Midnight Showdown: New Year's Eve Family Game Show for Your TV (+ Noon Year's Eve Mode)

Turn your living room into a New Year's Eve game show.

Midnight Showdown is a family-friendly game show that plays on your TV. Plug in a laptop, press Space, and the show runs itself: dramatic title cards, timers, sound effects, a live scoreboard and a big countdown to midnight with confetti on the screen.

Two shows in one download

• 🌙 Midnight Show (ages 7+, about 45 to 60 minutes): six rounds.

1. Rewind Rally: around-the-calendar trivia

2. Resolution Reveal: guess who made the silly resolution

3. Finish the Phrase: the family round

4. Act It Out!: act it or draw it, with a timer

5. Lightning Lap: a 90-second speed round

6. Midnight Dash: the double-points finale, then the 10-second countdown

• ☀️ Noon Year's Eve (ages 3 to 7, about 30 minutes): Color Dash, Animal Parade, Finish the Rhyme, Count It!, Freeze Dance (with built-in music) and a Big Noon Party countdown, so little ones celebrate before nap time. Everybody wins!

Made for real families

• Clean, kind and family-safe: no alcohol, nothing scary, nothing awkward. Great for families, grandparents, church and youth-group nights, classrooms and office parties.

• 2 to 6 teams with your own team names. Score with the number keys, a mouse, or a presentation clicker.

• A live countdown clock you can leave on the TV between rounds. Leave it up at 11:59 and the TV counts down the last 10 seconds and celebrates at 12:00.

• Evergreen questions that aren't tied to this year's news, so you can play it every New Year's.

What's included

• Midnight-Showdown-Show.html: the TV game show (one file, works offline)

• Midnight-Showdown-Phone-Answer-Pad.html: optional. Players' phones become big A to D answer cards, a number pad or a buzzer.

• Host Guide (8 pages): setup, controls, running order, tips and the full answer key

• Score Sheets (5 pages): team scorecard, finale answer slips, little-kids superstar chart, and A to D and Yes/No answer cards

• Year in a Jar time capsule (3 pages): a family/teen version, a little-kids version (with a hand-tracing box) and a family resolutions page with jar labels

• Every PDF in full color and a black-and-white ink saver, in US Letter and A4

What you need

• A laptop or desktop computer (Windows, Mac or Chromebook) with a current browser: Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox

• A way to show it on your TV: an HDMI cable, or screen casting / mirroring (AirPlay, Chromecast, or Windows wireless display). A laptop screen alone works for small groups.

• A printer for the optional printables

• No internet, app, account or subscription. After you download it, everything runs from the file on your computer. (Casting to a TV uses your home Wi-Fi, but the game itself never goes online.)

Please note

• This is a digital download. Nothing will be shipped.

• The show is designed for a computer connected to a TV. It is not a phone or tablet app. The optional phone answer pad works in most phone browsers, and printable answer cards are included as a backup.

• For personal, family, classroom, church and your own non-commercial events. Please don't share or resell the files.

Happy Guarantee 💛

We want your party to be a hit. If anything doesn't work or you're not happy, email tablelaughgames@gmail.com and we'll fix it or refund you. No hassle.

AI disclosure: The living-room photo in the TV preview image is an AI-generated illustration. The game screens shown are real screenshots of the show. All game text, questions and design were created by Table Laugh Games.