Article published: October 7th, 2024

30 Outrageously Fun Stag Do Games (Because What’s a Stag Do Without a Little Public Humiliation?)

Play these games, and you’re guaranteed a night of belly laughs, questionable decisions, and someone definitely losing their dignity. Whether you’re aiming for harmless fun or full-blown chaos, we’ve got something for everyone. Now buckle up, it’s about to get messy!
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1. The Couples Quiz
What it is: The ultimate test to see if the groom knows his partner better than the rest of the group. Spoiler: He doesn’t.
How to play: Before the big night, get the groom’s partner to answer a list of revealing questions about the groom. On the night, hit the groom with the same questions. For every wrong answer, he drinks. For every right answer, the rest of the group drinks (because fairness is overrated).
Bonus: If you’re feeling particularly evil, record the partner’s answers on video and play them after the groom guesses—nothing says true love like public embarrassment.
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2. Beer Pong (or Prosecco Pong for the Classy Stag)
What it is: A simple, boozy classic that brings out the competitive streak in everyone.
How to play: Two teams face off across a table with cups arranged in a pyramid. Each cup is half-filled with beer (or any drink of choice). The goal? Throw a ping pong ball into the opposing team’s cups. If you score, they drink. The first team to clear all the opponent’s cups wins, while the losers deal with the aftermath (usually by downing whatever’s left).
Pro tip: Up the ante with creative drinks in each cup. Beer in some, tequila in others. Or, if you really hate yourselves, throw in a shot of hot sauce.
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3. Wizard’s Staff
What it is: For the Harry Potter fans… or anyone who just loves an excuse to stack beer cans.
How to play: Every time someone finishes a can of beer, they tape it to the previous one, creating a “staff.” The more you drink, the longer your staff (and the wobblier you get). You achieve wizard status based on how many cans you’ve got—5 cans, you’re a mere apprentice. 10 cans? Congrats, you’re Gandalf.
Pro tip: You can’t discard your staff without having a duel (yes, that means wizard battles in the street).
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4. Toy Soldiers
What it is: A game inspired by childhood nostalgia, but with adult-level consequences.
How to play: Everyone gets a toy soldier figurine at the start of the night, and they’re assigned a specific pose. At any random point, the best man yells “Assume the position!” and everyone must freeze in their soldier’s stance. The last one to strike the pose? Time for a forfeit, my friend—think shots, dares, or public humiliation.
Pro tip: Want to take it up a notch? Get some green face paint and cheap army outfits. Nothing says “fun night out” like stumbling around dressed like a plastic soldier.
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5. Statues
What it is: Like Toy Soldiers, but sneakier.
How to play: Throughout the night, the best man will randomly stop and freeze like a statue. Everyone else has to follow suit. The last to notice? They’re the loser and must face a penalty—buying the next round, performing a dare, or worse.
Pro tip: As the drinks flow, this game gets exponentially harder and funnier. Perfect for keeping everyone on their toes (or, more accurately, on their faces).
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6. Send to All
What it is: The cruellest, most hilarious phone game you could possibly play on someone.
How to play: The groom isn’t allowed to touch his phone all night. If he does? The group gets control of it, and you can send one text to all his contacts. Make it as innocent or cringe-worthy as you like—bonus points if it involves his boss or his mum.
Pro tip: This game is high risk, high reward. Make sure someone’s sober enough to handle the fallout (or, at the very least, run away quickly).
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7. Heavyweight Champion of the World
What it is: A wrestling-style competition where you fight for the ultimate glory—well, mostly for bragging rights and shots.
How to play: The stag starts the night wearing a “championship belt.” Any member of the group can challenge him to a task (anything from who can down a pint the fastest to who can get the most random person to dance with them). Whoever wins, keeps the belt. At the end of the night, the last one wearing it is crowned the heavyweight champion—until next time.
Pro tip: You can make the belt from literally anything. Cardboard, tinfoil—get creative.
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8. Team Sipping
What it is: A relay race, but with drinking.
How to play: Split into teams, line up, and give everyone a drink. The first person downs their drink as fast as possible, then the next person goes, and so on. First team to finish wins, while the losers get to plan their next trip to the bathroom.
Pro tip: This game is all about strategy—put your fastest drinkers first or last for maximum chaos.
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9. Flip Cup
What it is: A drinking game that’s surprisingly difficult once you’ve had a few.
How to play: Players face off in teams, and each player must down their drink, then flip their empty cup upside down by flicking the rim. Once they successfully flip it, the next teammate goes. First team to flip all their cups wins.
Pro tip: The trick is in the flick, but after a few rounds, it’s also in the patience—and the ability to not throw the cup across the room in frustration.
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10. Drunk Jenga
What it is: Jenga, but with dares that will make you question your life choices.
How to play: Before the game, write dares or penalties on each block. As you pull a block, you have to perform the dare written on it. Knock over the tower? That’s an automatic drink for you—and a fresh round of dares for everyone else.
Pro tip: Get creative with the dares. Anything from “sing your favorite boy band song” to “text your ex.” Yeah, it can get brutal.
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11. Scavenger Hunt
What it is: A classic for any stag do—send the groom (or teams) off to find ridiculous items.
How to play: Create a list of things to find throughout the night: a selfie with a stranger, a traffic cone, someone else’s underwear (you decide how weird to get). First team back with all the items wins. Losers face whatever punishment you decide.
Pro tip: Want to make it extra spicy? Add photo or video evidence challenges. Trust us, the weirder, the better.
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12. Ring of Fire
What it is: The king of all drinking games. It’s infamous for a reason.
How to play: Lay a deck of cards face down in a ring around a pint glass. Each card has a rule attached to it (e.g., 2 = you pick someone to drink, 8 = mate, meaning you pick a drinking buddy who has to drink whenever you do). Keep playing until the final card is pulled. Whoever pulls the last King has to chug the contents of the glass in the centre—often a delightful concoction of everything everyone’s been drinking all night.
Pro tip: Print out the rules to avoid drunken arguments about what “3” means. You’ll thank us later.
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13. The Human Doodle
What it is: A living, breathing canvas of public embarrassment.
How to play: Dress the groom in an all-white outfit, hand out marker pens, and let everyone scribble messages or doodles on him throughout the night. By the end, he’ll look like a walking yearbook—except with far more inappropriate content.
Pro tip: This is especially fun in public places, where strangers can get in on the action. Consider it a mobile guest book for the worst moments of the night.
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14. Who Are Ya?
What it is: A guessing game where everyone adopts ridiculous personas.
How to play: Write the names of famous people, animals, or objects on bits of paper and have each player draw one from a hat. From then on, whenever someone yells “Who are ya?”, the player must instantly act out their character. The last one to respond? Time for a forfeit.
Pro tip: The weirder the characters, the funnier the game. Think “chicken on roller skates” or “David Hasselhoff circa 1990.”
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15. God Save the King
What it is: A drinking game that’s about speed, not strategy.
How to play: Drop a penny into someone’s drink. When they find it, they have to down the drink to “save” the King (or Queen, depending on whose face is on the coin). The person who downed the drink gets to drop the penny into someone else’s drink.
Pro tip: It’s simple, savage, and perfect for a fast buzz.
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16. Shot Roulette
What it is: A game of chance where you either drink water… or get blindsided by vodka.
How to play: Line up an equal number of shot glasses filled with water and vodka (or another clear spirit). Players take turns picking a shot and downing it while keeping a poker face. The group then tries to guess whether they had water or vodka. If the group guesses right? You take another shot.
Pro tip: Don’t be a hero. The more you try to fool everyone, the harder you’ll fall.
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17. Mr Prime Minister
What it is: Basically an adult version of the classic game “bundles,” with more drama.
How to play: Every time the best man raises his hand to his ear like he’s receiving an important message, everyone must shout “Get down, Mr. Prime Minister!” and throw themselves in front of the groom to “protect” him from invisible attackers.
Pro tip: Bonus points for actually tackling the groom in public places—because who doesn’t love a good pile-up on a busy street?
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18. Arrogance
What it is: A test of just how cocky you’re feeling after a few pints.
How to play: Players take turns pouring as much of their drink as they want into a communal glass, then flip a coin and call heads or tails. Get it right, you pass the glass to the next player. Get it wrong, you chug the entire mixture (and pray the last person wasn’t drinking a nasty combo of tequila and Guinness).
Pro tip: The more “creative” the drinks in the glass, the more likely you’ll regret playing.
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19. The No Name Game
What it is: A simple but surprisingly difficult verbal game that’ll trip up even the most sober among you.
How to play: You’re not allowed to use anyone’s name—ever. If you do, you take a drink. Sounds easy, right? Wait until you’re a few rounds in and desperately trying to describe “that guy over there who used to be roommates with the groom’s cousin.”
Pro tip: It’s harder than it sounds. The more familiar you are with the group, the worse it gets.
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20. Question Master
What it is: A game of verbal trickery that’ll leave you questioning everything (pun intended).
How to play: One person is named the Question Master, and anytime they ask a question, the first person to answer it must drink. The only way to avoid drinking is to respond with another question. The title of Question Master then passes to the person who successfully asks a question in return. Confused yet? You will be.
Pro tip: As the night goes on, this game becomes absolute chaos, and everyone ends up drinking.
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21. Badge of Honour
What it is: A series of challenges where you earn ridiculous badges like a dysfunctional Boy Scout.
How to play: Create tasks that must be completed to earn badges (e.g., best beer mat tower, most push-ups, or fastest pint-downing). At the end of the night, the stag with the most badges is the undisputed badge champion.
Pro tip: Make the badges funny. No one wants to be “Best Push-Up Guy,” but “Beer Mat Architect”? That’s something to brag about.
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22. Pub Golf
What it is: Golf, but with pubs instead of greens, and drinks instead of golf balls.
How to play: Every pub is a “hole,” and the number of sips it takes to finish your drink is your “par.” If you can finish your pint in two gulps, congrats, you’ve just hit a birdie! By the end of the night, someone’s a winner, and everyone else is far too drunk to care.
Pro tip: Keep score… if you can. By hole 6, things will probably start getting a bit blurry.
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23. Bucket of Doom
What it is: A storytelling game where you spin ridiculous survival scenarios to avoid a bucket of doom.
How to play: Draw a survival scenario (e.g., trapped in a room with a hungry bear) and then come up with the most ridiculous way to survive using only the random items you draw from the “bucket.” The group votes on the best (and funniest) story.
Pro tip: This is the perfect game for the stag who’s a bit of a drama queen.
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24. Drunk Toss
What it is: A ring toss game that gets harder the drunker you get.
How to play: Set up a ring toss, but add drinks and penalties for missed shots. The further off the mark you are, the more you drink.
Pro tip: Make the rings smaller and the stakes higher. If you want to up the ante, personalize the targets with dares or challenges.
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25. Bar Games Beer Mats
What it is: Classic bar games, but simplified and printed on beer mats. No rules to remember, just grab a mat and play.
How to play: Each beer mat has a different game or challenge. Simple, quick, and hilarious. Keep a few in your pocket for when you need to liven up the night or fill a gap between drinks.
Pro tip: Perfect for spontaneous bar challenges. No fuss, all fun.
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26. KLASK
What it is: A magnetized mix of air hockey and table football, guaranteed to bring out the competitive side in everyone.
How to play: It’s like table football but played with magnets and a tiny ball. The goal? Knock the ball into your opponent’s hole while avoiding the magnets on the board.
Pro tip: This is a great game for keeping things competitive without getting too boozy. But be warned, it gets addictive.
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27. Trunk of Drunk
What it is: Eight classic drinking games in one convenient box.
How to play: This kit has everything you need for a proper drinking session: beer pong, ring of fire, flip cup, you name it. Rules are set out so there’s no arguing about who’s doing it wrong—just play and drink!
Pro tip: This is for when you want maximum drinking with minimal planning.
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28. Would You Rather Challenges
What it is: The classic “Would You Rather” game, but with a boozy twist.
How to play: Each stag takes turns asking a “Would you rather?” question. The catch? Whoever answers with the least popular choice must drink. The questions can be as innocent or as wild as you want.
Pro tip: The more controversial the question, the more hilarious the game. Make it personal, and watch the chaos unfold.
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29. Stag Do T-Shirt Dares
What it is: Dares printed on a t-shirt, so no one can escape their tasks throughout the night.
How to play: Everyone gets a shirt with their own personal dares printed on it. The goal? Complete all the tasks on your shirt before the night is over. The more creative and embarrassing, the better.
Pro tip: Give the groom a t-shirt with extra-difficult or humiliating dares to keep him in the spotlight (where he belongs).
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30. Scratch Off Stag Do Dares
What it is: A mystery dare game where each stag gets a hidden challenge.
How to play: Hand out scratch-off dare cards at the beginning of the night, and let each player reveal their challenge when the time is right. The beauty is in the mystery—you won’t know what embarrassing task you’re facing until it’s too late.
Pro tip: Save the scratch-offs for when the night starts to slow down—because nothing reignites the fun like an impromptu dare to serenade a stranger.
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Dos & Don’ts for Playing Stag Do Games (Because We’re Adults… Sort Of)
Do: Make sure everyone can participate, even if they’re not drinking. No one wants to feel left out (or left standing while everyone else is under the table).
Don’t: Start the heavy stuff too early. Keep the big drinking games for later in the night—trust us, you don’t want to peak too soon.
Do: Tailor the games to the stag’s personality. Is he a massive Star Wars fan? Make him dress like Yoda. Does he hate public speaking? Well, guess who’s making a speech at the next pub.
Don’t: Try to play all 30 games in one night. Less is more, lads. Pick a few winners and let the rest unfold naturally.
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And there you have it—30 stag do games guaranteed to leave a trail of memories (and maybe some injuries) behind.

 

Have fun with it you nutters!

Greg 🙂