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Our four free bridal shower printables are gift bingo, a how well do you know the bride quiz, the he said she said game and a wedding word scramble. Bingo keeps a big group busy during gifts, the two quizzes are the most fun when guests know the couple, and the scramble suits a quiet start or an older crowd. Each one prints with the bride’s name and a separate answer key, no email required. Below them are 14 more games that need little more than paper and a pen.
Bridal Shower Bingo
How to play: Give each guest a different card and a pen before the gifts come out. As the bride opens each gift, guests mark any square that matches it. The center square is free. No gift opening? Cut up the calling sheet, or use Play mode, and call the words one at a time.
- Mixing Bowls
- Wine Glasses
- Bath Towels
- Sheet Set
- Cutting Board
- Knife Set
- Cookbook
- Dutch Oven
- Stand Mixer
- Blender
- Coffee Maker
- Toaster
+ 32 more in the printable.
Choosing games for your shower
Three games is the right number for most bridal showers. Add a fourth only if the shower runs long or the crowd is keen. Guests come for the bride, the food and the chance to catch up, and a game every 15 minutes wears thin.
The better question is which three. It depends mostly on who’s coming.
| If your crowd is… | Try |
|---|---|
| Mixed ages, grandmothers to college friends | Word scramble, bride quiz, gift bingo |
| Mostly close friends who know the couple well | He said she said, bride quiz, toilet paper dress |
| Coed, with the groom’s friends there | He said she said (live shoe version), what’s in your phone, date night jar |
| Big, 30 or more, many strangers | Gift bingo, don’t say “wedding,” word scramble |
| Small, 6 to 10 around one table | Bride quiz, memory lane photos, recipe box |
The free printables
All four open in our Game Maker. Add the bride’s name and the shower date, pick a theme (rose and sage are the defaults), then print a PDF on US Letter or A4. You can also run any of them from a phone or on a TV with Play mode.
Bridal shower bingo
Every card is a 5 by 5 grid of gifts she might open, drawn from 44 kitchen and home items: a Dutch oven, wine glasses, a cheese board, a robe, “something monogrammed.” Cards are shuffled so no two match, and a calling sheet comes with them.
- Give each guest a card and a pen before gift opening starts.
- As the bride opens each present, guests mark any matching square. The center is free.
- The first guest with five in a row calls out “Bingo.” Check the card, award a prize, and play on for four corners.
Print one card per guest and a few extras. If she registered mostly for experiences or a honeymoon fund, skip the gift version and call words from the sheet instead. It takes 30 to 60 minutes when played during gifts, 15 when called.
How well do you know the bride
A 25-question quiz about the bride: her middle name, her coffee order, where the proposal happened, her karaoke song. You fill in her real answers in the maker, and they print only on the answer key.
How Well Do You Know the Bride?
How to play: Before the shower, get the bride's answers and type them into the maker. They print only on the answer key. Hand each guest a quiz and a pen. Give everyone about 10 minutes. Read each question aloud and let the bride give her answer. Guests mark their own sheets.
- What's the bride's middle name?
- Where was she born?
- What's her go-to coffee or tea order?
- What was her first job?
- What's her favorite food?
- What's her favorite dessert?
- What's her favorite movie?
- What TV show does she rewatch when she needs comfort?
- What did she want to be when she grew up?
- What was the name of her first pet?
- Where did she and her fiancé meet?
- Where was their first date?
+ 13 more in the printable.
Get her answers about a week before the shower. At the party, guests answer on paper, then the bride reads out her own answers, often with the story attached. One point each; the highest score wins. It takes about 15 minutes. For 100 questions to swap in, and tips on choosing them for your crowd, see our list of how well do you know the bride questions.
He said she said
Thirty questions like “Who hogs the blanket?” and “Who said ‘I love you’ first?” Guests circle he, she or both. The couple answers ahead of time, separately if you can manage it, because that’s where the funny mismatches come from.
He Said, She Said
How to play: Before the shower, ask the couple each question and enter their answer: He, She or Both. Hand each guest a sheet and a pen. Guests circle He, She or Both for every question. Read the answers aloud from the answer key, or reveal them one at a time in Play mode.
- Who is the better cook?
- Who takes longer to get ready?
- Who is the better driver?
- Who hogs the blanket?
- Who wakes up first?
- Who is messier?
- Who does the laundry?
- Who controls the TV remote?
- Who is more likely to be late?
- Who spends more money?
- Who said "I love you" first?
- Who made the first move?
+ 18 more in the printable.
This is the one to pick when both families are at the shower, since guests who only know one half of the couple still have a fair shot. Our full he said she said game guide has 60 questions, a quote version and a live version where the couple answers by raising a shoe.
Wedding word scramble
Twenty-two scrambled wedding words (bouquet, champagne, honeymoon, confetti) with the answer key on its own page. It’s quiet and self-running, which makes it good for the first 15 minutes while guests arrive, or for a shower with older guests who’d rather not get up.
Bridal Shower Word Scramble
How to play: Hand each guest a sheet and a pen. Pairs work well for a big group. Unscramble each group of letters into a wedding word. Set a timer for 10 minutes, or stop when the first person finishes.
- WEDDING
- BOUQUET
- BRIDE
- GROOM
- TUXEDO
- CHAMPAGNE
- HONEYMOON
- ENGAGED
- CEREMONY
- RECEPTION
- VOWS
- GARTER
+ 10 more in the printable.
- Put a sheet and a pen at every place setting.
- Guests unscramble as many words as they can. Pairs are fine.
- Call time after about 10 minutes and read the answers. Most correct wins.
Pick one theme in the maker and use it for every game. Matching printables look planned, even if you made them the night before, and they photograph nicely on the table.
14 more bridal shower games
These need no special printable. A few need supplies from the dollar store; most need only paper, pens and a phone timer.
1. Toilet paper wedding dress
Split guests into teams of three to five. Each team gets a few rolls of toilet paper and some tape, and has 10 minutes to dress one teammate as a bride. The bride picks the winner. It’s loud and messy, and it makes for great photos. Allow space for teams to move around.
2. Don’t say “wedding”
Every guest gets a plastic ring or a clothespin on arrival. If you catch someone saying “wedding,” you take their ring. Most rings at the end wins. It runs quietly in the background the whole shower.
3. Purse hunt
Read out a list of items and give points for each one a guest finds in her own bag: a lipstick, a receipt, a photo of the bride on her phone, a safety pin, a hair tie, a mint. Highest total wins. Takes about 10 minutes.
4. Advice cards for the couple
Leave cards and pens on a side table with prompts like “A recipe every married couple should know” or “The secret to a happy home is.” The couple keeps them. There’s no winner, which makes this a good pick if the bride is shy about games.
5. Date night jar
Give each guest a craft stick or a slip of paper to write one date night idea, then drop it in a jar the couple takes home. Ask for a mix of free and fancy ideas so the jar lasts all year.
6. Recipe box
Include a blank recipe card with each invitation and ask guests to bring a favorite recipe. Collect them in a box at the shower. Read a few aloud and have the bride figure out which guest sent each one.
7. Draw the dress on your head
Guests hold a paper plate on top of their heads and draw the wedding dress they think the bride chose, without looking. The bride picks the closest (or the funniest). It takes five minutes and needs only plates and markers.
8. Memory lane
Collect 10 to 15 photos of the bride from baby pictures to last year. Number them and lay them out of order. Guests write down how old they think she was in each one. Closest guesses win.
9. What’s in your phone
Points for things guests have on their phones right now: a photo of the bride, more than 1,000 unread emails, a selfie with a pet, a grocery list, a wedding website bookmarked. It’s quick, and it works for any age group that carries a phone.
10. Ribbon bouquet
Not a game so much as a job for a bridesmaid: as each gift is opened, she threads the ribbons and bows through a paper plate to make a practice bouquet for the rehearsal. The bride gets something to carry, and every guest’s gift is part of it.
11. Two truths and a lie, bride edition
The bride shares three facts about herself or the relationship, and one is false. Guests vote on the lie. Do five rounds. It gives her a turn in the spotlight without putting her on the spot.
12. Fill-in-the-blank love story
Write a short version of how the couple met, leave blanks for nouns, verbs and adjectives, and ask guests to call out words without hearing the story first. Read the finished version aloud. Expect ridiculous results, in the best way.
13. The shoe game
If the partner comes to the shower, seat the couple back to back, each holding one of their own shoes and one of the other’s. Ask “who is more likely to” questions, and each raises the shoe of their answer. Our he said she said guide has plenty of questions for this.
14. Guess the kisses
Fill a clear jar with foil-wrapped chocolate kisses, counting as you go. Guests write down their guess with their name. Closest guess takes home the jar.
Variations for your crowd
Coed shower: lean on games where teams compete or the couple answers live. The shoe game, the toilet paper dress and what’s in your phone all work with a mixed group. Keep the bride quiz, but add questions about the couple so the groom’s friends can play.
Older guests: choose paper games people can play from their seats, such as the word scramble, bingo and memory lane. Print the scramble a little larger if you can, and have extra reading glasses by the pens.
Big shower in a hall: anything read aloud gets lost past about 25 people, so use a microphone or stick to games that run on paper. Print bingo cards two to a page to save paper.
Virtual shower: email the PDFs a few days before. Run the bride quiz and he said she said in Play mode with your screen shared, and have guests type their answers in the chat.
- Printed games: bingo card, quiz and scramble for each guest, plus spares
- Answer keys, printed separately
- Pens for everyone
- Plastic rings or clothespins for don’t say “wedding”
- Toilet paper and tape for the dress contest
- Paper plates, markers and a jar or two
- 5 to 8 small prizes
Prize ideas
Keep prizes small and grown-up: candles, nice hand cream, a mini bottle of prosecco, a small succulent, a bar of good chocolate or a coffee shop gift card. If you want the prizes to match, buy them all in the shower’s colors.
A prize table saves you from matching prizes to games. Set out a few more prizes than games, and let each winner choose. Whatever’s left over goes home with the bride.
More shower and wedding ideas
Once the shower is done, the reception is next: see our wedding reception games for guests. Hosting a baby shower down the road? The free printable baby shower games work the same way. Everything else for the shower lives on the bridal shower games hub.
Questions hosts ask
How many games should you play at a bridal shower?
Three is right for most showers, four if it runs long. Guests also want time for food, gifts and catching up with the bride.
What are the most popular bridal shower games?
Gift bingo, how well do you know the bride, he said she said, the toilet paper wedding dress and a wedding word scramble are shower classics.
What bridal shower games work for a coed shower?
Games where teams compete or the couple answers live, like the shoe game, the toilet paper dress and what's in your phone.
Are these bridal shower printables free?
Yes. Every game here is free to personalize, print or play on a screen, with no email address or account needed.
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