Team Building
Colleagues and coworkers
Team Building Bingo
Strengthen team bonds with a bingo game built around shared experiences and quirks.
Team building activities work best when they encourage genuine interaction rather than forced fun. This bingo card gets colleagues talking about hobbies, habits and history, surfacing details that rarely come up in a normal working day.
How to run this activity
Print or share the card digitally with your team ahead of a team building session or away day. Give everyone fifteen to twenty minutes to mingle and find colleagues matching each square. Debrief as a group afterwards, asking a few players to share the most surprising thing they learned. Award a small prize for the first full card.
Full prompt list
- Find someone who has worked here for over five years
- Find someone who has run a marathon or similar challenge
- Find someone who speaks more than one language
- Find someone who has a pet
- Find someone who plays a musical instrument
- Find someone who has lived in another country
- Find someone who enjoys cooking
- Find someone who has met a celebrity
- Find someone who supports the same team as you
- Find someone who has climbed a mountain or hill over 1000m
- Find someone who has a hidden talent
- Find someone who is the eldest sibling
- Find someone who has been on TV or radio
- Find someone who has visited more than ten countries
- Find someone who can name all their grandparents' jobs
- Find someone who dislikes the same food as you
- Find someone who has completed a triathlon or fun run
- Find someone who grows their own vegetables
- Find someone who has never broken a bone
- Find someone who loves a hobby you've never tried
- Find someone who has worked in three or more industries
- Find someone who can juggle or do a party trick
- Find someone who has a favourite film you also love
- Find someone who has driven in another country
Customisation ideas
- Replace generic prompts with facts specific to your team's projects or history
- Add a square referencing a recent team achievement or milestone
- Turn it into a relay by pairing up teams to complete cards together
Frequently asked questions
Yes, established teams often uncover surprising new facts about long-term colleagues. It works particularly well when mixed with newer joiners who haven't heard the stories yet.
Fifteen to twenty minutes is usually enough for a group of twenty to thirty people to mingle properly. Extend it slightly for larger groups or a bigger venue.
Absolutely, it works well as an opening activity to warm the room up before more structured sessions begin. It gets people moving, talking, and out of their usual seating groups.