🕵️ Two Truths and a Lie
Each person states two true facts and one lie about themselves. The others must interview them or use logic to "debug" the statements and identify the lie.
✂️ RPS Train
Everyone plays Rock-Paper-Scissors with a partner. The loser becomes the winner's "biggest fan," cheering behind them. Winners keep playing winners until two massive teams cheer for two finalists.
🤫 Silent Birthday Line-Up
The entire group lines up in order of birth date (Jan 1 → Dec 31). The catch: zero talking and no writing — only finger signals and body language.
🎨 Back-to-Back Draw
Pairs sit back-to-back. One has a simple picture (e.g. a cat on a laptop) and must describe it using only geometric terms — lines, circles, angles — while the other draws it. Trainers can offer a set of pictures to pick from.
💡 Worst App Pitch
Groups have 5 minutes to invent a completely useless app (e.g. a "Flashlight App" that only works when the sun is out), then give a 30-second investor-style pitch trying to sell it.
✈️ Paper Plane — Distance Challenge
Each group gets 1 sheet of paper and 3 minutes to design one plane. Everyone throws at once — the plane that travels the furthest wins.
🗼 Paper Tower
Each group gets 10 sheets of paper and no tape. Build the tallest tower that stands on its own for at least 10 seconds. Optional: hand out 10cm of tape after a certain period.
🎯 Paper Plane — Target Challenge
Same setup as the distance challenge, but teams throw for accuracy — landing in a box or on a target sheet placed in the center of the room.
📖 5-Word Story
Each group gets 5 random, unrelated words (e.g. "umbrella, algorithm, grandmother, volcano, Tuesday"). After 2 minutes prep, one spokesperson tells a continuous 60–90 second story that naturally works in all 5 words — it has to make sense, not just list them. Vote on creativity and fluency.
☎️ Arabic Phone
The classic telephone game — pass a word or phrase from one person to the next, whispered only once. Compare what comes out at the end to what went in.
🎙️ Just a Minute (JAM)
Based on the BBC panel game. Draw a random topic and speak about it for 60 seconds — no hesitation, repetition, or deviation. Falter, and anyone can challenge to steal the floor. Whoever's talking when the minute ends wins. Great for IT topics: "Cloud Computing," "My First Bug," "Why Semicolons Matter."
🧒 ELI5 Tech Challenge
Draw a random IT/tech term from a hat (e.g. "API," "recursion," "load balancer," "encryption"). Explain it in 60 seconds as if the audience is five — no jargon, simple analogies only. Audience votes on clarity and creativity.
🔀 Fortunately / Unfortunately
A classic improv exercise. The group builds one story together, one sentence at a time, alternating "Fortunately..." and "Unfortunately..." sentences around the room — a short, low-pressure turn for everyone, with a funny, unpredictable flip each time.
🖍️ "Montagsmaler"
One person draws a topic while the rest of their team tries to guess it. Topics come from a shared pool, with one person per team drawing each round. Most points at the end wins.
🎭 Tech Charades
The instructor secretly gives one person a tech-related word (e.g. "firewall," "recursion," "deadlock," "load balancer"). In 60 seconds they must get the class to shout the exact word using acting and gestures only — no talking, no mouthing, no pointing at letters. First correct guess wins the round, then someone else takes a turn.