Printable 2024 New Year’s Trivia Games

These printable New Year’s Eve games are perfect for any New Year’s Eve celebration! Simply print out one of the five New Year’s Eve trivia games and see how much you can remember about the year’s biggest news, pop culture, and sporting events! These are definitely our favorite best New Year’s Eve party games to play each year!

New Year’s Eve Trivia Games

One of my favorite traditions each year is creating printable New Year’s Eve games based on pop culture, sports, and news events from the year.

I’ve been creating New Year’s Eve trivia games for the last ten years, and they’re always a big hit for New Year’s. I have people email me every single year asking for the games because they’ve played them for years and want them!

I like to put one in each of our New Year’s Eve countdown boxes and play all night long!

While you could play these possibly with teens or young adults, the questions will likely be tricky for kids! If you’re playing with kids, these New Year’s Eve minute to win it games or really any of the New Year’s Eve party games on this list would work!

So grab a glass of new years punch and get to playing!

Printable New Year’s Eve Party Games

Let me start by saying that 2024 was well, let’s just say a year. This the latest that I’ve ever updated my New Year’s Eve trivia games and honestly, I just was struggling with what to include in the games this year.

I typically try to stick to movies, music, pop culture, sports, etc. and avoid the controversial things like politics and negative things like arrests, disasters, and so on. But unfortunately this year it felt like those were such a huge part of the year, they were essential to being able to keep these games authentic.

That being said – these are still heavy on pop culture, sports, and music. But I did sprinkle in politics and other things I normally shy away from – and if these aren’t representative of your year, just know these are solely meant to be used for a little entertainment at a New Year’s Eve party.

The other thing you may notice is that some of the trivia questions or facts are used on multiple games. I tried hard this year to get in as many different things as possible but with creating six games, it’s actually very challenging to not repeat things across games so you likely won’t want to play all six of these!

Where are the Answers???

Before we get into the games, I’m going to answer the #1 question I get about these printable New Year’s Eve games every year – where are the answers??

The answers are in the PDF file that you get when you enter your first name and email address in the pink form toward the bottom of this post. You have to fill out the form or buy a copy of the game in my shop to get the answers.

New Year’s Eve Game #1 – 2024 Movie Match

I brought back my popular pop culture matching game because this was a really fun year for movies with animated hits like Inside Out 2, superhero blockbusters (hey Wolverine), and even musical phenomenons in Wicked.

If you’ve never played this one before, all you do is match the movie to the quote. I stuck with the top movies of the year based on box office sales so that hopefully people will have seen at least some of these!

New Year’s Eve Game #2 – 2024 Trivia

This is one is just what it sounds like – trivia from the year. No matching, no fill in the blanks, and no shortcuts – you either know the answer or you don’t.

I’ve heard from a lot of teachers that they like to use this with their students on the last day before winter break so honestly while it’s great for New Year’s Eve (and one of my favorites), it’s really just fun any time you want some year end trivia! 

This is probably the toughest of all of these New Year’s Eve party games because you actually have to know the answer, no hints or clues. This is also a fun one to play just to remind people that there are some good things that happened this year!

I also include a section at the bottom for big awards and events of the year to give people a chance who may not be able to come up with answers to all of the 2024 trivia questions!

New Year’s Eve Game #3 – Celebrity Death Match

I created this game as a way to remember the celebrity icons that passed away this year. This does not mean that the lives of any of these celebrities are more important than the other hundreds of thousands who died this year, it’s just because they’re celebrities that universally people may know.

And I know each death hits people a little differently. I’m still having a hard time watching Friends without being sad.

In this game, I’ve put together 24 of the most famous celebrities who passed away in 2024 on the left side. On the right side, there are words and phrases – each one is closely associated with one of the celebrities who passed away.

Match the celebrities to the correct phrase on the right side to get a point. But be careful, some of them are a little tricky! There’s only one celebrity match per phrase.

New Year’s Eve Game #4 – Fill in the Blanks

One day I’m going to come up with a better name for this game but for now it’s just fill in the blanks. And this my friends is my very favorite out of all of the New Year’s Eve games I make each year for one reason – I get to rhyme.

I have a thing for rhyming and putting together this fill in the blank couplet game is one of the most fun things I do every year. Weird, I know, but I love it.

There’s a reason I’ve made up so many scavenger hunt ideas and left right games!

The game is simple.

I’ve put together a bunch of rhyming lines that spell out events that happened this year. Those lines have blanks that players have to fill in. When lines are filled in correctly, they’ll rhyme.

This year’s game has everything from the year’s top movies to books and more!

New Year’s Eve Game #5 – Whodonit 2024?

I added this game last year for the first time and had good feedback on the game it’s now a new staple!

In this game, you just have to guess the person that the statement fits. It’s not necessarily easy or hard, just depends on if you can come up with the right names. I personally think it’s a fun one and a good addition to the New Year’s Eve trivia collection for this year!

New Year’s Eve Trivia Game #6 – Where Did 2024 Go?

This is one of those games that is tricky to play but so fun. I actually skipped making it one year, and I had so many people email me and ask to bring it back – well it’s here to stay!

The idea is to put the happenings in order from January to December and if you can guess the exact date, you get an extra point! I tried my best to pick things that you might actually remember the date or at least the time of the year, mostly.

Want something other than trivia? Try one of these fun New Year’s Eve games too!

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Get the Free Printable Trivia Games

Enter your first name and email address below to get the free printables – both the games and the answers.

If you’d rather not fill out the form, you can get a copy in my shop here as well.

If you don’t see the form below, click here to get to it.

The file includes all six games mentioned above for 2024 and answer sheets, plus my use policy – everything is for personal use only, no commercial or for profit use.