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The theme library

Themes worth
dressing up for

Browsable party concepts, each with a built-in vote and just enough effort to start a conversation. Start with what the night is for, then narrow by who's coming, size, season, and effort.

IntentStart with what the night is for.
FitMatch the idea to the room, season, and effort.
MomentPick a format with a reveal or debate built in.

8 of 66 themes match

Game & Format

PowerPoint Party

Optional but contagious. Five slides, five minutes, one gloriously unserious thesis — "Why January Should Be Illegal," "A Ranking of My Friends’ Pets." The room votes for the most persuasive nonsense. Anticipation is the whole event.

Friends+ Medium group Any season Medium effort
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Shark Tank Night

Each guest pitches a business — a genuine startup, a gloriously terrible one, or a product they wish existed. The table asks hard questions and invests monopoly money. Biggest raise takes a ridiculous trophy. Equal parts ambition and roast.

Anyone Medium group Any season Medium effort
Game & Format

The Traitors Dinner

Borrowed straight from the show. Secret assignments split the table into Traitors and Faithfuls; hidden clues and small missions run between courses, with an elimination at each. The Faithfuls hunt the Traitors before dessert. Works best with a crowd — eight to fourteen.

Friends+ Large group Any season Medium effort
Game & Format

Dinner Party Olympics

Split into teams and compete all night — trivia, blind tasting, charades, a cocktail round, a debate. Track the score on a board everyone can see. The winning team earns a supremely silly title to defend at the next one. The competition is the glue.

Anyone Large group Any season Medium effort Recurring
Game & Format

The Auction Dinner

Everyone gets $100 of fake money. Through the night the host auctions things off — first choice of dessert, a bottle of wine, a mystery prize, an anonymous secret, the next dinner invitation. People get startlingly competitive over nonsense. The bidding war is the show.

Friends+ Medium group Any season Medium effort
Game & Format

Family Feud Dinner

Before the night, survey a wider circle of friends — best first-date spot, worst wedding trend, most overrated luxury purchase. At dinner, the table competes to guess the most popular answers. A little prep, a lot of payoff, and a format everyone already knows the rules to.

Anyone Medium group Any season Medium effort
Game & Format

Escape Room Dinner

Each course unlocks the next clue. Over the meal the table works a single puzzle — a theft, a mystery, a locked box — solving it course by course. More sophisticated than it sounds, and a great spine for a host who likes to plan. The reveal lands with dessert.

Anyone Medium group Any season Medium effort
Game & Format

Murder Mystery + Wine

Character cards, secret objectives, and clues dropped between courses — with an assigned wine alongside every piece of evidence.

Anyone Large group Any season Medium effort
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