Friendsgiving Prediction Games Your Whole Table Will Love
November 4, 2025
Turn the chaos of Friendsgiving into a friendly competition everyone plays from the couch.
A Friendsgiving prediction game is one of the easiest ways to get the whole table talking before the food even hits. You write a handful of questions about the day, everyone locks in their picks, and the winner is crowned by the time the pie is gone.
Questions That Actually Work
The best Friendsgiving predictions are about things that will definitely happen, you just don't know how they'll shake out.
- Who will be the last person to arrive?
- What time will the turkey actually come out of the oven?
- Who will go back for seconds (or thirds)?
- What will be the first dish to run out?
- Who falls asleep on the couch first, and how soon after dinner?
- Will there be a moment where two people are trying to explain the same thing at the same time?
Keep questions specific enough that there's a real answer. "Who talks the most" is hard to score. "Who is still telling a story when dessert is served" is much better.
How to Run It
Set a cutoff time, somewhere around when guests start arriving so no one submits picks after seeing the turkey situation. Everyone opens the link on their phone, enters a name, and locks in their answers. No account, no app to download.
Once the day is done, you enter the real answers and the leaderboard updates. Text answers score by how close they are, so if someone guesses 3:45 pm and the turkey came out at 4:00 pm, they still get partial credit. A tiebreaker question means there is always one clear winner.
Tips for a Good Game
- Mix easy predictions (someone will definitely go back for more stuffing) with harder ones (exact time the first person leaves).
- Add a tiebreaker that requires a specific answer, like the total number of dishes on the table.
- Read the final leaderboard out loud. Half the fun is hearing how confident everyone was in their wrong answers.
- Keep it to 8 to 12 questions so it doesn't feel like homework.
Friendsgiving already has a loose, warm energy. A prediction game fits right in because it doesn't require everyone to stop what they're doing. People check their standing between plates, argue about who really went back for thirds, and suddenly there's a trophy holder for next year's table.
You can run your first Friendsgiving prediction game free with Party Props.