If you’ve ever wanted to play Deal or No Deal, Easter is the perfect time! This fun Easter cash or hatch game combines an Easter egg hunt with a deal or not deal style game with a few fun twists! It’s the perfect addition to any Easter celebration for teens and adults!
Deal or No Deal Game for Easter
Deal or No Deal is one of those game shows that has been around forever because it’s as much fun to watch as it is to play (although I’ve only personally played at Dave and Buster’s). If you’ve never seen an episode of Deal or No Deal, the basic idea is that the contestant picks a suitcase that is their suitcase for the game.
The rest of the game consists of the same contestant choosing other suitcases to knock off the board, hoping to keep as many of the high value suitcases in play. Throughout the game, the banker offers the contestant deals they can take and walk away with if they want to end the game. They have to choose whether to take the deal or keep playing to hopefully win more than the offer.
If you’ve played one of our hundreds of games over the years, you may know already that we love creating dupes of game shows on our site – game shows that you can play at home. We’ve previously created games like a Christmas Floor inspired game, baby shower Jeopardy, and even tons of minute to win it games.
So it’s probably no surprise that when we were creating brand new Easter egg hunts (like we do every year), that we came up with an Easter game that combines an Easter egg hunt with the idea of deal or no deal.
Players find eggs with values in them, then take turns opening those eggs trying to avoid the highest value eggs, so they can eventually win the most money possible!
And to quote my brother, “this was one of the most fun games we’ve ever played.” And my brother has played almost all of the games we have on our site, easily 100 of them at least. So that’s pretty high praise coming from him.
Why You’ll Love This Easter Deal or No Deal
- Easter egg hunt for teens/adults – if you need something different to do, try this combo Easter egg hunt and deal or no deal game. Or just play deal or no deal without the egg hunt and try this scrambled egg hunt as well!
- Fun to play and to watch – while this is super fun to play, it’s just as fun for everyone watching as well! We like to do a couple of different rounds so everyone gets a chance to play and watch!
- Easy to setup – I’ve included free printables in this post for you to make your game and instructions for setup. It’s super simple to setup so you’re ready to play in just minutes!
How to Setup Your Deal or No Deal Game
Setting up the game is pretty simple. You need to print out the printables, create your game board, and hide your eggs! And I’ve provided everything you need below to help you do just that!
1 – print out your deal or no deal printables
Since this is an Easter version of deal or no deal, I created Easter egg printables with all sorts of different values on them. They’re sized to fit perfectly in lines on a standard white poster board or foam board.
You can download the printables in the pink form at the bottom of this post.
When you’re choosing which ones to print out, you’ll want to think about how you’re going to play this game. You can either have an individual play or have a group play. If it’s an individual, go for larger values and if it’s a group, go for higher values because they’ll be splitting the prize!
Also, keep in mind that there is a chance that you may have to pay out double what the highest (or close to it) value is on the board if the group gets lucky and pulls a double deal card after a high offer.
That being said, you’ll want to print out 20 value cards PLUS a double deal to put in your eggs and the same 20 value eggs to put on your board (no need to have a double deal on the board). You get to choose whichever values you personally want. You can see the values I chose on our board below.
2 – Make the cash or hatch board
Cut out your value cards to put in your eggs and a copy of those same exact value eggs to put onto your board. Tape or glue them into two rows on a white poster board (or foam board), a wall, or even a big white board or chalkboard if you’d like.
Add a title to the top of the board by either coloring it, adding cut out letters, or using stickers. I used a set of these stickers, and they were perfect for our Easter board!
3 – Fill and Hide the Easter Eggs
This is an Easter egg hunt as well, so you’ll need to fill 20 Easter eggs with the value cards and hide those. I recommend hiding them all in one area and hiding them more difficult than say if you were doing something like this Easter egg scavenger hunt or these indoor easter egg hunts.
Tip!
Make sure that your Easter eggs are not see through. We had some green eggs that were slightly see through. We caught it early enough and told people not to look through the eggs to see the values inside, but it’s easier to just use eggs that you can’t see into!
While you technically want the players to find all of the eggs, it’s part of the game to have to actually find them because if they don’t find them, it complicates their choices and can make it even more fun (and hard to make choices).
My dad hid all of our eggs in the basement, and they were in places like inside the foosball table, in boxing gloves, tucked between pillows, and other places. You want them a little challenging but not too tough!
How to Play Cash or Hatch
There are two ways you can play this – with the Easter egg hunt or not. I’ve written this with the Easter egg hunt, because I personally think that makes this way more fun.
However, you could always just skip the Easter egg hunt and give them a basket full of eggs to choose from if you are running short on time OR if you want to let a number of individuals do this and don’t want to have to deal with the egg hunt over and over again. If you don’t want to do the egg hunt, just skip that part and give them the eggs to choose from.
1 – Do the Egg Hunt
Choose your players and take them to the area you hid the egg. We did a group of five players, and it was perfect, but you can do it with less than that as well. (I don’t recommend more – if you have more, play multiple rounds.)
Give them one central bucket to put eggs into and tell them they have five minutes to find as many eggs as possible out of the twenty hidden. Explain that if they don’t find all of those eggs, those eggs won’t be available to them to play with for the game.
Tell the players to go, and they have five minutes to find as many eggs as possible and put them in the central basket. I recommend having them count out loud (or you count for them) so that they know how many more they have to go.
Note!
Both times we did this with both adults and teens, they found all of the eggs, which is totally fine. If they don’t find all of the eggs, they will just have less eggs to play the game with, also totally fine.
2 – Choose the winning egg
Once all the eggs have been found or the five minutes is up, have the players together decide which egg will be their winning egg and put it aside.
Put the rest of the eggs in a pile in front of the group and show them the game board.
3 – Choose Your Cash Out Rounds
Based on the number of eggs that they found, come up with the number of eggs they’ll be opening every round before they get a cash out offer. I like to start big and gradually decrease the number of eggs they need to open.
For example, if they found all 21 eggs (20 value eggs plus the double deal egg), these are the rounds that we did:
- Round 1 – 5 eggs
- Round 2 – 4 eggs
- Round 3 – 3 eggs
- Round 4 – 3 eggs
- Round 5 – 2 eggs
- Round 6 – 1 egg
- Round 7 – 1 egg
- Round 8 – choose their egg or the remaining egg
If they only found say 16 eggs, the rounds might look more like this:
- Round 1 – 4 eggs
- Round 2 – 4 eggs
- Round 3 – 3 eggs
- Round 4 – 2 eggs
- Round 5 – 1 egg
- Round 6 – choose their egg or the remaining egg
Note!
The double deal egg counts as an egg being opened for the round!
4 – Play a Round of deal or no deal
One by one, have players together decide on an egg that they want to open to see what value is inside. Then remove that value from the Cash or Hatch board, it’s no longer available to win.
Continue this process, going through eggs one by one, until you’ve reached the end of the round (based on the number of eggs you set for this round). This will end a round.
5 – give a cash out offer
Once the team has opened all of their eggs for the round, look at all of the values left on the board and give the team an offer that they can take and walk away with right then or refuse and play another round.
How to determine an offer
Honestly, offer what you feel seems right for what is left on the board. If you need a general calculation, I typically like to take a guess at the average left on the board and offer about 80% of that average. That’s hard to do quickly without a calculator though, so just come up with a number.
Also – I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that the person making the offers is the person actually paying out the money or prizes at the end of the game. It’s much trickier to come up with fair offers when you’re offering someone else’s money.
Once the offer has been made, the players have a minute to decide if they want to either cash out or hatch more eggs (hence the cash or hatch name).
If they cash out, the game is over, and they walk away with the offer made. If they hatch more eggs, they have to hatch the number of eggs in the next round before getting another offer.
6 – Keep Playing through all the rounds
Keep opening eggs, removing values from the board, giving cash out offers, and taking or leaving them offers through all of the designated rounds. The only thing that might change during the round is if they open the egg with the double deal card.
What’s a double deal?
If at any point in the game, the players open the egg that has the double deal card, they have a tough choice to make. They can immediately choose to take 2x the most recent offer they were given (i.e., a $35 offer would immediately become $70) and end the game. If they choose not to, the double deal is dead and that double offer is off the table.
Also, I loved the addition of the double deal cards because it added another element of having to choose to go big or take the guaranteed money, but you can also just leave those out if you’d rather not include them.
7 – play the final egg round
The final round is different than the others. If the team chooses to decline the final cash offer provided by the bunny bank, they have one last choice to make.
They can then choose whether they want to walk away with the egg that’s left OR the value they have in their winning egg (still unseen). Whichever one they choose is the value that they win at the end of the game, regardless of if one is higher or lower.
Note!
If the team doesn’t find all of the eggs, they will likely have multiple values left on the board and won’t know what’s actually in the final egg. This just makes it a more complicated choice but they can still only choose from the remaining egg or their winning egg (e.g., they can’t choose any of the values on the board).
how to pay out the winners
This is something you should decide before you start playing, really when you print out your values.
- Team splits the value – I recommend doing higher values, so they could split something up to like $200. Just remember there is a double deal option as well.
- Team gets the full value – use smaller values and everyone wins the smaller values on the board. Or you could do higher values if you’re really feeling generous, totally up to you!
- Individual wins the full value – if you’re doing individuals, they would win the full prize value. This is a fun way to do it if you want the cash or hatch entertainment to last longer…. and everyone gets to own their own fate!
Keep the fun going!
If you want this Easter cash or hatch game to be one of your big Easter activities, you can totally do this multiple times and let individuals play and everyone watch (it really is fun to watch).
Just choose someone to go first and play through their board. Then when they’re done, reset the eggs and the board and go again. You can really let as many people play as you’re willing to pay out winnings for!
Easter deal or no deal FAQs
What happens if the players don’t find an egg?
If players don’t find an egg, it just means that particular egg value is not in play (and they can’t win it) for the game. It doesn’t come off the board, which makes it much more tricky when they’re choosing whether to take the offer or not (especially at the end).
What if someone opens a double deal before they have an offer?
If a team is unlucky enough to open the double deal in the first round of eggs they open, unfortunately it’s worthless. Just like they’re lucky if they open it at the very end of the game and have a great offer to double, it’s all just luck.
Where can I get the printable eggs?
You can download the printable egg values to make your board at the bottom of this post or purchase them in my shop here.
Do I have to do an egg hunt?
You can skip the egg hunt altogether if you’re short on time or want to play this over and over again with different individuals. However, I think that part is actually really fun (and my family agreed), so I recommend including it if you can!
Do I have to use real money?
This is totally up to you. We did real money because it’s fun to win real money, but you could do points to spend in a bunny mart or just give out some sort of prize (like one of these Easter baskets for teens) for whoever gets the most money in their game. But I will say – a good part of the fun is having it be actual money.
More Easter Games
If you like this Easter deal or no deal game, make sure to check out these other fun Easter games! They’re a combination of our favorite Easter egg hunts and just games!
- Easter egg hunt for teens – this hilarious game combines texting and egg hunts into an activity teens will love!
- Egg toss – six different games that all use the idea of a classic egg toss with a twist!
- Easter egg games – hilarious games you can play with plastic Easter eggs!
- Easter scavenger hunt – a variety of Easter egg hunt clues and riddles leading to an Easter surprise!
- Picture wall Easter egg hunt – another great one for teens or adults that has players finding Easter eggs just using pictures!
Download the Easter Cash or Hatch Game
Enter your first name and email address in the form below to get the printable PDF. You will receive a link to download the PDF to your email within minutes.
If you’d prefer to not provide your email, you can purchase a copy in my shop here.
If you do not see the form, click here to get to it. Once you filled out the form, if you do not see the email immediately after you fill out the form, make sure to check your promotions, spam, and junk folders!
As a reminder, the PDF will include:
- Easter eggs with values on them
- Blank Easter eggs (to write your own values)
- Matching value cards
- Letters (you can cut these out to use as your title if you’d like – I didn’t)
- Instructions
- Use policy – everything is for personal use only
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