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19 Dinner & Dance Event Games that the Audience Will Enjoy
Best Dinner and Dance Games To Play
#1. Play Kahoot
Create a company-trivia quiz on Kahoot that guests answer on their phones. This online platform lets you develop your own fun activity that requires your audience, using an app on their devices, to answer questions shared on a large live screen. You can increase excitement and engagement by including diagrams, images and videos.
Facilitated by a game host or an entertaining event Emcee, this is a great activity for learning facts about your company!
#2. Run Table Trivia
Teams of up to eight players solve table-trivia questions while seated, work together to unravel the questions before getting the answers. The company dinner event organiser can create questions related to the event’s theme and each group should come up with amusing team names.
Players will be disqualified if they use outside sources such as mobiles to find the answers!
#3. Stage Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs adds fast-paced movement between dinner courses. An Emcee can ramp up the excitement with music that ties in with the annual dinner theme. Set up chairs in a circle, guests move around when the music plays before grabbing a seat when it stops. After each round, one chair is removed, making the game more competitive as players rush to find a seat!
#4. Mime Charades
Run Charades so teams guess phrases through silent gestures. Each team has a bowl that includes phrases or titles for players to pull out. They can only use hand gestures or body motions without speaking while other guests in the team try to guess the phrase or title. Hand out attractive prizes to the winning teams.
#5. Guess “Who Am I?”
Write a famous name on a sticky note; the player asks yes/no questions until they identify it. Write the name of a famous character on a sticky note and place it on the back of a player. To guess who they are, the player can only ask yes/no questions to the rest of the team. You can poke fun by using the names of well-known colleagues who work for the company!
#6. Dress Up at a Photo Booth Props
Supply hats, wigs and glasses so guests can capture themed photo-booth shots. This is a surefire way of getting your dinner and dance party guests laughing and capturing memories to remember years down the line.
#7. Pop Balloons
Insert pieces of paper with the name of a prize or temporary tattoos inside balloons before inflating them. Attach each balloon to a guest’s chair and ask them to pop them to reveal their prize or tattoo. Tie a prize-filled balloon to each chair and cue guests to pop them simultaneously.
#8. Call Bingo
Customise bingo cards with icons linked to the event theme. Your professional Emcee can call out the items for guests to mark off on their boards. Include themed food items, such as heart-shaped chocolates for a Valentine’s corporate dinner, as bingo markers.
#9. Host a Dance-Off
Invite volunteers to a dance-off and let the audience vote for the winner. The audience can vote for their favourite dancers and a winner is declared in the final round. Make a post-event video for colleagues to keep as a memento of great dance performances put on by their talented workmates!
#10. Sing Tabletop Karaoke
Table-top karaoke lets teams compete for “Top Vocalist” after dessert. Set up a tabletop karaoke machine or use an app for your audience to sing along and watch your guests lighten up as participants entertain them with their favourite song. Turn it into a competition and let the audience decide who’s the best singer.
#11. Book Carnival Acts
Hire the services of roving talents to move between guests, playing carnival games. Roving acts such as fire twirlers or LED lion dancers circulate between tables. Encourage the audience to engage with the performers and dress appropriately for a carnival-themed dinner and dance.
#12. Solve a Tabletop Word Search
While your audience is waiting for the main event to start, ask them to complete the tabletop word search included at their table. Print a jumbo-sized word search related to company facts for each table to solve together. The first table to find the winning word gets a prize!
#13. “Guess an Emoji”
You’ll need a game host and a large screen to display various emojis depicting popular movie titles, phrases or songs. Divide the audience into teams and allow each one to guess the emoji. If they don’t get it right, move on to the next team until a group gets it right. Display emoji strings on screen and have teams decode movie titles or songs.
#14. Name That Tune
Play five-second song clips; teams buzz in to name the tune fastest. You can select a genre with interesting themes to align with the occasion whether the party is happening in a hotel ballroom or a funky nightclub. Organise a music-related prize for the winning team!
#15. Fly Paper Airplane
Provide paper and measure whose airplane flies farthest across the stage. When the airplanes have been constructed, players are invited onto the stage to compete against each other to see whose plane flies the furthest. Award the winner with a themed prize!
#16. Guess the Celebrity
Display partly-obscured photos of celebrities and managers; teams guess the identity. The event Emcee can display partially concealed images of famous celebrities on a large screen and give each team an opportunity to guess the star. Include some images of management to get the participants fully engaged as they try to figure out who the “celebrity” is!
#17. Guess the Movie Quote
Still on the movie theme, ask guests to pull out a famous quote from a bowl and guess which film it came from. Guests draw famous quotes from a bowl and name the film as an ice-breaker. Use this as an icebreaker for colleagues seated with employees from different departments whom they’re not familiar with.
#18. Guess the Sound
Play short audio clips (animal calls, film effects); the first team to identify the sound scores a point. Allocate participants into teams – those seated at tables for a dinner and dance event can work together as a group. The first team to put their hands up can take a guess!
#19. Race Straw
Provide straws and ping-pong balls; teams race the ball across the table using only breath. All you need are enough straws for participants at each table and lightweight objects such as a ping pong ball. Guests need to blow the objects across the table to each other or you can opt for a race format for more competition between the participants.
Conclusion on D&D Event Games
Contact our professional event team at That’s Innovative who can take the pressure off you by organising activities for a flawless experience at your next company D&D party. We handle vendor coordination too, ensuring you have the right equipment for the games.
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