posted: 8/27/07 filed under: Fun Stuff
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.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:32 am
Hehe… “We shall egregriously synthesize to meet the capabilities of our targe-BULLSHIT!”
August 28th, 2007 at 11:36 am
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!
August 28th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
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
August 28th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
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.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
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.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
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.”
August 31st, 2007 at 8:46 pm
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.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
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
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September 19th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Paper football. Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve played that.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
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…….
October 30th, 2007 at 9:09 am
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.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:14 am
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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May 13th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Inspired by the joy of bullshit bingo, in the same way that monopoly has grown by exploiting niches, we have spent literally minutes developing
It’s taking over the world!
May 20th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
we used to call it p-nukle
November 11th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
We like to play buzzword bingo during quarterly and annual update meetings. Use words like “lean”, “six sigma”, “improvement”, “savings”, and “customer satisfaction”. There’s a host of other fun ones that are industry specific as well.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
We play Trust Ball. It’s a team building exercise. Get a ball. Lob it directly at your coworker’s face. The challenge: the receiver has to keep his/her eyes open, hence the Trust, because the receiver trusts that the thrower will be gentle. You can actually use any object within reason and keeping safety in mind. Plush stuffed animal toys work, empty water bottles, trash can…basically nothing sharp. Trust. We also have another game that involves falling off of an office chair after being spun around a bunch and then pushed across the room… More to it than that, but too complicated to explain right now.
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March 10th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I come from a very large team of bankers….give this one a try. At huddle, which we have every thursday and friday, bring 2 to 4 beach balls.Divide everyone up into 2 to 4 teams. Everyone on the team has to be given a can of air, a straw or piece of hose. Set up an obstacle course around the office, bring the elevator into play if you have one. Use only the air produced from the device you have chosen to move the ball around the office (cannot touch the balls with any part of your body or use anything else other than the air device to move the ball). The first team to finish the race wins!!! No interference with the other team is allowed!!! I know……… but there has to be rules. FUN FUN FUN!!!
April 20th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
The Game of Killer
This game is only played when our store is closed, so we can’t get into trouble with customers. Basically, if someone makes a gun symbol with their hand and shoots you, you have to die dramatically. If you ignore getting shot three times, you are out of the game for an indefinite amount of time, maybe forever depending on how into the game people are.
I stole this from The Monkees.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Play Tag round a bank of desks!!
Office Snowball Fight with paper balls
Who can shout “SOCKS” the loudest without getting looked at strangely, or fired
Spot the tard (very easy at my work)
Stare at one co-worker (everyone stares at one person) till they realise.
Slowly hide one particular co-workers posessions again, till they realise (hopefully they wont).
Have fun!!
September 5th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Everyone takes turns saying a famous person’s name then the next person has to say a name that begins with the same letter as the previous person’s last name…like: Britney ‘S’pears…’S'arah Jessica ‘P’arker…’P'enelope ‘C’ruz…’C'hristina Aguilara…and so on…pretty easy but when you work at a manufacturer there isnt much to do so time flies with this one
January 29th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Ive found switching ink colors in co-workers pens is quite amusing. As is constantly emptying their staplers or stapleing thing together on all 4 corners