Hens party games that run off everyone's phone

The usual hens party games come as a list: print it, cut it up, and then someone reads cards out all night while everyone else plays. This one runs off everyone's phone instead. Open a link, the TV or a speaker becomes the stage, and Gail the Galah hosts. No printing, no props, no one stuck being the reader, so the maid of honour gets to play too.

It is a pack of cards and questions for two party games we already make, Read the Room and Who Knows Ya Best?, all about the bride, the group and the wedding. Cheeky, never crude. Fine with Mum, Nan and the future mother-in-law in the room.

• Try three cards
• The two games
• Sample cards
• Hens day ideas
• How it works
• The pack

Two hens night games, one pack

Gail the Galah hosts both. She is a pink and grey parrot with a lot of opinions, and she has her own hens lines: a welcome, a cheer for a bang on guess, a groan for a miss, and a toast to the bride at the end.

Sample hens night game cards

These are real cards from the pack of 40. Each one is a pair of opposites with room in between, so the argument is half the fun.

1. Nan leaves the reception early, or Nan is first on the dance floor
2. Thirty-second speech, or speech that needs an interval
3. Something old, or something new
4. Easy wedding guest, or seat them near the exit
5. Sensible wedding shoes, or shoes off by nine o'clock
6. Quiet group chat, or two hundred unread messages
7. Bucks night thing, or hens night thing
8. Mother of the bride would love it, or mother of the bride would faint

And from Who Knows Ya Best?: "How long would our bride take to get ready for a night out?" Ten minutes, tops. Half an hour. Over an hour. Or "I started yesterday."

Hens day ideas, and where the game fits

Whether it is a hens party in Sydney, Adelaide or a holiday house, the game fits the usual shape of the day. Anywhere with Wi-Fi or mobile data will do.

• Getting ready. Ten minutes of Read the Room while the first people finish their hair. Short rounds, so anyone can join late.
• The holiday rental or hotel room. Put it on the TV, or skip the TV and play on phones alone. The host's phone does the screen's job.
• The long lunch. Everyone already has a phone out. Who Knows Ya Best? turns it into a reason to look up and laugh.
• The bus or the car. Read the Room on phones alone works on the way there, no screen needed.
• The hen who could not come. Share the screen on a video call and she joins with the four-letter code on her own phone.

It also works as the opener before whatever else you have planned, like a class, a cruise or a trivia night.

How to play hens party games on your phones

1. Open the link on a TV, laptop or one phone. It opens a room with a QR code and four letters. See how it works for casting and TV tips.
2. Everyone joins on their own phone. Scan the code or type the four letters. No app and no account for guests.
3. The host picks the game and the Hens Night cards. Gail takes it from there.

The host buys the pack and the guests play free, so the maid of honour pays once instead of chasing everyone.

The Hens Night pack

The pack adds 40 Read the Room cards and 20 Who Knows Ya Best? questions, about the bride, the group and the wedding, with Gail's voice on every one. It is not on sale yet. Leave your email below and you get one email the day it opens, with the price. No date has been set.

The cards stay on the right side of cheeky: nothing sexual, nothing about bodies or exes, no dares and no drinking-game rules. It is written to be fine with the whole room, from the bride's mates to her future in-laws.

Hosting something for a different crowd? See all our party games, or the free Which Would Ya?, a this or that game that works at any party. Planning a bachelorette party for American friends? There is a bachelorette party games version of this page too.

Updated 2 November 2026.