Depending on whether you present a live game or assign a challenge, teammates can either compete simultaneously on a time limit, or can complete questions by a certain deadline.
Players can join the game from any computer or mobile device. Check out this post for more virtual trivia games. Microsoft Teams offers a feature called Together Mode that displays meeting attendees lecture-hall style, placing the image of each participant in an auditorium seat.
You can use this capability to play a modern, online-friendly version of Guess Who. Because the characters are your coworkers, this version of Guess Who is extra fun! Here are more online board games to play. Who is a bot within Microsoft Teams that enables quick searches within organizational directories. Users can find answers to questions such as:.
Using these commands, create a scavenger hunt that helps teammates get acquainted with other members of the organization. The game works best as a race, so set a time limit and award the first player or team who answers all questions correctly. Check out our post on virtual scavenger hunts for a more traditional scavenger hunt experience online. Simply send questions to colleagues, and record top answers.
Ideally, your pooling pool should be larger than your immediate team. In fact, the more neutral parties you collect answers from, the better the game will be.
During your game, split the group into two teams, and challenge each team to guess the top answers for each question, and either speak the answer aloud, or write it in the chat box. Teams can confer amongst themselves by entering a private chat room.
Each correct response nets the team an assigned number of points; the more popular the answer, the more points. Here is a list of the best questions for Family Feud. And here are more virtual game shows to try. Microsoft Teams team building games like Pictionary practice effective communication, a critical skill for remote employees. Microsoft Teams has a Wiki feature that allows users to draft and share notes and collaborate with teammates.
While most folks use the Wiki for work projects, you can also use this function to create a fictional country as a team building exercise. Wiki Kingdom Founders is an ongoing game where teammates expand an imaginary world by adding or editing Wiki pages. To start, create a name for the country, make a basic page, and invite your teammates. Then, encourage team members to add details like maps, laws, history, and customs. Participants propose new changes, and other players vote on which ones to keep.
The Praise add-on enables users to send digital kudos to colleagues, making games of compliment tag easy and extra fun. To kick off a game of compliment tag, first set a time-frame, such as a week, and announce the game to the team. When participants receive a piece of praise, they must reciprocate by sending a genuine compliment to another teammate. The fun part about playing this game in Microsoft Teams is that you can send Praise to individuals or groups, maximizing the impact.
However, all compliments must be sincere. At the end of the game, tally up the total number of Praise badges. While the folks who send and receive the most compliments get special honors, everybody who participates wins! Snap Camera integrates with Microsoft Teams, meaning you can use filters to make meetings more fun. Typical Snap Camera filters include flower crowns, dog ears, cat hats, floating pizza slices, as well as lenses that transform users into potatoes or tigers.
These special effects make excellent online photobooth props. Once each teammate chooses a filter, snap a team photo by taking a screenshot. If the team guesses correctly, then award a point.
You can award extra points for creativity, humor, and good use of GIFs, too! The team with the highest score after all rounds winds the game. First, install the app within your Teams chat. One person names three people, be they celebrities or individuals you both know, and asks the question, "Kiss, Marry, Kill?
All in jest, you understand. Variations include dropping certain names into the mix you know will upset your friend. Or changing the question entirely. As long as there are three choices and three names in the mix, the sky's the limit with this one. If you're prone to daydreaming you should be familiar with the concept of What If?
Once one of these scenarios pops into your brain, you can spend several minutes working out which option you would choose in that scenario. Which is perfect fodder for a texting game. One of you messages the other a What If? There are no right or wrong answers. It's not only fun to see the responses given, it can also give you an insight into your friend or family member's outlook on life. Variations include leaving the question open-ended with any answer possible, or giving multiple choice answers and forcing the other person to choose from one of those.
Quizzes of any kind can be fun, even if they're supposedly testing your IQ. And they don't have to be long, drawn-out affairs with a quiz master asking difficult questions. In the form of a texting game you can play in a chat app, Simple Quiz requires one of you to message the other a general knowledge question. The other person then has to try to give the correct answer, or, if they're a little too dumb for that, the funniest joke answer imaginable.
Variations include switching this to a test of web browsing skills as they try to find the answer online in the shortest time possible. These games range from the simple to the more complex. But they're all supremely playable between any two or more people with phones in their hands. Most people will use a messaging app such as Messenger or Telegram, but they're even playable using old-school SMS text messages.
These multiplayer phone games are awesome to play with friends and deserve a place on your mobile. He has 15 years of experience writing and editing for tech publications, and has been with MUO since Share Share Tweet Email. Dave Parrack Articles Published. Subscribe to our newsletter Join our newsletter for tech tips, reviews, free ebooks, and exclusive deals! Click here to subscribe. How to Report Harmful Content on Tumblr. The 9 Best Curved Monitors. The Fake Podcast is where colleagues interview each other in a podcast format.
Prior to the meeting, employees come up with questions to ask each other. Then, the employees team up to record the resulting conversation. The Fake Podcast is a great virtual coffee break idea because it uses your time to get to know one of your coworkers. Not to mention, you can edit the audio into an actual podcast featuring your team and release on your website or company social profile. If you are like me, then you probably enjoy snacking while working. You can either procure your own snacks or you can sign up your team for a monthly snack subscription box.
Then, convene in a virtual meeting room and enjoy the contents together. To truly take in the spirit of coffee breaks, Barista Class is where you learn how to concoct fancy coffee drinks through online recipes.
Inspired by the Dalgona coffee trend on Tik Tok , your team can whip up tasty coffees together during the break. Not only will you have fun learning new recipes and sampling new drinks, but you will also have the caffeine kick you need to power through the rest of your day.
If you want a more guided experience, you can sign up for a virtual coffee tasting with your colleagues. These events usually include a shipped kit with various types of coffee, and a host to guide you through the experience.
Here is a list of virtual coffee tasting services. Check out our list of virtual icebreaker questions for more discussion topics. The variety of topics you can discuss is essentially endless, so put pen to paper and come up with your own chat topic ideas too. In addition to the ideas above, you may want to try some virtual team engagement activities.
You can also brainstorm a list of your own virtual coffee break ideas and topics. Even three minutes of idea generation can go a long way to making your next virtual meeting a success. Next, check out this list of the best Zoom games and this one with ideas for virtual water coolers.
Still have questions about virtual coffee breaks? Here are some of the common questions we see and the answers. These activities are also known as a virtual coffee chat or virtual coffee meeting. In general we recommend 15 to 30 minutes for your chat. Less time can be a little took quick, and after 30 minutes or so the conversation may feel a little forced. If you stay within that band of time, you will have the most success. Virtual coffee meetings can take the form of one-on-ones and we also recommend considering group sessions.
Bring your people together, and learn about coffee from a barrister, or do a tea tasting with new and exotic flavors. By expanding the way you think about virtual coffee sessions, you can come up with some fun and creative ideas!
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