Everyone holds up five fingers. Take turns reading a line from the list. Anyone who has done the thing puts a finger down. The last person with a finger still up wins. That’s the whole game, and it takes about a minute to explain.
Choosing lines for your group
The lines are in three groups. The clean group is about kitchen mishaps, rainy days and ruined surprises, so it works with kids and grandparents at the same table. The friends group adds travel, phones and parties. The adult group touches on dating, work and late nights; none of it is explicit, but it’s written for grown-ups.
Pick one group for the whole round rather than jumping between them. If kids are playing, stay with the clean lines.
Ground rules
- Anyone can pass, and nobody has to explain a finger.
- Write your own lines about things you have or haven’t done, not to fish for someone else’s secret.
- Leave out sex, health, money trouble and painful history unless the whole group has asked for that.
- Play for fingers or points. If you add drinks, see the drinking game questions for how to keep them optional.
Turning it into a story game
The best part is often the story behind a finger. After each line, ask one person who put a finger down if they want to say what happened. With family, lines like “never have I ever gotten lost in a store” can pull out a story from a grandparent’s childhood. The family reunion story games have more ideas, and how to interview a relative helps if you want to ask more later and keep the answers, with permission.
For more party games, try truth or dare or most likely to.