Microsoft teams - team building/bonding fun game suggestion

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Hi,
Does anyone have any suggestions for a fun session on teams for a team game please?

I've googled but not inspired!

Needs to be around 10 mins, with no prep beforehand for team members. There are around 6-7 of us so no breakout rooms.
Simple is fine! Any ideas very gratefully appreciated as I am having a blank....

Not perhaps helpful for you, but can you reconsider.

'Games' on teams are never fun.

It's a toe cringing horror.

Please reconsider and perhaps have a simple 'introduce yourself type segment. Without any need for 'fun facts' or other hideousness

Unfortunately I've been told I need to do this!
It doesn't have to be work related but just something to fill 10 mins. I wouldn't be doing it if I had the choice believe me!

Agree. These things make me want to curl up in horror.

Could you come up with some way to play ‘who am I?’ on Teams?

If it doesn't have to be job-related...

Will everyone be at home?

I'm thinking the 'bring me' game? My colleagues did it one time.

Bring me a pen/teaspoon/toothbrush etc. Ended on 'bring me a duvet' which caused a few laughs

Just do a pub quiz type thing.

3 "facts" about me, spot the lie (or the truth). Go around the "room".

Cringe! I would do a work related quiz for this, so everyone has an equal chance of knowing the answers and doesn’t have to talk/perform.

My idea of horror, who thinks there's any benefit in this type of thing?

I usually despise stuff like this but did one just before Christmas where everyone had to come up with two truths and a lie. The team got to ask questions then had to vote on the lie. It was quite funny.

Kahoot?

ple don’t do 2 truths and a lie, it’s totally non inclusive and people with neuro diversity find it completely bewildering.

Agree 2 truths and a lie is horrendous.

If you have to do something a lighthearted kahoot quiz is probably the least awful - something everyone has an equal chance on, like news of 2022 or random facts whatever.

@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair my boss unfortunately!

Kahoot quizzes?

I'll have a look at kahoot - thanks all, hadn't seen these

I hate teams. Keep it simple with a quiz

@lookingforanewjob23 we did this at the Christmas one and it was actually really good fun - had 5 mins to collect 10 different objects

We do kahoot and scattergories. Sometimes riddles also - not revealing any personal information so not embarrassing

Oh dear my internet has gone down just at the start time of this 'game'.

If they are in London or nearby, how about a game of Mornington Crescent?

Don't know about 10 mins, maybe if you do one round, but we play this at least once a month on my team meeting (all remote) with video on for reactions. It's genuinely hilarious, everyone enjoys it:

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Pictionary using the whiteboard on teams?

You can play eye spy, where the spy-er chooses something that can be seen on their camera (easy version) or something that can't (harder, but also funnier)

You can also do the vicars cat (player 1 'the vicars cat is a (a word, eg angry) cat' player 2 'the vicars cat is a (b word, eg boring) cat' or play I went to the supermarket (player 1 buys something beginning with A, player two remembers the A word, and adds a B...)

You don't need to be in London to play Mornington Crescent - just share a copy of the Tube map with anyone who might not know many stations.

Pub quiz, scavenger hunt or everyone brings a square of paper and you talk them through making an origami swan are some of the less awful ones I’ve been subjected to.