Free Team
Building Games
Charades

Title & Description

Free Team Building Games: Charades is a classic game for participants of all ages, whether you’re 5 or 50, it’s a fun filled game that can engage the players fully and bring them closer together through lots of acting fun.

Purpose

• For icebreaking purposes

Team Size

About 10 players or more

Materials Required

About 6 envelopes
30 small pieces of Paper

Time Required

About 20 minutes

Instructions

1. Before you begin the game, write out several categories like Movies, Animals, Street Names, Cartoon Characters and so on. Make 6 of them, one for each envelope.

2. Under each of these categories think of about 5-6 items for each list. For example, Under Movies you could put: Transformers, Lord of the Rings, Batman… and so on.

Make sure that all the items are not too hard to guess. Don’t pick a movie that nobody else knows about.

3. For each item, write them down on one small piece of paper.

4. Label the envelopes and then put the pieces of paper in according to the category.

5. Now separate the group into two teams. Each team will take a turn and send out a representative to be the actor.

6. The actor must first pick an envelope from the game master’s hands. The category chosen is told to the group.

7. When the round begins, the actor must quickly act out the items in the category to his own group. He cannot speak or draw any word out while trying to act.

8. The team has to guess what the actor is trying to potray and when the correct answer is called out, the actor should move on to the next item.

9. The actor may choose to pass if he feels the team cannot guess the current item.

10. The round ends when either the time runs up (40 seconds) or the actor manages to finish the items in the category.

11. This is repeated with the other team and the team with the highest score at the end of 3 rounds will win the game!

Debriefing Notes

NIL.

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