Bar Event Category: Guest Participation

Couples Game Night

A Couples Game Night gives you the chance to surprise and delight pairs of couples and build affinity toward your bar. When couples get together and make new friends, they'll always remember how - and where - they met!

  • Ideal Venue(s)

    Any Venue

  • Target Age Group

    Millennials

  • Event Goals

    Community Engagement

Couples Game Night
  • Budget:

    $$

  • + Staff Required:

    Event Coordinator

  • Holiday / Occasion:

    Not Relevant

Setting up a Couples Game Night at your bar is a terrific way to fill the bar on a night that may be a little slower otherwise. The weekends you’ll be packed anyway, but hold a game night mid-week or Sunday night to fill the place with laughter and fun on a night that may otherwise be a little slow.

How to Host a Couples Games Night

Key # 1: The Most Fun Games for Couples

Invest in some unique, fun games for couples that will get people talking and create a truly memorable night. To get you started, we’ve come up with a terrific list of best games for multiple couples to play together.

The Best Board Games for Couples

The Couples Game That’s Actually Fun

As implied by its name, this game is crafted to bring enjoyment to couples. It’s straightforward and uncomplicated, serving as a wonderful tool to uncover various aspects and traits of relationships that might not be evident in everyday interactions.

Off Topic

This fast-paced game guarantees a hearty chuckle. You draw a card to determine the topics, and a roll of the die decides the letter that your answers should start with. As the clock ticks, your responses will become increasingly wild and slightly OFF TOPIC!

The Best Card Games for Couples

Love Lingual

Regardless of whether you’ve just matched on a dating app or have been in a relationship for years, our unique card game encourages couples to delve deeper than surface-level conversations, fostering a genuine connection, shared personal memories, and discussions about future plans. Guaranteed to keep couples engaged in conversation throughout the evening.

Couples TableTopics

Regardless of you being in a long-standing marriage of 50 years or just embarking on a new romantic journey, these stimulating questions will invite and motivate couples to uncover new insights about their partner, and potentially about themselves too.

The Best Activity Games

A little physical activity to get people moving is a terrific idea. If you have darts, pool or other games, you turn those into a game station. If the weather is nice, you could have an outdoor station with three-legged races, water balloon tosses, Cornhole, and other physical challenge games for couples.

Try & Time Game Play

Try out the games yourselves first. Know how long it takes to play the respective games and what they’re like. You want interaction between multiple couples, not just the same couples all night long. Keep a reasonable time limit on each game station.

Give Each Team a Number / Name & Pair Couples for Games

The goal is to have couples mingle and make new friends as couples. Don’t let them choose their own Game Station, but assign them so that people are forced to mingle. The nudge to meet each other & mingle is what they’re there for. Rotate game stations and the couples each team is matched with throughout the evening.

Set A Variety of Game Stations

Keep matched couples switching and moving over the course of the evening. Give them a chance to meet a variety of couples and decide who they’d like to get to know better during the mingle phase at the end.

Take Drink Orders Anytime – But Serve Food in a Light Buffet Style

No one wants to eat while their playing the games and you don’t want them getting buffalo wing sauce on your games anyway. Be sure to set aside time for eating and mingling separately from game play time.

Couples Game Night Best Practices:

No Food During Games

Drinks, sure. But don't let them ruin your games dripping taco sauce on the cards. Set aside separate time for mingling & food in an area with standing tables/high tops if possible.

Set Aside Mingle Time at the End

After couples have played 3 - 4 games with a variety of other couples, they will have met couples they'd like to chat with. Set aside time for mingling at the end of the evening.

Do It Right Or Don't Do it.

The goal is to give couples a memorable evening where they meet other couples in the area and have a great time. Don't just set out Scrabble and Pictionary and have them go at it. Be organized, take planning the evening seriously, get terrific fun games, have a schedule. Make them want to return for the next one!

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