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You’re in a conference room, a hotel meeting space, or someone’s living room. There’s a big smart TV on the wall. There’s no laptop. Someone says “can we play something on the TV?” Most people’s first instinct is to look for an HDMI cable and a laptop to plug in. Or to download a smart […]

Mentimeter does one thing really well: it lets a presenter collect live input from an audience. Polls, word clouds, rating scales, Q&A. If your goal is “ask the room a question and see the answers on screen,” Menti is a solid choice. But here’s what happens in practice. You run a word cloud. People type […]

So someone just asked you to “do something fun with the team” and you have basically no time to prepare. Maybe the meeting ended early. Maybe the afternoon speaker cancelled. Maybe your boss sent a message at 4pm saying “let’s do something together tomorrow morning.” Whatever the reason – you need something that works right […]

Corporate training has an engagement problem. According to Gallup’s 2025 State of the Global Workplace report, only 21% of employees worldwide are actively engaged at work. That number gets worse when you put them in a training session – because most training still looks like a slide deck, a monotone presenter, and a room full […]

Team building games work when they’re easy to start, hard to put down, and impossible to fake-participate in. They don’t work when someone has to download an app, create an account, or sit through five minutes of instructions before the fun starts. Every game on this list is browser-based (no downloads) and designed for work […]

The idea of a team building scavenger hunt is always exciting. The reality of planning one is usually not. You need a list of challenges. You need to figure out the route. Someone has to print things. Someone has to explain the rules. And then halfway through, three teams are lost, one person’s phone died, […]

Kahoot is great – until it isn’t. For a classroom quiz or a team meeting of 20, it does the job. But the moment you try to scale it to a conference audience, a company all-hands, or a festival crowd, problems start stacking up. The pricing jumps when you add participants. Someone always needs to […]

You need trivia questions. But not just any trivia questions – you need ones that actually work for the group you’re about to use them with. A question that kills at a pub quiz might fall flat at a corporate event. Something perfect for teenagers might bore a room full of adults. So instead of […]

You know how most all-hands meetings go. The CEO talks for 20 minutes. Someone shares a slide deck about quarterly numbers. There’s a Q&A where nobody asks anything. Everyone leaves, checks their phone, and forgets everything within the hour. The intention is good – get everyone together, share what matters, build alignment. But the format […]

If you’ve ever organised an event – a team offsite, a networking evening, a company gathering – you know the hardest part isn’t the logistics. It’s the moment when people walk in, sit down, and wait for someone else to make the first move. You can have the best venue, the best catering, and the […]

There’s a moment at every event where a group goes from politely catching up to actually having fun together. Sometimes it takes an hour. Sometimes it takes a speech. And sometimes, as we discovered recently, it takes about three minutes and a phone game. We wanted to see how Games for Crowds actually feels in […]

Let’s be honest about icebreakers: most of them are terrible. “Stand up and share a fun fact about yourself” in front of so many strangers. “Find someone who has the same birthday month as you” in a conference hall where nobody wants to approach anyone. The name game where you have to remember 30 names […]

There’s a gap in every conference schedule. You know the one – it’s that 15-minute stretch between the keynote and the next session, or right after lunch, where energy just drops. Phones come out. Eyes glaze over. The person next to you is suddenly very interested in their notebook. Interactive games are one of the […]

I just tested Letter Storm with some groups. I came away surprised. Let me explain what I especially liked and also what was the biggest surprise I got from testing Letter Storm. The game Game mechanics are very easy. Players see circles of different colors on the big screen. Each circle has a letter on […]

You Know More Logos Than You Think Here’s something wild: right now, without even trying, you probably recognize hundreds of brand logos. McDonald’s golden arches? Easy. That half-eaten apple? Obviously. The swoosh? Come on. But here’s what makes logo quiz games so weirdly addictive – it’s that split second where you know you know it, […]