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Baby shower games on a TV: 8 rounds guests play from their phones
Sunday afternoon, her sister's living room in Raleigh. Sage-green balloons tied to the banister, a diaper cake on the sideboard wrapped in so much ribbon it looks like a hat, and the mom-to-be in the one good armchair with her feet on a footstool, because everyone insisted. On the coffee table: a stack of printed game sheets, a jar of pens, and a roll of ribbon for the belly-measuring game that nobody has quite decided is a good idea.
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I've seen a lot of showers run on paper, and the sheets always end up the same way: half-filled, stuck to a paper plate, scored by a sister-in-law at the kitchen counter while the gifts are being opened. The games are sweet. The admin isn't.
Put them on the TV instead. PULTEVENT runs from a laptop connected to the television, guests scan a QR code and play on their own phones, no app to install. The phones need internet, so print the Wi-Fi password on a card by the door. The host clicks through the rounds and the scores keep themselves.
8 baby shower games for the TV
1 Baby photo lineup
Each guest sends a baby photo in advance. On the day, they appear one at a time full screen, and the room guesses whose it is. The last photo is always the mom-to-be.
How to run it. Ask for photos privately and remind people not to post them in the group chat.
It's the round the grandmothers love, and it gets everybody laughing in the first ten minutes.
2 Due date and weight predictions
Live voting with ranges: which week the baby arrives, the birth weight, hair or no hair, whose nose. Guests pick from their phones and the results appear as bars on the TV.
How to run it. Take a photo of the results screen and send it to the parents. Check it again when the baby comes.
Everyone gets a small stake in the birth announcement, and the winner gets to say so in the family group chat.
3 Guess the price
A quiz round with real baby items: a pack of newborn diapers, a pacifier, a stroller, a crib mattress. Four price options on each phone, the right one revealed on the TV.
How to run it. Use prices from a store near you and write them as plain options, no brand names on the slides.
The new parents in the room laugh loudest. The first-time parents-to-be go a little quiet.
4 Finish the nursery rhyme
The first line of a nursery rhyme or lullaby appears on screen and phones choose the next line from four options. It sounds easy until the fourth one.
How to run it. Include a couple of lullabies from the families' own traditions, in whatever language they sang them.
It's gentle, quick, and grandparents often win it, which they deserve.
5 He said, she said, on video
Film the dad-to-be answering a few questions about the pregnancy and the baby. The mom-to-be answers the same question live, then you play his clip.
How to run it. Ask him to repeat the question at the start of each clip. It makes the clip work without any explanation.
If the dad isn't at the shower, he's still in it, and his answers are usually funnier than he meant them to be.
6 Mom's timeline
Events from the mom-to-be's life in the wrong order: first job, first apartment, the day she met her partner, the positive test. Guests put them in order on their phones.
How to run it. Ask her mom for the early dates. She'll remember things her daughter has long forgotten.
It turns a room of guests from different parts of her life into one audience for her story.
7 Messages for the baby
Short video clips from people who can't be there: a grandmother in another state, a best friend overseas, a great-aunt who doesn't do long drives. They play one after the other on the TV.
How to run it. Ask for thirty seconds each and tell people to speak to the baby, not the camera.
There's rarely a dry eye in the room, and the clips make a keepsake the parents can watch again.
8 The diaper raffle
A classic shower tradition: every guest who brings a pack of diapers gets a raffle ticket. With the QR raffle, the ticket is on their phone and the draw runs on the TV.
How to run it. Mention the raffle on the invitation, with the diaper sizes the parents actually need.
The parents get a closet full of diapers. The guests get a reason to stay through the gift opening.
No pens, no score sheets
Guests tap answers on their phones and the TV shows who's winning.
Baby photos, full screen
Everyone's baby pictures go up one by one. The room guesses which is the mom-to-be.
Predictions saved on the laptop
Due date, weight and hair color picks are locked in, so you can check them when the baby arrives.
A diaper raffle that draws itself
Each guest who brought a pack gets a ticket on their phone. The draw happens on the TV.
Who runs it (not the mom-to-be)
The person holding the laptop should be the host of the shower, a sister, a best friend or the future grandmother, never the guest of honor. She should be in the armchair with her feet up, answering questions and laughing, not clicking. Everything here can be run by one person who can handle a slideshow.
Build the rounds a few evenings before. On the day, the host only needs to plug in the HDMI cable and press through.
Co-ed showers and sprinkles
More showers include partners, friends' husbands and the dad's side of the family now. The TV format helps a lot here, because the games feel like a party show rather than a list of questions about diapers. The price round and the predictions work for everyone. Drop the belly-measuring game, which rarely goes well with a mixed room.
For a sprinkle, the smaller shower for a second or third baby, cut to three rounds: predictions, baby photos and the raffle. The parents already have the stroller.
Pacing a two-hour shower
Most showers run two to three hours, and a large share of that is food and gift opening. Plan for thirty to forty minutes of games in two blocks. The first block goes while people are settling with their plates: baby photos, predictions, the price round. The second comes after the gifts, when energy dips: the video clips and the raffle.
"How many more games?"
"Two. Then cake."
That's the pace you want.
Grandparents and phones
Some older guests will hesitate at the QR code. Put a younger relative next to them, or let two people share one phone as a team. The photo round and the video messages need no phone at all, so everyone is part of the best moments regardless.
A shower for guests who are far away
If the family is spread out, run the games on a video call as well as on the TV. Share the stage window, and guests at home join with their phones through the same QR code. Their answers count on the same scoreboard as the living room.
Test the whole set in the free 3-day demo; no card is needed. Afterwards the full version is a one-time license, no subscription, with pricing on pultevent.ru/en.
About the author
PULTEVENT was built by Ruslan Barashkin, who has hosted weddings, birthdays and office parties since 2014: over 500 events, best host of Moscow 2024 and of Saint Petersburg 2023 at the TOP 100 Awards. He made it for his own nights first. The rest is at pultevent.ru/en.
How to run baby shower games on a TV
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Two weeks before, collect baby photos and ask absent relatives for short video messages.
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Film the dad-to-be's answers and write the price and nursery rhyme rounds in the console.
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Add the diaper raffle to the invitation with the sizes the parents need.
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On the day, connect the laptop to the TV and put the Wi-Fi password by the door.
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Play the photos, predictions and price round while guests eat, then open gifts.
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Finish with the video messages and the diaper raffle draw.
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