7 Office Games You Can Play with Your Co-workers
Bored at work? Need something fun to get your through the day. These seven office games can help make the time go by. If your boss walks by, tell them it’s a team building exercise.
1. Air Can Soccer
- players: 2
- materials: 2 cans canned air, 1 balled up piece of paper, 1 conference table
- gameplay: Players are take place on either side of the table and the “ball” is tossed into play. The ball is “kicked” shooting canned air at it. Points are awarded to the player that knocks the ball off the opponents side of the table.
2. Paper Football
- players: 2
- materials: 1 piece of paper folded like a flag into a triangle
- gameplay: Variation A: Player makes an “L” with both of their fingers and touches their index fingers together to make a goal post. The opponent stands the football on it end and “kicks” it by flicking into the uprights.Variation B: Player gets 4 downs (downs) to push the football across the table with his back of index finger. Points awarded for a football to hang over the edge of the table within 4 downs.
3. Pencil Pop
- players: 2
- materials: Many #2 pencils
- gameplay: Player holds a pencil flat with both hands. The other player flicks his pencil against the others in attempt to break the other player’s pencil. Points awarded for number of opponent’s pencils broken.
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4. Nerf Melee
- players: unlimited
- materials: Nerf guns or nerf projectiles
- gameplay: Players shoot the nerf guns at one another and are out of play if they get hit by an opponent. The last player remaining is declared the winner. Variation: Players are allowed multiple hits until they are out.
5. Grasshopper
- players: Up to 4
- materials: Large paper clips
- gameplay: Paper clips are bent according to instructions. Players take turns making their grasshoppers “jump”. Points awarded for highest jump for each round.
6. Bullshit Bingo
- players: unlimited
- materials: Piece of paper, Pen/pencil, Meeting, Bingo card
- gameplay: During a meeting conference call, words on the card are filled in once mentioned. Once a player achieves a row across, down, or diagonal they stand up and shout, “Bullshit!”
7. Paper Airplane Jarts
- players: 2 - 4
- materials: 4 paper airplanes, 2 trash cans
- gameplay: Players take alternating turns attempting to fly their paper airplane into the trash can. One point is awarded for each airplane that goes into the can. First player to 21 points wins.
Reader Submitted Office Games
8. Pinchy
- players: unlimited
- materials: 2 fingers
- gameplay: Players take turns pinching one another until the one cries out.
9. Circle Game
- players: unlimited
- materials: 2 fingers
- gameplay: Players try to trick their opponents into looking directly at the player’s hand gesturing an upside-down OK sign. If opponent looks directly at the hand, then play is allowed one punch in the arm. Circle must be below the waist to qualify.
What games do you play with your co-workers? Let me know and I will add them to the post.
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I play “Pinchy.” It’s where you take turns pinching each other, and whoever cries out first loses. A great way to annoy your boss during meetings!
Thanks Mr. McGeek, I added you game to the list. My co-worker read your comment and proclaim that it’s “on” for the next meeting.
What about the good ol circle game you hold your fingers in a circle shape below your waist if someone looks at the circle you get to punch them
Shrike2214, I was going to that one originally, but I thought there was a better name for it that just the “Circle Game”. Many other people have said that was simply the name. Thanks for your suggestion and it is now above.
Well, I’m only 15 so I don’t exactly work in an office, but during school my friends and I play The Drowning Game. When someone isn’t facing you, you call out their name and put your hands, curled into circle shapes, around your eyes like binoculars. If they respond by turning and looking at you then they have to immediately lie down on their stomach on the floor no matter where they are, flail their arms and legs and scream “I’m drowning! I’m drowning!” But if you call their name and have your “binoculars” on and they respond by turning to face you with their thumbs in their ears, wiggling their fingers around, they YOU have to “drown.”
Man,i don’t work in an office but there are some games that we play on the teachers…one wasn’t started as a game, but merely a birthday card that we passed around to 6 different tables in two widespread rows, and got everyone to sign it. The trick was to get it past the teachers. there was also a game that was rather funny to play on the subs that we wanted to strangle.first,we would switch names before class, then halfway through switch back.besides that,we switched seats when they weren’t looking,sprayed Axe every ten minutes, dropped our pencils frequently(not enough to get caught though), and sharpened our pencils right in the middle of lectures.other than that we were angels. its especially great when the teacher comes back the next day and says he got a glowing report from the sub.now,don’t criticize me on the last game,i mean, when you go to a school for geniuses(to put it bluntly) and the sub thinks that the class doesn’t know how to spell banana slug, then criticizes us for into being able to play our instruments when we’ve been labeled as the best damn orchestra in the state, there are gonna be some consequences.
Cool list, nice! I also play Office BINGO to kill the time!
http://www.jobacle.com/blog/2007/8/22/bored-at-work-play-office-bingo.html
Paper football. Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve played that.
at school we always play 2 for flinching you know……but theres this game called peg fight and what you do is pick someone to peg with wads of paper during the day and at the end of school(or work day) whoever has the most pegs wins.or you could use hard things like footballs…….
We play ‘boss tennis’ - every time your boss comes to your desk to ask a question, you have to send him across the room to a colleague, and keep going like that…loser is whoever makes him leave/return to office etc.
well im in collage doing engineering so i get bored easy so me and m8 play a game so we play games like eyespy(wer u have to choose an object and u m8 gotta guess wat object uve chosing and if they guess u get punched
but if they dont guess i they get punched fun game ) and we all so play a game wer u throw paper balls trying to hit it in the bin and u get point further away u are
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