Girls Night Out Games

Games for a night out, not a night in

These girls night out games are the rounds that still work when you are getting ready, sitting down to dinner, or squeezed into a booth. They are played from one phone, out loud, with a pass rule. They are a poor fit for a dance floor, a packed bar where nobody can hear, or a plan that never leaves the sofa. If the whole evening stays at home, use the girls night in games. That page compares player counts, kit, and minutes for a living room. This page asks a different question: where are you standing, and can the group hear one reader?

Two other pages get mixed up with a night out, and they do different jobs. The drinking games for girls night are sip rules for the decks: one small sip, a finger, or a sentence, agreed before the first card. Use that page when the forfeit is the point. Use this page when the venue is the point, and a drink is optional. A ladies night that stays indoors is the ladies night games. A weekend away, with more than one evening, is the girls trip games. A bottle that never leaves the kitchen table is the wine night games.

You can play these girls night out games online in the phone browser. There is no app and nothing to print. If you are already in the room and only want the next card, the games to play with friends on phone are the play-now list. Come back here when you still need to match the game to the venue. A fast pair of choices while you wait for a table is the this or that questions for friends. A question where the alternative to answering is an optional sip, which fits pre-drinks better than a club, is the truth or drink questions.

Where each girls night out game still works

Read the venue before you teach the game. If the row says pre-drinks, do not save it for the second bar. If the row says seated, do not start it in a queue.

How to play girls night out games from one phone

The phone deals a different set from any example you remember. These are the rules for being out. Skip a row that does not fit the room you are actually in.

1. Pre-drinks icebreakers

   Play this while people are still in the flat, shoes half on, before anyone orders a car. Players: 3 to 8. Time: about 8 minutes, one lap. The reader asks the card. The answer is one sentence, including from the host. A person who arrives late gets the next card, not a recap. Stop when the circle is done, even if the taxi is late. This is also the right round when someone is not drinking. The written cousin, if you would rather not open a deck yet, is the icebreaker games for adults.

   Play the Icebreakers deck

   Best for: the hour before you leave

2. Most Likely To, once you are seated

   Pointing only works when everyone can see the hands. That means a dinner table or a booth, not a crowd standing at the bar. Players: 4 to 8. Under four, the point is obvious. Over eight, the person at the end of the table is guessing. Read the prompt, count to three, and point together, including the reader. The person with the most fingers gets one sentence if she wants it. A tie stands. Point only at people who are playing. If a line jokes about a habit someone asked the group to drop, skip the card.

   Play the Most Likely To deck

   Best for: dinner or a booth

3. Would You Rather, on the way or at the table

   This survives a ride and a noisy restaurant because the choice is short. Read the first option, pause, then the second. Count to three. Left hand or right hand, or just say it. A reason stops at one sentence. Saying neither is a pass. Do not litigate a hypothetical until the server has been waiting. If the group is mixed, or someone new is at the table, stay on the lighter cards and leave Spicy off.

   Play the Would You Rather deck

   Best for: a group that will pick a side

4. This or that, while you are standing

   Use this between venues, in a coat queue, or while you wait to be seated. Two options, she picks one, and the turn is over. If she starts a story, you have changed games. Finish the card and switch on purpose, or ask her to pick and stop. There is no deck named this or that. Read the this or that questions, or open Would You Rather if you want the phone to deal the next fork. Six to eight picks is the whole round.

   Best for: a queue

5. Never Have I Ever, at pre-drinks only

   Save this for the flat. A bar makes it an interview, because people lean in to hear who moved and then ask for the story. Players: 4 to 8. Read the line. Anyone who has done it says so, or raises a hand. Do not demand the story. A drink is not required. If the group wants the admission to cost one small sip, stop and use the drinking games for girls night before the next card, and only if everyone drinking alcohol is of legal drinking age. Do not take this game to the club.

   Play the Never Have I Ever deck

   Best for: pre-drinks with friends who already know each other

6. One truth, then stop

   The card is already a truth, so she does not pick truth or dare first. She answers in one or two sentences, or she passes. Do not bargain a pass into a harder question. If the truth is about someone who is not out with you, it is an automatic pass. Players: 3 to 6. A larger circle makes this the whole night, and you still have a reservation. Play it at pre-drinks, not at the second bar. The written list with an optional sip, if that is the format you wanted, is the truth or drink questions. Dares belong on the truth or dare questions, and they still stay in the seat.

   Play the Truth deck

   Best for: a quieter pre-drinks

7. One booth challenge

   Read one challenge. She does it from her seat, or she passes. A voice, a toast to the person on her left, or a ten-second bit is the whole range. Three cards is the maximum. A camera, a post, a stranger, a bartender, a bouncer, or a trip onto the dance floor is an automatic pass, and nobody is teased for it. Nothing is filmed. The link selects only the Challenge deck.

   Play the Challenge deck

   Best for: one silly beat in a booth

Pre-drinks are part of the night out

Pre-drinks are the hour in the flat, or the first drink at the restaurant before the table fills up. It is still a night out, because the plan is to leave. It is also the only hour when a phone game is easy: people can hear, nobody is shouting over a speaker, and a pass does not have an audience of strangers. Play icebreakers, or one truth, or Never Have I Ever. Then stop. The game is not a reason to miss the booking.

If pre-drinks turns into the whole night, you have changed plans. Close this page and use the girls night in games. Staying in is a good night. Pretending you are still "out" while the shoes come off is how a short round becomes an interrogation. A soft drink counts as pre-drinks. Nobody has to finish a glass to earn the next card.

On the way, Would You Rather is the game that fits a car or a short walk, because it does not need pointing. This or that fits the pavement outside the venue. Once you are inside and the music is the point, the phone goes away. You can play another round at the next seated stop, or you can leave it. Two games is a full set of girls night out games to play. A third game is how someone misses the conversation she came for.

Bar, club, and dinner are not the same room

Dinner is the best public room for these games. You are seated, the table is yours for a while, and one voice can carry. Play Most Likely To or Would You Rather between ordering and the food, then stop when the plates arrive. A game that talks over dinner is a hosting mistake, not a livelier night.

A bar works when you have a booth or a corner where the reader can be heard without shouting. Standing at the bar itself is a queue, so use this or that, or wait. Do not play a confession there. Strangers are not a player, a judge, or a dare. Staff are not a player either. If a card would need their attention, skip it.

A club is for dancing and for the conversation you can have in a corridor or a seat, not for a deck. If you want one more round, step outside or sit down, play a short Would You Rather, and go back in. The dance floor is where phones get lost and where a "quick question" becomes a shout. Pocket it.

If the night out is hers, Bride Mode is a separate deck. Use it only when she asked, the people playing came for her, and she can pass. About 10 minutes, then back to a game from the table above. Do not open it in front of a room that did not come for a bride round. A full hosting plan is the bachelorette games on one phone. The link below selects only that deck.

Play the Bride Mode deck

After Dark is a separate 18+ deck. The game asks you to confirm that everyone playing is old enough before those cards are included. A night out is not a reason to open it. The 18+ question guide explains when that round fits, which is a seated group that has agreed, not a louder bar.

How the buttons open the game

Each button on this page opens setup with that one deck already selected and the others switched off. The level starts on Fun. Drop it to Chill for pre-drinks, for a new guest, or for any table where people are still careful with each other. Spicy stays off until the whole group wants it, and it still stays in the seat. Pass the phone after each card. About eight cards is a round, unless the row above gives you a shorter cap. The booth challenge stops at three.

You do not pay per venue. Pricing on this phone is the same as the rest of the site: first 6 cards free, full unlock one-time $4.99. It is not a subscription. This or that can be read from its guide with no unlock at all.

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