Half the room knows each other. The other half is standing by the snacks pretending to read the back of a board game box. Icebreaker Bingo fixes that in about ten minutes.
How it works
Everyone gets a card. Every square says “find someone who” and something nerdy: has a cat that sits on the keyboard, has cried at a video game ending, has a game save older than ten years, has painted a miniature. Find a person who fits, write their name in the square, and keep going until someone gets five in a row.
By the end, people have talked to each other, and somebody has found out the quiet one by the door also plays rhythm games.
What’s included
Four different cards, so neighbors can’t copy each other, each with a free center square. Print as many as your group needs.
Get Game Night Icebreaker Bingo on Ko-fi for $3, or pay more if you’d like to. You get US Letter and A4 PDFs, ready to print as often as you need.
House Log
LAG: Find someone who has a game backlog over twenty.
PROTOCOL: That is you.
LAG: You can’t write your own name.
PROTOCOL: Then I am writing mine. Mine is twenty-one, and alphabetized.
Be right there. Probably.