Welcome to Group Games!
This website is a growing database of over 40 of the best FREE group games, icebreakers, and team building activities, useful for ALL ages and for a wide variety of settings: classrooms, organizations, parties, companies, college students, clubs, youth groups, camps, and game lovers in general! Browse recently added group games below, or choose a category. Thanks for visiting -- please tell others about Group-Games.com on your website or blog. Don't forget to bookmark this page, and enjoy!
Pulse Game
Summary: An action oriented icebreaker that works especially well with large groups of people. A game of quick reflexes and passing on the pulse!
Ages: All. Recommended # of People: At least 40 people. Messiness Factor: Might break a small sweat. Materials Required: A coin, a chair, and any small object like a tennis ball. Recommended Setting: Indoors.
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Group Games in Action: Human Knot
Janet B. from San Jose sent us these great photos of the Human Knot Game in action! The object of the game is to untangle the human knot without letting go of the hands. Thanks Janet for the snapshots!
Please continue sending us photos (email: group-games at hotmail.com), and we’ll feature your group on our website too!
Name Game
Summary: A simple icebreaker useful for introducing people to each other and helping people learn names. This game is especially useful when there are new people present.
Ages: 10-21 years old. Recommended # of People: 5-20. Messiness Factor: No Sweat. Materials Required: A fun attitude. Recommended Setting: Indoors.
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Mafia Game
Summary: A stationary group game involving lots of strategy. People play as a member of the mafia, police, doctor, or town. The object is eliminate the mafia before they eliminate the entire town.
Ages: 14 and up. Recommended number of people: A groups of 8 to 12. Messiness factor: No sweat. Materials required: A deck of cards to determine who plays which role. Recommended setting: Indoors.
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Commonalities and Uniquities
Summary: A group team-building activity in which people identify common things that everyone has in common, along with interesting characteristics that are unique to a person in the group.
Ages: 12 and up. Recommended number of people: Groups of 5-8. Messiness factor: No sweat. Materials required: Two sheets of paper and a pen for each group. Recommended setting: Indoors.
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We Want Photos of You Playing Games!
Here’s your chance to become famous.. well, sort of. We have lots of instructions for fun games, icebreakers, and activities, but wouldn’t it be great to see them in action? We want to be able to show photos of you and your group playing our games. Please send your photos to the email address group-games@hotmail.com. It’s especially cool if you have the word “group-games.com” somewhere within the picture, but either way, send ‘em over! If we like your photo(s), we’ll use it on our website and give you a shoutout. Simply mail them to us, tell us a little about your group, and we’ll make you famous!
First Impressions Game
Summary: An icebreaker (or party game) in which people write their first impressions of each other on a large paper taped to their backs.
Ages: 13 and up. Recommended number of people: At least 10. Works with very large groups and meetings. Mesiness factor: No mess, no stress! Materials required: A large piece of paper or posterboard for each participant, pens/markers, sturdy tape. Recommended Setting: Indoors or outdoors.
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Twenty Questions
Summary: A guessing game in which people try to identify a person or object in 20 questions or less. Good for rainy days, long car rides, and for learning English (ESL students).
Ages: All. Recommended # of Players: A small group of 2 to 5 people. Messiness factor: No mess, no stress! Materials required: None. Recommended Setting: Indoor settings such as cars, classrooms, and just about anywhere else.
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Two Truths and a Lie
Summary: A good get-to-know-you icebreaker in which each person says two truths and one lie. The goal is to figure out which statement is the lie.
Ages: All. Recommended # of people: 6-10. Messiness factor: No Sweat. Materials Required: None. Recommended Setting: Indoors.
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Sorts and Mingle
Summary: An icebreaker that gets the group to move towards various parts of the room and to find others with shared interests and preferences, based on various interesting categories.
Ages: 10 and up. Recommended number of people: 25 and up. Messiness factor: No sweat. Materials required: None. Recommended setting: Indoors.
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