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61 Sex Games for Couples Where Everyone Wins

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Ordinarily, we’re not ones to condone playing games in relationships. But playing games in the bedroom…. Yes, count us all the way in for some sex games.

What’s a sex game, you ask? Literally so glad you did. From steamy takes on old classics like dirty truth or dare to intimacy decks created with adult playtime in mind, a sex game is any fun little extrasexual activity you and your partner may add to your foreplay routine. Some companies make card and board games specifically for foreplay, including questions or tasks that require players to do or confess something naughty. Other sex games aren’t actually sex games, but adult spins on the games you already know and love. (Think: Pictionary, Twister, and Jenga with “strip” or naughty elements.) Whichever way you take it, incorporating sex games can be an extremely effective way of getting turned on before getting it on, whether you've been together for weeks or years.

So for your fun and pleasure, we've curated this list of the best sex games to play in (or outside of!) the bedroom. Better yet, we even tapped some of our fave sexperts, including certified sexologist Marla Renee Stewart; Katherin Winnick, sex coach at LetsTalkSex.net; sexual health expert Ashley Townes, PhD, and more for their expert recs. So whether you're trying to play coy with a little horny hide and seek or get rowdy at home with some "Strip Twister," you have no shortage of sex games that'll make everyone feel like winners. Now go forth and get lucky!

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The “Mmmms & Ahhhhs” Game

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Marla Renee Stewart, sexpert at Lovers, recommends this game where you take turns touching your partner's body, with the catch that you can’t touch their chest/breasts, butt, or genitals. “Make sure your partner gives feedback with only the sounds of ‘mmm’ and ‘ahh’ to express to you how they feel,” Stewart explains.

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The 30 Day Position Challenge

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Stewart also suggests making an agreement with your partner to have sex for 30 days in a row. For inspo, you can pull a card from a deck every day to do that position and keep it exciting.

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The Cake Game

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Use Nutella, whipped cream, and sliced strawberries to decorate your partner’s body like a cake, as Katherin Winnick, Sex Coach at LetsTalkSex.net explains. Start with the bottom layer and spread Nutella on first, then spray whipped cream, and place a half strawberry on top. The fun comes when you eat it off. Try to lick your partner clean to perfection, Winnick suggests.

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Oral Dice

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If you wanna play with sex dice without having to pay for separate sex dice, this is a good freebie from Winnick. To play, all you have to do is roll the dice (you can use more than one or two, too) to see how many minutes your partner should give you oral for. You can swap and take turns to make sure everyone gets a chance. Add in some fun oral sex cards if you need ideas for new positions!

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Sex Toy Roulette

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Winnick suggests going onto any online sex shop and just start clicking around with your eyes closed. Your partner makes sure that you’re actually clicking on toys (and not just random “FAQ” or “shipping info” text). Click around until your tenth click, and buy whatever toy you land on. Test the toy with your partner as soon as you get it.

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Dirty Singing

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This game, suggested by Winnick, is basically karaoke, but sexy, and with some lighthearted pressure. Sing your partner’s favorite song while holding your partner’s breast or penis. Every time you hesitate or forget a lyric, you must stimulate your partner. “As soon as you remember the lyrics, stop stimulating, and start singing again,” Winnick suggests. If you wanna keep playing and make things even more challenging, go deeper in your archives and get out the deep cuts for rounds two and three (and so forth).

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Dirty Pictionary

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“Sketch out your sex fantasy, sex position, or a sex toy you want to try,” Winnick suggests, and have your partner guess what it is. If they guess correctly, you try it out. If they guess wrong, they have to go ahead and draw.

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Naked Cooking

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Yes, something as simple as cooking together can also be game-ified into something sexy! Winnick says to get naked and prepare some food together, like chicken or something in the oven. Set a timer, and have sex until the timer is up. As soon as it goes off, you can then get up and enjoy your meal. The fun comes in trying to time your foreplay juuuuust right to align with the timer.

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Flavored Hide and Seek

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Use flavored lubricant in four spots on your body and tell your partner to find all the spots, suggests Jordan D’Nelle Jones, a women’s sexual health educator and founder of the Vaginas, Vulvas and Vibrators podcast. This game allows you to control the foreplay and explore areas and erogenous zones you might otherwise not get to focus on. If you want to be even more playful, Jones says you can also tell your partner that you put it on five areas and watch as they scratch their head and lick you all over until they figure out which ones.

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DIY Dirty Jenga

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Take the classic bar game (that, yes, you can buy online for less than a fancy cocktail) and sexify it yourself. Write a dirty dare on each block (like give your partner a lap dance or go down on them while they set the game back up), and whoever tries to remove the block that knocks the tower down has to perform that dare.

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Temperature Play

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Experiment with both cold and hot temperatures, as sexual health expert Ashley Townes, PhD suggests. You can add some ice cubes in a bowl, put one in your mouth and let it melt a little, then kiss or tease your partner all over. Aside from teasing, Townes also says you can use ice on the penis or clitoris for stimulation. For hot play, try using a massage oil candle for a warming sensation on your partner during massage. You can also try incorporating cooling or warming lubricants for an extra touch. Townes suggests Trojan’s Arouses & Releases lubricant.

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Red Light, Green Light

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Townes says you can use the words “red” and “green” as directives for your partner to better explore pleasure with one another during activities like kissing, massaging, biting, and mutual masturbation or other pleasure. “The colors are used to measure one's comfort pleasure with the activity,” says Townes. Saying “red” indicates you want your partner to stop, “green” indicates that they want their partner to keep going, and you can also add in “yellow” as a way to indicate you want your partner to slow down or go a bit gentler.

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Heighten Your Senses

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For this, you’ll need a blindfold (any will do, and you can DIY it, it doesn’t have to be fancy). Townes says to blindfold your partner and have them guess (or tell you) which of their senses will be heightened. Townes says, “For smell, provide various scents and have them guess. For touch, try massagers, vibrators, or pleasure sleeves. For taste, tell your partner to open their mouth and give them various items (maybe their favorite guilty pleasures).” Adding a playlist to arouse your partner’s sense of sound can also make it a full sensory experience. “Choose songs with various tempos, different artists, or vibes, and ask your partner to tell you how the song lyrics make them feel,” Townes suggests.

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Start a Sex Fantasy Jar

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You and your partner write different fun sex acts you’d like to try with each other on separate slips of paper, fold them, and put them in a jar, suggests Karen Botha, tantric sex expert and owner of Sensual Massage Romford. You can aim to fill the jar with 30 of each of your fantasies and then pull one out day-by-day, or just go with the flow and do as many as you can think of. “Don’t worry if you can’t think of them all at once,” adds Botha. “When your juices get flowing, you’ll become more creative and that jar will fill.”

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“Pick Your Fate”

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Grab two bowls, 20 small foldable slips of paper, pen, and dice. You each write down ten things (and they don’t necessarily have to be sex things either) you want to do to your partner, fold them, and put them in the jar, suggests Alex Miller, sexologist at Orchid Toys. You then throw the dice and whoever gets the bigger number, wins. The “loser” has to pick a paper from their fate bowl and do whatever is written on the paper, anything from oral sex to doing the dishes. “If you think doing the dishes is a mood killer,” Miller adds, “just wait for the loser’s revenge.” What comes around, goes around, bb!

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Blindfolded Poker

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This game, also suggested by Miller, combines strip poker and truth or dare. You’ll need a set of poker cards and maybe a pen and paper to write your bets down on. To play, pick whatever style of poker you like, but none of the players can look at their cards—the idea is to bet without seeing them. Instead of betting with money, you bet with actions, Miller explains. “For example, ‘I see your oil-massage, and I raise you with a hand job.’” she adds. “Once betting is over, players flip over their cards and whoever loses has to do all the things that have been said.”

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Strip Twister

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Some of the hottest sex games are simply fun twists on the classics, and one of the best is obviously Twister. The game is pretty much foreplay all on its own, so add in an extra sexy element and you have yourself a bonafide sex game. Each time someone "loses," they have to take off an article of clothing. The first person who ends up totally nude then has to pleasure the winner any way they'd like.

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“Find the Honey”

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Get a blindfold (a scarf or a tie will work here) for your partner, dip your finger in some honey and dab it on your body in a sexy, unexpected place, suggests Heather Claus, owner of DatingKinky.com, a kinky dating and education site. Your partner has to explore your body with their mouth looking for the (literal) sweet spot. If you wanna up the difficulty, you can set a timer, too. You can take turns trading off or taking timed turns with the winner winning best two out of three, or whatever rules you decide.

It’s not only a fun, cheap, game (that doesn't require buying different flavored lubes like number 12), but it can also last for hours (if you’re up for the challenge), Claus adds. As for where to hide the honey, Claus recommends your earlobe, between your (clean) toes, behind your knee, or the small of your back.

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Read Sexy Stories to Each Other

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Rachel Klechevsky, a resident sex therapist for sexual wellness and discovery app Eforia, suggests reading erotic stories or novels to each other. You and your partner can take turns reading sexy scenes to one another in bed. Whether it gets your juices flowing right then and there or you just pick up some hot tips for a later date, you’ll both broaden your horizons in terms of new sexy acts.

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A Naughty Puzzle

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Hi, hello, and welcome to the world of naughty puzzles. These bad boys aren't your grandma's jigsaws, but they're perfect for a hangover day or date night where you want to play a game but also want to keep things majorly chill.

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