20 Adult Card Games to Play This New Year's Eve
Michael Gray
Updated on March 29, 2026
Who doesn't love a good card game? Ranging from slightly bizarre to all-out raunchy, adult card games are a great way to lighten up the mood this winter season with your friends or family.
This year has been a wild one, so why not indulge in some good-old fashioned fun. If you and your crew are looking for something more adult-friendly to play over Zoom or within your quarantine pod as you head into 2021, read on for some of the best adult card games.
These Cards Will Get You Drunk
If you're OK getting more than just tipsy this holiday season, this game gets straight to the point. You and your friends each select a card with simple instructions that will have you buzzed in no time. One example: “Tell a joke. If no one chuckles or laughs, you drink.”
These Cards Will Get You Drunk
That's What She Said
Taking it back to those childhood days where hearsay was the talk of playground. To kick things off, one player selects a red “setup card,” and the others select from the white deck to pair the perfectly twisted match.
That's What She Said
What Do You Meme? TikTok Edition
Obsessed with TikTok and meme culture? This game will test whether you have the skills to be the next viral meme-maker by having you pair the most popular TikToks with a witty (and somehow universally relatable) caption.
What Do You Meme? TikTok Edition
New Phone, Who Dis?
If you've seen memes of text message threads and thought you could make an even wilder one, here's your chance. Pair a hilarious reply with a text prompt and let your friends be the judge on how raunchy your mind can get.
New Phone, Who Dis?
Drawing Without Dignity
Ah, finally a game where you can draw dick pics without shame! This game is like Pictionary for adults, one where you'll want to get really detailed to get the points to win.
Drawing Without Dignity
If You Had To
The opposite of Would You Rather, to win this game you select the card your friend is least likely to sign up for.
If You Had To...
Drunk Stoned or Stupid
A card game where your friends come clean about how they truly feel about your personality. Before you dig in, might be worth disclaiming at the beginning that it's all jokes.
Drunk Stoned or Stupid
Deck Around
Here's a game where you can let your creativity fly…in the most inappropriate direction. One player picks up a card containing a dirty word and the others do their best to define it as, um, accurately as possible.
Deck Around
Cards Against Humanity
The OG of adult card games for millennials. You know the drill: Try to select the most horrid pairing and find out who in the friend group has the most warped mind.
Cards Against Humanity
Cards Against Humanity Absurd Box
If you didn't think the game could get even more bizarre, try this expanded version of Cards Against Humanity. Don't be surprised if you're left wondering just how your friend went there days later…
Cards Against Humanity: Absurd Box
Incoherent
It's like seeing your slurred speech spelled out—the timer counts down as you and your friends race to figure what on earth you just read out loud.
Incohearent
Search History
Curious what your friends or family members were searching over quarantine? Here's your chance get to really know your close ones as you each fill in the blanks for the most searched questions on the internet.
Search History
Exploding Kittens
Because playing a Russian roulette-inspired card game with kittens seems like a very 2020 thing to do.
Exploding Kittens Card Game
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
It's the title, which includes all of our favorite things, that first grabbed our attention. In this game, the winner leaves empty handed. To play, everyone selects a card from their deck saying “taco, cat, goat, cheese, or pizza." If your card matches what you say, slap your hand down quickly. Last one to slap takes all the cards.
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
Never Have I Ever
Have some crazy stories you've been waiting to share with your friends? This is the perfect game to deepen those relationships as you swap your wildest moments.
Never Have I Ever
Midnight Card Game
It's taboo…for adults! Get as inappropriate as you like to describe the word on the card, just make sure no one's recording that Zoom session.
Midnight Taboo
F**k. The Game
It's the Aussie-drinking game where swearing is almost mandatory. As your friends take turns flipping over a card, the rest of you will shout out what you see: a text color, the card color, or a curse word. If you're too slow or mess up, the cards are yours. Winner walks away deck free.
Fk. The Game.
Bad People
Here's another game to get to the bottom of how well you think you know your friends—and what they know about you.
Bad People Game
What's Yours Like?
Each person takes turns guessing the word on the card while descriptions, ranging from fairly PG to risqué, get thrown out.
What's Yours Like?
The Metagame
This one's for all the deep-thinkers out there. Society's greatest achievements or your first great love? Ms. PacMan and the Big Mac are some of the options to choose from.
The Metagame
