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Fun, social Icebreakers for remote teams

Spark fun, spontaneous water cooler chats to 10x your team bonding. Make remote work less isolating.
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82 remote teams played Icebreakers last month

How Icebreakers work

Include everyone. Even the introverts.

Our 3100+ strong library of Icebreaker questions are perfect to break the ice in a remote team. They make people smile, and everyone participates. Great for getting to know each other!

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Customise it your way

Remove questions you don't like from our Icebreakers library. Or add your own! You can also change timings & frequency of the Icebreakers.

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Have fun across timezones

Kaapi is built to work async. Simple chat based games for everyone to have fun together. Better than the 'Friday Fun Zoom Calls' your HR forces on everyone.

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Loved the easy setup and ability to help the team have fun together during an abrupt transition to remote work

Manik Mehta
CEO
at
Omnify

The team absolutely loves Kaapi! We survived Covid-19 lockdowns because we could have fun together! (full interview here.)

Sanam Rawal

The Icebreakers are very engaging. Our India & Indonesia teams love the questions and look forward to them every week!

Saurabh Pandey
Founder's office
at
Bukuwarung

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3x the engagement, in half the effort. Kaapi will send personal messages to your team to fill the Icebreakers when it's time.

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Choosing the best Icebreaker tool for your team

The rise of remote work has led to an explosion of apps that help teams have fun together. And choosing the right one can get confusing! So we prepared a quick guide to help you choose the right Icebreaker tool.

A good Icebreaker tool helps everyone participate

You know the worst part about playing fun games on Zoom? Not everyone participates. Some of them switch off their camera. And the introverts completely switch off. You are left with the same extroverted people who usually participate anyways in every team activity. Text based Icebreaker tools means that your team activity can now be inclusive! 

A modern Icebreaker tool should fit into your workflow

Everyone hates signing up for new apps and then learning how they work. The ideal Icebreaker tool for your team will integrate into all your existing processes e.g. Slack, Jira or Whatsapp. Icebreakers work well if they are conducted in a space which your team is already familiar with. 

It should be chat based vs video 

We don’t need more Zoom meetings, do we? As a remote team (or even a globally distributed team with multiple offices) it is important to have an asynchronous culture. Which means that Icebreaker games that force participants to come together on a video don’t work very well. You have to schedule the meeting in a time zone that works for all participants, and scheduling can be a big hassle! 

Playing chat based Icebreakers means that every team member can answer Icebreaker questions at their own pace. 

It should have an exhaustive questions library  

This is probably one of the most important factors in ensuring that your team doesn’t get bored of the tool! A minimum of 200 Icebreaker questions is a good place to start, which ensures that you can have a year round supply of fun conversations without getting repetitive. 

It should be simple to setup and use 

You don’t want your team members to get bored & frustrated with the Icebreaker tool even before they start using it. The installation should be really easy, and once setup the tool should ideally run on autopilot every week. 

It should be customisable 

While a pre built library of Icebreakers questions is good, it’s also important to have the ability to add your own! The most engaging questions are usually very personal to the team (think inside jokes!), and also contextual to the times! In 2020, our tool saw the most engagement on questions around Covid-19 and lockdowns.

A good Icebreaker tool works across timezones

There is a big chance that your team is already working remotely, or will be soon! Scheduling meetings can get difficult (and frankly who needs another forced Zoom call?) and hence making it asynchronous is a better approach. In that case too, remember that the tool should send checkin notifications to the team members in their local timezones. This is a great way to be less intrusive and not disturb normal work.

A few ideas for Icebreakers during meetings

We already have an exhaustive list of Icebreaker questions you can ask to break the ice during a meeting, but sometimes you need more than that! Here are some fun games that you can play together:

A few questions you can find in our Icebreakers software

If you could live anywhere on this planet, where would you choose to live?
What’s your favorite flower or plant?
If you could do something that you don’t do because it’s bad for you, but you could do it without any repercussions — what would you do?
If you had one opportunity to permanently change someone's life (better or worse) who would it be and how would you change it?
Would you rather visit a haunted house or a haunted graveyard?
City or countryside?
If you were stranded on a desert island, what three items would you want to have with you?
If you're going to win the lottery, would you rather win $10 million, or $100 million?
Growth or security?
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
If you could eat your favorite food now, what would it be?
If you could have any super human power, what would it be?
Group feedback or one on one feedback?
If you could choose any person from history to be your imaginary friend, who would it be and why?
What is something you’ve always wanted to do but haven’t done yet?
If you could give some advice to beginners in your work area, what would it be?
Beach or mountain?
What’s the grossest food you ever had to eat to be polite?
Halloween or Christmas?
What does your typical work from home uniform look like?
If you could only take three albums to a desert island what would they be?
What do you do first thing in the morning?
Have you personally witnessed how other countries celebrate Halloween?
What’s your number one tip for combating distractions when working from home?
Does your current car have a name? What is it?
Where is your dream location to work from?
If you were stranded on a deserted island, what book or object would you bring?
Running or walking?
What was your favorite Halloween costume you wore as a child?
What is the most interesting or funny event you experienced on the clock?

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