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1. Two Truths and a Lie.

Team members requite out two truths and one prevarication most themselves, other team members try to figure out which is the prevarication.

Instructions:

• Everyone reveals 2-3 things about themselves that are true, and one thing that is a prevarication.
• The rest of the group tries to figure out which is which and votes to decide which is the lie.
• The person telling the lie gets 1 signal for each person they fooled.
• Other players get 1 betoken for choosing correctly.

two. Life Highlights Game.

Team members depict the 30 seconds of their lives they would relive if it was their last 30 seconds.

Instructions:

• Each team member spends a few minutes thinking about the best moments of their life.
• They then focus on the 30 seconds they'd want to relive if they were about to dice.
• Each team member describes the 30 seconds they chose and why.

3. The Nomenclature Game.

Team members divide themselves into subgroups based on personal likes and dislikes.

Instructions:

• Teams innovate themselves and talk nearly personal likes and dislikes.
• Afterward, they divide themselves into subgroups based on their likes and dislikes.
• Ii to three subgroups should work for nearly teams. Try more if it's a larger group.
• Subgroups should non be negative or discriminatory.
• Instance subgroups: coffee lovers, runners, gamers, dog lovers, true cat lovers.

iv. Picture Pieces Game.

Each squad member draws or paints a piece of a larger, well-known paradigm, without knowing what the "big flick" is. They then piece of work together to gather the consummate image.

Instructions:

• Beginning with an image of a place, logo, cartoon, or person that everyone volition recognize.
• Cutting the motion-picture show into equal-sized pieces, one for each participant.
• The pieces should accept most the same amount of detail in each section.
• Give each participant a piece of the paradigm.
• Ask them to recreate it on a slice of newspaper or sail five, 10, or twenty times larger than the original epitome.
• The larger the paper or canvass, the longer the practice will accept.
• Supply participants with pencils, pens, markers, colored pencils, etc.

Once each team member is finished, they work together to assemble their individual pieces into a recreation of the original image. The terminal product can be displayed in the office or workspace.

v. Zoom.

Like to the picture pieces game, just with no drawing or painting skills required. Participants try to put pages of the book Zoom in social club.

Instructions:

• Get a copy of Istvan Banyai's book Zoom.
• Give each participant one image from the book.
• They should not bear witness information technology to other participants.
• Participants try to become their images into the proper order by explaining them verbally.

6. Zombie Escape.

Team members solve puzzles to try and escape from 1 "zombie" team fellow member before they run out of time and infinite.

Instructions:

• Gather participants in a room, preferably one that is smallish for the grouping.
• I participant volunteers to be the zombie. Encourage them to be as "zombie-like" as possible.
• In some versions of this game, the "zombie" is tied to something in the room with a rope or concatenation.
• The chain is given a foot of slack every 5 minutes.
• The residual of the participants try solving a series of puzzles or riddles.
• The goal is to solve the puzzles before the zombie reaches them.

Equally someone who doesn't wish to exist tied or chained to anything, I suggest marking one-foot boundaries in the room that the zombie's territory expands into every 5 minutes. This can be done with masking tape, for example.

seven. Battle of the Airbands.

Teams work to human action out/lip-sync the vocal of their choice.

Instructions:

• Get a music player with loudish speakers and a skilful music selection.
• A music subscription service similar Spotify is probably all-time.
• Create groups of 3 to 4 people.
• Have them choose a vocal they would similar to lip-sync together.
• Give them some time to rehearse.
• At operation time, bring in contained judges, or let the groups judge the winner.

8. Back-to-Back Drawing.

One team fellow member instructs the other on how to describe a replica of a simple image.

Instructions:

• Split the team into pairs.
• Have each pair sit back to dorsum.
• Requite one member of each pair a piece of paper and a pen.
• The other gets a simple image that their partner can't see.
• Squad members with the epitome draw it to their teammates to aid them produce a replica.
• Anybody compares drawings and talks well-nigh the difficulties of communicating instructions this fashion.
• If there'south time, echo the practice and see how they better their drawings.

9. Office Trivia.

Team members are quizzed on work-based trivia.

Instructions:

• Create trivia questions almost your company or office infinite.
• Divide the squad into smaller groups.
• Groups compete to see who can reply the well-nigh questions.

Hither are a few examples you can use:

• How many windows does the outset floor of our building have?
• What make of microwave do nosotros take in the kitchen?
• What colors are in our company logo?
• How many chairs are in the conference room?
• What color are the tiles in the entryway?

10. Marshmallow Claiming.

Team members use uncomplicated materials to endeavor and build the tallest tower they tin.

Instructions:

• Divide your team into equal groups.
• Provide 20 sticks of uncooked spaghetti, 1 roll of masking tape, 1 thousand of string, and 1 marshmallow.
• Instruct the groups to endeavour and build the tallest gratis-standing tower they can using the above items.
• Tell them to use as much of the materials as they want, but it must end with the marshmallow at the top.
• Tell them the marshmallow must be whole, simply other pieces can be broken upwardly.
• Requite a time limit of xv - 25 minutes.

eleven. Salt and Pepper.

Squad members ask questions of each other to try to guess what the secret label is on their back, then have to notice their pair.

Instructions:

• Come up upwardly with a list of well-known pairs. We've got examples below to get you started.
• Write each 1 of these on a proper noun tag. So y'all'd take a proper noun tag with "peanut butter" and another with "jelly."
• Put a tag on each team member's dorsum, so they can't see information technology.
• Now squad members enquire each other yes or no questions to figure out their label.
• They then have to try to detect their pair.

Example Pairs for Salt and Pepper:

• Peanut butter and jelly
• Mickey and Minnie Mouse
• Mario and Luigi
• Salt and pepper
• Fish and fries
• Soup and salad
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Q-Tip and Phife Dawg

12. Mural Masterpiece.

Squad members create artwork that they arrange into a landscape.

Instructions:

• Give each team member a canvas and art supplies.
• Give them fourth dimension to create their own piece of artwork.
• When finished, they'll combine the pieces into a unmarried mural.
• Display the mural in the function or workplace.

13. Toxic Waste or Flop Removal.

Squad members piece of work together to try and move "toxic waste" safely with a express set of simple tools.

Instructions:

• Gather one small saucepan, 1 large saucepan, 1 rope, 1 bungee string loop, 8 bungee cords, 8 tennis assurance.
• Use the rope to make an 8-x foot circle that represents the radiation zone.
• Make full the small bucket with the tennis balls and place it in the center of the circle for your toxic waste product.
• Prepare the large bucket 30 feet from the toxic waste zone.
• Give them a time limit of xv-xx minutes.
• Tell them spilling the bucket results in the "decease" of the unabridged team.
• Tell them dropping private assurance results in the "decease" of the nearest player.
• Explain that when the saucepan is removed from the radiation zone, players must maintain their altitude.

How to win toxic waste:

1 way for players to win is to attach the bungee cords to the bungee loop, then hold and pull the cords, stretching the loop and guiding it over the toxic waste bucket. Lower the stretched loop over the bucket, then contract the loop so it grips the bucket. Finally, tighten the loop, lift the saucepan, and walk it over to the large bucket. Dump the assurance in the bucket.

xiv. Company Glaze of Arms.

Teams create a coat of arms that reflects their perception of the visitor.

Instructions: Supply your squad with paper or canvass and fine art supplies (markers, colored pencils, etc) to make their company coat of artillery.

If you lot're unfamiliar, a coat of arms is a shield with symbols on information technology that represent different aspects of a family, identify, or organization. They typically come with a motto every bit well. Wikipedia has a keen entry with an example.

At that place are a number of different ways to complete the activity once the coat of artillery has been created, from hanging it in the function to having teams nowadays their versions of the company coat of arms to each other, and fifty-fifty having different teams try to interpret each other's glaze of artillery.

15. Campfire or Memory Wall.

Team members write most, draw a movie, or share a photo of a positive retentivity from work that matches a topic. The basic idea of this activity is to go employees to share positive memories virtually the workplace.

Instructions:

• Employ a whiteboard or sticky notes to nowadays several topics, such as:
  • My commencement day.
  • Creativity.
  • Teamwork.
  • Problem-solving.
  • Fun!
  • Friends.
  • Challenges.
  • Accomplishments.
  • Goals.
• Allow each participant to choose ane topic.
• Accept them write almost, draw or provide a picture of a positive memory from piece of work that goes with the topic.
• All of these are then displayed together equally role of a memory wall.

sixteen. Frostbite.

There are several versions of this game. The main variable is which materials the teams are given to build their shelter with. The shelters can be congenital from modest objects, such as pieces of paper, toothpicks, and newspaper clips, or participants tin can gather an actual tent or other pre-fabricated construction.

Instructions:

• Each team chooses a leader.
• The leader has "frostbite" and cannot physically help assemble the shelter. The rest of the team has "snow incomprehension," and has been blindfolded. The leader must requite instructions to the squad so that they can successfully build a shelter without the benefit of sight.

Each team is given their materials for building the shelter and 15 - 20 minutes.

17. Minefield.

Pairs work together to cross a minefield. I member of the team is blindfolded, the other must guide him or her through the minefield.

Instructions:

• Find a big empty space, such equally a hallway, conference room or parking lot.
• Create an obstacle course with boxes, folding chairs, garbage cans, etc. These obstacles are the "mines."
• Carve up your team into pairs.
• Blindfold ane member of each pair.
• The other pair member guides the blindfolded one through the obstacle grade with verbal instructions.

To add more complication, yous can permit more than i team on the grade at a fourth dimension.

18. Survival.

Teams imagine they are in a survival situation, and rank different objects in club of importance.

Instructions:

• Yous tin apply your imagination with this one.
• Team members tin be stranded on a desert isle, plane-wrecked in the jungle, lost in the Arctic, etc.
• Give them between vii and 12 items from effectually the office or workspace.
• Have them rank the items in society of importance for survival.

19. Newspaper Aeroplane Challenge.

Teams build paper airplanes with the goal of building the one that flies farthest or has the longest hang fourth dimension.

Instructions:

• Find an open space within or outside.
• Give each team a piece of paper to construct a paper plane inside a fourth dimension limit.
• The winner can be the team that flies their plane furthest or has the longest hang time.

Tips: You tin can show them a variety of designs, or let them do research online. This latter pick is interesting, because in that location are a lot of designs bachelor, with super complex ones that tin can take some fourth dimension to fold and are easier to mess up just promise better flying time. They'll have to find the balance between performance and complication.

20. Cartel Jenga!

Jenga, only with a twist. There's a dare written on each cake. This game isn't just for higher keg parties!

Instructions:

• Take a standard Jenga set up and write a cartel on each cake.
• Here are a few dares you lot can use:
  • Sing for 15 seconds.
  • Dance for 15 seconds.
  • Play next turn with optics airtight.
  • Play next plow with feet.
  • Tell a joke.
  • Spin for 10 seconds before the adjacent turn.
• Keep in mind that you can repeat the dares - yous don't need a new i for each block.
• Stack the blocks every bit you would for a normal Jenga game.
• When players pull a block out, they have to follow the instructions written on information technology.

21. Name that Part.

Remote team members try to match photos of remote part spaces to the squad member who works in that location.

Instructions:

• Everyone on the team takes a photo of their remote office infinite.
• They share it via Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.
• Players try to match that office to the team fellow member.

22. The Barter Puzzle.

Teams try to put together mixed up jigsaw puzzles.

Instructions:

• Separate the team into equal groups.
• Each group is going to do a jigsaw puzzle. It'due south better if the puzzles crave the aforementioned skill level, just look very different.
• Remove all the puzzles from their boxes, and so redistribute an equal number of pieces from each puzzle into each box. So, if you're using 4 100-piece puzzles, each box will end up containing 25 pieces from each puzzle.
• Give your team very simple instructions, such as, "Yous have 20 minutes to complete your puzzles" and offer no further guidance.

The teams will have to work together to figure out what happened with their puzzles, and how best to become the pieces distributed correctly. You tin can add another twist by making it competitive, i.e. the first team to complete their puzzle wins, and see how that changes the game. Alternately, y'all tin can give them all pieces of the same puzzle. The teams volition accept to figure out that they're all working on the aforementioned puzzle, and come together to solve it.

23. The Squad Journal.

The team or company works together to create a shared journal.

Instructions:

• Buy a blank notebook or a journal, forth with pens, pencils, and other art supplies.
• Put the periodical and supplies in a common area and invite employees to contribute to it.
• Preferably you can trust people to be adults and not put anything offensive or inappropriate in the journal.

Tip: I almost think that if you need to create rules, so the periodical isn't for your company… That said, some companies exercise put basic rules/guidelines with the journal.

24. Scavenger Hunt.

Teams compete to encounter who can detect all of the items on a list.

Instructions:

• Create equal-sized groups to compete confronting each other.
• Give each team a list of things to observe.

The winner can be the first team to find all the items, or the team that finds the most items in the allotted time (if you need to speed it upward). You lot can give the teams a straight listing of items to notice, or you can give them clues nigh what items they have to notice.

25. Evidence and Tell.

It's likely that you haven't done this ane in a while. Everyone gets to bring an item from home and explain it to their team.

Instructions:

• Participants bring an item from domicile and present it to the residuum of the group.
• That'due south it. You lot may want to gear up a fifteen-minute timer.

Tips: You could take everyone bring in show and tell items on a unmarried twenty-four hour period, only that would get long, and probably boring. You lot'll probably want to pick a twenty-four hour period of the calendar week that is always show and tell mean solar day, and have everyone sign up for a engagement.

26. Mad Lib Mission Statement.

Ever play Mad Lib? Basically, yous consummate sentences with random words, then read the story out loud. The results are usually bizarre and funny. In this version, you lot apply the game to your visitor mission statement.

Instructions:

• Remove central parts of speech, such equally nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs from your mission statement.
• If it's been a while since you've had an English course, review these definitions for function of speech.

Make a copy of the mission argument with blanks for the removed words.

There are a number of ways to play from hither. One fun version is to have everyone supply words based on the parts of spoken communication needed, and then read the mission statement with the words they provided.

So, when they know it'south for the mission argument, you can accept them do dissimilar versions - the funniest one they can think of, the most ideal, the almost honest, etc.

27. The Perfect Foursquare.

The team works together to take a slice of rope from a circle shape to a square shape, while blindfolded.

Instructions:

• Have the squad sit in a circle.
• Each team fellow member should then exist blindfolded.
• Take a piece of rope long enough to stretch the length of the circumvolve and tie the ends together.
• Give each team member a piece of the rope to hold, and instruct them to form a square out of it.

In some variations, squad members come up up with a plan first, then put on their blindfolds and are not allowed to speak while forming the foursquare.

28. What's My Proper name?

This game is similar to Common salt and Pepper but uses famous people or common types.

Instructions:

• Employ name tags or other labels to write down the name of someone famous, or of a blazon of person (explorer, inventor, astronaut, professional athlete, etc).
• Attach the proper name tags to the backs of squad members, so they cannot encounter them but everyone else can.
• Allow the group to mingle and ask each other questions.
• When a team fellow member figures out who they are, they tin exit the game.

29. Team Timeline.

The team creates a timeline that combines important moments for the company with of import moments in their life.

Instructions:

• On a ringlet of butcher newspaper, create a timeline that starts when the visitor was founded, or when the oldest member of your squad was born.
• Marking years on the timeline, and, with the aid of your squad, note important dates for the company.
• Now enquire team members to add 3 - five important events from their lives to the timeline.

You lot may also choose to have them add together important local and globe events.

30. What's On Your Desk.

Teams plough an item from their desk into a product that they develop.

Instructions:

• Ask each team fellow member to get ane item from their desk. It'south usually all-time if you don't tell them why.
• Divide the teams into equal-sized groups, and have them choose one desk detail that is going to be their "production."
• Give them a time limit of about 2 minutes to decide.
• They volition name the product, create a logo, and come upward with a marketing plan within a time limit.
• In one case the time is upward, each group will present their production.
• They can and then talk well-nigh the pros and cons of each production and marketing plan, and brainstorm ideas for improving them.

31. Allocate This.

Teams try to group random objects into categories.

Instructions:

• Gather a group of 20 - 25 objects that are, at kickoff glance, unrelated.
• Split your squad into smaller groups.
• Ask each to classify the objects into four groups within a set amount of fourth dimension.
• Afterward, have each group nowadays their list, and how they came upward with each grouping.

32. This is Meliorate than That.

This game is similar to survival. Teams effort to organize objects by usefulness based on an imaginary scenario.

Instructions:

• Divide your squad into smaller groups
• Requite them a survival scenario, such as: you're trapped on a desert island, your plane has crashed in the jungle, the zombie apocalypse has started.
• Give them four objects that have no obvious utility in this situation.
• Ask them to rank the objects in gild of usefulness, within a ready time limit.
• When the time is up, have them explain their choices.

33. The Meta Team Edifice Exercise.

The object of this postal service-modern team edifice activity is to create a new team building activity.

Instructions:

• Talk about what team-building activities they've done, which were all-time and worst, what they love about them, and what they absolutely detest.
• Ask them what they think the purpose or purposes of a team-building activity should be. To improve problem-solving skills? Creativity? To promote bonding?
• At present give them a fourth dimension limit to come up with their ain team-edifice activity.
• One time the fourth dimension is up, have them exercise the squad building activity.

If they savour information technology, they tin keep working on ideas for refining it and do the activity on a monthly or weekly basis. Ideally, the team develops its own squad edifice activity that it enjoys.

34. Company Memory.

Similar to the game Retentiveness that well-nigh of u.s.a. played as children, only instead of trying to remember pictures of animals, etc. you'll be using things related to your company.

Instructions:

• Create a deck of retentivity cards related to your company.
• Y'all tin create these for the team, or have the team create them every bit role of the game.
• The cards can consist of words, drawings or photos of things related to the company, such equally:
  • Names or pictures of products.
  • Names or pictures of private team members.
  • Names or pictures of different locations associated with the company.
• You'll want at least 16 cards to start.
• Lay each of the cards out randomly, face downwardly. The more cards, the more difficult.
• Each actor gets the opportunity to flip over ii cards per turn.
• The object is to flip over 2 of the same card by remembering where the matching carte du jour is.

35. Penny For Your Thoughts.

Squad members randomly select pennies, then share a significant outcome that happened to them during the year stamped on the penny.

Instructions:

• Gather ane penny for each squad member, making certain that the dates on the pennies cover a reasonable time span for people to remember (10-15 years is probably good).
• Randomly pass a coin out to each squad member and give them a few minutes to come upwardly with an important memory (or memories) from that year.

36. A Shrinking Vessel.

Squad members accept to effigy out how to fit themselves into an ever-shrinking infinite.

Instructions:

• Start by marker off a infinite on the floor with a rope, blanket, or tape.
• Have your squad stand in that space, and compress the infinite regularly, say every two minutes.
• The team will have to retrieve fast and work together to continue everyone within the shrinking boundaries.

Tip: After the offset circular, yous may want to have team members talk most strategies for doing better, then endeavour again and see how much they can improve.

37. Sneak a Peek Game.

Squad members apply blocks to build a replica of a structure that the person leading the activeness has created.

Instructions:

• Get-go with a couple of sets of building blocks for children, some Legos, or a couple of Jenga sets.
• Build a small structure that is hidden from your team members.
• Divide your team into pocket-size groups and have them choose one person from each team to come up and spend 10 seconds looking at what you lot built.
• Have them become dorsum to their grouping and give directions for recreating the structure.
• Later on 1 infinitesimal they can send a different team member to inspect the structure for 10 seconds, and so work for another minute.
• Keep in this way until one (or all) of the teams have recreated the structure.

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