Unlock the Fun With 18 Virtual Team Building Activities to Energize and Connect Remote Teams!

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Unlock the Fun With 18 Virtual Team Building Activities

1. Virtual European Adventure (Engagement Rank: 8)

If you’ve got a team full of colleagues who love traveling and learning about new places, this is the perfect budget-friendly team building activity for your group.  Virtual European Adventure is all about connecting with your colleagues, testing your wits together, socializing, and collaborating through high-energy rounds of European-themed trivia.   In this activity, your group will break out into teams. Then, you’ll take part in a warm-up social mixer followed by three rounds of trivia, a Jeopardy-style lightning round using cellphone buzzers, and a European travel conversation to finish it all off. For each trivia challenge answered correctly, your team will earn points. The team with the most points at the end of the activity will be crowned the Virtual European Adventure Champions! 

2. Virtual Escape Room (Engagement Rank: 5)

This popular corporate escape room experience is now available for remote teams! There’s been a robbery! Someone has masterminded a heist to steal a priceless collection of precious jewels, and it’s up to you and your team to recover them before time runs out. Together, you’ll need to uncover hidden clues and solve a series of brain-boggling challenges that require collaboration, creative problem-solving, and outside-the-box thinking. But be quick! The clock is ticking before the stolen score is gone forever. Does your team have what it takes to outsmart the jewel thief?

3. Virtual Friendly Feud Social (Engagement Rank: 4)

If you’ve ever wanted to take part in your own Family Feud-style competition, this is your chance! With Virtual Friendly Feud Social, you and your colleagues will break out into teams to compete through survey questions focused on culture and human nature. And, as an added social element within the game, each round of questions will be followed by a guided social mixer where you’ll have the chance to take part in a group discussion and more deeply explore the survey questions from the previous round.

4. Virtual Hollywood Murder Mystery (Engagement Rank: 6)

The case is fresh, but here’s what we know so far: we’ve got an up-and-coming actress who’s been found dead in her hotel room following last night’s awards show. We have several suspects, but we haven’t been able to put the crime on any of them for sure yet. Now, it’s up to you and your remote team of virtual detectives to crack the case. Together, you’ll review case files and evidence including police reports, coroners’ reports, photo evidence, tabloids, interrogations, and phone calls as you determine the motive, method, and murderer and bring justice for the victim. You’ll need to put your problem-solving skills to the test as you share theories, collaborate, and think outside the box with your fellow investigators.

5. The Virtual Do-Good Games (Engagement Rank: 3)

This philanthropic virtual team building activity is all about building awareness around local and global challenges, raising funds for charity, and doing some good in the world with your colleagues. With the Virtual Do-Good Games, teams will compete to complete challenges revolving around themes like Clean Water and Food Insecurity, Health and Wellness, Community Support, and Environmental Awareness. For each challenge completed, teams will earn points that can be redeemed as donation dollars that they will donate to charity.

6. Virtual Beach Staycation (Engagement Rank: 3)

In this tropical-themed team building activity, Captain Furling welcomes online guests aboard his luxury vessel and quickly takes them out of their homes to a gorgeous beach in Cancun. With ocean soundscapes and delightful vacation destination footage, your travel companions will compete with their knowledge of travel destinations, vacation-themed movies, summer pop hits, and even a cabana-wear contest. Your yacht captain gives guests a playfully immersive experience for a virtual team vacation from your work day that your colleagues truly deserve.

7. Virtual Escape Room: Mummy’s Curse (Engagement Rank: 5)

In this virtual escape room experience, your team will be transported into a pyramid cursed by a restless mummy. You’ll have to work together to uncover clues and solve complex challenges to lift the ancient curse.

8. Virtual Clue Murder Mystery (Engagement Rank: 7)

In one of our most popular app-based team building activities, groups connect virtually using the video communications platform, like Zoom. From there, coworkers break out into teams to solve who had the means, motive, and opportunity to commit a deadly crime.   Choose to work through the case on your own or have one of our event coordinators virtually host it for you.  Check out How MyZone Used Virtual Team Building to Boost Employee Morale During COVID-19 to see how this version of Clue Murder Mystery works. You can also watch the above video to get a sense of how you and your group can take part.

9. Virtual Jeoparty Social (Engagement Rank: 4)

If your remote team is eager to socialize, have some fun as a group, and channel their competitive spirit, we’ve got just the thing for you! With Virtual Jeoparty Social, you and your colleagues will step into your very own virtual Jeopardy-style game show—equipped with a buzzer button, a professional actor as your host, and an immersive game show platform! Best of all, this game has been infused with an ultra-social twist: players will take part in a unique social mixer challenge between each round.

10. Virtual Trivia Time Machine (Engagement Rank: 3)

Step into the Time Machine and take a trip through time, from the pre-pandemic 21st century through the decades all the way to the 60s. This exciting, fast-paced virtual trivia game, packed with nostalgia and good vibes, is guaranteed to produce big laughs, friendly competition, and maybe even some chair-dancing. Your virtual game show host will warm up guests with a couple of “tablehopper rounds” (breakout room mixers) and split you out into teams. Within minutes, your home office will be transformed into a game show stage with your very own game show buzzers! And if you’re team is a bunch of trivia lovers, you might want to check out our list of the best virtual trivia games for work.

11. Virtual Office Olympics (Engagement Rank: 8)

Will your team earn gold? Channel your inner Olympian and flex your sports trivia knowledge with this Olympic-themed virtual team building activity for remote teams. 

12. Virtual Game Show Extravaganza (Engagement Rank: 6)

Just because you’re separated from your coworkers, doesn’t mean that playing in an exciting game show-style competition is off the table! In the virtual version of Game Show Extravaganza, you and your team will connect using the video communications platform, Zoom.   In groups, tackle photo and trivia challenges that cover a range of topics, including pop culture and politics. You can opt to run the activity yourself or have one of our event coordinators virtually host it for you. 

13. Virtual Happy Hour Trivia (Engagement Rank: 6)

This is no ordinary happy hour trivia game. In this activity, you and your team will take a trip to Hamish McDuff’s virtual pub. This hilarious Scottish pub owner is the legendary host of a trivia game with more than 20 category options to choose from, including sports, food and drink, and even celebrity real estate. This virtual pub trivia game is guaranteed to produce plenty of laughs and lift team “spirits.” It might even include a few special surprises. If you’re looking for even more amazing online happy hour activities, check out our article: 33 Unbeatable Virtual Happy Hour Games for Workgroups.

14. Virtual Code Break (Engagement Rank: 5)

Trivia wizzes will love the opportunity to flex their cognitive muscles in Virtual Code Break, another one of the virtual team building activities!  Using Zoom, groups will have to put their heads together to see who can solve the most puzzles, riddles, and trivia before time runs out. The team with the most points at the end will be crowned the winners!   Host the activity yourself or choose to have one of our event coordinators virtually run it for you. 

15. Virtual Team Pursuit (Engagement Rank: 9)

Do you have a team that loves a good challenge? Then we’ve got the perfect virtual team building game for you. In Team Pursuit, your team will need to get their energy levels up in order to tackle a series of mental, physical, skill, and mystery challenges, earning points for each successfully completed challenge. What kinds of challenges will you be up against? We’re glad you asked. A few highlights include: * Air Band Geeks: Who used to or still does play an instrument? Find at least three band geeks and have them hold “air” versions of their instruments. Record a 5-second video of them playing part of a song. * Juggling Responsibilities: Who can juggle? Take a 5-second video with that person juggling three or more objects. * Tasty Trivia: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it? * Commonalities: Determine your team’s most unique commonality. Once you figure out the most unique thing your group has in common, write a rap or rhyme about it of at least 4 lines. Then record a 5-second video of a teammate performing it. * Sing Along: Choose a popular song and rewrite the lyrics to be about your team. Record a 5-second video of your team performing it and enter the original song’s title in caption space. Your team won’t be able to help but have a blast with this activity.

16. Virtual Social Shuffle (Engagement Rank: 9)

Get to know your colleagues and build better connections with this ultra-social virtual team building activity for remote groups. Your group will learn fun facts about one another as you tackle a series of themed discussion topics together and engage in exploratory conversations. 

17. Virtual Team Building through Creative Online Drawing (Engagement Rank: 19)

Engage your remote employees with these virtual team building activities that tap into their creative instincts. Harness the power of online drawing, where participants can express themselves right on the screen. Here are some exciting options:

1. Drawasaurus:
   • Participants take turns drawing a word while others guess what it is.
   • Accessible on your computer, phone, or tablet.
   • Learn more about the word “draw” here.
2. Drawize:
   • Choose the Play with Friends option, create your profile, select an avatar, and either join an existing room or create a new one.
   • Connect separately through a video app or your phone to enhance communication within your room.
   • Explore the world of “drawing” here.

18. Virtual Wine and Cheese Pairing & Tasting Competition (Engagement Rank: 10)

• Dynamic Virtual Engagement:
  • Description:
    • Elevate your virtual team-building experience with a lively Wine and Cheese Pairing and Tasting Competition. This activity goes beyond traditional wine tastings, turning into a dynamic virtual blind tasting competition. It’s perfect for fostering engagement, connection, and enjoyment.

• Added Value:
  • Focus on utilizing virtual tools to recreate an in-person event dynamic.
  • A group experience promoting human interaction in a virtual environment.

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