St. Patrick's Day 2024 is coming. The holiday can be a bit corny. But it also is the perfect excuse to have a party and drink green beer, right? Everyone loves harmless games, especially if someone will let you steal their Lucky Charms cereal from them later on.
Here are some simple, but fun St. Patrick's Day game ideas that will help you determine whether or not someone who cut you in line just might be your Leprechaun BFF.
1. Lucky Charms Thief
This is a crowd favorite, and all you need is a box of Lucky Charms cereal to play! What you do is find someone willing to participate, give them the box of Lucky Charms, and then sit back and watch. You sit there while everyone takes turns stealing some of the cereal from the unlucky "winner," but if they take too much, something bad will happen to them! Instant entertainment for kids and adults alike.
2. Leprechaun Trap
To play this game, you need a small child or some kind of animal, but other than that it's simple. You take different pieces of candy or cereal and arrange them in a pattern around the trap you've made to look like a treasure map for an "X" marking the spot. When your Leprechaun gets close enough to check out their "treasure," they will fall into the trap instead and you get to capture them! What's great about this game is that you can switch up the candy and cereal, and having a box of Lucky Charms and some Reese's cups works great.
3. Baby Photos
For this one, all you need are your cell phone and a group of friends. Every person takes turns showing baby pictures on their cell phone. If someone has a picture of any Leprechaun, St. Paddy's Day, or anything that reminds them of fun St. Patrick's Day games they have to drop out of the game and drink! Not only is it fun St. Patrick's Day games for your friends but you get to see some great baby pictures too!
4. Molly/Danny
For this one, you need a group of friends and a large amount of alcohol. Okay, so first you have to make sure everyone knows there are two people in the game: Molly and Danny. If someone says either name (or anything even remotely similar) they must take a drink! Then you go around until all but one person is passed out drunk and it's time to go find Danny and Molly! Everyone should split up into teams and get drinks for their team while you search. The last person standing wins!
5. Four Leaf Clover Hunt
For this one, everyone needs a four-leaf clover (you can purchase them at any grocery store or even make your own by cutting off the leaves of a regular four-leaf clover). When it's your turn, you need to find someone who already has a clover. Then if they hand it over without anything bad happening, the person with the four-leaf clover gets to make someone drink!
6. Lucky Charms Taste Test
This is another fun game that involves food. For this one, you need a box of Lucky Charms cereal and eight shots of Jameson Irish Whiskey. After everyone has their shot glass full of whiskey, they have to take turns pouring some Lucky Charms cereal into it until the glass is full. They must then try both at the same time! You can make this game more fun by giving the person who chooses to do these extra shots of Jameson because they are playing with fire.
7. Name That Leprechaun
This game can be played in teams or alone, depending on how many people you have at your party that night! The first person has to get up and recite a short poem about leprechauns without naming any. After that, the next person in their team or the second person up must then recite a poem that mentions anything in the previous poem. This game can go on for hours and get more difficult as it goes!
8. Leprechaun Limbo
For this one, you need either a long stick or even a broom pick up something long and wooden, like a ruler or broomstick. Then you must all play limbo with your leprechaun stick! If someone touches the ground, they have to take a drink!
9. Leprechaun Mad Libs
This is the adult version of Mad Libs where everyone puts in funny words that are fun St. Patrick's Day games related. You could have people write down words that are inside jokes for their group of friends, or just random funny words they've never seen before!
10. Leprechaun Drinking Relay
This is a race to see which team drinks the most as fast as possible (be careful not to die). Starting with "1" on their team's paper, everyone needs to write down a phrase and pass it along to the next person. The first team to finish drinks! Each number written on the paper must be done so in order and with one hand tied behind the back.
Final Thoughts
These are 10 fun St. Patrick's Day games to test your luck! The games are simple and easy for any party. Use this list as a guide to celebrate St. Patrick's Day better than ever!
