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Team Building Games

The document describes 12 team building activities that can be done both indoors and outdoors. They vary in time required and number of participants. Activities include games like "Game of Possibilities" which inspires creativity, "Winner/Loser" which helps reframe negative experiences, and "Purpose Mingle" to improve meeting productivity. Outdoor games incorporate problem solving, communication and teamwork like a scavenger hunt, human knot, and egg drop challenge. The document provides the objective and instructions for setting up each activity.

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Team Building Games

The document describes 12 team building activities that can be done both indoors and outdoors. They vary in time required and number of participants. Activities include games like "Game of Possibilities" which inspires creativity, "Winner/Loser" which helps reframe negative experiences, and "Purpose Mingle" to improve meeting productivity. Outdoor games incorporate problem solving, communication and teamwork like a scavenger hunt, human knot, and egg drop challenge. The document provides the objective and instructions for setting up each activity.

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1.

Game of Possibilities
Time: 5-6 minutes
Number of Participants: One or multiple small groups
Tools Needed: Any random objects
Rules: This is a great 5-minute team building game. Give an object to one
person in each group. One at a time, someone has to go up in front of the group
and demonstrate a use for that object. The rest of the team must guess what the
player is demonstrating. The demonstrator cannot speak, and demonstrations
must be original, possibly wacky, ideas.

Objective: This team building exercise inspires creativity and individual


innovation.

2. Winner/Loser
Time: 5-6 minutes
Number of Participants: Two or more people
Tools Needed: None
Rules: Partner A shares something negative that happened in their life with
Partner B. It can be a personal or work-related memory, but it has to be true.
Then Partner A discusses the same experience again, but focuses only on the
positive aspects. Partner B helps explore the silver lining of the bad experience.
Afterward, they switch roles.

Objective: Participants discover how to reframe negative situations into learning


experiences together. 
3. Purpose Mingle
Time: 1 - 2 minutes
Number of Participants: Any
Tools Needed: None
Rules: This one is for those of you looking for a great indoor team building game
that won't take up much time. Before a meeting, have each individual walk
around and share what they hope to contribute to the meeting with as many
people as possible. If you want, offer a prize for the person who shares with the
most people, and another for the person who successfully contributes what they
shared.

Objective: Improves meeting productivity and makes attendees think about how


they're going to contribute, rather than just what they hope to get out of the
meeting.

Outdoor Team Building Games


4. Scavenger Hunt
Time: > 1 hour
Number of Participants: Two or more small groups
Tools Needed: Pen and Paper
Rules: Break the group into teams of two or more. Make a list of goofy tasks for
each team to do as a group. Tasks can include taking a selfie with a stranger,
taking a picture of a building or object around the office, etc. Give the list to each
team, along with a deadline by which they must complete all tasks. Whoever
completes the most tasks the quickest, wins! (You can even create your own
point system according to task difficulty if you want!)

Objective: Great team bonding exercise that helps break up office cliques by


encouraging people to work with colleagues from other teams, departments, or
just social circles.

*Fun Fact: At Wrike, we hosted our own scavenger hunt using our tool to track
the tasks. Check out how we used Wrike for fun!

5. Human Knot
Time: 15 - 30 minutes
Number of Participants: 8 - 20 people
Tools Needed: None
Rules: Have everyone stand in a circle facing each other, shoulder to shoulder.
Instruct everyone to put their right hand out and grab a random hand of someone
across from them. Then, tell them to put their left hand out and grab another
random hand from a different person across the circle. Within a set time limit, the
group needs to untangle the knot of arms without releasing their hands. If the
group is too large, make multiple smaller circles and have the separate groups
compete.

Objective: This game for team building relies heavily on good communication


and teamwork. It also results in a lot of great stories for the water cooler chat in
the workplace.

6. The Perfect Square


Time: 15 - 30 minutes
Number of Participants: 5 - 20 people
Tools Needed: Long piece of rope tied together and a blindfold for each person
Rules: Have your coworkers stand in a circle holding a piece of the rope. Then
instruct everyone to put on their blindfold and set the rope on the floor. Have
everyone take walk a short distance away from the circle. Next, ask everyone to
come back and try to form a square with the rope without removing their
blindfolds. Set a time limit to make it more competitive. To make it even more
difficult, instruct some team members to stay silent.

Objective: Focuses on strong communication and leadership skills. By


instructing some team members to be silent, this game also requires an element
of trust across the team, allowing team members to guide each other in the right
direction.
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7. The Mine Field


Time: 15 - 30 minutes
Number of Participants: 4 - 10 people (even numbers)
Tools Needed: Various handheld objects, several blindfolds
Rules: Find an open space such as an empty parking lot or a park. Place the
objects (cones, balls, bottles, etc.) sporadically across the open space. Have
everyone pair up, and make one person on from each pair put on the blindfold.
The other person must lead their teammate from one side of the open space to
the other without stepping on the objects — using only the verbal instructions.
The blindfolded person cannot speak at all. To make it more difficult, create
specific routes the blindfolded team members must walk.

Objective: This game focuses on trust, communication, and effective listening.


This activity makes a great team building beach game as well.

8. The Egg Drop


Time: 1 - 2 hours
Number of Participants: Two or more small groups
Tools Needed: Assorted office supplies
Rules: Split everyone off into groups of three to five people and give each group
an uncooked egg. Put all the office supplies in a pile. They have 15 to 30 minutes
to use the supplies to build a contraption around the egg that will keep the egg
from breaking when dropped. Some suggestions for supplies are: tape, pencils,
straws, plastic utensils, packing material, newspapers, rubber bands. Once time
is up, drop each egg contraption from the second or third floor of your building
and see which eggs survive the Eggpocalypse.

Objective: This classic team building game is an engaging (and messy)


exercise. It uses teamwork and problem solving to bond team members. The
more people the better, so this makes for an "eggcellent" corporate team building
game! Make sure you have an extra supply of eggs in case some break (ew!)
during the construction process.

Ice Breaker Games

9. The Barter Puzzle


Time: 1 - 2 hours
Number of Participants: Four or more small groups
Tools Needed: Different jigsaw puzzles for each group
Rules: Have everyone break off into small, equal-sized groups. Give each group
a different jigsaw puzzle with the same difficulty level. The goal is to see which
group can complete their jigsaw puzzle the fastest. However! Some pieces will
be mixed around in other group's jigsaw puzzles. It's up to the team to come up
with a way to get those pieces back — either through negotiating, trading,
exchanging team members, etc. Whatever they decide to do, they must decide
as a group.

Objective: This activity will rely heavily on problem solving and leadership skills.
Some team members might stand out and some might stand back, but it's
important to remember that the entire team must come to a consensus before a
decision is made.

10. Truth and Lies


Time: 10 - 15 minutes
Number of Participants: Five or more people
Tools Needed: None
Rules: Sit everyone in a circle facing each other. Have each person come up
with three facts about themselves and one lie. The lie should be realistic instead
of extravagant. Go around the circle and have each person state the three facts
and a lie in a random order, without revealing which is the lie. After someone
shares, the others must guess which is the lie.

Objective: This is a great ice breaker game, especially for new teams. Helps
eliminate snap judgements of colleagues, and gives introverts an equal chance
to share some facts about themselves.

11. Blind Drawing


Time: 10 - 15 minutes
Number of Participants: Two or more people
Tools Needed: A picture, pen, and paper
Rules: Divide everyone into groups of two. Have the two individuals sitting back-
to-back. Give one person the pen and paper and the other person the picture.
The person with the picture describes the picture to their teammate without
actually saying what it is. For example, if the image is a worm in an apple, do not
say, "Draw an apple with a worm in it." The person with the pen and paper draws
what they think the picture depicts, based on the verbal description. Set a time
limit for 10 - 15 minutes.

Objective: This is an activity that focuses on interpretation and communication.


Once the drawing is finished, it's always interesting to see how the drawer
interprets their partner's description.

12. This is Better Than That


Time: 15 - 20 minutes
Number of Participants: Any
Tools Needed: Four or more objects
Rules: Pick four or more objects that are different (or the same objects that look
different). Split all your participants into even teams. Describe a scenario where
each team has to solve a problem using only those objects. This can be anything
from "You're stranded on a desert island" to "You're saving the world from
Godzilla!" Have each team rank the objects based on their usefulness in that
specific scenario, along with their reasoning.

Objective: This exercise inspires team creativity in problem solving. The idea is


to not make the scenarios too easy so it becomes obvious which objects are
most useful.
Fun Quiz – Interesting
Tricky Quiz
1.) There’s one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the
score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?

(2.) What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

(8.) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters “dw.” They are all
common. Name two of them.

(9.) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half
of them?

(14.) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet, that begin with the
letter “s.”

See answers below to see how well you did…

ANSWERS TO QUIZ
(1.) Boxing.

(2.) Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 and a half feet each year because
of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.

(8.) Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.

(9.) Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark,
exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis,
braces, and ellipses.

(14.) Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings, and so
on.
India

Q 2. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of ICICI Bank, after the current Chairman
MK Sharma retires ?

Ans. Girish Chandra Chaturvedi

Q 3. A recent international TVC used music from this 1980 song from The Burning Train
composed by RD Burman. Name the brand.

INSERT VIDEO

Ans. iPhone X

Q 4. On what grounds have govt of India entity EESL rejected the first lot of electric
vehicles e-Tigor and e-Verito supplied by Tata Motors and Mahndra respectively ?

Ans. They did not meet the distance covered in a single charge specifications

Q 5. What will be the name of the entity formed by the merger of Vodafone India and Idea
Cellular called ?

Ans. Vodafone Idea Limited

Q6. Which Govt of India owned entity is likely to acquire the iconic Air India building in
Mumbai, Nariman Point from Air India ?

Ans. Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust

Q7. Which industry has launched #JanNivesh campaign to promote savings ?

Ans. Mutual Funds Industry through AMFI

Q 8. Which platform released an ad with the copy ” Tum karo Toh Lust Stories hum Kare
Toh Gandi Baat” ?

Ans. Alt Balaji as a rejoinder to Netflix’s launch of Lust Stories

Q 13. The ball used in FIFA 2018 is Adidas telstar 18. It has a built in chip for
communication inside. What technology does it use ?

Ans. NFC – Near Field communication


Q3. As Chanda Kochhar has been asked to go on leave pending investigation, who has
taken over as the CEO at ICICI Bank ?

Ans.Sandeep Bakhshi

Q9. Which is the 4th social media platform owned by Facebook to cross 1 billion users ?

Ans. Instagram after Facebook, Whatsapp and FB Messenger

Q 10. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned over violation of Intel’s non-fraternization
policy. What exactly did he violate ?

Ans. Relationship with a fellow employee

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