Activities

Virtual Team Building Events

Activity Description

Activity Overview

This activity is derived from the well-known icebreaker ‘Two Truths And A Lie’ to create an activity that you could return to throughout an event.

Objectives

  • To break the ice and help the team get to know each other better, and to punctuate a long and intense event with some moments of light relief.

Materials Needed

Half a flipchart page and a pad of sticky notes for each individual taking part in the activity.

Step By Step Procedures

At the start, have each participant write their name at the top of their flipchart page and hang it on the wall. Then have each individual write the names of all of their colleagues on sticky notes, one name per note.

  1. At the start of the activity, ask the group to mingle, asking one another questions to get acquainted, such as “What sports do you like?” “Where do you like to take your holidays?” “What is your favorite food?”; or about their career, such as “How did you get into ….”, “When did you graduate ”, “What was your greatest achievement in your career?”; or about the event, such as “What is your worst fear for this event?”. Or just ask for one fact they would like to share with the group.
  2. Tell the participants, “For every person you meet, put their name and one fact you have learned about them onto the sticky note with their name on. As you meet every person in the group, you should accumulate a sticky note for each person.
  3. “However, as you answer questions about yourself, please ensure that one (and only one) answer you give is a lie, something entirely not true of you.”
  4. When everyone has accumulated one fact sticky note about everyone else, have participants distribute the notes onto each individual’s flipchart pages.
  5. Introduce yourself by reading out the flip chart page with your own name and facts, and then invite the group to guess which is a lie. Use a red marker to identify with a tick every true fact until the lie is revealed, then put a cross to identify that.
  6. Next, introduce another participant in the same way. When the lie is revealed, it is their turn to select and introduce another.
  7. As the activity proceeds, start sessions and end breaks with the last person introduced to select and introduce another
  8. By the end of the activity, everyone should have been introduced, and all but one have introduced another. Then you can celebrate the success of the person whose lie took the most guesses to reveal

 

One Lie Per Person Ice Breaker Activity

Basic Details
Property Type : Ice Breakers
Listing Type : Placeholder
Activity Type : Ice Breakers
Focus On : Communication, Having Fun
Outcome Based : No, just fun
Facilities : Indoor, Outdoor
Props Required : None
Duration : 26+ minutes
Exertion Level : Medium
Group Size : 1 - 8, 9 - 16, 17 - 30, 31+
Age : Youth, Adults