The 20 Best Weed Games You Can Play When High

Look, sometimes you just need something to do besides stare at the ceiling and debate whether water has a taste. Weed games fix that problem. They give a session structure without killing the vibe — and honestly, some of the best nights happen when someone pulls out a stupid-simple game and everyone commits to it way harder than they should.

Here’s the list. Twenty games, ranging from braindead easy to “this seemed like a good idea before the second bowl.” All tested in the field.

Smoke Burn a Hole

Dead simple. Pass a joint around in a circle, one hit per person. No skipping, no stalling. The goal is to see who can keep going the longest without coughing themselves into another dimension. It sounds trivial until round four, when someone’s eyes are watering and they’re wheezing through a laugh. The joint itself becomes the scoreboard — whoever “burns a hole” (coughs through their turn and wastes it) loses.

Ash Bomber

Think beer pong’s degenerate cousin. You need a bong and some ash — that’s it. Players take turns flicking ash from their joint, trying to land it in the bowl. If you sink it, the other team takes a hit. If you miss, well, someone’s cleaning up. The precision required after a couple rounds makes this way harder than it sounds. Easily a top-three game for competitive stoners.

Strip Choker

A card game that escalates. Fast. Draw a card, do what it says — draw a two, take two hits. Draw a six, hand six hits to someone else. The last card in the deck? That person takes whatever’s left. The name comes from the fact that, by the end, someone is always choking. You can add stripping rules if your group is into that, but fair warning: this game gets chaotic enough without clothes coming off.

Bong Pong

Exactly what it sounds like. Set up cups in a triangle, bounce a ping pong ball, and whoever gets scored on takes a bong rip. It’s beer pong rules with higher stakes and slower reflexes. Works best on a sturdy table — someone’s going to knock something over, guaranteed. A full game runs maybe 20 minutes, which is about the maximum attention span you’ll get from most groups mid-session.

Song Jammin’

Pick a song. Pick a trigger word — “baby,” “yeah,” “love,” whatever shows up a lot. Every time the word drops, everyone takes a hit. Sounds chill until someone puts on a Rihanna song where the hook repeats nine times. The song selection is everything here. Pro tip: let the most sober person pick first, because they’ll still have the judgment to choose something manageable.

Letter of the Previous

A word game that gets brutal as the session progresses. First person says a word. Next person says a word starting with the last letter of that word. “Bong” → “gummy” → “yellow” → and so on. No repeats, no pauses longer than five seconds. Someone will eventually say a word that isn’t a word, and that’s when the arguments start. The penalty for failure: a hit, obviously.

Beer Pong (Weed Edition)

Same setup as regular beer pong — cups, triangle, ping pong balls. Replace beer with bong rips. The losing team clears the table and takes hits for every cup still standing. If you already know beer pong, you know this game. The only difference is that your aim gets progressively worse for completely different reasons.

420 Tic Tac Toe

Draw a grid. Play tic tac toe. Take a hit every time you make a move. The game itself barely matters — you’ve all played tic tac toe a thousand times and it almost always ends in a draw. The real game is watching someone overthink a tic tac toe move for thirty seconds because they’re three rounds deep. First to three in a row wins. Ties mean everybody takes an extra hit.

Stoned Musical Chairs

Set up chairs. Start music. Pass a joint while the music plays. When the music stops, whoever’s holding the joint takes a hit and has to find a new seat. Last person standing (or sitting, or lying on the floor) takes another. This one works best with 5–8 people. Any more and it devolves into chaos. Actually, it devolves into chaos regardless — that’s the point.

Bob Marley

Exactly what you’d guess. Put on a Bob Marley album. Pick a trigger word — “ganja,” “Jah,” “sun,” whatever fits the track. Everyone hits when the word comes up. Legend and Exodus work best for this. “Kaya” is technically the on-brand choice but it’s also shorter than you think. This is less a competitive game and more a communal ritual, which is kind of the whole point.

Stoner Trivia

Someone plays quizmaster. Questions are all weed-related — history, culture, science, strain names, whatever. “What year did Colorado legalize recreational?” “What’s the main terpene in OG Kush?” Get it right, you’re safe. Get it wrong, take a hit. The person with the most correct answers picks the next round’s questions. Fair warning: stoner trivia disputes can get heated, especially when someone insists they know the actual THC percentage of a strain they tried once in 2019.

Straight Face

Draw a card. Do what it says — take hits, give hits, whatever the house rules dictate. The twist: you have to keep a straight face the entire time. First person who cracks even a smirk takes a penalty hit. This game is almost impossible after the first few rounds because everything becomes funnier. Someone pulling a perfectly neutral face while taking six hits back-to-back is one of the funniest things you’ll ever see.

Video Games

Not really a “weed game” in the traditional sense, but playing video games while high is its own category of experience. The key is picking the right game. Avoid anything that requires fast reaction times — you’ll just get frustrated. Go for exploration games, puzzle games, racing games with assist mode on, or anything with a good soundtrack and nice visuals. Stardew Valley hits different after an edible. So does Journey. So does just driving around in GTA without doing any missions.

Rubber Band

Pass a rubber band around a circle. Each person stretches it a little further before passing it to the next person. That’s the whole game. The tension builds as the rubber band gets thinner and more strained — and when it finally snaps, whoever was holding it takes a hit. Stupid? Yes. Surprisingly gripping (literally)? Also yes. The anticipation does most of the work.

Cheech and Chong

The movie version of Song Jammin’. Put on any Cheech and Chong movie — Up in Smoke is the obvious choice — and pick a trigger word. “Man,” “weed,” or “dude” will all get you wrecked within twenty minutes. This game is really just an excuse to watch Cheech and Chong with friends, which doesn’t need an excuse, but having one makes it feel more productive somehow.

Never Have I Ever

You already know this one. “Never have I ever smoked out of an apple.” Anyone who has, takes a hit. It always starts innocent and always ends with someone confessing something nobody needed to know. The weed version works better than the drinking version because the penalty is mellower — nobody’s going to get sick, they’re just going to get really honest and slightly incoherent.

20 Questions

One person thinks of something. Everyone else gets twenty yes-or-no questions to figure out what it is. The person who guesses right picks who takes the next hit. The beauty of this game high is that people ask the most unhinged questions. “Is it bigger than a breadbox?” isn’t the vibe. “Would this thing be scary if it were alive?” — that’s more like it. Games can last anywhere from two minutes to twenty depending on how abstract the thinker is feeling.

Would You Rather

No hits required — this is pure entertainment. “Would you rather smoke exclusively from a gravity bong for the rest of your life, or only eat edibles that take three hours to kick in?” The scenarios get weirder as the night goes on, and the debates get longer. This is the game people are still arguing about on the ride home. No winners, no losers. Just opinions and a lot of tangents.

High Low

Simple card game. Flip a card, then guess whether the next one will be higher or lower. Guess right, keep going. Guess wrong, take a hit. The streaks and collapses are what make it — someone will nail seven in a row and then miss an obvious call because they second-guessed themselves. Fast, requires zero setup beyond a deck of cards, and works well as a warm-up game before something more involved.

Buzz

Count up from one, going around the circle. Every number divisible by three, you say “buzz” instead of the number. Miss it, take a hit. One, two, buzz, four, five, buzz, seven, eight, buzz… It sounds easy until you’re at 27 and can’t remember if 27 is divisible by three. (It is.) Add divisibility by five for advanced mode — those players say “fizz” — and watch the whole thing collapse by the time you hit 15. The cognitive load versus the cognitive capacity curve is the real game here.

That’s twenty. Pick one, pick five, mix and match. The best sessions are the ones where nobody’s scrolling their phone because there’s something dumb and fun happening on the table. Keep it legal, keep it chill, and maybe keep some snacks within arm’s reach — you’re going to need them.