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1. 2 Truths and a Lie.

Team members give out two truths and i lie nigh themselves, other squad members try to figure out which is the prevarication.

Instructions:

• Everyone reveals 2-3 things near themselves that are truthful, and one affair that is a lie.
• The rest of the group tries to effigy out which is which and votes to decide which is the lie.
• The person telling the prevarication gets 1 indicate for each person they fooled.
• Other players get 1 point for choosing correctly.

2. Life Highlights Game.

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

Instructions:

• Each squad member spends a few minutes thinking nearly the best moments of their life.
• They then focus on the xxx seconds they'd want to relive if they were virtually to die.
• Each team fellow member describes the xxx seconds they chose and why.

3. The Classification Game.

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

Instructions:

• Teams introduce themselves and talk near personal likes and dislikes.
• Afterward, they carve up themselves into subgroups based on their likes and dislikes.
• 2 to 3 subgroups should piece of work for most teams. Endeavor more if it's a larger grouping.
• Subgroups should not be negative or discriminatory.
• Example subgroups: coffee lovers, runners, gamers, domestic dog lovers, cat lovers.

4. Moving picture Pieces Game.

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

Instructions:

• Start with an image of a place, logo, cartoon, or person that anybody will recognize.
• Cut the picture into equal-sized pieces, ane for each participant.
• The pieces should have about the same amount of detail in each section.
• Requite each participant a piece of the epitome.
• Inquire them to recreate it on a piece of newspaper or canvass five, 10, or 20 times larger than the original image.
• The larger the paper or canvas, the longer the exercise volition take.
• Supply participants with pencils, pens, markers, colored pencils, etc.

Once each team fellow member is finished, they piece of work together to get together their individual pieces into a recreation of the original image. The final product tin be displayed in the part or workspace.

five. Zoom.

Similar to the picture pieces game, merely with no cartoon or painting skills required. Participants try to put pages of the book Zoom in lodge.

Instructions:

• Get a copy of Istvan Banyai's book Zoom.
• Give each participant one paradigm from the book.
• They should non bear witness information technology to other participants.
• Participants effort to get their images into the proper lodge by explaining them verbally.

6. Zombie Escape.

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

Instructions:

• Gather participants in a room, preferably one that is smallish for the group.
• 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 chain.
• The chain is given a pes of slack every 5 minutes.
• The rest of the participants endeavor solving a series of puzzles or riddles.
• The goal is to solve the puzzles before the zombie reaches them.

As someone who doesn't wish to exist tied or chained to anything, I propose mark ane-foot boundaries in the room that the zombie'southward territory expands into every v minutes. This tin can be done with masking tape, for case.

7. Battle of the Airbands.

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

Instructions:

• Get a music player with loudish speakers and a good music selection.
• A music subscription service like Spotify is probably best.
• Create groups of 3 to 4 people.
• Have them choose a song they would like to lip-sync together.
• Give them some time to rehearse.
• At performance time, bring in contained judges, or permit the groups gauge the winner.

8. Back-to-Back Drawing.

Ane team member instructs the other on how to depict a replica of a simple image.

Instructions:

• Carve up the squad into pairs.
• Accept each pair sit back to back.
• Give one member of each pair a slice of paper and a pen.
• The other gets a unproblematic image that their partner can't see.
• Team members with the image describe information technology to their teammates to assistance them produce a replica.
• Everyone compares drawings and talks about the difficulties of communicating instructions this way.
• If there's time, repeat the exercise and see how they improve their drawings.

9. Part Trivia.

Squad members are quizzed on work-based trivia.

Instructions:

• Create trivia questions about your company or office infinite.
• Divide the squad into smaller groups.
• Groups compete to see who can answer the most questions.

Here are a few examples you tin use:

• How many windows does the first floor of our building take?
• What make of microwave practise we accept 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 elementary materials to try and build the tallest tower they tin can.

Instructions:

• Divide your team into equal groups.
• Provide twenty sticks of uncooked spaghetti, i roll of masking record, 1 yard of string, and 1 marshmallow.
• Instruct the groups to effort and build the tallest costless-standing belfry they can using the above items.
• Tell them to use as much of the materials as they want, merely it must stop with the marshmallow at the top.
• Tell them the marshmallow must be whole, but other pieces can be broken up.
• Requite a time limit of 15 - 25 minutes.

11. Common salt and Pepper.

Team members inquire questions of each other to try to guess what the secret label is on their dorsum, and then have to find their pair.

Instructions:

• Come up up with a listing of well-known pairs. We've got examples below to go you started.
• Write each one of these on a name tag. Then you'd have a proper name tag with "peanut butter" and another with "jelly."
• Put a tag on each team member's back, and so they tin can't come across it.
• Now team members ask each other yes or no questions to figure out their characterization.
• They then have to endeavor to notice their pair.

Example Pairs for Salt and Pepper:

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

12. Mural Masterpiece.

Team members create artwork that they adjust into a landscape.

Instructions:

• Give each team fellow member a canvas and art supplies.
• Give them time to create their ain piece of artwork.
• When finished, they'll combine the pieces into a single landscape.
• Display the landscape in the office or workplace.

13. Toxic Waste matter or Bomb Removal.

Team members work together to endeavor and move "toxic waste" safely with a limited set of simple tools.

Instructions:

• Gather 1 modest saucepan, one big bucket, 1 rope, 1 bungee string loop, 8 bungee cords, 8 tennis balls.
• Use the rope to make an 8-10 foot circle that represents the radiation zone.
• Fill the small bucket with the tennis balls and place information technology in the center of the circle for your toxic waste.
• Set the big bucket 30 feet from the toxic waste product zone.
• Requite them a time limit of xv-xx minutes.
• Tell them spilling the saucepan results in the "death" of the entire squad.
• Tell them dropping private balls results in the "decease" of the nearest actor.
• Explain that when the bucket is removed from the radiation zone, players must maintain their altitude.

How to win toxic waste:

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

14. Visitor Coat of Arms.

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

Instructions: Supply your team with paper or sheet and art supplies (markers, colored pencils, etc) to make their company coat of arms.

If yous're unfamiliar, a coat of arms is a shield with symbols on it that represent dissimilar aspects of a family, place, or organisation. They typically come with a motto too. Wikipedia has a great entry with an instance.

There are a number of dissimilar ways to consummate the activity once the coat of arms has been created, from hanging information technology in the office to having teams nowadays their versions of the company coat of arms to each other, and even having dissimilar teams try to interpret each other's coat of artillery.

15. Campfire or Retentivity Wall.

Team members write nigh, depict a picture, or share a photo of a positive memory from work that matches a topic. The bones idea of this activity is to get employees to share positive memories about the workplace.

Instructions:

• Employ a whiteboard or sticky notes to nowadays several topics, such as:
  • My first day.
  • Creativity.
  • Teamwork.
  • Trouble-solving.
  • Fun!
  • Friends.
  • Challenges.
  • Accomplishments.
  • Goals.
• Permit each participant to choose i topic.
• Have them write well-nigh, draw or provide a movie of a positive retentivity from work that goes with the topic.
• All of these are and so displayed together as role of a memory wall.

16. 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 tin can exist built from small objects, such as pieces of paper, toothpicks, and paper clips, or participants can assemble an actual tent or other pre-fabricated structure.

Instructions:

• Each team chooses a leader.
• The leader has "frostbite" and cannot physically help gather the shelter. The residue of the team has "snow blindness," and has been blindfolded. The leader must give instructions to the squad and then that they tin successfully build a shelter without the benefit of sight.

Each squad 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:

• Notice a large empty space, such as a hallway, conference room or parking lot.
• Create an obstruction course with boxes, folding chairs, garbage cans, etc. These obstacles are the "mines."
• Divide your squad into pairs.
• Blindfold one member of each pair.
• The other pair fellow member guides the blindfolded 1 through the obstacle grade with verbal instructions.

To add together more than complication, yous can allow more than than one team on the form at a time.

18. Survival.

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

Instructions:

• You can use your imagination with this one.
• Team members can be stranded on a desert island, plane-wrecked in the jungle, lost in the Arctic, etc.
• Requite them between vii and 12 items from effectually the office or workspace.
• Have them rank the items in social club of importance for survival.

xix. Paper Plane Claiming.

Teams build paper airplanes with the goal of building the ane that flies farthest or has the longest hang time.

Instructions:

• Detect an open up infinite inside or outside.
• Give each team a piece of newspaper 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 fourth dimension.

Tips: You tin can prove them a diversity of designs, or let them practise research online. This latter option is interesting, considering there are a lot of designs available, with super complex ones that tin take some time to fold and are easier to mess up just promise better flight time. They'll have to detect the remainder between performance and complexity.

20. Cartel Jenga!

Jenga, just with a twist. In that location's a cartel written on each cake. This game isn't just for college keg parties!

Instructions:

• Take a standard Jenga gear up and write a dare on each block.
• Here are a few dares you can employ:
  • Sing for 15 seconds.
  • Trip the light fantastic for fifteen seconds.
  • Play adjacent plough with eyes closed.
  • Play next turn with feet.
  • Tell a joke.
  • Spin for 10 seconds before the next plow.
• Keep in listen that you can repeat the dares - you don't need a new ane for each block.
• Stack the blocks as you would for a normal Jenga game.
• When players pull a block out, they take to follow the instructions written on it.

21. Name that Office.

Remote team members effort to match photos of remote role spaces to the squad member who works at that place.

Instructions:

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

22. The Barter Puzzle.

Teams endeavor to put together mixed upwardly jigsaw puzzles.

Instructions:

• Divide the team into equal groups.
• Each group is going to practice a jigsaw puzzle. It's better if the puzzles require the aforementioned skill level, but look very different.
• Remove all the puzzles from their boxes, so redistribute an equal number of pieces from each puzzle into each box. So, if y'all're using 4 100-piece puzzles, each box volition end up containing 25 pieces from each puzzle.
• Give your team very simple instructions, such as, "Y'all have 20 minutes to complete your puzzles" and offer no further guidance.

The teams volition have to work together to effigy out what happened with their puzzles, and how best to get the pieces distributed correctly. Y'all can add another twist by making it competitive, i.e. the outset squad to consummate their puzzle wins, and meet how that changes the game. Alternately, you can give them all pieces of the same puzzle. The teams will take to figure out that they're all working on the aforementioned puzzle, and come together to solve it.

23. The Team Journal.

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

Instructions:

• Buy a blank notebook or a periodical, along with pens, pencils, and other art supplies.
• Put the journal and supplies in a common area and invite employees to contribute to it.
• Preferably you tin trust people to be adults and non put anything offensive or inappropriate in the periodical.

Tip: I nigh remember that if you need to create rules, then the journal isn't for your visitor… That said, some companies practise put basic rules/guidelines with the journal.

24. Scavenger Chase.

Teams compete to see who can find all of the items on a list.

Instructions:

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

The winner tin exist the first team to discover all the items, or the squad that finds the about items in the allotted time (if you need to speed it up). You can give the teams a straight listing of items to notice, or yous can requite them clues about what items they have to discover.

25. Show and Tell.

It'due south likely that you oasis't done this one in a while. Everyone gets to bring an item from habitation and explain it to their team.

Instructions:

• Participants bring an item from home and present it to the rest of the group.
• That'southward it. You may want to set a 15-minute timer.

Tips: You could have everyone bring in evidence and tell items on a single day, but that would get long, and probably deadening. Yous'll probably want to choice a day of the week that is always testify and tell twenty-four hours, and have everyone sign up for a appointment.

26. Mad Lib Mission Statement.

Always play Mad Lib? Basically, you complete sentences with random words, and then read the story out loud. The results are usually bizarre and funny. In this version, you lot employ the game to your company mission argument.

Instructions:

• Remove key parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs from your mission statement.
• If it'due south been a while since you've had an English form, review these definitions for part of speech.

Brand a re-create of the mission argument with blanks for the removed words.

There are a number of ways to play from here. One fun version is to accept everyone supply words based on the parts of speech needed, and then read the mission argument with the words they provided.

Then, when they know it's for the mission statement, you can take them practice different versions - the funniest one they can recollect of, the most platonic, the most honest, etc.

27. The Perfect Square.

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

Instructions:

• Have the team sit in a circle.
• Each team member should then be 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 concord, and instruct them to form a square out of it.

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

28. What'southward My Name?

This game is like to Salt and Pepper only uses famous people or common types.

Instructions:

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

29. Team Timeline.

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

Instructions:

• On a scroll of butcher newspaper, create a timeline that starts when the company was founded, or when the oldest fellow member of your squad was born.
• Mark years on the timeline, and, with the help of your team, note important dates for the company.
• Now inquire team members to add 3 - 5 of import events from their lives to the timeline.

Y'all may also choose to take them add of import local and globe events.

xxx. What's On Your Desk.

Teams turn an item from their desk into a production that they develop.

Instructions:

• Ask each team fellow member to get ane detail from their desk. It'southward usually all-time if you don't tell them why.
• Divide the teams into equal-sized groups, and have them cull i desk-bound item that is going to be their "product."
• Requite them a time limit of about two minutes to decide.
• They will proper name the product, create a logo, and come upwards with a marketing plan within a time limit.
• Once the time is up, each group volition nowadays their production.
• They can so talk about the pros and cons of each product and marketing programme, and begin ideas for improving them.

31. Classify This.

Teams try to grouping random objects into categories.

Instructions:

• Get together a grouping of xx - 25 objects that are, at first glance, unrelated.
• Split your squad into smaller groups.
• Ask each to classify the objects into four groups within a set amount of time.
• Afterward, take each group present their list, and how they came upwardly with each grouping.

32. This is Better than That.

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

Instructions:

• Dissever your team into smaller groups
• Give them a survival scenario, such equally: you're trapped on a desert island, your aeroplane has crashed in the jungle, the zombie apocalypse has started.
• Give them 4 objects that take no obvious utility in this situation.
• Ask them to rank the objects in order of usefulness, within a set time limit.
• When the fourth dimension is up, take them explain their choices.

33. The Meta Team Edifice Exercise.

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

Instructions:

• Talk almost what team-building activities they've done, which were best and worst, what they dear nigh them, and what they absolutely hate.
• 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?
• Now give them a time limit to come up up with their own team-building activity.
• Once the fourth dimension is upward, have them do the team edifice activity.

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

34. Visitor Memory.

Similar to the game Memory that virtually of united states of america played every bit children, only instead of trying to remember pictures of animals, etc. you'll exist using things related to your visitor.

Instructions:

• Create a deck of memory cards related to your visitor.
• You can create these for the squad, or have the squad create them as function of the game.
• The cards tin can consist of words, drawings or photos of things related to the company, such equally:
  • Names or pictures of products.
  • Names or pictures of individual team members.
  • Names or pictures of different locations associated with the company.
• You'll want at least xvi cards to offset.
• Lay each of the cards out randomly, face down. The more cards, the more difficult.
• Each player gets the opportunity to flip over 2 cards per turn.
• The object is to flip over two of the same bill of fare by remembering where the matching bill of fare is.

35. Penny For Your Thoughts.

Team members randomly select pennies, then share a significant event that happened to them during the twelvemonth stamped on the penny.

Instructions:

• Assemble one penny for each team member, making sure that the dates on the pennies cover a reasonable time span for people to remember (10-xv years is probably expert).
• Randomly pass a coin out to each team fellow member and give them a few minutes to come up up with an important retention (or memories) from that year.

36. A Shrinking Vessel.

Team members accept to figure out how to fit themselves into an ever-shrinking space.

Instructions:

• First past marking off a space on the floor with a rope, blanket, or record.
• Accept your team stand up in that infinite, and shrink the space regularly, say every 2 minutes.
• The squad will have to call back fast and piece of work together to go along anybody inside the shrinking boundaries.

Tip: Afterward the first round, you may want to have team members talk about strategies for doing better, and then endeavour again and see how much they tin ameliorate.

37. Sneak a Peek Game.

Team members utilise blocks to build a replica of a structure that the person leading the activity has created.

Instructions:

• Starting time 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.
• Split up your team into small groups and accept them choose one person from each team to come up and spend ten seconds looking at what you built.
• Have them go back to their grouping and give directions for recreating the structure.
• After one minute they tin send a dissimilar team member to audit the structure for 10 seconds, so piece of work for another minute.
• Continue in this way until one (or all) of the teams have recreated the structure.

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