Running a game show on Zoom is simple yet entertaining. There are many tools and apps that can make planning the show a cinch. Plus, since most folks grow up watching game shows, your crew will likely already know the rules and show up with enthusiasm.
Next, check out our guide to workplace competitions and this one with virtual game night ideas. We also have a free tool for playing icebreaker Bingo online and a guide to virtual award ceremonies. Virtual game shows are competitive challenges played via virtual meeting software such as Zoom, WebEx, and Microsoft Teams.
To play virtual game shows, first select your game. Then, prepare your questions and prompts. You may be able to find a pre-made game board and scoreboard online. If not, then you can create your own visuals on a slideshow presentation. Next, gather any additional materials you may need for the game, and send attendees a list of supplies if applicable.
Finally, set a date and time for your event and send out invites with a meeting link. When the day of your show arrives, gather on your chosen virtual conference platform, divide the group into teams, and start playing! After the event concludes, send prizes to the winners. You can also use digital game show apps and award virtual prizes. Team building content expert. Angela has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and worked as a community manager with Yelp to plan events for businesses.
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List of virtual game show ideas Here is a list of classic game shows you can play with groups on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and similar platforms. Jeopardy Jeopardy is a quiz show that tests players in random areas of knowledge. Pro tip: Record the meeting and make a highlight real of the funniest moments. Whose Line is It Anyway? Whose Line is It Anyway is an improvisation game where players perform impromptu skits. Here are some starter questions: Favorite movie?
Where do they live? Where were they born? Introvert or extrovert? When did they start at the company? Where did they go to college, and what was their major? What is their favorite work snack? What social media site do they use most? What kind of pets do they have? How many kids do they have?
Where did they take their last vacation? Preferred method of communication? Family Feud Family Feud is a game where two teams battle to guess the most popular survey responses.
Songs you might hear at a wedding Drinks you might find at a beach bar Collect the top five most popular answers, and assign a point value to each based on the popularity of the answer.
Team Trivia Team Trivia is a fully-facilitated 60 minute quiz show. Match Game Match Game is a guessing challenge. Worst blind date ever. The Price is Right The Price is Right is a game that invites players to guess the cost of various items.
Pyramid Pyramid is a classic guessing game. To play: Divide the group into pairs or teams. If teams, then each team designates a pair to play each round. Split the pairs into clue givers and clue receivers. Privately message the clue givers a list of words. Put 30 seconds on the clock. The clue giver describes the words without using the words themselves, and the clue receiver guesses the word.
The pair or team receives one point for each correct answer. Chopped Chopped is a cooking competition where chefs must create dishes using a set of mystery ingredients. Wheel of Fortune Wheel of Fortune is a word-guessing game similar to Hangman. Check out more word games. Hollywood Squares Hollywood Squares is a combination of trivia and tic tac toe. To play: Join a Zoom meeting. Designate nine participants as squares, and spotlight them.
Pick two competitors, or divide the remaining players into two teams, x or o. The host reads a trivia question, and the player in the corresponding square answers. The square changes their virtual backgrounds to an x or o.
FB Tweet More. Move over Sudoku, because there's a new hit puzzle game sweeping the country. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. All rights reserved. Close Sign in. While software engineer John Wardle made it for his wife who is a big fan of word games, Shakked was trying to cash in on a trend by stealing the idea.
He took the name Wordle, the idea, and its visuals, and he put his copy on the App Store , duping many who believed it to be the viral game they were seeing online. It lets you play more than once a day. Shakked quickly caught fire as many jumped to flag his game on the App Store in defence of Wordle, poking fun at him in his replies with comments such as, "Steal is a five-letter word.
He then went on a further rant, upset about the backlash. He claimed that Wordle is a rip-off of an '80s game show in an attempt to justify his copy, "Wordle is a ripoff of another game. Check out our full instructions for virtual scavenger hunts. To start this virtual activity, one player chooses an identity, which can be anything from an object to a concept. On a road trip to Canada, one friend chose to be a small rubber ball.
Explore your imagination and feel free to choose really difficult identities. The player with the identity is known as The Post, and all other players can bombard The Post with unlimited questions to uncover the identity. The following questions incorporate a new word into the game. Here are more question games to play with remote teams.
Pancakes vs Waffles is a fun game I learned on a group trip. The game mechanics are focused on friendly debate and unanimous decision making, which can be helpful for remote team building activities. You can play until your team is ready to move on. Pancakes vs Waffles is a great way to engage the introverts on your team, because everyone has an opinion about the trivial subjects of debate. Here is an example game of Pancakes vs Waffles that demonstrates how it might go.
And here are more virtual games to play with large groups. Werewolf is one of the best virtual team building activities for conference calls, as it is a game of speaking, careful listening and voting as you seek to survive the night. To start the game, players draw roles of werewolf, villager, medic or seer. Then, the game master announces that night has fallen, and players closer their eyes.
The game master asks the werewolves to wake-up and select a victim, followed by the medic who points to one person to save, and the seer who points to one person to reveal.
Finally, the game master announces the sun is rising and reveals whether a villager became wolf-grub during the night.
Anyone the werewolves eat becomes a ghost and cannot speak for the remainder of the game. The survivors debate who might be a werewolf, and then vote to either eliminate someone or skip the round. Repeat until you only have villagers or wolves left. Here are more detailed instructions on how to play werewolf.
One of the quickest virtual team building games you can play is Something in Common, which is a challenge that encourages your remote employees to learn more about each other. For this game, assign your people into small groups and then have each group identify the three most unique things they have in common.
If you want to do multiple rounds then you can make the virtual activity more challenging by removing broad categories like movies, books and food. Here are more icebreaker games for work. Two Truths and One Lie is one of the most common virtual team building games. The activity is conference call friendly, since all you need is a reliable WiFi connection and a little cunning deceit.
For the remote work version, give each participant two minutes to prepare two truths and one lie. For example:. Have each participant share three facts, and guess which one is the lie. Two Truths and One Lie is a fun virtual game to play with drinks. Here are more online drinking games that are work friendly. A monthly Healthy Lifestyle Challenge is even more important during quarantine. You can track progress of your Healthy Lifestyle Challenge with this free tracking tool , which helps add an element of accountability.
Really everyone wins, because everyone that participates gets a little healthier and has fun with the challenge. Your coworkers will love engaging in a Typing Speed Race. The race is a way to show off your lightning fingers, and also a great way to develop one of the most important remote work skills: typing quickly and accurately. Your team members can participate in the typing test and post scores to Slack, email or other communication channels.
You can also do a Typing Speed Relay, where you add up team totals. Try the 1-Minute challenge on typingtest. Here are more virtual minute-to-win-it activities. Here is a guide on how to play chubby bunny by Icebreaker Ideas. This post has more fun workplace competitions for virtual teams.
Murder in Ancient Egypt is one of three virtual murder mystery activities we run. The game uses mechanics of escape rooms, puzzles and problem solving to bring your people together in a race against the clock.
Murder in Ancient Egypt is an exciting and challenging virtual team building event, and culminates in the big reveal: this was an actual murder mystery from history. Your team will hear the story from an expert storyteller, and learn about what really happened.
Learn more: Murder in Ancient Egypt. War of the Wizards is a simple storytelling game designed as a team building activity for conference calls.
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