Date Night Games
15 things to do on a date night that are not dinner and a film.
15 questions · Free
Cook something neither of you has made, from a recipe, together.
Tap for a random one. Nothing is saved, so the deck is new every time.
About Date Night Games
Date night games exist because dinner and a film is a perfectly good evening you have already had two hundred times. These 15 are things to do instead — most of them possible tonight, none of them requiring a booking, and several of them free.
Sample questions to get you started
- 1Cook something neither of you has made, from a recipe, together.
- 2Go for a walk after dark with no destination.
- 3Play three games from this site back to back and score them.
- 4Each pick a film the other has never seen and watch one, chosen by coin toss.
- 5Eat somewhere you have walked past a hundred times and never been.
- 6Do the thing you have both been putting off, then go out.
- 7Interview each other for twenty minutes as though for a documentary.
- 8Plan a trip you are not going to take, in full detail.
- 9Go to a supermarket and each buy the other dinner for under a tenner.
- 10Look through photos from the year you met.
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- 11Learn something in one evening — a card trick, a recipe, a song.
- 12Turn the phones off at eight and see what happens.
- 13Write down five things each you want to do this year and compare.
- 14Go somewhere with a view and take nothing with you.
- 15Recreate your first date as exactly as you can.
Tap the game above to play through all prompts.
How to play Date Night Games
- Draw one and take whatever comes up.
- No re-rolling unless you both agree.
- Do it tonight rather than adding it to a list.
- Add your own once you have worked through these.
Why couples love this game
Novelty is what makes an evening memorable, and novelty is exactly what a routine removes. A prompt that puts something slightly unfamiliar into a Friday does more for how the evening is remembered than the quality of the meal does.
Tips to make it more fun
- Draw rather than choosing. Choosing is how you end up with dinner and a film again.
- Half of these cost nothing.
- Do one a week rather than saving them for a special occasion.
- The ones that sound slightly annoying are usually the best.
Frequently asked questions
What can couples do on date night instead of dinner?
Anything with a bit of novelty in it. The quality of the evening depends far more on doing something slightly unfamiliar than on where you ate, which is why a shuffle beats a decision.
Do these cost money?
About half of them cost nothing at all. None of them require a booking.
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