Gup games

For alternative versions, have the person with the plastic wrap ball wear oven mitts, or set a timer for each turn instead of using dice. You'll need a stack of sticky notes and a pen. Write a name of a well-known public figure or character on each note, then pass them around until everyone has one.

Without looking, each person should stick their note on their forehead or back. Have everyone mingle, or sit in a circle and take turns asking yes or no questions to discover your assigned identity. Play until everyone has correctly guessed their identity, or pass out prizes to the people who guess correctly first. Pick one person to be "It" and send them from the room. With the people remaining, select a common trait: hair, articles of clothing, or body parts all work.

When the person returns, they'll ask someone, "How's yours? Itchy, thick, and stretchy all work for shirts, for example. Repeat until the person asking guesses the trait. This party game works best for close groups of friends or family members.

Gather in a circle. Begin with one person asking, "Who's most likely to trip over their own feet? Count down from three performing a drumroll with your hands is encouraged and then have everyone point at who they think would be most likely to do said act. Whoever has the most fingers pointed at them is out. Go around the circle asking "Who's most likely to…" until all but one person is out.

You can skip the eliminations to make the game last longer. Sit in a circle. Begin with one person saying, "Never have I ever…" and finishing with something they have never done. Traveled to Africa, eaten escargot, and the like all work.

If someone has done it, they must hold up one finger; if no one in the group has done it, the person saying "Never have I ever…" must hold up a finger.

Continue around the circle until one person has three fingers up: They're out. This party game can get as racy as you make it, so play carefully and set ground rules ahead of time if grandparents or other conservative guests are involved.

Ask the person next to you, "Would you rather…" and include two challenging situations. After their response, it's their turn to ask the person next to them. Continue until you can't think of any more scenarios.

Okay, it's a popular party game for kids, but adults can get in on the fun, too. Set chairs or seat cushions in a circle, facing outward, with enough seating for everyone playing, minus one. Designate one person the music player and have everyone else stand in a circle around the circle of seats. When the music starts, walk around the seats; when the music ends, everyone must find a seat. Whoever doesn't is out. Remove one more chair and begin again, until two people are fighting for one seat.

To make musical chairs more interesting, add your own rules. Allow people to sit on top of each other as long as their feet are off the floor , for example, or make your own alterations. This game requires an app: The Heads Up! After the 99 cent purchase and download, though, you have hours of entertainment on-hand at all times.

In-app purchases are also available. One person will hold a phone to their forehead, facing out. Everyone else will act out or describe whatever appears on the screen while the person with the phone guesses. They have one minute to make as many correct guesses as possible, and then the phone goes on to the next person. Categories include animals, movies, public figures and celebrities, and more. For a more cognitive game, play this brain-teaser.

Say you're hosting a party, and only people who bring the right contributions are given an invitation. Pick a secret rule: Typically, everyone must bring something that begins with the same letter as their name, but you can also get more creative with it.

Don't tell anyone else your rule. Go around the room and have each person say what they're bringing; you respond to each suggestions with a "Yes, you're invited," or "No, you can't bring that. An oldie but a goodie: Gather in a circle.

Pick one phrase to whisper in the ear of the person next to you—no repeats. That person will whisper what they heard to the person next to them, and so on until the phrase gets back to you.

Prepare to laugh at how distorted it gets. To make it more difficult, play music in the background. Pick three statements to make about yourself: "I have two siblings, I've been to three continents, and I love cats," for example.

Two should be true; one should be a lie. Everyone else must guess which is the lie, and then the next person goes. This is a great getting-to-know-you game; if you're playing with family or friends, pick obscure details to try to trick each other to make it even more fun. Purchase a pack of stickers. This one is a great Christmas party game or Halloween party game, so try to find stickers that suit the occasion.

Give everyone one sheet of five to ten stickers or less, depending on the size of the party. This game works best in a party where everyone is mingling, so you can incorporate it easily into your happy hour or neighborhood function. Each person must discretely place all their stickers on other party guests; the first to use all their stickers wins.

If they get caught stickering someone, they must accept a sticker. What didn't work? Items Needed: Tarp, Balls. Goal: Guide a ball around tarp without letting it fall into a hole.

Thought it may remind you of an activity you did in gym class, Hole Tarp can be a lot of fun, even for adults. It can be done with a tarp or plastic sheet and a few tennis balls. First you must cut one or a few holes into the tarp. Once this is done, place your team evenly around the tarp. Have each member hold the edge with both their hands. Instruct your team to shake the tarp so it begins moves around like a wave. Once it is moving, throw in a ball. Participants must navigate the ball around the tarp for the longest possible period without having the ball fall through one of the holes.

If the ball falls through a hole or off the side of the tarp, your team must restart the game. Alternatively, you can have the team guide the ball, circling each hole. The team wins the game when they successfully navigated the ball around the circumference of each tarp without having it fall into any of the holes. Everyone on your team has to keep moving to keep the ball rolling.

If someone stops, the ball will drop. This game relies on constant communication to achieve its final goal. Was there any forms of communication that worked better than others?

Did you assign a leader formally or informally? Did that help or hinder your progress? Time: 25 Minutes. Items Needed: Items that can be used as platforms milk crates, fabric square, tires, baseball base , 2 ropes or 4 cones. Goal: Cross the floor or ground by maneuvering across different objects. If the phrase "the floor is lava!

Lava Flow, also called River Crossing, is a game in which a group must cross the river of lava by jumping and maneuvering across different objects. It's the team's task to figure out how to get the entire group from one side of the lava field to the other without touching the ground.

The group should be given a limited number of objects, 2 or 3, that way they have to be moved and shared each time someone crosses. If someone touches the floor at any point, then they will get burnt and must start over. The first team to cross the river with all members intact are the winners.

Time: Hours. Items Needed: Scavenger hunt list, smartphones optional. Goal: Gather as many items on the list within a set period of time. Scavenger hunts are one of the oldest ways to get people to interact and collaborate.

But, there are still one of the most effective and fun. Smartphones and apps have made it possible to do scavenger hunts anywhere. You can even add in photo or video challenges and share an album within the organization.

You can do a simple scavenger hunt and keep it in the office or take it outdoors, which can be much more exciting. Create a list of items that groups must collect or tasks that they have to complete. They can be goofy, as long as it's possible to complete. Some examples are: "Take a selfie with someone wearing a cat shirt" or "Grab a take-out menu and a fortune cookie from a Chinese restaurant.

Time: 40 Minutes. Goal: Get everyone through a web of rope without touching the rope. Do you remember all those spy movies with the intricate laser security systems people had to maneuver through? Spider Web is kind of like that. Create a maze of lines and shapes by stringing twine between vertical 2 poles. The end result should resemble a spider's web with some larger, easier holes and some smaller more difficult gaps.

Teams must cross the spider web to reach the other side without touching the string or going in the same shapes as anyone before them.

The challenge gets harder as more people cross to the other side and requires everyone to remember and communicate with each other. Goal: Submerge a ballon in a bucket of water using only the supplies given. Balloon in water is a great way to see how your team solves problems together, particularly when faced with limited resources. Each group must immerse an inflated balloon in a bucket of water for a minimum of 5 seconds. They can only use the provided materials to complete the activity.

The brick goes in the bottom of the bucket of water. Teams have a minute to strategize and flesh out their plan and only 5 minutes to do the activity. Only the provided materials can be used during the challenge. The 3 binder clips and inflated balloon given to the team cannot be altered in any way. Before starting the activity, the team has one minute to plan and they have to plan without touching the materials.

After planning, the team is given 5 minutes to execute their plan. The balloon must be fully immersed in the water before the 5 minutes is over.

The balloon must remain immersed for at least 5 seconds, and the team must notify the trainer s when they are ready to be timed. Goal: Teams must retrieve a ping pong ball from the pipe by filling it up with water and floating the ball to the top.

This game can get a little messy, so it's recommended for outside. Leaky Pipe is a highly interactive activity that requires groups to work fast and efficiently together. You'll need water, buckets, several cups, 2 pipes with holes drilled in them, and 2 ping pong balls.

To win, teams must retrieve a ping pong ball from the pipe by filling it up with water and floating the ball to the top. Participants will need to work together using the cups to carry the water from the bucket to the pipe, relay race style with cups of water to fill it.

The pipe has holes drilled in it, so they will have to plug the holes as the water gets higher. To complete the challenge, each team will receive a bucket of water which is placed 10 metres away from the pipe and several cups. Remember to set a countdown, so they are racing against the clock. Items Needed: Ball Goal: Have every participant say their name.

For new groups, check out an icebreaker and memory game called Group Juggle. Participants form a large circle facing each other. If you have a large group, break into groups so there are no more than 20 people in each. Throw a ball to one person. They will throw it to someone else, but must say that person's name first. The ball goes around the group like that until a pattern starts. Once the group seems comfortable, throw in more balls to increase the difficulty.

Time: 50 Minutes. Items Needed: Bags, Random objects. Goal: Create a 10 minute skit based on random items in a bag. Acting and improv exercises can be a humorous and energizing way to bring your team together.

Grab Bag Skits is a short activity in which teams will get out of their comfort zones by creating fun skits. Split the group into teams of 3 to 8 and have each team choose a bag.

They don't know what is inside, but it is stuffed with unrelated and random objects. Each team is given 10 minutes to put together a 2 to 3 minutes skit that uses each of the items. Every person in the group must take on a speaking role. Encourage groups to be as creative as possible.

For example, they can use an apple as a meteor or a paintbrush as a witch's broom. Each team will preform their skit for the group. Although some individuals may be more introverted, Grab Bag Skits can encourage them to get out of their comfort zone and connect with colleagues. Goal: Have the team correctly line up in order of a specific criteria. Ask the group to line themselves in order based on certain criteria. Make it more challenging by setting a rule that members can't speak to each other.

You can do this as a get-to-know-you-better activity. Some examples are by:. As members move around the room to organize themselves in order, you'll notice how they communicate to complete the task and who takes on the role of organizers or leaders. Follow Up Questions. Time: 25 minutes to an hour. Items Needed: Smart phone one per each participant. Goal: To make others laugh while collecting 7 cards to win the game. Evil Apples is a mobile app inspired by the party game, Cards Against Humanity.

Other players submit cards anonymously to fill in the blank. The person with the game card chooses the best, and often the funniest response. Players will bond over laughs and may appreciate the creativity of other group members. You will need to be cautious how you use it some cards can be considered inappropriate or offensive which for many is the fun of the game.

However, you can download different decks that are more work-appropriate or use other card apps to create your own decks. Number of Participants: Players. Items Needed: Smart phone or tablet, Jackbox games , video calling software. Goal: Every player will make a drawing based on a prompt. Players then submit a title for these drawings and try to pick out the real title from the fake ones.

Drawful is the perfect solution for remote teams. It can easily be played over Zoom or other video calling software, as well as in person.

In Drawful, each player receives an unusual prompt they need to try and draw on their phone in a limited amount time. After someone finishes and submits their drawing, everyone else submits a title anonymously that could fit the other player's drawing. These titles can be humorous or serious, it's up to each player. The goal is to find the correct drawing prompt while fooling others into selecting decoy answer. Bonus points are awarded to the decoys that are particularly clever or funny.

Create a video meeting with team members and share your screen. Start the game! Every player uses their phone or tablet as a controller, so it's important that everyone has access to a device. The game will run everyone through the instructions before playing so everyone viewing the screen share will get the gist. Items Needed: Each participant needs a mobile device. Goal: Work together to save the world from a growing pandemic.

Based on the cooperative board game, the Pandemic mobile app centres around teams working together to fight and cure deadly diseases. Each player has a specific role that they must fill in order to succeed.

Roles can be anything from an engineer building satellites so the CDC can communicate to a scientist collecting data and samples to test for a cure. The premise for the game is the perfect setup to teach risk management and foster teamwork.

It shows that every role is needed to reach the long-term and tough goals. Goal: Score the highest number of points while laying tiles. Another board game turned mobile app, Carcassonne focuses on laying tile to strategically gain control of map's cities, fields and other terrain with the end goal of earning the most points. The game is best played in groups of four players and as a pass-and-play for teams. Everyone can also play together or remotely on their own device.

With each new tile that is laid, individuals must adjust their strategy. It can get people thinking about how to formulate strategies and use logic to reach long-term goals. Goal: To complete all tasks before being killed by the imposter. Among Us is a multiplayer game that combines strategy with sci-fi.

Individuals are assigned roles: either as one of the crew members on a spaceship whose goal is to complete their assigned tasks or an imposter who poses as a crew member and whose goal is to kill the majority of the crew members while sabotage the mission. Similar to games like Mafia and Werewolf, the crew will gather after a dead body is fond to discuss who everyone believes may be the imposter.

At the end of these gatherings, someone will be voted off the spaceship. Players will find there's a strategy to sticking together with other crew members and collaboration is necessary to complete all tasks and find the imposter. Communication is also key to winning the game. Number of Participants: 2-Unlimited. Goal: Team up and go on quests. It can be download on Android or iOS devices. People can communicate, barter, form alliances and show what they are capable of when they work as a team.

Playing a fantasy multiplayer RPG game may seem like an unconventional way to build your business team, but it can foster real-world teamwork. It also taps into the imagination of your members and their ability to communicate. Team building games and activities for teams with more time available.

All activities should take between minutes of participants time. Items Needed: Anything they could use to build a bridge. Some suggestions: tape, paper, marshmallows, straws, Legos, popsicle sticks or Jenga blocks. Goal: Have two groups independently build bridge halves that must fit together. To tap into your team's creativity and communication skills, try bridge build.

Divide into two different teams. Each must build half of a bridge with the materials provided. The goal is for the two bridges to have similar or identical design and be able to fit together when finished. The challenge is that the teams must be separated so that they can't see the other team or what they are building. But, they are allowed to communicate verbally or through chat e.

Depending on what you use, you may want to also supply them with tape, paper and pens. This exercise is good for developing communication, creative thinking, and leaderships skills. What was the hardest part of this challenge? How did you overcome that? Did you miscommunicate at any point? How did you fix miscommunications and get back on track?

Time: 40 minutes. Items Needed: cue cards, post-its or scraps of paper, pens. Goal: Participants must guess the name on their forehead using only yes or no questions. Create a set of names, which can be celebrities and icons like Beyonce or Mickey Mouse or types of professions like actor, football player or doctor. You can use Post-It notes or tape and small slips of paper. Have each person place a name on their forehead. Make sure that they can't see who it is. Set a timer and instruct everyone to move around the room asking different people yes or no questions until they guess correctly or time runs out.

This gets people to move around the room and interact with people they may not spoken with before. It also makes them more aware of stereotypes and categorizing others based on certain characteristics. Number of Participants: Unlimited. Items Needed: Cue or index cards. Goal: Find pairs.

Similar to "Concentration", in which you flip over cards two at a time to try to find matching pairs, this activity focuses on learning and memory. You can create cards with photos and names of team members or with company information like products, logos, and values. Face these cards down on a table and then break into teams. Each team must find the pairs in the cards while only facing 2 cards up at a time. Time each group and whichever finds all the matches the fastest is declared the winner.

Company concentration teaches employees more about your business while playing a fun game. There is also a new tournament mode called "Panzerfahren Festival" where a team of two will participate at first, getting new members from other teams they defeat.

The Type 10 tank will be fought in this mode as the final boss when certain conditions are met. To this end, they opt to use the footage from the last exhibition match and the battle against the All-Stars University Team but realize that they not only need factual commentary from their side, but also the input from the other schools that took part in those battles.

As an incentive for their contribution in the presentation, all the participants were promised full match data sharing and dissemination. Miho was chosen to preside over the recollection event with the Anglerfish team backing her up.

Alice Shimada will join in the latter half.