Discover the Best Team Building Games
Guided by professional and engaging hosts, your group will form connections with each other as they play games that require teamwork and participation from everyone. CourseHorse offers numerous types of games including escape challenges, bingo, trivia, and scavenger hunts.
Booking with CourseHorse has several benefits including not having to pay booking fees and being able to change your group size after booking. CourseHorse will also make accommodations if you need to use a different video conferencing platform other than Zoom such as Microsoft Teams, Google Meets, or Webex. Booking with CourseHorse provides you with a team of professionals – including an event provider, expert hosts, and professional instructors – who will make sure your experience is enjoyable and runs smoothly.
Benefits of Team Building Games
Team-building games are a perfect way to reward your group for their hard work with a fun activity that encourages camaraderie among teammates. Friendly competition is ideal for motivating individuals to collaborate and communicate effectively to reach their goals. CourseHorse's virtual team-building games are highly interactive and will have your group working in small teams as well as regrouping with the whole team.
Top Team Building Games
Virtual Brick Building Team Challenge
For a fun and nostalgic team-building game, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Brick Building Team Workshop for groups of up to 80 people. In this 75-minute challenge, participants will compete in groups and individually to see who can build the best Lego structure. In each round of the competition, individuals will work in teams to tell a story with their Lego creations and the whole group will vote for the winner. This popular workshop is the perfect way to promote teamwork in your business or organization while demonstrating that diversity and unique perspectives are key to forming useful ideas. Your group will complete challenges such as building a zoo scene, clones ( where each participant on a team builds the exact same structure), building the largest tower, self-portraits, creating a form of transportation, and building something that represents your favorite hobby. CourseHorse will send each participant a bag of 200 Legos in advance.
Virtual Game Show Bingo
CourseHorse's Virtual Game Show Bingo is a highly entertaining and interactive one-hour game for groups of up to 100 people. In this reimagined version of the classic game of bingo, participants will watch video clips, look at images, and answer riddles related to pop culture. If you know the answer, you'll get to "X" out a square on your bingo card (the host will provide a link that allows each participant to open a digital bingo card to play). Your engaging facilitator will provide prompts that test your pop culture knowledge as you identify quotes, famous slogans, punchlines to jokes, and song lyrics. There will also be prompts that require participants to complete an action to "X" out a square on their card; for example, bringing back something to your screen that has your company's logo on it. Your team will have lots of laughs while competing with their coworkers in this multimedia bingo game.
A Virtual Trivia Event
One of the simplest and most enjoyable kinds of team building events is a fun and competitive night of virtual trivia. Mirroring the proven set-up and structure of pub trivia, you and your team members will put your knowledge to the test in several different rounds of fast-paced questions. In addition to answering traditional trivia questions, you’ll also compete with your team members in picture rounds, sound clue rounds and lightning rounds, ensuring that everyone can stay engaged and invested in the trivia event during the evening. This kind of light-hearted and fun event is the perfect way to bring your team members together for some low-stakes competitive fun as they vie for the title of master of trivia.
One of the best aspects of hosting a trivia night is how customizable the events are and how easily they can be modified to fit the needs of your team and team members. For example, there are numerous themed trivia events that you can host, ranging from a simple movie or music trivia to topical year-in-review trivia to focused subjects (like food or fashion) or pop culture-centered trivia (like The Office or A Game of Thrones). In addition, you can even request certain categories or questions that fit your team’s specific interests or areas of expertise. Plus, just like a night of bar trivia, these events are a great option for anyone looking to kick back and enjoy some light refreshments as they compete.
A Virtual Escape Room
Escape rooms are a staple team building activity thanks to their resplendent craftsmanship, unforgettable atmosphere and the ways in which they reward cooperation and outside the box thinking. However, they have a lot of logistical issues that make them difficult to schedule for some teams, specifically that they only accommodate about 8-10 people at a time and they are only held at a single physical location. If your team is large enough or you are working remotely, you may want to look for alternatives, one of which is a virtual escape room. These escape rooms offer your team members a chance to work together to solve a series of complex puzzles, just like they would in a traditional escape room.
All of these events are run by skilled hosts who have experience overseeing the escape game and keeping players engaged and moving forward and they will be on hand to help participants as they “move” through the virtual escape room. Since the event is virtual, players can participate from their homes and there is no upper limit to the amount of players who can participate, though for large enough groups, it is likely that you’ll want to break them up into smaller teams (who can compete against one another to see who can solve the escape room the fastest.
Much like physical escape rooms, you can choose from a slew of differently themed games, ranging from spooky haunted houses and chilling murder mysteries to more playful themes like a time rift back to the 90s or escaping a particularly boring office holiday party. No matter what kind of mood or atmosphere you are looking for, there is sure to be an option that suits your needs and will provide your team with the kind of excitement they are looking for.
A Virtual Scavenger Hunt
The scavenger hunt is a tried and true party game tradition, but it becomes harder and harder to organize once you are an adult. By signing up for any of these online scavenger hunts, you can give your team a virtual experience akin to a traditional scavenger hunt that will test their ability to think outside of the box and communicate with one another as they race around their homes to solve puzzles, decode clues and discover the precise list of items they need to complete the scavenger hunt. These events are a fun and exciting way to get your team members working as a group and thinking laterally as they attempt to be the first amongst their coworkers to figure out the precise list of items (some real, some more abstract) that they need to complete the hunt. There are a few different themes that can be added to the scavenger hunt, like a 90s theme, that will make the event even more engaging for your team members.
Guess That Price
Building on the classic game show format, this Guess that Price team building event will put your team members’ knowledge of prices of common items and esoteric exotica to the test. In a series of mini-game challenges, your team members will be tasked with coming as close as possible to the price of everything from instant soup packets to mint condition copies of Amazing Fantasy #15 (as well as everything in between). This exciting series of challenges will put your team members' reasoning skills at the forefront of the competition and give team members the opportunity to work together as a team while discovering who has a particularly keen eye for deals.
Feud Frenzy
Another twist on a classic game show format, this virtual team building competition will have your team members chanting “good answer” as they attempt to see which “family” has their fingers on the pulse of the general population. Team members will work together to try and sus out the most common answer to a series of unique or uncommon questions and be awarded points based on whether or not they can figure out the number 1 answer. This game is an easy to pick up and exciting team building competition that is sure to provide your team members with the kind of good natured, fun competitive experiences that you are looking to get out of a team building game.
Team Olympics
Bring your team together for the ultimate in competitive fun as they compete with one another in a series of different team building challenges in this Team Olympics challenge. This series of minigames includes fun and diverse events such as type-racing, Feud Frenzy-style challenges, racing to build the tallest marshmallow towers, creating balloon animals, playing harmonicas and more. These minigames will put all of your team's different skill sets to the test and will be sure to create a fun environment for making memories and engaging with one another, all while still competing for individual and group medals as part of their team olympics.
Pictionary
Another party game classic, you can sign your team members up for an online pictionary event that will test their artistic and interpretative skills. Team members will compete as teams as they trade responsibilities drawing pictures and guessing what those pictures are supposed to be over a virtual platform. This party game is a classic for a reason and your team members are sure to get a kick out of the chance to play with their colleagues online, under the supervision of an experienced host who will make sure that game moves along seamlessly. Regardless of how artistically inclined your team members are, you can be certain that this game will be a relaxing event that your team members appreciate.
Gift Exchanges (White Elephant & Secret Santa)
While not a game in the most traditional sense of the word, once the holidays roll around, you may want to host a gift exchange with a slightly more active component as a part of your end-of-year festivities. The most common kind of these gift exchanges is a traditional secret santa event, where everyone is randomly assigned another member of their team to give a gift during the holiday. These events are fun and easy to run, especially with the help of a professional host and organizer who can ensure that the event goes off without a problem. In terms of fun holiday gift exchange ideas, you could do a lot worse than something as tried and tested as a secret santa exchange.
Another popular option that is sure to be a hit is a white elephant gift exchange. In one of these events, instead of everyone providing a gift for a specific person, a hidden gift is provided for them. Then, everyone will, in turn, have the chance to open a secret gift (revealing it to everyone) or steal a gift from another person (who will, in turn, either steal a different gift or open a new one). This process continues until all of the gifts have been opened and claimed and everyone can walk away with something new and exciting. These events are run by professional hosts and you can work alongside the event coordinator to find the correct sweet spot when it comes to the collection of gifts available.
Virtual Game Night: Battle Royale
If your team is looking for a fun game night, you can book CourseHorse's Virtual Game Night: Battle Royale. In this one-hour activity for groups of up to 200 people, your team will compete in three rounds of games that include: racing to list the most items (List It), answering trivia and testing your memory (Think Fast), and making the most connections (Link It). Most of the game will be spent in mini-teams that will work together to be the champions, but there will be some opportunities to interact with the whole group as well.
Let It Slide: the Game of Improvised Presentations
CourseHorse's Let It Slide is a unique competitive presentation game that challenges your team to sell random products on a slideshow they've never seen before. In this one-hour activity for groups of up to 60 people, your team will practice their presentation and improvisational skills as they hilariously come up with a sales pitch for unique items on the spot. There will be multiple rounds of play and each participant will have a chance to show their skills. This game is meant to get your team laughing as a boring slideshow presentation becomes a hilarious competition.
Virtual Screenshot Showdown
For teams looking for a playful game that will have everyone laughing, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Screenshot Showdown for groups of up to 60 people. In this amusing one-hour challenge, your group will bond through humor as they create the silliest screenshots using filters, backgrounds, and props found around their homes. Examples of challenges include creating the best 1980s glamour shot, taking photos of fake adventures and made-up accomplishments, and photo-bombing celebrities. Participants will vote for their favorite picture in each round; while one person wins, everyone is sure to have fun in this online team game.