Minute to Win It Challenges

Skittle Heart Creation

A game that involves creating a heart shape by moving Skittles - using only a straw! This game will leave you breathless!

Memory Time Test

Can you remember which piece of jewelry belongs to which couple?

Marshmallow Toss Game

Compete to enjoy this delicious treat!

Sketch Artist Group Game

Complete a round of Pictionary prompts with your spouse!

Balloon Bob Dare

Keep a balloon up in the air for a full minute using ONLY your head!

Elephant Walk Obstacle Game

Knock over water bottles by wearing weighted pantyhose on your head! (What?!?)

Crazy Relay Race

Race with a ping pong ball between your knees and a cookie on top of your head!

Laundry Time

Set Up: Make sure all of the socks are inside of and mixed up within the bin. Challenge: Match 5 pairs of socks and lay them flat on the ground. You have 1 minute to make 5 matches! Expert: Match all 10 pairs of socks and lay them on the ground before 1 minute is up!

Spell it Out

Set Up: Place slips of paper with letters on the table and mix them up. Pick a straw to use Challenge: By sucking through the straw, spell out "I Love S&L" with the appropriate slips of paper. Make sure the paper is all right side up and in the correct order! You have 1 minute to spell it out!

The Great Cup Race

Set Up: Place two plastic cups on the table. You and a friend will each choose a straw. Challenge: You and your friend (on the count of go!) will blow your cup across the table. If your cup falls from the side of the table, pick it up and start at the beginning. First person to get all the way to the other side of the table wins that race. Best 2 out of 3!

Keep up the Balloon

Set-Up: Choose a color balloon and have a friend blow it up and tie it for you. Challenge: Using only 1 hand (right or left) keep the balloon up in the air. Make sure it doesn't hit any walls, ceilings or furniture. Keep it up for 1 full minute! Expert: Keep the balloon up using any body part EXCEPT for your hands!

Pasta Necklaces

Set-Up: Choose a strand of spaghetti, then place a handful of ziti on the paper plate Challenge: holding the strand of spaghetti with 1 hand, scoop up the pieces of ziti with the spaghetti until the entire strand is covered with the ziti. You have 1 minute! Expert: Make 2 pasta necklaces instead of just 1!

Slingshot

Set-Up: Have a friend hold the hoop in place. Stand 6 ft. away and mark the spot with tape. Have the bin with ping pong balls next to you, and have a large rubber band. Challenge: Always standing behind the tape, use the rubber band to sling shot a ping pong ball through the hoop. Get 1 ping pong ball through the hoop before time runs out. You have 1 minute! Expert: Get 3 ping pong balls through the hoop!

Sticky Marbles

Set-Up: Have a friend place a line of double-sided masking tape on the ground. Sit about 4 ft. away with the tub of marbles. Challenge: Roll the marbles and try to get 3 marbles to land on and stick to the tape. Remember to roll gently! You have 1 minute to get 3 marbles to stick! Expert: Get 5 marbles to stick

Sticky Knuckles

Set-Up: Have someone help you make 7 circles of tape and place them on the wall. Then, place a tape circle on your knuckles. Challenge: Fist bump all of the tape circles until all 7 are stacked on your knuckles! You have 1 minute to get all 7! Expert: Get 10 circles of tape to stick to your knuckles before 1 minute is up!

Cookie Face

Set-Up: Place and balance a cookie on your forehead Challenge: Without using your hands, transfer the cookie from your forehead to your mouth. Don't let the cookie fall! You have 1 minute to transfer the cookie.

A Bit Dicey

Set-Up: Place one end of a popsicle stick in your mouth and place the die in front of you on the table Challenge: stack 5 die on the end of the popsicle stick in your mouth. Be able to hold the stack of 5 die in place for 3 seconds. If the stack falls, start over! You have 1 minute to complete the challenge! Expert: Be able to hold a stack of 6 die for 8 whole seconds!

Egg Carton Toss

Set-Up: Place the empty egg carton on the ground. Stand approximately 5 ft. back and mark the spot with tape on the ground. Keep bin with ping pong balls next to your spot marked with tape. Challenge: toss the ping pong balls into the egg carton until 5 spots in the carton are full. If you run out of ping pong balls before making 5, retrieve them and then return back to your spot. You have 1 minute to get 5 ping pong balls into the carton! Expert: Get 8 ping pong balls into the carton!

Empty the Trunk

Set-Up: Strap on the Kleenex box. Have someone help you with the belt. Then, have someone place all of the ping pong balls into the opening within the Kleenex box. Challenge: Shake shake shake to remove all of the ping pong balls from the Kleenex box! You must remain standing on two feet. You have 1 minute to remove all the ping pong balls!

Pyramid

Set-Up: Take out the Dixie cups and have them ready on the table Challenge: Stack the Dixie cups, starting with 8 cups on the bottom, until you have a complete pyramid. You have 1 minute to complete the pyramid!

Cereal Box Puzzles

Set-Up: place all the separated pieces of the puzzle on the table and mix them up. Put the reference card on the table to help you. Challenge: Complete the cereal box puzzle (as pictured on the reference card). You have 1 minute to complete the puzzle! Expert: Mix in the pieces to puzzle 2 and complete both puzzles within 1 minute!

Bowling

Set-Up: place the 10 pins in formation. Stand 6 ft. back and mark your spot with tape. Challenge: knock over all of the bowling pins using the tennis ball. If you don't knock all of them down the first time, retrieve the tennis ball and try again from behind the taped line Expert: set up the bowling pins in different locations around the room. Stand on a spot marked by tape and knock all of the pins down before 1 minute is up!

Cards on Edge

Set-up: Place 1 large folded index card on the table. Stand on the opposite side of the table (the short-way/horizontally). Challenge: Blow the index card so that it hangs on the edge of the table without falling to the ground. If it falls, pick it up, put it back on the table and try again! You have 1 minute to complete the challenge! Expert: Get 3 index cards to hang on the edge of the table instead of just 1!

Don't Let the Joker Fall

Set-up: Place the stack of cards face-down on top of the empty glass bottle with the joker on the bottom of the stack. Challenge: blow the entire deck of cards off of the bottle EXCEPT for the joker at the bottom. If the joker falls, replace the deck on top of the bottle and try again. You have 1 minute to complete the challenge!

Marshmallow Transfer

Set: Place 1 bowl with 10 marshmallows in it on 1 side of the table. Place an empty bowl on the other side of the table. Put a spoon in your mouth. Challenge: Using the spoon in your mouth, scoop all 10 marshmallows and transfer them to the empty bowl on the other side of the table. You have 1 minute to transfer all of the marshmallows!

Skittle Sorter Dexterity Challenge

Sort skittles by color one at a time using only a spoon.

Photo Puzzle Game

This game involves competing to unscramble a photo as fast as you can!

Pretzel Kabob Challenge

Thread as many pretzels onto a thin, dry spaghetti noodle as possible using only your mouth - a game that makes loud friends quiet!