32 Baby Shower Games That Don't Suck (For Large Groups, Mixed Crowds and Online, With Quiz Answers)

By The Rondovo team · Published September 10, 2026 · Updated October 11, 2026 · 15 min read

The best baby shower games are quick, easy to explain and fun for guests who don't know each other, and they never make the parents-to-be the joke. Below are 32 baby shower games that don't suck: mingling games for large groups, games that work for mixed crowds of men and women, quizzes with original questions and answers, games with no supplies, and versions you can play online or print at home.

We left out the games people dread. Nothing here measures a bump, asks anyone to taste mystery mush or makes a guest drink from a baby bottle in front of the room.

In short

• Plan 3 or 4 games, not 10. About 45 minutes of games in a 2 to 3 hour shower is plenty.
• For large groups: one mingling game at the start (Find the Guest, Don't Say Baby), one quiz everyone does at their seat, and gift bingo while presents are opened.
• For mixed crowds: team quizzes, Price Guess and Nappy Relay work for everyone. Skip anything that assumes all guests are women.
• No supplies: Don't Say Baby (without the pegs), Baby Animal Names, Rhyme Time and the parents quiz need only a pen.
• Online: quizzes, baby photo guessing and a scavenger hunt all work on a video call.
• Jump to: large groups, quizzes with answers, mixed crowds, creative, no supplies, online, printable.

What makes a baby shower game not suck

Most bad shower games fail in one of four ways. Avoid these and almost anything works.

• They embarrass the guest of honour. Measuring the bump with toilet paper, guessing their weight, or anything about their body. The parent-to-be is the host's guest, not a prop.
• They take too long to explain. If the rules need more than two sentences, guests who arrived late will sit it out.
• They assume everyone is a woman, or a mum. Many showers now have partners, dads, grandads, friends and colleagues of every gender. Say "parents-to-be" and pick games anyone can win.
• They put shy people on the spot. Team games and seated quizzes beat "stand up and perform" for a room of strangers.

Who it's for matters too. Run every game past the parents-to-be first. Some love baby photos and gross-out games; some would rather do crafts and a quiz. Their shower, their call.

Pick the right game for your shower

Baby shower games for large groups

These work with 20, 40 or 80 guests because everyone plays at once, at their seat or while mingling.

1. Find the Guest

Hand out a sheet with 16 squares, each a small fact: "has changed a nappy this year", "was born in a different country", "is a twin", "has the same birth month as the parent-to-be". Guests find someone who matches each square and get their name. First full sheet wins. The best icebreaker for strangers, because it forces introductions.

2. Don't Say Baby

Each guest gets a clothes peg (or a ribbon, or a sticker) on arrival. Anyone who hears another guest say "baby" can take their peg. Whoever has the most pegs at the end wins. It runs on its own all afternoon. No pegs? Keep a tally on a card instead.

3. Gift Bingo

Guests fill a blank 5 by 5 grid with gifts they think the parents will open (bib, blanket, board book, bath toy). As each present is unwrapped, they mark it off. First line wins. It gives everyone something to do during the longest part of any shower.

4. Predictions Board

A big poster or a shared sheet where guests guess the birth date, weight, time of birth, hair colour and first word. Keep it until the baby arrives and send a small prize to whoever is closest. It costs nothing and keeps guests connected afterwards.

5. Guess the Sweets in the Bottle

Fill a baby bottle or a jar with small sweets. Guests write their guess on a slip with their name. Closest wins the jar. Zero effort to run, and it suits arrivals at different times.

6. Melt the Ice

Freeze a tiny plastic toy in an ice cube for each adult guest's drink (keep these away from young children). The first person whose toy breaks free shouts "my ice has melted!" and wins a prize. Guests can't touch, blow on or stir the cube, which is harder than it sounds.

7. Mystery Gift Feel

Pass round a few gifts still in their bags or wrapped. Guests feel each one and write down what they think it is. Most correct wins. It works best with odd-shaped gifts like a bath thermometer or a stacking toy.

8. Nappy Raffle

Ask guests to bring a pack of nappies with the invitation. Each pack earns a raffle ticket, and the draw happens at the end. The parents leave with a month's supply. Worth explaining on the invite so nobody feels caught out.

Baby shower quizzes with answers

All four quizzes below were written for this page. Print them, read them out in teams, or put them on a screen. Team quizzes are best for large groups: tables of six to eight, one answer sheet each.

9. Baby Facts Quiz

Ten questions, checked against health sources such as the NHS. Read the question, give teams 20 seconds, then reveal the answer.

1. Roughly how many bones does a newborn have? Somewhere around 270 to 300, depending on how you count them. Many fuse as the child grows, which is why adults have 206.
2. Around what age do most babies get their first tooth? Around 6 months, though some start before 4 months and some after their first birthday (source: NHS).
3. How many teeth are in a full set of baby teeth? 20. Most children have them all by about age 3.
4. A full-term pregnancy is usually counted as about how many weeks? 40 weeks, counted from the first day of the last period.
5. What is the soft spot on top of a baby's head called? The fontanelle.
6. Which land animal has the longest pregnancy? The elephant: about 22 months.
7. At around what age are babies usually started on solid food? Around 6 months.
8. A "neonate" is a baby in its first how many days? 28 days.
9. True or false: newborns spend more of the day asleep than awake. True. They sleep in short stretches, waking every few hours to feed.
10. What are a baby's first teeth usually called? Milk teeth (or primary teeth, or baby teeth).

10. Baby Animal Names

Name the baby. One point each, bonus point for anyone who gets all twelve.

1. Kangaroo: joey
2. Swan: cygnet
3. Owl: owlet
4. Hare: leveret
5. Goose: gosling
6. Deer: fawn
7. Frog: tadpole
8. Horse: foal
9. Goat: kid
10. Eel: elver
11. Pigeon: squab
12. Elephant: calf

11. Rhyme Time

Name the nursery rhyme from our short description. No singing required, titles only.

1. An egg that should never have sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty
2. Two children, one hill, one pail of water: Jack and Jill
3. A small star that someone keeps wondering about: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
4. A spider that keeps climbing back up the drainpipe: Incy Wincy Spider (Itsy Bitsy Spider in the US)
5. A lamb that followed its owner to school: Mary Had a Little Lamb
6. A mouse that ran up a clock: Hickory Dickory Dock
7. A cow that jumped over the moon: Hey Diddle Diddle
8. A duke who marched his soldiers up a hill and down again: The Grand Old Duke of York

12. Who Knows the Parents Best

Before the shower, ask the parents-to-be to answer these privately. At the party, guests write their guesses, then the parents reveal the answers. One point per match.

1. Where did the parents meet?
2. What was their first date?
3. Who is the better cook?
4. What is the parent-to-be's biggest food craving right now?
5. Which of them will be stricter?
6. Who will change more nappies in the first month?
7. What is their favourite film to watch together?
8. Who is more likely to cry at the first school play?
9. What's one baby name they've ruled out?
10. Which of them was the noisier baby, according to their parents?
11. Who will be in charge of bedtime stories?
12. What's the first holiday they'd like to take as a family?

Keep it kind. Questions about the couple's story, never about their bodies, money or anything they might not want shared with the whole room.

13. Baby Word Scramble

Unscramble the baby words. Easy enough for any age, good as a printable while guests arrive.

Baby shower games for men and women

These work for co-ed showers and couples' showers: competitive, quick and nothing that assumes guests have been pregnant or changed a nappy before.

14. Price Guess

Hold up five baby items (a pack of nappies, a tub of wipes, a sleepsuit, a baby monitor, a car seat cover) and have guests write what they think each costs. Closest total wins. Everyone is surprised by at least one price, especially guests without kids.

15. Nappy Relay

Teams of four race to put a nappy on a baby doll, take it off and pass the doll on. Fastest team wins. Clean, quick and very funny with first-time uncles.

16. Bottle Building Race

Give each team a bottle in pieces (bottle, teat, ring, cap) and a measured amount of water. First team to assemble it with no leaks wins. It teaches something useful and nobody has to drink anything.

17. Who Said It?

Before the shower, collect a few short quotes from each parent-to-be about parenting ("I'm going to be the fun one"). Read them out and guests guess who said it. Funnier the more different the two parents are.

18. Baby Pictionary

Teams take turns drawing baby words (pram, rattle, nursery, midnight feed) while their team guesses against a 60 second timer. Our Pictionary words guide has the full rules and a dice method for picking words.

19. Baby Charades

The same idea, acted out: burping a baby, rocking a cradle, a first step, a 3am feed. Our charades ideas list explains the classic hand signals.

20. Stack the Nappies

Teams build the tallest tower out of nappy packs or wrapped nappies in 60 seconds. The tower has to stand for five seconds after time is called. The nappies go home with the parents.

21. Name Game

Give teams three minutes to list as many baby names as they can starting with the first letter of one parent's name. Longest list of real names wins. Read out the best ones, but don't let anyone try to name the baby for them.

Creative and keepsake games

Quieter games that leave the parents with something to keep. Good for smaller showers and as a station guests drift to between other games.

22. Wishes for the Baby

Each guest writes a wish for the baby on a card ("I hope you love the sea as much as your mum"). The parents read them later, or one a year on each birthday.

23. Advice Cards

Cards with prompts like "the best thing about being a parent is..." or "when all else fails, try...". Guests fill one in. The advice is often more useful than the gifts.

24. Decorate a Sleepsuit

Set up a table with plain sleepsuits or bibs and fabric pens. Guests decorate one each. The parents get a drawer full of one-off clothes, and the best design wins a prize.

25. Story Chain

Pass a notebook round the room. Each guest writes one sentence of a bedtime story starring the baby, then folds the page so the next person only sees the last line. Read the whole thing aloud at the end. It is always ridiculous.

26. Time Capsule

Guests bring or write something from today: a news headline, the price of bread, a prediction about the future, a favourite song title. Seal it in a box to open on the child's 18th birthday.

27. Baby Photo Match

Ask guests to send a baby photo before the shower. Number them on a board and have guests guess who is who. With a mixed crowd, include both parents' photos and see who guesses those first.

Baby shower games with no supplies

No printing, no props, nothing to buy. Good for a last-minute shower or an office break room.

28. Alphabet Baby

Go round the room naming baby items in alphabetical order: apron, bib, cot, dummy... Anyone who hesitates for more than five seconds is out. Last guest standing wins.

29. Two Truths About the Parents

The host makes three statements about the parents-to-be, one of them false. Guests vote on the lie. Our guide to two truths and a lie has tips for writing good ones.

30. Hum the Lullaby

One guest hums a lullaby or a children's TV theme and the others guess the title. No words, so nobody has to sing in front of strangers. Score one point per correct guess.

Online and virtual baby shower games

For showers on a video call, when family is spread across countries or someone can't travel. Most of the quizzes above work as they are: the host screen-shares the questions and guests type answers in the chat.

31. Home Scavenger Hunt

The host calls out an item ("something yellow", "a book you loved as a child", "something soft enough for a baby") and guests race to find it at home and hold it to the camera. First back wins a point.

32. Baby Photo Guess on Screen

The online version of Baby Photo Match: the host shares one guest's baby photo at a time and everyone types who they think it is. Collect the photos by email a week before.

Tips for online showers: keep the call to 75 minutes, play games in the first half while energy is high, and mail small prizes after the shower. Unmute everyone for the gift opening so the parents hear the reactions.

Printable baby shower games

If you want to print, these are the ones worth the ink:

• Find the Guest sheet (16 squares)
• Gift Bingo blank 5 by 5 grids
• Baby Facts Quiz and Baby Animal Names answer sheets, one per table
• Baby Word Scramble (print the left column only, keep the answers for yourself)
• Rhyme Time, descriptions only
• Predictions Board, as a poster
• Wishes and Advice cards, four to an A4 sheet

Print a few more than your guest count; someone always spills a drink on theirs.

Prize ideas that people actually want

Small, useful and not baby-themed (most guests don't need a dummy keyring). A box of good chocolates, a plant, a candle, a coffee shop gift card, a jar of local honey, a fancy hand cream, a book voucher. For couples' showers, a pair of cinema tickets goes down well.

Hosting tips

• Run games in the first half. People are freshest early. Save the gift opening and cake for the end.
• Assign a games helper. The host has enough to do. A friend with a clipboard and a timer keeps things moving.
• Give the parents-to-be a seat, not a role. They should be able to watch, laugh and play, not perform.
• Have a plan for kids. A colouring table with baby animals or a simple craft keeps young guests happy while adults play the quizzes.
• Watch the clock. Ten to fifteen minutes per game. Stop while people are still enjoying it.

For bigger celebrations, our guide to party games for large groups has more games that run with 30 or more people, and games to play with no props is handy for a last-minute shower.

Bingo, tambola and drawing games on a TV

If the shower has a TV, you can turn it into the game board. Bingo and tambola are shower favourites, especially in India, where tambola is a popular game at a godh bharai or a baby shower. Both work with paper tickets, but keeping a big group on track is easier when the numbers come up on a screen.

Our Bingo is free and is the 75-ball kind on a 5 by 5 card: the host makes a room, guests join at rondovo.com on their own device with the four letter code (no download, no account), build their card or take a random one, and tap numbers as they're called. A TV is optional: open rondovo.com/tv in its browser and the calls go up on the big screen. The host picks the winning shape (a line, the corners, a cross or the full card) and can pay out up to three places, which suits a prize table. Tambola works the same way with 15-number tickets and the classic prizes: early five, rows, corners and full house. Both take 2 to 16 screens, so for a shower of 40, seat guests in pairs or small teams with one screen each. Note that these are number games with no custom squares; Gift Bingo above is still the one for gift opening. For an online shower, everyone opens the room on their own device and picks "Just this screen", so nobody has to share their screen on the call. Our guide to bingo online with friends has the details.

For a drawing round, Scrawl has guests draw on their own screen while everyone watches it live on the TV. Its built-in word list is general, not baby-themed, so use the paper version above if you want only baby words. Face Up, our forehead guessing game, is a lively one for a mixed crowd. If you're running tambola for the first time, our tambola rules and tickets guide covers the prizes and calls, and the party games guide has the rest.

Questions people ask

What are good baby shower games that don't suck?

Ones that are quick to explain, get guests talking and never make the parents-to-be uncomfortable. Find the Guest, Don't Say Baby, a team quiz, Price Guess and Wishes for the Baby are reliable for almost any crowd.

How many games should you play at a baby shower?

Three or four is enough for a two to three hour shower. Plan one mingling game, one team game or quiz, and one activity during gift opening. More than that and guests start checking the time.

What baby shower games work for large groups?

Games everyone plays at once: Find the Guest, Don't Say Baby, Gift Bingo, a guessing jar and team quizzes at each table. Avoid relay races and anything where guests take turns one by one, which takes forever with 40 people.

What baby shower games can men and women play together?

Competitive team games where nobody needs baby experience: Price Guess, Nappy Relay, Bottle Building Race, Stack the Nappies, Baby Pictionary and the quizzes. Mixed teams make them better.

What are baby shower games with no supplies?

Don't Say Baby with a tally instead of pegs, Alphabet Baby, Two Truths About the Parents, Hum the Lullaby, and any of the quizzes read aloud. All you need is a pen, or nothing at all.

How do you play baby shower games online?

Use a video call with screen sharing. Quizzes, baby photo guessing, Who Knows the Parents Best and a home scavenger hunt all work well. Keep it to about 75 minutes and post the prizes afterwards.

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