I’m sure you’ve seen the trend of discussing PowerPoint presentations during get togethers. It’s such a ridiculous and fun way to spend the night while bringing in the nostalgia of presenting in front of a group. If you’re planning to do this for your next get together, here are some powerpoint night ideas to use for the theme.
Choose an idea that would make the group really creative. Can they handle some friendly competitiveness? If they are sensitive, it may be better to stay away from topics they’ll be offended by.
Funny, silly and entertaining ideas are the best, especially if it’s the first time you are throwing a PowerPoint night. That said, if your friend group can handle deeper conversations, you can go for the more sensitive topics. These can definitely be great bonding activities.
And, most importantly, have fun with it! After you’re done here, come back and check out these funny questions for guys too.
Powerpoint night ideas
With this list, I’ve added sections for different friend groups and interests. And, if you are looking for unique spins on the topics, consider doing ranks, comparisons, and using terms like best, worst, cutest, silliest, most embarrassing, toughest, etc.
For the student group
1. Rank your teachers
Explore who are the best teachers and professors you’ve had. Why were they? You can rank them according to their personality, teaching style, fashion sense, or rizz. It can even be fun to add in some scenarios like who’ll be most likely to get arrested, become a famous actor, or show up to your wedding.
Include their best one liners and memorable moments.
2. Rate the hotties
Score the hot kids in class. This would be great for girls’ night and maybe the group can brainstorm how to be wing women for their besties.
3. Alternative career path for the group
List different fields of study and career paths that each person would be really good at.
You can go for regular fields or come up with outlandish and unique career paths. I could definitely see my friends as Professional Scrollers, Kawaii Stationery Store Owners, Kitchen Drawer Organizing Experts, Pet Petting Specialists and Cooking Competition Taste Testers.
4. Rename the group chat
Pitch new names for the group chat. Have everyone explain why their name should be selected. Do you think your friends would choose inside jokes or acronyms of everyone’s name?
5. Most embarrassing school moment
Share stories of wildly embarrassing moments during class. Create a safe, supportive environment to share and build each presenter up.
Hopefully, they can reframe their experiences and feel a little less embarrassed after.
6. Best study hacks
This could be a really great learning session as each person explains and compares their best study hacks. Get into the weird stuff too! From pills and potions to memorization tricks, it’ll be a mini TED talk among friends.
7. Where does that one friend go?
We all have that one friend that always disappears, skips class, or dips out early from a great party. Come up with some conspiracy theories of where the friend goes.
Is she an informant or a spy? Is she just curled up in bed snoozing? Or do you think she’s an alien who needs to check in on the mothership? Get creative and have lots of laughs with this one.
8. Relationship horrors
Go into full-on ex bashing! Share the horror stories and red flags about past relationships and why you’re happy you said ‘thank you, next!’
While this can be a much tougher topic to get through, it can be really cathartic for the sharers. And, the rest of the group can definitely add to their red flag list.
9. Wackiest thing you saw last week
Have everyone take photos of the craziest, wackiest thing they’ve seen during the week. Present the top 5 photos, include honorable mentions and enjoy what your friends deem wacky.
10. What’s the story here?
Take a video of random strangers having a conversation in the distance. Send the video to everyone and have them suggest what the conversation is about. You can go for light, superficial stories or get into some smut or conspiracy theories.
This one is sure to bring out the laughs.
11. Best party this year
State your case for which party was the best this year. Create a criteria for rating the parties and get into the nitty gritty like the type of music, variety of drinks, vibes, food options and crowd.
12. Campus conspiracies
Research everything about the college you are going to and dig into strange stories and possible conspiracies. Secret meeting spots, haunted buildings, black market activities, list a couple wild theories and give some “evidence” to back them up.
13. Ways to survive finals
Give a step-by-step guide on what you’re planning to do to survive finals. From meditating to stress eating and screaming into a pillow, discuss what helped in the past and what you think might work in the future.
14. Where to next?
Advocate for the next place to visit as a group. Get into the details of why it’s such an amazing place to visit and why everyone would have a blast.
You can also switch this idea up and do “what to do next” and get into what’s the next group activity you can do together like concerts, cooking classes, sip and paint parties, and more.
15. Favorite items
You can do a fun show and tell with your favorite items. Bring the items as props or take photos and videos of them. Get into the details and explain just how much the things mean to you.
Powerpoint night ideas for the professional girlies
16. Relitigate an old case
This one is great for the lawyers, the legally inclined and the good ole fashioned detective girlies. I mean if they can spot all the Easter eggs with their favorite celebrities or find all the profiles of their bestie’s crush, they sure can dig up dirt and relitigate an old case.
17. A/B wine tasting
This one is a little different. Have everyone pour two types of wine into unmarked bottles, label them A and B and bring them to Powerpoint night. Describe each wine with different criteria and have everyone taste test and determine which wine is which.
This would be such fun for the wine lovers! You can also swap wine for other drinks like brands of water, juice, energy drinks, boba, and more.
18. Pitching guys to the single friend
If there’s one single friend in the group that’s really ready for a relationship, pitch a great guy (or girl) for them. Go into the details of why your choice is the best, how compatible they’ll be and even the guy’s past relationship drama. Thorough vetting would be fun!
19. Who’s likely to be recruited
Which friend would be most likely to be recruited by government intel agencies? State your case. List their skills that would definitely make them great spies and suggest some missions they’ll be really good at.
20. Ridiculous moments at work
Explain 5 ridiculous things that happened recently and why they’re ridiculous. It could be a silly email, weird behavior from coworkers or the boss, or cringey incidents that’ll give everyone second-hand embarrassment.
21. Rate lunch spots
Which lunch spots are your favorites close to work? Rate them and include judging criteria like food presentation, service, taste, and ambiance. Include foodie photos of your past visits.
22. Fix my fit
Share a couple photos of the outfits you wore for the week and ask the group for ideas to take your professional fashion game to the next level. Make plans to share accessories and bags. Get recommendations for blouses, coats and shoes too.
23. Team building horror stories
Do you have wild stories about team building exercises? What has been the most cringy or funny thing you had to do for them? Present it to the group for a good laugh.
24. What does your coffee order say about you?
This one is great for the data analysis girlies. Get everyone’s favorite coffee order and look for similarities in their personality types. Expand the pool to a wider group of your friends and family and come up with a correlation. For instance, do all engineering types love a large mocha with an expresso shot?
25. The evolution of corporate jargon
Deep dive into the corporate jargon in your workplace, how it has changed and what words would you prefer to never hear again. Synergy, circling back, taking this offline are a couple examples.
26. Boomer cringe
Share all the odd stories about the boomers you work with. Nothing is off-limits! From shocking one-liners to their unfamiliarity with new tech, I’m sure everyone has some stories to share.
27. Reply all anxiety
Have you ever hit reply all on an email thread? Present to the group what happened and how bad the fallout was. Did you quit right after? Give the deets.
Everything animals
28. Silliest bird in the world awards
I mean there are some incredibly silly looking birds on the planet. Assign everyone to research and choose their number 1 silliest bird and have the group vote at the end.
29. Cutest baby mammal ever
Do the same with cute baby mammals. Find photos to prove your choice is the best. Baby elephants, lion cubs, Moo Deng, or lambs, there are so many options. It’s tough to select just one.
30. What animal would you be?
If you could be any animal in the world, what would you be and why? Explain how your dream days would be as animal you!
31. Who has the best pet?
Who has the sweetest or cutest pet of the group? Make a case for your favorite and, as a rule, you can’t choose your own pet!
Ideas for the mixed group
32. Next bingeworthy series
What’s a series that you’ve watched but most in the group haven’t? Tell them why they should without giving away spoilers. Compare the series to popular shows they’ll be familiar with.
33. Who’d be the best Disney villain
Within the friend group, who do you think would be really successful as a Disney villain? Who would be their villain mentor? How do you think their costume will look like? Use AI to generate a hilarious costume and lair for them.
34. Guaranteed apocalypse survivor
Who do you think would actually survive an apocalypse? Use criteria like resourcefulness, fighting skills, and more. You can also share who’s least likely to survive.
35. Best snacks ever
Compare the snacks you’ve ever had and rate them out of 5. Bring some with you too and give samples to everyone!
36. Which chicken dish is best?
Convince everyone why butter chicken is the best chicken recipe known to man. Okay, okay, you can swap your favorite chicken dish here and state your case on why it’s the best.
37. Playlist must-haves
Explain why your favorite songs should be on everyone’s playlist. Have some sing-alongs too and maybe add in a dance battle.
38. Friendly roast
You don’t have to create a full on Comedy Central Roast or hit below the belt, but you can put on a fun, friendly roast for friends. Keep it light and have a fun time.
39. Love languages
Explain how you feel loved and what your love languages are. State what you think everyone else’s are. You can even go a step further and rename the love languages or invent new ones like ‘acts of shopping’ or ‘purrs of affirmation.’
40. Most likely to ….
Create a bunch of scenarios and superlatives and assign your friends to them. You can try a few of these: most likely to get into a fight, most likely to adopt 50 cats, or most likely to become a politician to get rich quick.
41. Tech vs tech
Compare two brands to each other and decide which one is better. You can go for the classic Apple vs Samsung, PC vs Mac, or get into comparing streaming services, gaming devices and more.
42. Irregularities in movies (or series)
Pick a favorite movie or TV series within the group and have everyone spot irregularities or inconsistencies in the storylines and scenes. Legal series would be especially great for lawyer friends and there are tons of medical shows to discuss with doctors and nurses.
43. The great font debate
What is the best font? What’s easy to read? What’s great for humor? Rate your favorite fonts and choose the best one at the end of the night.
44. Most overrated art
Submit your choice of the most overrated art, pitch all the reasons why you think it isn’t worth the hype and have the group vote the winner.
45. Craziest gym stories
Swap stories on all the weird, wacky and ridiculous things that have happened to you in the gym. Share uncomfortable moments with gym bros and have a laugh about passing gas while doing weighted squats.
46. Best fast food
Who has the tastiest fast food? What do you crave the most that you wish you can have every day without consequences? Share them during Powerpoint night.
You can swap fast food for coffee shops too!
47. Unpopular opinion time
Present to the group what you believe is your most unpopular opinion. Is it that pineapple should be on pizza? Or is it something darker or conspiracy-related?
48. Casting call
If your life was turned into a movie, which actress would play you? What about your friends? Who would be your love interest? I can hear the laughter already with this one!
49. Rate your faves from Love Island
Where are my Nicolandria fans? For all the seasons you’ve watched, rate your favorite Islanders. You can also swap Love Island with any other reality TV or franchise show like Survivor, Love is Blind or Real Housewives.
50. Be on Dolores Umbridge’s PR team
Okay, so Dolores is certainly one of the most despised characters in Harry Potter. If you were on her PR team, how would you tackle changing the public’s opinion? Would you update her wardrobe? What coaching would you give her?
Feel free to swap Dolores with any villain!
Those are my powerpoint night ideas. Hopefully, they help you create a memorable evening full of laughter and pure joy. Or, at least help your friend group bond closer together!
If you like unique ideas like these, check out my funny questions to ask your boyfriend. There are some weird and wacky questions in there that I’m sure you’ll have fun with!
