Charades is one of those games that nearly everyone plays at school or home while growing up. With this proliferation of Charades, Virtual Charades has the advantages of being fairly familiar while also being fun. To play Virtual Charades, prepare a set of links that go to Google Image pages or use a random image generator. Rinse and repeat until you are all out of fun. Here is a random charades word generator you can use for your game:. Instead, you can play with at least two teams, a series of trivia questions, and positive attitudes.
Playing pub-style trivia online is similar to the in-the-pub version, with one crucial difference: you need an easy way for people to communicate. Instead of mumbling across a table, we recommend using virtual breakout rooms so that each team can discuss the answers openly. Each team can then submit the answers via a web-form and the host can award points as needed. Here are more instructions on how to play virtual happy hour trivia , and a list of team trivia questions.
Pro tip: Playing virtual happy hour games like pub-style trivia give you a unique opportunity to include wildly different clues in the game. The internet is your oyster for virtual group games. Werewolf is one of the best remote team building games, as it is full of cunning deceit and tactful manipulation.
The game relies primarily on the spoken word, which makes it perfect for remote teams. To play this game virtually, nominate one person as the narrator and then randomly distribute the following roles to players:.
To play, first distribute the roles via private message or email the players in advance. For a group of five people, you should have 1 werewolf, 1 medic and 3 villagers. For each additional five people add 1 werewolf, 1 special role, and 3 villagers.
The ratios are flexible, so can modify them to suit your needs. The narrator then puts the werewolves back to sleep and has the medic and seer wake up in sequence. If the medic selects the same player as the werewolf, then nobody dies during the night. When the seer points to a player, the narrator can answer yes or no to whether that player is a werewolf.
All players can open their eyes, and then debate on who the werewolf might be. To end the round, all players vote on one player to eliminate from the game or can pass and wait until the next round. Any player that is eliminated either by the werewolves or by vote becomes a friendly ghost that is not allowed to speak for the rest of the game but may observe it in quiet frustration. To play, divide the attendees of your virtual conference call into groups of four or five people and then give the groups 15 minutes of prep time.
After the 15 minute breakout session, bring everyone back to the main virtual meeting and have the teams present their creation. Vote on the best one with thumbs up and cheers. Spreadsheet Wars is one of my favorite virtual team building games to play with coworkers. Like other games on this list, Spreadsheet Wars is a combination of fun and skill-building, which makes it perfect for remote teams and offices.
The best tool wins, and really everyone wins because you are getting better at using one of the most powerful free tools on the internet. Growing up, one of my favorite games to play was Risk, the game of global domination that meshes perfectly with my own aspirations. Risk is a game of cutthroat collaboration, friendly competition, resource management and other strategic dynamics that make it perfect for team building online. The most flexible way to play Risk-like team games online is to use one of the many clones, for example Conquer Club , which provides a free browser based game.
Here are more online board games to play at work. In the early s, Sudoku took the world by storm; inspiring nerds everywhere to complete numerical logic games instead of the daily crossword.
Today, you can play a version of Sudoku for online team building called Sudoku Throw-down. For Sudoku Throw-down, you can easily up the competitive spirit by including prizes for the top three finishers. I recommend nerd-friendly prizes like more Sudoku puzzles, science kits and white boards.
Here are more problem solving games. Something in common is an icebreaker game that works on video conference calls and similar.
To play, first organize your attendees into manageable sized groups of four or five people and gently push them into breakout rooms.
Each group has the goal of finding three similarities they have in common with other members of that group. For the round after that, remove pets and preferences. The goal is to make the game increasingly difficult and encourage your remote team to deep dive into what they may have in common.
Check out our list of icebreaker games for large groups for more ideas. Pictionary is a fun game where some people draw while other people guess what the drawing could be. The game includes elements of improv, creative thinking, competition and more. You can play Quick Draw over Zoom, Webex and other virtual conference call platforms.
You can also mix up the game and rules by varying the number of clues each person draws, and drawing verbs instead of nouns. Truth or Dare: Remote Work Edition takes those popular game mechanics and optimizes for team building online. Here is a list with more question games. Still, Jackbox Games provides options you can use for online team building games. The game options include trivia and similar, and the virtual games to play with coworkers have some unexpected and creative dynamics.
To play online, everyone logs into a website via a special URL. Learn more about Jackbox Games. If the train was late and people were standing on the platform longer, sometimes the two dudes would stop playing for a bit. Neither of those songs was Yellow Submarine. Yellow Submarine is also an online team building game you can play with remote teams. Here is how:. The teams must create an egg holder that will prevent the egg from being cracked when dropped from a predetermined height.
Break off people into groups of two. Each pair will be tied together at the ankles and must compete in a race against other pairs.
The team to finish first while remaining tied together wins the race. This can be done in conjunction with other activities. Create teams, making sure to break departments up. Use the drawing-based charades game to help people educate their team members on what they do. Each member of each team will be given the opportunity to draw one aspect of his or her job, whether it be a day-to-day activity or something more complicated. Have all participating people form a circle.
After the circle is formed, people will hold the right hand of one employee and the left hand of another employee. Make sure the people holding hands are standing across from each other so a human knot can be formed. The goal of this activity is to untie this knot without letting go of anyone's hand.
Create an obstacle course through the office. People who volunteer to go through the course are blindfolded and guided through the course by their colleagues. Provide each team with the same amount of plastic cups, making sure to keep the amount unknown until the start of the competition. Each team must use all of the cups to create a pyramid.
Then they must break down the pyramid by stacking the cups one into the other. If a cup is missing from the stack or if a cup falls out of the pyramid, then the team must start again from scratch. Host a weekend BBQ for staff and their families. Make sure to have several food options that accommodate a range of dietary preferences as well as games for kids and adults to take part in. Pick a day each month to celebrate the birthdays of all those born that month. Decorate the office and provide a cake with the names of all the people celebrating their birthday on it.
Host an office-wide pumpkin carving competition during the autumn season. People can carve anything of their choice, though you can give bonus points for office-themed carvings. Have people share two truthful facts and a lie about themselves. The other people must guess which of the three statements is the lie. Hand out a roll of toilet paper, instructing your people to take as many pieces as they think they will need. When everyone has taken some toilet paper, inform the group that they must share one fact about themselves for each piece of toilet paper they took.
Break the team into several partnerships. Each group of partners sits back to back while drawing what their partner is dictating to them. In this activity, people stand in a line waiting for a message from the person standing to their left. The first person in line picks a message to whisper down the line. This goes on until the message reaches the last person, who then says the message out loud. The goal is to communicate the message clearly so that the message isn't convoluted by the time it reaches the end of the line.
Put together a team for a local fun run or marathon. Choose someone to champion the project and recruit coworkers. The team can train together at lunchtime. Print our several pictures and words, both positive and negative.
Set aside space for people to collaborate and let their creative juices flow. This space can be used when brainstorming new ideas or when working on group projects.
Break the people up into teams. Each team needs one small bucket, one larger bucket, and several tennis balls. The objective is to put as many tennis balls as possible in the larger bucket without touching the balls with your hands or arms in the time allotted. Set up a whiteboard or chalkboard in an accessible area of the office.
This board is an open suggestion and idea board. People can leave anonymous or signed ideas and suggestions on the board. Personalize your Jenga set to be used in the workplace; on each Jenga piece, write out a workplace scenario that your people could potentially encounter.
Each employee will pick a piece out of the assembled tower and tell the group how they would handle the scenario written on their piece. Each month, department representatives will meet and create a newsletter detailing what has been taking place in their respective departments in the past month.
This newsletter will be emailed out to all people, keeping them informed on what their colleagues have been up to. You can have as many teams as you like, and you could theoretically have teams of any size… but we recommend between people per team. Each team stands in a line, with their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them. Every single person in the line must be blindfolded… except for the person at the very back!
You must then ask each team to navigate some sort of obstacle course, being driven, of course, by the person at the back of the line. Navigation should be kept to a simple tap of the shoulder — left for left, right for right — which is transmitted up the chain. This will teach the person at the back better timing and coordination skills, and the rest of the team will learn to better trust their colleagues.
Place a balloon between each person, which they must hold in place without using their hands. It is fun to run a race with all teams at once. But you can get them working together to build a small bridge out of items like paper, old bottles and glue! You can do this however you like, but our favourite method is to place two markers, a couple of feet apart.
The bridge must stand alone from one marker to the next. The bridge which can hold the most weight without collapsing, will win the prize. Similar to the Bridge Building game, this game requires your teams to work on a construction together. Only this time, the goal is for the device to hold a raw egg, which can stay in-tact after being dropped from a certain height.
If more than one invention safely prevents the egg from breaking, then the winner should be the team with the device that weighs the least. But we prefer the US game of the same name, Broken Telephone. This is one of our favourite games to play at work, because it encourages very careful communication — and can have some hilarious results! Get everybody to stand in a long line, or even a circle.
The starting player must think of a short sentence — or you can provide them with one. They must then whisper this sentence into the ear of the person on their left. The last player must announce the sentence they believe was whispered into their ear. This is another great game to encourage communication between team members.
And there are lots of versions of this game, but the one we like the best, is the one where you split your group into pairs.
Each pair sits back to back. Give one person a picture, and give the other person a pencil and paper. Then, get the person with the picture to describe what they can see to their partner — who must attempt to draw a replica of the picture, as best they can. But some might surprise you. And either way, your team members will be learning to improve their communication skills in the process.
Not all games need to be focused on something like team building or team bonding. In fact, playing games during break time is a great way to recharge your batteries and get ready for the next half of your shift.
So we have decided to include a few of our favourite tabletop games that can generally be played in under an hour. Chess is probably the most popular two-player board game in the world. And not only is it a great way to pass some time, but it hones skills such as strategic planning and forward-thinking. As with many board games, Chess is now very easy to play online — either against a friend, or against a stranger.
Werewolves is such a fun game of social deduction and trickery, that we think it deserves more than one mention. In a game of Werewolves, players are secretly assigned roles. The werewolves must attempt to convince the villagers that they are innocent, while the villagers must attempt to lynch the secret werewolves amongst them. There is a print version of the game you can buy, or you can print your own copy and learn the rules here.
Alternatively, you can just play the game online at Board Game Arena , which makes remote play possible. Another game of social cues and bluffing, in a game of Coup you rely on your individual ability to smuggle lies past the other players on the table. Or, if you are brave, you can win this game by telling bare-faced truths the whole way through!
In a game of Coup, you are attempting to eliminate all other players, through a combination of robbery, taxation and assasination. There is a physical version of this game, but if you are part of a remote working team, you can play this game online at Board Game Arena. Code Names is a wonderful game for two teams, all about communication and clues.
You must attempt to pass clues to your own team, without giving away clues to the opposing team. Code Names is a physical board game, but if you already know the rules then you can play it online here. In a game of Cards Against Humanity, somebody will draw half of a sentence from the card deck. You must then use your own personal stash of cards to complete the sentence.
If your solution is voted as the funniest, you win the round.
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