick a room in your home and let a small group of guests at a time go in for two minutes. When they exit, ask them to write down items like appliances, accessories, and decorations that they remember seeing in the room. The winner is the team with the most correct answers.

Pick a Card, Any Card

Have a pile of moving announcement cards ready for guests to pick up so they have your new address. Make it a game by writing a number in the bottom corner that corresponds to those written on slips of paper. After everyone has their cards, draw a number. The person with the same number on their moving card is the winner! This game is fun while making sure that everyone has your new address.

Famous House Match

Print out pictures of houses made famous by a TV show or movie. Houses like the "Home Alone" house, the "Psycho House", and "The Brady Bunch" house are all included. See how many guests can guess which house belongs to which show. The winner gets a prize!

House Style Crossword

How much do your guests know about the styles of houses? Find out in this low-key housewarming party game where they'll identify 19 types of houses in a printable crossword puzzle. There's not an answer key, so you'll have to figure it out as well.

Unscramble Our House

Have guests write down on a sheet of paper how many words they can spell with the letters used in the word h-o-u-s-e. Hint: There are 27 of them!

Don't stop there! You could also have guests unscramble your last name or new street name. You could also choose different words like home, family, neighborhood, etc. The possibilities are truly endless.

Oven Mitt Unwrap

Have your guests sit in a circle. Hand one player a pair of dice and the player to the right of them a wrapped gift and an oven mitt. The person with the dice starts rolling while the other person puts on the oven mitt and begins to try to unwrap the gift. Once the player with the dice gets a double, the dice goes to the person on the left and now it's their turn to try to unwrap the gift.

Keep going around in the same way until someone gets the gift unwrapped and open. The player who does so gets to keep the gift.

Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt

Show off your new neighborhood with a scavenger hunt that will encourage guests to get out and see what they can find. You can make your own list or use a printable scavenger hunt list to get started right away. If you want to keep guests inside you can create a photo scavenger hunt and have your guests take photos on their phone of certain items in your house.

If there are children at your housewarming party, you can have an outside scavenger hunt so they can go out and explore your yard and new neighborhood.