This never have I ever Christmas edition holds 80 statements about the season: tangled lights, peeked-at presents, fallen gingerbread houses and the drive home through the snow. Nothing touches drinking, dating, money or faith.
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A round after Christmas dinner
Everyone holds up five fingers. Read a card; anyone who has done it puts one down and may tell the story. Easy cards, such as Never have I ever left cookies and milk out on Christmas Eve, drop fingers fast.
Five groups, one for each part of the season
Gifts and wrapping suits a gift swap; Snow, travel and the break suits relatives who flew in. Hard cards, such as Never have I ever knocked over a Christmas tree, name what only one or two people have done.
Tips
Whoever puts a finger down alone tells the story; the room decides whether it counts.
Questions and answers
What are some never have I ever Christmas questions?
Never have I ever peeked at a present before Christmas morning. Never have I ever worn an ugly Christmas sweater on purpose. Never have I ever kept the tree up until February. All 80 are in the list under the deck.
Is this Christmas edition clean enough for kids?
Every card is about trees, presents, food, traditions and snow, with nothing on drinking, dating, money or bodies, so a family table can play it. A few cards, such as cooking the whole dinner, are about grown-up jobs.
Can I print the cards for a Christmas party?
Yes. When a round ends, Print these gives all 80 as slips to cut apart, or press one group first to print only its 16.
Never have I ever bought a real tree that turned out too tall for the room.
Never have I ever decorated a tree that was not a pine tree at all.
Never have I ever decorated the outside of the house so brightly the neighbors noticed.
Never have I ever found a lost ornament while packing the decorations away.
Never have I ever hung a candy cane on the tree and eaten it the same day.
Never have I ever kept the tree up until February.
Never have I ever knocked over a Christmas tree.
Never have I ever left the lights on the roof all year.
Never have I ever made an ornament out of salt dough.
Never have I ever owned a tinsel tree in a color that trees are not.
Never have I ever put the star on top of the tree myself.
Never have I ever put the tree up before the end of November.
Never have I ever rearranged the ornaments after someone else hung them.
Never have I ever strung popcorn on a thread for the tree.
Never have I ever tested every bulb on a string one at a time to find the dead one.
Never have I ever untangled a string of lights for longer than it took to hang them.
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Gifts and wrapping 16
Never have I ever bought myself a present while shopping for someone else.
Never have I ever finished all my Christmas shopping before December.
Never have I ever forgotten where I hid a present.
Never have I ever given someone a gift I had been given.
Never have I ever left the price tag on a present by mistake.
Never have I ever made a present by hand for every person on my list.
Never have I ever opened a present and pretended to love it.
Never have I ever peeked at a present before Christmas morning.
Never have I ever picked a name out of a hat for a gift swap and then traded it.
Never have I ever put a small present inside a much bigger box as a joke.
Never have I ever run out of tape halfway through wrapping.
Never have I ever shaken every box under the tree to guess what was inside.
Never have I ever wrapped a present in newspaper.
Never have I ever wrapped a present so well nobody could open it.
Never have I ever wrapped every present on Christmas Eve night.
Never have I ever written a thank-you note for every gift I got.
Cookies and Christmas dinner 16
Never have I ever baked cookies that came out the shape of one big cookie.
Never have I ever built a gingerbread house that fell down before anyone saw it.
Never have I ever burned the Christmas rolls.
Never have I ever cooked the whole Christmas dinner myself.
Never have I ever decorated cookies with more sprinkles than cookie.
Never have I ever eaten a candy cane without letting it break.
Never have I ever eaten a full Christmas dinner twice in one day.
Never have I ever eaten cookie dough straight from the bowl in December.
Never have I ever eaten fruitcake and asked for a second slice.
Never have I ever eaten the decorations off a gingerbread house.
Never have I ever had leftovers from Christmas dinner for a whole week.
Never have I ever had pancakes or waffles for Christmas breakfast.
Never have I ever hidden the last of the cookies so nobody else could have them.
Never have I ever left cookies and milk out on Christmas Eve.
Never have I ever made hot cocoa from scratch with real chocolate.
Never have I ever tried a Christmas dish from a country I have never been to.
Traditions and Christmas Eve 16
Never have I ever dressed up as an elf.
Never have I ever driven around just to look at other people's lights.
Never have I ever fallen asleep during a Christmas movie.
Never have I ever hidden a toy elf somewhere new every night of December.
Never have I ever opened one present on Christmas Eve.
Never have I ever played a board game all afternoon on Christmas Day.
Never have I ever sat on a mall Santa's lap as an adult.
Never have I ever spent Christmas somewhere hot enough to swim.
Never have I ever started a new family tradition that stuck.
Never have I ever stayed awake to listen for sleigh bells.
Never have I ever sung carols at a stranger's door.
Never have I ever watched the same holiday movie every single year.
Never have I ever woken up before six on Christmas morning.
Never have I ever worn an ugly Christmas sweater on purpose.
Never have I ever worn matching pajamas with my family.
Never have I ever written a letter to the North Pole.
Snow, travel and the break 16
Never have I ever been snowed in on Christmas.
Never have I ever built a snowman on Christmas Day.
Never have I ever driven home through a snowstorm after Christmas dinner.
Never have I ever gone ice skating over the winter break.
Never have I ever had a snowball fight in my good clothes.
Never have I ever had a warmer Christmas than Halloween.
Never have I ever made snow angels in the front yard.
Never have I ever measured the snow with a ruler on Christmas morning.
Never have I ever shoveled a path so someone could get to the door on Christmas.
Never have I ever sledded down a hill on something that was not a sled.
Never have I ever slept on someone's couch over the holidays.
Never have I ever spent Christmas on a plane or a train.
Never have I ever stayed in my pajamas all of Christmas Day.
Never have I ever traveled more than a day to get home for Christmas.
Never have I ever wished for a white Christmas and got one.
Never have I ever worn mittens so thick I could not open a present.
How this list was compiled: Written by the Game Night Generator editors on 2026-09-24; every statement is our own wording and no list was copied from anywhere. This is the fingers version of the game: players hold up ten fingers, or five, and put one down for each statement that is true of them, as described in Wikipedia's article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_have_I_ever, read on 2026-09-24. Every statement is about the Christmas season as a family or a group of friends keeps it: the tree, presents, baking, dinner, traditions, snow and travel. None is about alcohol, dating, money, bodies or faith, and none names a film, a brand or a real person. Levels are an editor's estimate of how common the experience is, not a measurement: easy is something most of a room has done, medium splits a room, and hard is something only one or two people have done, usually with a story attached. On 2026-09-24 the deck was compared by script with every other list on this site, and statements that repeated one elsewhere were rewritten. Licence: own work