12 Baby Prediction Game Questions: Beyond Due Date and Weight

Most baby prediction game questions ask for two numbers: a due date and a birth weight. You will learn a lot more than that in the delivery room, and the extra details are the ones your guests will argue about.

Take these twelve, grouped by category, with the answer options we suggest for each. You can confirm every one of them on the day the baby arrives, which is what separates a game you can score from a sheet that sits in a drawer. Run the whole set as an online baby pool or copy them onto paper.

What Makes a Good Baby Prediction Question

Pick outcomes you will learn on day one

A newborn's eyes shift between three and nine months, and hair color can take years to settle. Score either one at birth and someone will reopen the argument at Thanksgiving. Stick to questions whose answers will not change on you.

Write ranges instead of exact numbers

Only about 5% of babies arrive on their due date, while 90% land within two weeks of it. Ask for an exact date and almost every guest loses. Ask for a range and your guests spread out across the options, which is where the competition comes from. Save the exact date-and-time guess for a tiebreaker, where a near miss still counts for something. If the format is new to you, our explainer on prop questions covers the basics in two minutes.

Arrival Day Prediction Questions

1. Will the baby arrive before or after the due date?

Options: Before, On the due date, After. Keep the middle option anyway. About one baby in twenty lands on the date.

2. How far off the due date will the birthday be?

Options: Within 2 days, 3 to 6 days, 7 to 10 days, More than 10 days. These buckets match the real distribution of arrival dates.

3. What day of the week will the baby be born?

Options: Monday to Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Weekday births outnumber weekend ones by a wide margin: about 12,000 babies arrive on a typical Tuesday against 8,000 on a typical Saturday.

4. What time of day will the baby be born?

Options: Morning (6am to noon), Afternoon (noon to 6pm), Evening (6pm to midnight), Overnight (midnight to 6am). About 60% of babies are born between 6am and 6pm, with 8am the single most common minute.

Birth Stat Prediction Questions

5. How much will the baby weigh?

Options: Under 6 lbs, 6 to 7 lbs, 7 to 8 lbs, 8 to 9 lbs, Over 9 lbs. Full-term newborns average around 7.5 pounds. Decide before the shower whether a weight on the line rounds up or down.

6. How long will the baby be?

Options: Under 19 inches, 19 to 20 inches, 20 to 21 inches, Over 21 inches. The average is close to 19.5 inches.

7. How much hair will the baby have?

Options: Completely bald, A little fuzz, A full head of hair. The first photo settles this one.

Name and Looks Prediction Questions

8. What letter will the first name start with?

Options: A to F, G to L, M to R, S to Z. Skip it if the parents have already announced the name.

9. Will the baby be named after a family member?

Options: Yes, No. Count middle names, and say so in the question text before anyone picks.

10. Who will the baby look like at birth?

Options: Mom, Dad, Nobody can agree. Give the parents the final call on this one, and put their names in the answer text so nobody argues later.

Family Reaction Prediction Questions

11. Who will cry first when they meet the baby?

List four names from the family rather than using Yes and No. A simple mom-or-dad split works too.

12. Who will visit the hospital first?

List the four people most likely to turn up, plus an "anyone else" option. Agree in advance whether the parents' own siblings count as visitors.

How Do You Score a Baby Prediction Game?

Give one point per correct answer. Multiple choice keeps this fast: a guest's option either matches the outcome or it does not, so you never have to award half points. The ranges are what make that workable.

Ties are common with a short board, so add a tiebreaker asking for the exact date and time. Tiebreakers take a free-form answer, which means you compare them by hand and pick the closest. Name one person as the grader before the shower ends. The parents will have other things to do that week.

Running the Game Online Instead of on Paper

Printed prediction cards work well at the shower itself. The problem starts afterward, when the baby arrives weeks later and someone has to find the stack and add it up.

Run it online and you solve both the storage and the math. Guests open one link, enter a name, and pick their answers from their phones, so the aunt who could not fly in plays the same board as the room. When the baby arrives, you mark the correct answers once and Picksy recalculates the standings for everyone.

A Picksy board holds up to 21 questions plus a tiebreaker, so these twelve leave room for the ones only your family would understand. Our step-by-step setup guide walks through building a board, and the baby pool page has a full prop library you can pull from.

Start With Six

You do not need all twelve. Six questions take a guest under a minute to answer, and you still end up with a clear winner. Pick the four arrival-day questions, then add the hair question and one family name question.

Open the picks at the shower while everyone is together, then leave the link in the group chat for anyone who missed it. The same approach works for weddings once the baby questions run out.