Minute to Win It Challenges

Today, have some fun playing some fast-pased, exciting games to have fun and bring the family together! 

1. Cup Stack Sprint

• Materials: 6 plastic cups per player/team
• How to play: Stack the 6 cups into a pyramid, then unstack them flat again — all within 60 seconds.
• Win condition: First to complete a full stack-and-unstack cycle, or most cycles completed in 60 seconds.
• Family night tip: Great head-to-head at a table; works for any age since it’s just fine motor speed, no strength needed.

2. Cookie Face

• Materials: 1 cookie (or cracker) per player
• How to play: Place the cookie flat on your forehead. Using only your face muscles (no hands!), work it down to your mouth and eat it — in 60 seconds.
• Win condition: First to eat the cookie, hands still down the whole time.
• Family night tip: This one gets loud and silly fast — good energy-reset game if the room’s getting restless. Have a backup cookie for the inevitable floor-drop.

3. Straw Sort

• Materials: A straw per player, a small bowl of mini marshmallows (or pom-poms) mixed together — 2 colors — and 2 small cups
• How to play: Using suction through the straw only, move marshmallows one at a time from the mixed bowl into the correct colored cup, sorting as fast as you can.
• Win condition: Most correctly sorted in 60 seconds, or first to sort a set number (e.g., 10).
• Family night tip: Good for a quieter table activity; easy to run several players at once if you’ve got enough straws and bowls.