Put a game on the conference-room screen and everyone plays from their own phone. No app to install, no accounts, and remote coworkers can join from home with the same room code.
Open with trivia while people are still getting food, then split into teams for Bowl Game.
Jeopardy-style trivia on the big screen, with everyone buzzing in from their phone. Write a category about the office, like who said it in last month's all-hands or whose desk plant this is. For a big room, split into teams of two or three and let each team share one phone.
The Fishbowl game in two teams. Everyone writes names on their phone, then you describe them, give one-word clues and finally act them out. It gets people who barely talk at work on their feet, and it's the best pick when the whole team is there.
Fill in the blank with the funniest card in your hand. The host picks the deck, so keep it on Family for a work party and nobody has to explain anything to HR.
Draw on your phone while everyone else guesses. Nobody can draw, which is the point, and it works as well for a remote team as it does around a conference table. Free.
Everyone gets the same secret word except one Liar, who has to bluff through it. Short rounds, so it fits between the food and the gift exchange.
Doodler, Bowl Game, Best Answer Wins and Who's Lying? have a remote mode where the whole game runs on each person's phone, so coworkers at home can play over your usual video call with no screen sharing. Trivia Board plays best with everyone in the room, because buzzing in depends on speed.
Trivia Board with a category about your company, Bowl Game for a team of up to 16, and Doodler, which needs no skill at all. Everyone plays on their own phone, and the big screen shows the board and the scores.
Yes. Best Answer Wins has a Family deck and an After Dark deck, and the host picks which one. Keep it on Family and every game on Hangtime is fine for a work party.
Yes. Most games have a remote mode that runs on phones, so people dialing in can play along over Zoom, Meet or Teams. They join with the room code like everyone else.
Up to 16 in Bowl Game and up to 10 in most other games. For a bigger party, pair people up on one phone, or run two rooms on two screens.
Trivia Board, Doodler and Wordy Birdy are free. The Launch Pack adds five more games for a one-time $5, paid once by the host. Nobody else pays or makes an account.
No. It runs in a web browser on the conference-room screen or a laptop plugged into it, and players join at hangtime.games/play.
For a remote team outside the holidays, see team building games. For a trivia round, here are 30 Christmas trivia questions with answers you can play on the screen with buzzers.
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