17 Epic Stag Do Games

1 Toy Soldiers

You'll need: A bag containing plastic toy soldiers. (see Stag Accessories)

Rules: Before the night begins the best man will put all toy soldiers in a bag, each stag then pulls out a soldier at random. That is now his pose. Between pubs or at any random moment the best man shouts the command "Assume the position!" and the life-size toy soldiers (stags) must hold the pose of their mini soldier. This is the slightly drunken Rambo of stag do games.

2 Bug Pong

You'll need: Beer, edible bugs, cups, table, ping pong ball.

Rules: Prepare the bug pong table by filling the cups (use the number of cups to suit your group size), half of the cups should be filled with beer or other stag friendly drinks, the other cups should be filled with edible bugs. Fill the cups low enough so the players can see what’s inside from the throwing line. Players then take it in turns to bounce the ball on the table, whatever they hit they must down in one. Any player who fails to get a ball in a cup three times in a row must eat a bug.

Get your edible bugs here and play bug pong.

3 Mr & Mrs Quiz

You'll need: Our list of hilarious questions.

Based on the classic TV show but with far more humiliation for the groom. We’ve split our quiz into five increasingly embarrassing rounds to torture and terrify the groom (“Just wait until we tell your Mrs how you answered!”). You can download or print the full set of questions for free.

See our Mr & Mrs Quiz Questions...

4 Posers

You'll need: Paper, pen, hat or pint glass.

Rules: A slight variation on 'Toy Soldiers'. Write a set of jobs, animals, objects and famous people on strips of paper and then put them in a hat or pint glass. Each player then picks a piece of paper at random which becomes his pose. Every time the Best Man shouts "Who are ya?" everyone in the group has to strike their pose. Ideas: teapot, Usain Bolt, robot, Elvis, Mo Farah, bus driver, David Brent (The Office), Freddie Mercury, peeing dog, the laying hen, air guitar, pole dancer, Michael Jackson.

5 Mr President

You'll need: Nothing

Rules: If the best man raises a finger to his ear (like the secret service listening to an earpiece) the rest of the stags must shout "Get down Mr President" and jump on the groom to save him from potential assassins. Well, you really can't be too careful these days.

6 Knickers

You'll need: A pair of knickers.

Rules: A really easy game to get going. All the stag party game players put a coin in the palm of their hand. When the best man says the word "Knickers" all the players open their palms to show their coin. The best man then counts up how many are showing heads and how many are showing tails. The players with the highest number of corresponding faces showing are safe while the rest play on (so if there are 15 of you on the stag and there are 8 heads and 7 tails then those holding heads are all safe and the other 7 players go again).

This continues until you have a loser. If it comes down to just two players then it comes down to a coin toss. The loser has to put the knickers on over his trousers and keep them on until the next bar when the game is played again.

Extra: To make it more interesting ask the bride-to-be to donate a pair of her knickers.

7 Stranger Danger

You'll need: Charm

Rules: Approach a group of likely lasses and engage them in conversation, but without your usual sparkling wit and charm, the challenge is to be as boring as possible (without being rude or offensive at any point) and keep them talking for 5 minutes without being told to push off. Last the full five minutes and you succeed. Fail and you face a stag penalty.

8 Last Man Standing

You'll need: A pair of outrageous pants.

Rules: At any point during the evening if a stag sits down on the ground the rest of the stags must follow suit. The last man standing must then wear the hideous pants over the top of his trousers until the next time the game is played.
But... should a stag sit down and none of the others join in then he must wear the pants.

Extra: If you're sly you can set it up so that the groom falls foul of the first round, has to wear the pants and then you simply don't play the game again leaving him stitched up for the rest of the night.

9 Wax Attack

You'll need: A set of waxing strips.

Rules: These are purely random moments. Every time a member of the party fails a challenge, doesn't take a dare or loses a game, get a passing girl to use a waxing strip somewhere on his body. Quick. Painful. Hilarious.

10 Ben Hur

You'll need: A bunch of stupid but relatively fit blokes.

Rules: When it's time to move on to the next bar assemble the group outside and split them into even-numbered teams and tell them which bar is to be your next port of call.
Now tell the teams they must decide who amongst them is the lightest, this man is now the 'charioteer' and the rest of the team are now the 'roman chariot'.
Get them under starters orders and on your command, the rest of the team must pick up their driver and race to the next bar. They can carry him any way they see fit, but the charioteer's feet must not hit the ground at any time.

11 Freeze Frame

You'll need: Eyes in the back of your head

Rules: At any given point in the evening a stag can freeze completely still. The rest of the stags must follow suit, the last man to spot it and freeze must pay a (pint?) penalty.

12 Send To All

You'll need: No phones!

Rules: This is a stag do so all phones should be off-limits when all the lads are together. Any stag found in breach of this golden rule will have his phone taken off him and handed to the groom who will then send a text to the phone's entire contact list without the guilty party seeing what is written.

13 Spanish Archer

You'll need: Elbows

Rules: Pointing? That's just rude. Pointing with your elbows? That, on the other hand, is just weird. Embrace the weird! For the remainder of the evening, you cannot call another stag by name, instead, you must point with your elbows. Failure to do so... Stag forfeit.
'Spanish Archer' - 'El Bow' See what we did there?

14 Man With No Name

You'll Need: Stag nicknames

Rules: Names... pfft, they're just so last year. Nicknames, that's what you need. Assign all the stags a nickname. Anyone who forgets and uses a stag's real name rather than his stag nickname must face a forfeit.

15 Who Dares Wins

You'll need: A set of dare cards

Dare cards are easily bought but making your own can be far messier and much more interesting.

16 Oscar Bravo

You'll need: Movie knowledge

The Rules: Each player must find some lovely looking ladies to engage in conversation. The challenge is to get three movie quotes into the conversation without getting rumbled. You can up the ante by deciding which movie the quotes must come from. Any stag who gets caught must pay a forfeit.

17 Lyrical Gangsta!

You'll need: Music knowledge

The Rules: This game is similar to Oscar Bravo except this time it's your song knowledge that will be tested. Each player must find some lovely looking ladies to engage in conversation. The challenge is to get three song lyrics into the conversation without getting rumbled. Any stag who gets caught must pay a forfeit.