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Virtual games to play on Zoom are fun activities played over online video calls. Examples of games include lightning scavenger hunts, conference call bingo, and guess who?. These games tend to involve Zoom features like breakout rooms, whiteboards, screen sharing, and reactions. Usually, these games are free or low-cost to play. The purpose of these games is to have fun, relax, and do team building at work. These activities are also known as "games to play over Zoom," "online Zoom games," and "games to play virtually on Zoom."
These games are a subcategory of video call games, online team games, virtual team meeting games, and Zoom team building games that you can use during virtual team events.
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The following games typically last twenty minutes or more, involve multiple steps, and aim to help remote team members develop skills and relationship dynamics that will carry over into their day-to-day work.
Playing Time: 90 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Breakout rooms, screen sharing, chat
Online Office Games is a virtual take on "Office Olympics." The event features high-energy challenges, interactive team games, and engaging activities. Participants compete in fast-paced trivia, lightning scavenger hunts, and communication-based games like "Can You Hear Me Now?"
This event is designed to be lively, competitive, and highly engaging, and is perfect for boosting team morale while working remotely.
As one of teambuilding.com's most popular events, Online Office Games has hosted over 150,000 participants and earned an impressive 4.95/5-star rating from 8,400+ reviews.
Many attendees say Online Office Games is the most fun they’ve ever had on Zoom!
Your team’s experience includes:
Learn more about Online Office Games.
Playing Time: 30 to 90 minutes
Zoom Features Used: App, chat
Virtual Werewolf is the online version of the popular game of deception. To play this game remotely, start by privately messaging each player their role. These roles should include a werewolf, a medic, a hunter, a seer, and villagers. Once everyone knows which character they are, gather your coworkers in a Zoom room.
Declare that night has fallen, and have everyone close their eyes. During each round, the werewolf tries to eat someone, the medic attempts to save someone, and the seer guesses who the werewolf is. To keep the mystery alive, have the werewolf, the medic, and the seer submit their responses through private messages. Then, declare that the sun is rising, and reveal whether the werewolf succeeded. Participants will discuss who they suspect is the werewolf, and vote players out each round. If the werewolf survives until the end, then it wins. Otherwise, the villagers win.
Here is a step-by-step guide to play Werewolf online, and here is a Werewolf Zoom app.
Playing Time: 90 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Breakout rooms, spotlight, screen sharing, chat
Superhero Academy is a guided virtual team building experience packed with comic-inspired puzzles and fast-paced challenges. Teams take on the roles of superheroes and supervillains, competing head-to-head to claim victory.
Here's what makes Superhero Academy a great team experience:
Learn more about Superhero Academy.
Playing Time: 20 to 30 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Whiteboard
Pictionary is a classic board game that is easy to adapt for remote teams. To play Pictionary online, you share screens and select the whiteboard app in Zoom. The drawing teammate will receive a prompt, or you can use an online Pictionary generator to choose a word. The playing team has one minute to guess the drawing. If the team does not guess before the minute expires, then other teams have a chance to steal.
Check out these virtual Pictionary games.
Playing Time: 20 to 30 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Chat
Scattergories is a popular word game based on letters of the alphabet. This game fosters deep thinking and quick reasoning and encourages employees to be innovative on the fly.
Here is a Scattergories list generator:
Each round begins by choosing a random letter of the alphabet. Then, players have two to three minutes to fill in one answer per category, starting with this letter. Common categories include cars, cities, countries, girl names, flowers, animals, and food items.
To play Scattergories over Zoom, we recommend doing one category at a time. Players have ten to fifteen seconds to write their answers in the chat. Then, when the host gives the signal, all players will hit send at the same time. Same answers cancel each other out, but unique answers earn players one point.
The game requires strategy to avoid matching answers with other players, and can be a subtle way to show how teammates think alike or differently.
You could also screen share Swellgarfo's Scattergories game, which has a built-in timer and list.
Playing Time: 20 to 30 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Breakout rooms
In this game, players draft a “dream team” of professionals with unusual jobs, and justify how their squad would succeed in a challenge.
For example, a league might include:
That group might need to survive a zombie apocalypse or run a five-star hotel.
You can pull professions from this Career Addict list of strange jobs, ask ChatGPT, or use a random job generator. Or, teams can come up with their own leagues.
Players will go into breakout rooms for five to ten minutes and plan what role each member of the league will play in the mission. Then, teams will return to the main room and talk through their plan. Each team will have a different league and mission. The best strategy wins.
Even though the jobs and situations are silly, this game gets teammates thinking about group dynamics and the ways in which teams can come together to complete a shared goal. The exercise is creative and collaborative, but is also competitive as teams try to come up with the most convincing, entertaining story to beat other groups.
Here are short, simple games you can play during Zoom calls as icebreakers or energizers. These activities get teammates talking, learning more about each other, and working together. The 8% rule suggests that you spend at least eight percent of every meeting building connections between participants.
Playing Time: Throughout the call
Zoom Features Used: None
Bingo has a number of advantages for team building on Zoom, including a familiar format, fun game mechanics, and the potential for prizes.
This version of the game encourages team members to pay close attention to other participants and mark off actions as they happen. This exercise is great for fighting Zoom fatigue and keeping team members focused while having fun.
Here is a free Zoom Bingo Board you can use:
To play Bingo games over Zoom, send your people the link to the game board and then encourage your coworkers to track their progress throughout the virtual conference call. The first player to complete a row gets a prize.
Zoom Bingo is a version of Online Team Building Bingo and ice breaker Bingo.
Playing Time: 10 to 15 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Breakout rooms
Something in Common is one of the easiest Zoom icebreakers. The purpose of the game is to help teammates find similarities and spark connections.
To play the game, send your people into breakout rooms and challenge each team to find shared traits.
You can play multiple rounds. For example:
The game works best when players uncover interesting and unexpected tidbits. For example, "all of us won a celebrity lookalike contest" is much more memorable than "all of us wear glasses."
To help teammates find these kinds of insights, you can give them a "cheat sheet" of exploratory questions, like “What’s something you were irrationally passionate about as a kid that no one else seems to remember?” or "Is there a random item you collect?"
Playing Time: 10 to 20 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Spotlight (optional)
Some of the best virtual game ideas for Zoom get players up and moving. Lightning scavenger hunts fall into that category.
These super short hunts have teammates sprinting around their houses to grab objects one at a time. The game is a great energizer, and also a way to foster personal connections.
To prepare the game, create a list of objects or broad categories.
For example:
You can get creative with your hunt; the more obscure the objects, the better.
Then, call out items one by one and challenge your coworkers to gather the items and show them on screen to earn points. You can encourage winners of each round to share stories about the item.
Here are some sample scavenger hunts to start with, and more virtual minute to win it games.
Learn more about how to do a lightning scavenger hunt.
Playing Time: 10 to 15 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Mute
Many of us have been in a Zoom meeting when a presenter's audio cut out or the speaker forgot to take the microphone off mute. Read my lips turns this awkward or frustrating situation into a fun game.
To start a round, one participant will mute their mic and then speak a word or phrase. The other players must try to guess the word or phrase correctly. Players have one minute to figure out the message. The turn-taker can also give clues by using the chat box, if necessary.
Playing Time: 5 to 15 minutes
Zoom Features Used: App, screensharing
Aaand BOOM! is a free, multiplayer game that integrates seamlessly with Zoom, Webex, and Microsoft Teams.
Players control characters in a fast-paced, bomb-planting arena, competing to be the last one standing. The game accommodates an unlimited number of participants, dividing them into groups of up to four players. Within these groups, players collect power-ups, strategically place bombs, and navigate dynamic environments that change with each round, ensuring no two games are alike.
The game offers a fun break from routine and fosters team bonding through friendly competition.
Download the Aaand BOOM! game.
Playing Time: 10 to 20 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Webcam, spotlight
Ghost in the Zoom is a fun and engaging game where one teammate "vanishes" by turning off their camera, and the others must recall specific details about them from memory.
The player who is "vanishing" will prompt teammates by asking questions like, "How many Fleetwood Mac posters are behind me?" or "What color are my glasses?" Other players must answer from memory.
The game rewards those teammates who are truly paying attention to their coworkers during video calls, and helps folks overcome the urge to open up other browser tabs during the call.
To make the game easier, you can spotlight that team member for 15 seconds before they turn off their camera.
For maximum fun and challenge, play randomly throughout meetings and pick a different coworker each time. This tactic prevents participants from studying each other’s backgrounds in advance, keeping the element of surprise intact.
Playing Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Breakout rooms, reactions
Conspiracy theory factory is a game where teams receive random, unrelated items and must weave them into a bizarre but semi-plausible conspiracy theory. The exercise helps remote teams sharpen their storytelling skills.
For example, a team might have to connect "pineapples, the moon landing, and TikTok trends" into one master theory.
Here are a few more examples:
To make the game more interactive, you can have other teams create the lists of objects for their competitors.
The host sends teams to breakout rooms for two or three minutes to create their theories. When teams return to the main room, they will present their “findings” to the group for judgment. The rest of the group will use reactions to show how convincing they found the theory. For example, a thumbs up for "I believe," and an open mouth smiley for "no way."
Here are easy games you can play at Zoom parties that get folks socializing and having fun. Thinking of virtual games to play with friends can be a great way to plan games for work parties.
Playing Time: 10 to 20 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Whiteboard
Infinity Sketch is an engaging game where players draw a shape in one continuous motion. This task can be deceptively tricky.
First, the host divides the group into smaller groups of three to four players. These groups can be representatives of different teams, or just random players competing against each other.
The host will call out a random word, such as “cat” or “airplane." Players must draw those objects in one fluid motion without stopping or lifting their hands from their computers. Any player who breaks their momentum cannot finish the drawing.
Whichever player has the most intelligible doodle is the winner of the round.
Playing Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Spotlight
Charades is an easy party game that translates well to Zoom, since it encourages folks to stand up and move.
To start playing Zoom charades, split players into two teams. Then, use our random charades generator to find a word to act out in front of the camera.
Next, spotlight the performer, and have them silently act out the prompt. Teammates can shout out guesses or type them into the chat.
Whichever team can guess the most prompts correctly wins the game.
Playing Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Zoom Features Used: N/A
Taboo is a word-guessing game where players try to get their teammates to guess a word without using certain "taboo" related words or clues. Zoom makes Taboo a fast-paced game filled with funny gestures, quick guesses, and unexpected team chemistry.
Lingolex has a free online Taboo generator with a built-in timer. As a game host, you can send players the link to the correct card or copy and paste its contents into the chat. Then, start the timer, and players have sixty seconds to get their team to guess the correct term without using any of the forbidden buzzwords.
Taboo’s fast, fun, and interactive play creates the perfect high-energy vibe for any Zoom party.
Playing Time: 10 to 15 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Chat (optional)
In the interview impostor, one player pretends to be a famous person while the others act as interviewers, trying to figure out who they are.
To start the game, the impostor picks a famous person (real or fictional) and takes on their persona, using their voice, mannerisms, and knowledge.
The rest of the group asks questions, like “What’s your biggest pet peeve?” “How do you feel about your portrayal in movies?” or “What would you do if you were stuck in a room with your biggest rival?”
The goal of the game is for the interviewers to guess the celebrity’s identity before time runs out. We recommend two or three minutes per round.
This activity encourages fun interactions and helps teammates bond through quick thinking, problem-solving, and humor.
Here is a list of more Zoom improv games.
Playing Time: 5 to 15 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Screen sharing
The no laugh challenge is a fun virtual game where players try to keep a straight face while watching hilarious videos. To play the game, the host shares a funny video, and participants must remain serious. Any player who laughs or smiles is out for that round and must shut off their webcam.
To make the game interactive, have teammates suggest funny videos before the party.
The game is a great way to break the ice, break down barriers, and show off teammates' senses of humor.
Here are games for small groups that are perfect for fostering connection, teamwork, and fun in teams of 20 or fewer members.
Playing Time: 10 to 15 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Chat
Many fun virtual games to play on Zoom involve elements of storytelling. Story races are relay games that get the group writing a collective story by thinking and typing quickly.
How to play:
The story master can choose to reject the "first answer" and pick a more creative one instead, and also put options up to a group vote.
Playing Time: 10 to 15 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Microphone
In this game, your coworkers must count to ten. If any players say a number simultaneously, then you start over at one. Reading body language and making eye contact is more challenging during video meetings, and it is important for team members to learn this skill. Savvy virtual employees can even devise strategies to play the game more effectively.
Playing Time: 10 to 20 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Breakout rooms, spotlight
Spot the difference is a game where players must compare two pictures and pick out the changes between them. When playing on Zoom, participants will study the before and after of the video screen instead of comparing two pictures.
How to play:
You can play as many rounds as you like. At the end of the game, the team with the most points wins.
The game gets remote teams focusing on their teammates' surroundings, encouraging them to notice small details that reveal personal insights and help build deeper connections.
Tip: Setting ground rules is helpful. For example, the moved object must be at least three inches large. You could also narrow the choices by asking your coworkers who did not make a change to black-out webcams one by one.
Playing Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Whiteboard, breakout rooms
Zoom mystery doodle is a fun and collaborative drawing game.
To start the game, one player or team stays in the main Zoom room with the host, while all other players go to breakout rooms. The main group gets a prompt and starts drawing it on the digital whiteboard.
After 30 seconds, the host brings another person or team from a breakout room into the main room. Without knowing the original prompt, the newcomer continues the drawing.
This process continues until all team members have added to the drawing. Then, the group guesses the original prompt based on the final image.
Teammates must make assumptions and take action with limited information. This exercise highlights the importance of clear communication and detailed information in remote work, as the lack of it can lead to hilariously misinterpreted doodles.
Playing Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Zoom Features Used: All
In this game, the host calls out random challenges, and teams race to complete the challenges using only Zoom reactions, quick messages, and creative positioning on screen.
For example:
The game should include a mix of solo tasks and team challenges to balance personal recognition and teamwork.
Tip: Before you start the game, have participants change their display names to their team names to make it easier to award points.
Here are Zoom games designed for teams of 20 or more players. These activities encourage everyone to participate at the same time and highlight team dynamics over individual contributions.
Playing Time: 10 to 20 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Webcam, spotlight
Blackout truth or dare is a fun Zoom game that will help your group become better acquainted. The rules are simple:
Use this Truth or Dare generator for your prompts:
The game continues for a certain number of rounds, or until only one player remains. Prompts can be personal or silly, and should be safe for work. For example: "change your display name to a childhood nickname," or "sing Firework by Katy Perry."
This activity is less time-consuming than traditional truth or dare, since all teammates can answer at once. The game also excels as an icebreaker since team members can choose which questions to respond to instead of being put on the spot to answer once specific prompt.
Playing Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Webcam
Guess Who? is a Zoom game that challenges players to figure out the identity of a chosen participant. For example, a player might ask, "Does your person wear glasses?" If the opponent says yes, then all participants who are wearing glasses would turn off their webcam. The game continues until only one player remains on screen.
The game is more meaningful when guesses are not limited to physical appearances like clothes or hair color.
For example, a player may guess, "Has your person been with the company for more than ten years?" or "Did your person travel abroad this year?" Players should confirm the identity in as few questions as possible.
Playing Time: 10 to 15 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Screensharing, poll
If your team is a fan of tournament brackets, then this game is the one for you. Who wins the bracket? aims to find the overall team choice in specific subjects, and highlight strong opinions or similarities in the process.
Some example bracket topics are:
You can screenshare Common Ninja's free bracket maker, or use polls to determine the winner of each "face off."
Feel free to pause the game for passionate debates, as this is where real team connections happen.
Here are more workplace competitions you can adapt to play on Zoom.
Playing Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Poll
Zoom's polling feature allows you to ask for attendee opinions and instantly display the results. Bet on the Crowd turns Zoom polls into a fun wagering game. First, participants will vote on a question or series of questions. You can either stick to a two-answer format or allow for up to four answers.
Here are some sample questions:
Before you reveal the responses, ask your teammates to guess which answer will win. Any player who correctly predicts the majority wins the round. You can play multiple games and keep score, awarding a prize to the highest-ranking teammates.
Here is a list of this or that questions you can use as prompts.
Playing Time: 20 to 60 minutes
Zoom Features Used: Chat, breakout rooms (optional)
If you are looking for new types of trivia games to play on Zoom with coworkers, then consider a "potpourri" trivia tournament. This version of the game collects questions from all players, so that categories are a hodgepodge of teammates' interests and expertise.
Beyond adding variety to the game, this crowdsourced method helps teammates learn what their coworkers are passionate about or knowledgeable in.
To organize the tournament, the host simply asks everyone to submit their questions ahead of time, then compiles them into a trivia game. This method means a slightly lower lift on the organizer, who only has to collect the trivia questions instead of writing them.
Then, the group plays trivia together, and learns more about each other's interests and strengths in the process. Players cannot answer the questions that they have written, but can give their teammates hints.
This game works best with larger groups because the increased number of participants leads to a wider variety of questions, making the trivia more diverse and engaging.
Playing virtual games on Zoom with coworkers is a fun way to make meetings more engaging. These games will help bring joy to the workplace and support meaningful team building. The games also encourage creative thinking, improve communication skills, and provide a low-pressure way for colleagues to interact outside of work tasks. Not to mention, these fun activities are a great way to beat screen fatigue and hold participants' attention longer during Zoom calls.
Next, check our lists of Zoom drinking games, Zoom meeting ideas, virtual party games, online games for groups, and this one with dozens of virtual team building activities.
We also have a list of online board games, list of virtual team challenges, and Christmas Zoom games.
Here are some of the most common questions about playing games over Zoom with coworkers.
Zoom games are fun activities you can play with friends and coworkers over the video conferencing platform Zoom. These games may include Bingo, Charades and Werewolf. The purpose of these games is to make the meeting more fun and engaging, and to do team building remotely. These activities are also known as "Zoom meeting games", "Zoom party games" and "Zoom group activities."
Two free online games to play on Zoom are Lightning Scavenger Hunts and Five Fingers. For online scavenger hunts, send your attendees to retrieve items like "your favorite mug" or the "last book you read". For Five Fingers, everyone puts up five fingers, and the host names life experiences like "made pasta from scratch" or "visited three countries". Any player that has that life experience puts a finger down.
For most Zoom games, no special equipment is needed. Anyone with an internet enabled device and decent WiFi should be able to participate. In some cases, you may want to use the breakout rooms feature.
Yes! Playing games over Zoom and doing group activities on Zoom is a great way to connect with coworkers and other teammates. You can do a virtual meeting dedicated to these games, such as a virtual happy hour, or include a quick game at the beginning of your meeting.
Most drinking games that you can play in person also work over Zoom. For example, Around the World, Cheers to the Governor, and even Beer Pong. For Beer Pong, just setup a cup on your desk and shoot ping-pong balls or little balls of paper into it.
Many team building activities are Zoom friendly. For example, you can do icebreaker questions, games like Never Have I Ever, and online team building Bingo. Most offline activities that revolve around talking and listening can be adapted to a Zoom format.
I usually don't make comments on posts but this collection of activities is amazing...the girls wanted to do 3 activities back to back. They had so much fun and were more engaged than they've been in a while.
Hi Ivy! So happy to hear it, thanks for sharing 🙂
What a fantastic idea! I am going to use this in international student chats I am organizing! A great way to gauge perceptions of others, correct stigmas, share information about each other with context! Love it! Thank you for taking the time to share!
~Naomi S.
I think 20 questions would be a good game to adapt to a zoom meeting. One person is privately given the answer by the host via private message in the chat and then each person starts to ask yes or no questions. Is it an animal? yes or no, then the next person asks, does it come in different colors?, yes or no, then the next person asks, is it bigger than a bread basket? Yes or no.....all the while people can be guessing in the chat and the first person that guesses wins! If they make it through 20 questions without guessing the item, then the person answering the questions wins. You could do hang man as well in guessing letters.
These are some really great ideas. My quick and fun favorite is still BINGO! You can do so much with it and it is less time consuming to create and bring to an end with smiles.
"Emoji Roulette"
Participants take screenshots of their most used emojis.
Create a list of players and give this this to each player.
Each person has up to five minutes to guess the five most used emojis by each person on the list.
Reveal the answers and award points for accuracy, getting the emojis in the correct order and similar.
You can use this to give out rewards and/or segway into a conversation about the importance of perception in sales or other topics of discussion.