13 Fun St. Patrick’s Day Games For Adults

Planning a St. Patrick’s Day celebration? We’ve got 13 suggestions for St. Patrick’s Day games for adults. These games will help you keep your guests engaged the whole time and will provide opportunities for everyone in attendance to meet and interact. So don your green attire, raise a toast, and let the games begin!

A quick word of advice: although incorporating fun activities into your St. Patrick’s Day party is key to a memorable event, so is throwing it at a top-notch venue! Perhaps you don’t want to have it at home, or maybe your planned guest list is longer than your own space can accommodate. Whatever your reason for renting a venue, you can find all kinds of amazing party venues near you on Peerspace, the largest online marketplace for hourly space rentals. 

1. St. Patrick’s Day quiz

Test your guests on their depth of knowledge of St. Patrick’s Day and Irish culture with this amazingly detailed quiz, which is made up of five rounds and has a total of 55 questions! Plus, to play this (and many of the other suggestions on this list) you don’t have to order the paper quiz and wait for it to arrive in the mail—it’s easy to print out from the image above.

2. Find the pot of gold

Fill a small, black, cauldron-shaped container at least halfway with gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins. Then, hide this pot of gold in a secret spot somewhere on the premises of the party. Where you hide it (and how hard it is to find) is up to you, but whoever finds it first is the lucky winner!

3. St. Patrick’s Day “Find the Guest” bingo

This is an ideal St. Patrick’s Day game for adults! Not only is it an exciting competition but it’s also an incredibly effective icebreaker that helps guests—even those who have never met—start conversations and learn interesting facts about one another. Many of these kinds of conversations would never have happened without the help of this variation on bingo. Your guests will be all the more motivated to get to know each other if you promise them an appealing prize if they’re the first to get bingo!

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4. St. Patrick’s Day “Finish the Phrase”

The goal of this great St. Patrick’s Day game for adults is to come up with phrases that no other players do, rather than thinking up the most obvious way to complete them. This makes it a little more challenging than some other suggestions on this list. Every time you come up with a unique answer that nobody else at the party has given, you earn a point. Then, whoever gets the most points at the end is the winner.

5. Complete the limericks game

Limericks are a form of witty poem named after the county and city in Ireland. Play this game that centers around completing the missing words of a limerick at your St. Patrick’s Day party!

6. Pin the Hat on the Leprechaun

You’ve heard of Pin the Tail on the Donkey, so why not Pin the Hat on the Leprechaun as a St. Patrick’s Day game for adults? All you’ll need for this one is a game board, a couple hats with pins, and blindfolds to ensure your guests can’t see the board. Whoever gets the hat the closest to the right spot should be awarded a prize, if possible! 

7. Roll-a-Leprechaun dice game

For this drawing game, your party guests will compete to roll the numbers they need to draw the entirety of a leprechaun. Then, the first guest to finish drawing their leprechaun is the winner.

8. Lucky Leprechaun scavenger hunt

Whoever is the first to find and check off everything on this list of items at the party will be the winner. It’s a fun scavenger hunt that will be a hit with adults as well as kids.

9. Leprechaun Mad Libs

Give your guests this fill-in-the-blank game inspired by Mad Libs. Then, have them ask a fellow party guest to offer names, adjectives, places, nouns, verbs, etc. so they can fill in the blanks and create a hilarious story.

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10. St. Patrick’s Day Friendly Feud

Play this St. Patrick’s Day-themed twist on Family Feud, as featured on the classic TV game show!

11. “How Many Words Can You Make From Shamrock?”

Challenge your party guests: using only the letters that make up the word “shamrock,” how many words can they come up with? Whoever comes up with the most words is the winner of this word game, which is challenging enough to be fun and create a sense of friendly competition, but not so difficult that it’s frustrating.

12. St. Patrick’s Day “Fact or Fiction” game

Quiz your party guests with these true or false questions—even if they get the answers wrong, they’ll learn quite a bit about the history of the holiday in the process of playing (and getting corrected)! Whoever answers the most questions correctly also has bragging rights that they’re the biggest St. Paddy’s Day expert at the party!

13. Green egg spoon race

If you’re having your party outside (the weather in mid-March can go either way!), play this twist on a field day classic. Have guests compete to race while carrying an egg painted green on a spoon, making sure not to drop the egg before they cross the finish line. 

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