Team offsite game
A game for your team’s offsite or away day.
Crowdboard puts a game-show board on the meeting room’s screen. Two mixed teams guess the most popular answers, your own colleagues’ answers if you ask them first, and buzz in from their phones. It runs in a web browser, so there’s nothing to install.
Free for up to 6 phones. No card needed.
Why it works at an offsite
It mixes people up
Split the room across departments, so people who never work together have to agree on an answer. That’s half of what an offsite is for.
About your own team
Send a short survey the week before. The board is made of your colleagues’ answers, so the game is about your team, not a quiz from the internet.
It wakes up the afternoon
The slot after lunch is the hardest one of the day. A game there gets the room talking again before the next session.
It fits the agenda
On the host deck, Team offsite is 5 rounds and a Lightning Round, about 25 minutes. Between two sessions, Conference break is 3 rounds, about 10 minutes.
Nothing to pack
No buzzers to carry and no app: players scan the code on the screen with their phone camera. The host brings a laptop and uses the room’s screen.
For colleagues who couldn’t come
Share the board in Teams, Zoom or Meet, and colleagues back at the office buzz in from their own phones.
From the agenda to the last round
Sign in on the host’s laptop. Everything else runs in a web browser.
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A week before: ask the team
Make a survey from the questions below and send the link with the agenda. People answer on their phones in a minute, with no account. Give it a closing time, so it has stopped by the day you travel.
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Before you go: ask about the room
Ask the venue which screen the room has and how a laptop plugs in. When you arrive, open Check a network on the venue’s Wi-Fi and run a practice game from the host deck.
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On the day: mixed teams
Split the room into two teams across departments. Put the code on the screen in the break before, so the phones are in when you start.
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Play
About 25 minutes for the Team offsite game. Read each question out and let each team argue it out: that’s the point.
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After: share it
Send the game’s recap link in the team chat with the photos: the scores and every question.
Questions to ask your team
Put these in a survey with the agenda. There are no answers here on purpose: your colleagues’ own answers make the board.
- Name something you’d love our team to do more of
- Name a word that sums up our team this year
- Name something that always happens at a team offsite
- Name a hidden talent people on our team have
- Name the best snack for a long workshop
- Name a place you’d love our next offsite to be
- Name something that makes a workshop go well
- Name a song our team should walk in to
They’re filled in for you to change before you share the link.
Where the questions come from
Ready-made
On the host deck, pick Team offsite, and Crowdboard draws a game of 5 rounds and a Lightning Round, about 25 minutes from the question bank, fresh every time.
From your team
Turn the survey into a game in a few clicks, or ask one question live with Ask the room: everyone answers on their phone, and the most common answers become the next round.
About your work
Write questions about your projects, your customers or your year in the game editor, and mix them with ready-made ones.
Tips from the host’s side
Put the managers on opposite teams
Two senior people as captains on opposite sides. A manager buzzing in early and getting it wrong is the moment people talk about at dinner.
Talk about the answers
When your team’s own top answer turns up, take a minute on it. “Name something you’d love our team to do more of” is an agenda item.
A prize that lasts
A trophy that lives on the winners’ desks until the next offsite, or first pick of tomorrow’s activities, makes the Lightning Round count.
Keep it moving
Read the question, give each team a moment, and move on. Three quick rounds beat five slow ones.
Questions hosts ask
How many people can play?
Any number of people can watch and shout answers. Up to 6 phones can buzz in on Free, 20 on Pro and 40 on Team.
We only need it for the offsite. What does it cost?
Free covers up to 6 phones. For the offsite, an Event pass is $19 for 7 days of Pro: up to 20 phones and the whole question bank, with nothing to cancel afterwards. Playing more often? See the plans.
Will it work on the venue’s Wi-Fi?
Usually with no changes, and phones can use mobile data if the Wi-Fi is busy. To be sure, open Check a network there when you arrive.
Does everyone need a phone?
No. Anyone can watch and shout answers. Without phones, the host can mark who buzzed first instead.
Can colleagues who couldn’t come play?
Yes. Share the board in the video call, and they buzz in from their own phones. See team games over a video call.
An offsite your team talks about.
Start a free game now, or see it all on one screen first.