Games to play long distance
When your group is spread across cities: games for video calls, remote teams and long-distance couples, with tips on running them smoothly.
How to host a trivia night at work: teams, timing, good questions and a quiz board on the TV
Trivia is the safest act at any office party: finance, engineering and the new hire who started on Monday all feel equally at home. Here is how to run a 40–60 minute trivia night: formats, team sizes, timing, how to write questions, a ready holiday round with answers, scoring and a remote version. The board goes on the TV; everyone answers from their own phone.
Virtual holiday party games for remote teams: a free 45-minute plan
A virtual holiday party lives or dies in the first five minutes: if people are still fighting with a download link, half the cameras go dark. This plan uses free browser games that everyone plays on their phone while the call keeps running, with a team word game at the center and a bracket final at the end.
The telephone game, drawing edition: rules, prompts and how to play online
Everyone has played telephone: a phrase is whispered down the line and comes out the other end as total nonsense. The drawing version swaps every other whisper for a sketch, and it is a lot funnier. Here are the rules for both, how to run telephone pictionary on paper or online on your phones, 36 tested prompts and a ready party plan.
Guess the song from the first notes: hosting a music quiz with friends online
To play a guess-the-song game with friends online, open HitQuiz, pick a playlist and send your friends the room code: a hit plays for one second, then three, seven and fifteen, and everyone answers from their phone. The sooner you name it, the more you score. It works around one TV or over a video call, with the audio playing on every phone.
Office party and team-building games: a plan for the office, a venue or a call
The best office party games are the ones everybody can join in a minute — no accounts, no “I am not good at games”. With a TV in the office or venue, that means music bingo and karaoke; for a remote team, word, picture and bracket games. Below is a ready two-hour plan for both.
Holiday party games: a plan for Christmas get-togethers and New Year’s Eve
Holiday party games have to work in a noisy room, with a drink in hand, for guests aged eight to eighty. Music bingo with festive hits, karaoke on the TV, Associations and a good old card game do that best — here is a plan for the evening, from the first guest to the countdown.
What to play together when you are half a continent apart
Long-distance calls break the same way for everyone: you have four minutes of actual news and an hour you want to spend together. A game fixes that not by being fun, but by giving the conversation something to lean on.
15 things to play with friends online tonight
Fifteen games you can start in the next minute — no download, no account, no ten-minute rules lecture. Sorted by situation: a crowd, just the two of you, a five-minute gap, a video call.
How to keep a video call alive: games that actually work
On a ten-person call, three people talk and the other seven turn into muted grey squares. A game in a second tab fixes that faster than any icebreaker about sharing a fun fact.
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