Meeting warm up games

Recently, I’ve been running a game of Pictionary, before our designer catch-up meetings, to break the ice and get the creative juices flowing.

You only need a few things to run one yourself, with both local and remote team members alike.

Ingredients

• Whiteboard app — Invision Freehand, there are plenty of other options like Miro, Witeboard
• Words/Phrases — Pictionary Generator
• Timer — Timer app
• Screen Sharing — Appear.in, Google Meet, or Zoom

Nice to have

• iPad with Apple Pencil & corresponding Whiteboard app

Recipe

1. Pick team members of 2 at random.
2. Share & display the whiteboard using the screen sharing/meeting app.
3. Get team member ready, with canvas centered.
4. Hit Generate on the whiteboard generator & privately show drawer the word/phrase.
5. Start the 1-minute timer.
6. Record the time remaining, when guesser correctly guesses. This is their score.
7. Repeat for each team of 2.
8. Highest score wins. 🏆

Enjoy! 👍