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Corporate games for meetings, offsites and company events

A corporate game has a harder job than a party game. The room is a mix of people who did not choose each other: new hires and vice presidents, the loud team and the quiet one, some in the room and some on a call. The game has to be easy to explain, fair to all of them, and over before anyone checks their email.

The right game depends mostly on the size of the room and how much time you have. Here are games for each setting, from a five-minute meeting opener to a company-wide event.

For a meeting: five to ten minutes

  1. 1.Picture quiz on the meeting-room screen

    Put a picture quiz on the screen. Each picture starts as a few blocks and sharpens over ten seconds, and everyone answers from their own phone; the sooner they are sure, the more it scores. A round of 8 pictures takes a few minutes and needs no explaining.

  2. 2.This or that

    Read out two options — mornings or evenings, email or call — and people raise a hand or type in the chat. Two minutes, no one on the spot.

  3. 3.One-word check-in

    Everyone gives one word for their week. It is the quickest way to take the temperature of a team.

For an all-hands or town hall: a big room

With a big group, the game has to be played by everyone at once, from their seat. Anything that goes round the room one person at a time will take the whole meeting.

  1. 4.A company quiz

    Make a quiz about the company itself: the first office, old logos, the product ten years ago, whose desk is whose. Make a pack by uploading each picture and typing the right answer and three wrong ones, then put it on the main screen.

  2. 5.Live polls

    Ask the room to guess a number — how many customers we have, how many cups of coffee the office drinks a week — and reveal the answer. Most meeting tools have polls built in.

  3. 6.Department against department

    Run a quiz with the room split into teams. With Pro, depixelate ranks teams by average score, so the biggest department does not win on headcount, and a free room holds 30 phones — one per team works for a big crowd.

For an offsite or retreat: an hour or more

  1. 7.Marshmallow challenge

    Twenty sticks of spaghetti, a yard of tape and string, and a marshmallow that has to sit on top of the tallest tower. Eighteen minutes, teams of four.

  2. 8.Scavenger hunt

    Teams get a list of photos to take around the venue or the town in an hour. Judge them at dinner.

  3. 9.Escape room

    Book one for the team, or buy boxed escape-room games and race them on tables. It shows quickly who plans and who dives in.

  4. 10.Evening quiz

    After dinner, run a quiz round in mixed teams: brands, famous places, the company’s own history. More team-building games.

For the company party

  1. 11.Guess the baby photo

    Collect baby photos from colleagues who are happy to share, and make them into a quiz with four names each.

  2. 12.White elephant

    The gift swap where stealing is allowed. It works for any size of team. More office party games.

  3. 13.Holiday picture round

    Christmas, Halloween or Lunar New Year pictures on the big screen, answered from phones. No set-up beyond a laptop and a TV.

For a conference or client event

  1. 14.A branded quiz between sessions

    Put a quiz on the stage screen while people find their seats. With Pro, your company’s name and logo go on the screen and on every phone, rooms have no player limit, and you can choose the room code. For one event, a $4.99 event pass gives you Pro for 7 days with no subscription.

  2. 15.Play-anytime challenge

    With Pro, a quiz link can stay open for one, three or seven days, with everyone playing alone onto one leaderboard. It works for attendees in different sessions or time zones.

What makes a corporate game work

Everyone plays at once. Waiting for your turn in a room of fifty is not a game.

Nobody has to perform. The games people dread are the ones that ask for a confession or a speech.

It is fair to people who just joined. Recognizing a picture needs no in-jokes and no history with the team.

It works for remote people too. If half the team is on a call, pick a game they play on their own screen. Games for remote teams.

It is short. Stop while people still want another round.

Try the picture quiz

Put it on any screen; everyone answers from their phone. Free, no app, and players never need an account.

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Packs that suit it

Questions people ask

What are corporate games?
Games played at work events — meetings, all-hands, offsites, company parties and conferences — to get colleagues talking and working together. The best are short, easy to explain and fair to everyone in the room.
What games work for a large corporate event?
Games everyone plays at once from their seat: a quiz answered from phones, live polls, or teams competing with one phone each. depixelate holds 30 phones in a free room and has no limit with Pro.
What corporate games work for hybrid teams?
Games played on each person’s own device, so the room and the call play the same game. depixelate draws each picture on every player’s screen against the server clock, so video lag does not matter.
Can we put our company logo on the game?
Yes, with Pro: your name and logo appear on the host screen and on every player’s phone.