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182 New Year's Eve Charades Ideas
Every word in Countdown Charades, our free New Year's Eve charades game. Use the list for a New Year's Eve party, in class or with family, or let the game deal the cards and keep time for you.
▶ Play New Year's Eve Charades🎵 New Year's Eve Songs
Easy
- Auld Lang Syne
- Happy New Year
- Celebration
- I Gotta Feeling
- Party Rock Anthem
- Firework
- Raise Your Glass
- Dynamite
- Tik Tok
- Get the Party Started
- Rock Around the Clock
- Shut Up and Dance
- I Wanna Dance with Somebody
- Let's Get It Started
- Starships
- The Final Countdown
- Dancing Queen
Hard
- 1999
- Countdown
- New Year's Day
- What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
- Midnight City
- Closing Time
- Time After Time
- Clocks
- (I've Had) The Time of My Life
- Start Me Up
- Disco Inferno
- Don't Stop the Music
- Good Feeling
- Champagne Supernova
- Dancing in the Dark
- Turn Down for What
- Wake Me Up
- Same Old Lang Syne
🎬 New Year's Eve Movies
Easy
- When Harry Met Sally
- New Year's Eve
- The Hangover
- Yes Man
- 13 Going on 30
- 17 Again
- Click
- Hot Tub Time Machine
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- The Great Gatsby
- Ocean's Eleven
- Back to the Future
- Groundhog Day
Hard
- Trading Places
- The Poseidon Adventure
- The Apartment
- About Time
- 200 Cigarettes
- In Time
- The Family Man
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Palm Springs
- Happy Death Day
- Before Sunrise
- La La Land
- Moulin Rouge!
- Big
- Sleepless in Seattle
🕺 New Year's Eve Actions
Easy
- Counting down from ten
- Popping champagne
- Blowing a party horn
- Throwing confetti
- Midnight kiss
- Watching the ball drop
- Setting off fireworks
- Clinking glasses
- Making a resolution
- Dancing at midnight
- Wearing party glasses
- Staying up late
- Going to the gym
- Lighting a sparkler
- Pulling a party popper
- Taking a group selfie
- Starting a diet
Hard
- Writing the wrong year
- Breaking your resolution
- Signing up for a gym
- Falling asleep before midnight
- Polar bear plunge
- Eating 12 grapes
- Banging pots and pans
- Fireworks scaring the dog
- Taking down the Christmas tree
- Throwing out junk food
- Spraying silly string
- Wearing a tiara
- Running around the block with a suitcase
- Making a toast
📖 New Year's Eve Books
Easy
- Oh, the Places You'll Go!
- Atomic Habits
- The Time Machine
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Happy New Year, Spot!
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Rip Van Winkle
- The Night Before New Year's
- Cinderella
- The Grouchy Ladybug
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- Fancy Nancy
Hard
- Squirrel's New Year's Resolution
- Shante Keys and the New Year's Peas
- P. Bear's New Year's Party
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- The Power of Habit
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- Eat Pray Love
- Who Moved My Cheese?
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- Mrs Dalloway
- The Midnight Library
- Tuck Everlasting
- 11/22/63
💬 New Year's Eve Quotes & Phrases
Easy
- Here's to a great year!
- Ten, nine, eight...
- New year, new me
- Out with the old, in with the new
- Cheers!
- Make a wish
- Ring in the new year
- Party like it's 1999
- Turn over a new leaf
- Fresh start
- Pop the bubbly
- Let's get this party started
- Better late than never
- Here's to you!
- Bottoms up!
- Starting tomorrow!
- Go big or go home
Hard
- Should old acquaintance be forgot
- Clean slate
- Start the year off right
- Raise the roof
- Paint the town red
- Till the clock strikes twelve
- Party animal
- Life of the party
- Ring out the old
- Same time next year
- New year, same me
- This is my year
- One for the books
- Seize the day
- Time waits for no one
- Saved by the bell
- Glass half full
- Year in review
🎩 New Year's Eve Characters
Easy
- Baby New Year
- Father Time
- DJ
- Champagne bottle
- Disco ball
- Grandfather clock
- Cuckoo clock
- Personal trainer
- Party crasher
- Marty McFly
- White Rabbit
- Bartender
- Pop star
- Big Ben
- Confetti cannon
Hard
- Ryan Seacrest
- Dick Clark
- Jay Gatsby
- Doc Brown
- Janus
- Phil Connors
- Times Square ball
- Bouncer
- Gym rat
- Fortune teller
- Zoltar
- Time traveler
How to play charades
- Split into two teams and share one phone.
- On your turn, pick one of three cards (a movie, song, book, action, phrase or character) or tap Random.
- Read it, hide the phone, tap Start and act it out without talking before the timer runs out.
- Tap Got it! if your team guesses it, then pass the phone to the other team. Most points wins.