Mike from CTL - We have a social every other Thursday - Pictionary, Trivia (randomly paired with another employee, learn something new, then send those answers into a facilitator to combine for Trivia - it was a BLAST (a scream!).
A couple of rising seniors Daniel Lee and ? wrote a 'game' called Nooks - one can travel room to room and play different games!
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Cheryl from Teaching and Learning in GSB - played Bingo as a way to learn about each other
Have a Slack channel called "game on". Have a "Game Monk" app and one can call out a need to play a game on the fly as a quick way to get a break during the day!
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Lisa - We used PollEverywhere as a trivia type game. Made scoring, etc. easier
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John - GSE - Jackbox games. Can have up to a 100 players (on-screen # limited) that can contribute
Another game we adopted from codenames is "codewords"
Spyfall.f/
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Kat - virtual dice games
Tablletopia - $29/person gives you access to 1500 board games!
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Jon - EE SoE - Friday Happy Hour for staff. Have tried a lot of what is in the list (see below). Trivia, Pictionary (really a version based on the 1970's show Win Lose or Draw). A game based on Match Game (we some 70's TV afficionados..). Beat Shazam (name that tune)
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Brenda - It' s not a game, but the Law Library provided a virtual tour of Sweet Farm - the animals, the story behind the rescues, etc.
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Alex - We do "human check-ins". Super random "what's your favorite haloween candy?". Generates some interesting conversations.
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Meeting management - need to assign a facilitator to explain the game/activity, keep things moving, answer questions; can use breakout rooms to facilitate different teams
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Number games
NYT Sudoku - https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/sudoku/easy
Binary puzzles - http://www.binarypuzzle.com/
Word games
NYT Mini Crossword - https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/mini
NYT Word Games - https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
Guess My Word - https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/
Drawing games
Quickdraw - https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
Drawasaurus - https://www.drawasaurus.org/
Visual games
Set - https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/set or https://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle
NYT Visual Games - https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
Trivia games
Jeopardy - https://jeopardylabs.com/
Kahoot (create your own trivia) - https://kahoot.com/
Miscellaneous games
Scavenger hunt - can be competitive or collaborative
Zoom background competition
Costume competition
Sharing prompts:
- What color are you today?
- What is one thing you are grateful for today?
- What has made you smile today?
- When was the last time you said NO?
- What holiday traditions are you most looking forward to?
My free bingo cards - collect facts about team members, create bingo cards and play bingo during a meeting/party
Mindfulness and wellness
5-minute stretch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdfTuxdfIE8
Meditation moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6eFFCi12v8
Facilitated events
Feet First Events - https://feetfirstevents.com/virtual-team-building/
Airbnb Online Experiences - https://www.airbnb.com/d/onlineexperiencesforteams
Discussion ideas
Optional team social every other week or every week
Team member trivia game - meet with another team member, submit interesting facts, create a trivia game to match each fact to a team member
Use Poll Everywhere
Use My Free Bingo Cards
Pictionary game
Nooks - nooks.in, tool built by Stanford students, can set up different rooms for meetings or games, photo booth, pictionary, poker
Game Monk app in Slack, set up a channel for it, usually trivia games
Jackbox Games - jackboxgames.com, 4-16 players with different types of trivia games, additional folks can be the audience
Dice games using dice or a free phone app
Win Lose or Draw using Zoom whiteboard
Match Game
Beat Shazam - name that tune
Complete the lyrics game
Gift cards for game winners
Codenames/codewords - codewordsgame.com
Tabletopia - Tabletopia.com - access a large library of games online, fee-based
Virtual tour of an animal sanctuary - Sweet Farm sweetfarm.org
Spyfall - Spyfall.app
Secret hitler
Among Us - can play with alternate rules for shorter games
Pet show and tell
Collection show and tell
Human check in - ask any question you want
Using filters on Zoom
Use Snapchat filters - snapcamera.snapchat.com
Updating Zoom to take advantage of features, filters, etc.
Socializing - gather.town, hubs.mozilla.com, Toucan (may require new/up to date computers)
