Bachelorette games

Who Knows the Bride Best?

Updated October 2026

Who Knows the Bride is the simplest bachelorette game there is. The bride answers a list of questions about herself ahead of time, everyone else guesses, and whoever matches her most wins. It needs a pen, some paper and a bride willing to be honest about her first car.

Below: how to run it, 40 questions in five rounds, and how to keep it fair when her oldest friends and her future in-laws are in the same room.

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All 40 questions on slides, plus a printable answer sheet.

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Before the party

How to play

Pick 15 to 20 questions. All 40 is a long night. Choose a few from each round.
Get the bride’s answers in advance. Send her the list a week ahead and have the maid of honor keep her answers sealed. If she answers on the night, she will change them to whatever is funniest.
Everyone writes their guesses. One sheet per person, or one per team of two or three.
Read her answers out one at a time. A point for every match. The bride rules on close calls, and her rulings are final, even the ones that aren’t fair.
Most points wins. The prize matters less than the right to bring it up for the rest of the trip.

The questions

40 questions, in five rounds

Swap in your own details. The best questions are the ones only your group could ask.

Round 1

Her history

1What was her first job?
2What did she want to be when she grew up, and how long did that last?
3What did she get in trouble for most often as a kid?
4What was her first car, and what was wrong with it?
5Which haircut does she still not talk about?
6Who was her first celebrity crush?
7What was her go-to karaoke song in college?
8What is the longest she has held a grudge, and against whom?

Round 2

Her exact opinions

9Her coffee order, word for word.
10A food she refuses to eat, and the reason she gives.
11The movie she has seen more times than anyone should.
12The hill she will die on.
13Something everyone loves that she finds overrated.
14The restaurant she has never forgiven.
15Her most passionate complaint about air travel.
16The one household chore she will not do.

Round 3

Her habits

17What is always in her bag?
18How many unread emails does she have, to the nearest thousand?
19What is her excuse for leaving a party early?
20On average, how late is she, in minutes?
21What does she order when she says she isn’t hungry?
22What phrase does she say more than any other?
23What is the first thing she does when she gets home?
24Which app would she delete last?

Round 4

Her and her fiancé

25Where did they meet?
26Who said “I love you” first?
27What did they do on their first date?
28What did she think of him the first time they met?
29What do they argue about most, and who wins?
30What habit of his does she complain about most?
31How long did they date before the proposal?
32What was the first thing she ever told you about him?

Round 5

Her and this group

33Who in this room has she known the longest?
34Who in this room does she text the most?
35Who would she call first if her car broke down at 2 a.m.?
36Who in this room is most likely to make her cry at the wedding?
37What is the best trip she has taken with anyone here?
38What did she plan for this weekend that didn’t happen?
39Who will she blame for the photos from tonight?
40What will she say first when she reads this list?

The usual situation

When the group is old friends and new in-laws

Most bachelorette parties pull from every part of the bride’s life: friends since kindergarten, college roommates, a coworker or two, and a future sister-in-law who has known her for eighteen months and is being very polite about it. Straight trivia hands the win to the oldest friends while the in-laws watch.

A few things fix most of it:

Play in teams, and put an old friend and an in-law on every team.
Lean on rounds 2, 3 and 5. Anyone can guess her coffee order. Only her childhood best friend knows her first car.
Give the in-laws round 4. They know the other side of every story about the couple, and they have been waiting to use it.
Award a point for the best wrong answer. When an in-law’s guess is better than the truth, the bride decides whether it counts. It usually does.

On the night

Playing it on a TV

Put each question on a slide and cast it to the TV, so everyone reads the same question at the same time. Reveal her answer on the next slide. It moves faster, and nobody has to hear the host repeat question 14.

Free template: all 40 questions already on slides, each followed by a blank slide for her answer, plus a printable answer sheet.

Download for PowerPoint Open in Google Slides Download the answer sheet (PDF)

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Or

The version that writes itself

Group Project is a game show built from your group’s own answers. This game is one of its five rounds, and nobody has to type up a single slide.

Before the party, everyone answers a few short questions about the bride on their phone, and her fiancé answers a few in secret. On the night it plays on the TV, and everyone votes from their phone. In one round, the room guesses which answer she will pick, and then she picks it. In another, everyone writes what they think her fiancé said, the room votes on the best one, and then his real answer appears. The scores keep themselves.

There’s no answer key to study, so her college roommate and her future sister-in-law start even. It works for 5 to 20 people, you pick how edgy the questions get before anyone arrives, and setup takes about ten minutes.

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Questions people ask

How many questions do you need for Who Knows the Bride?

Fifteen to 20 is right for most groups. That takes about 30 minutes.

Should the bride answer in advance?

Yes. Send her the list a week before and keep her answers sealed. Answers given on the night tend to drift toward whatever gets the biggest laugh.

How do you score it?

One point per answer that matches hers. The bride rules on close calls. Some groups give a bonus point for the best wrong answer.

What if the group mixes old friends and new in-laws?

Play in teams that mix the two, lean on questions anyone can guess at, like her coffee order or her excuse for leaving early, and give the in-laws the questions about the couple.

Can you play Who Knows the Bride on a TV?

Yes. Put the questions on slides and cast them to the TV, or use a game like Group Project that runs on the TV and scores itself.