A simple and fun co-op game that enhances teamwork
Are you looking for teamwork games that bring smiles to everyone in a gym or event hall? Games that sometimes call for coordination with teammates and other times let you enjoy a sense of unity are essential for strengthening the bonds within an organization.
In this feature, we’ll introduce cooperative indoor games that anyone can join with ease.
These games have simple rules but offer full participation, new discoveries, and a real sense of achievement.
Try them out to help create a positive atmosphere for your group!
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Cooperative games that are easy to play indoors (31–40)
No equipment needed! Air catch ball
“Air Catch,” a make-believe game of tossing an imaginary ball without any props, is a very simple team-building activity.
Participants form a circle.
Someone calls another person’s name while miming a throw of the “air ball,” and the next person pretends to catch it and continues in the same way.
The rules are: make eye contact and call the person’s name before you throw.
Once everyone gets used to it, you can increase the difficulty by tossing multiple balls at once or speeding things up.
It builds communication skills and concentration and gets people laughing, making it great for training icebreakers and strengthening team cohesion.
It takes about 5–15 minutes, so give it a try!
Effective team-building games (1–10)
Escape Game
How about a mystery-solving escape game that puts your team’s unity to the test? It’s well-known as an event at a certain theme park, too.
In this game, each team member needs to tackle the puzzles, share their opinions, and arrive at a single conclusion in order to escape.
The difficulty is high, but if you succeed, everyone can share the sense of achievement.
It’s a recommended game for those who want to boost teamwork.
Compliment game
After all, to boost teamwork it’s important to recognize one another.
As a game that can spark that mutual recognition, the “Praise-Praise Game” is highly recommended.
The rules are very simple: you just take turns complimenting each other’s good points.
Both giving and receiving compliments can feel a bit embarrassing, but it’s a great way to discover your own strengths, so definitely give it a try.
Commonality-Finding Game
Let’s try finding things we have in common.
Even with someone you don’t know, discovering common ground brings you closer and helps you hit it off and keep the conversation flowing.
Of course, similarities in appearance count, but talking about things like whether you have siblings or pets can also improve your communication skills.
You could even add a time limit, like “Find X things in common within X minutes.”
NASA game
This is a consensus game based on the premise: If you had to prioritize 15 items to survive on the Moon, what would you choose? It’s a game often used in team building.
You have become stranded on the lunar surface.
Your mothership is on the Moon but at a considerable distance, and to reach it, you must determine the priority of 15 items that survived the crash landing.
Discuss thoroughly with your team members and arrive at a single conclusion together!
Gesture Game
Here’s an introduction to a familiar recreation for everyone from children to adults: the gesture game (charades).
Players form pairs as a team.
One person silently acts out the prompt using only gestures, without speaking, while the other tries to guess what the prompt is.
Competing in a time-attack format can strengthen team cohesion, add a sense of excitement, and perhaps break down previous barriers to communication.
Conversation Experiment Game
When you’re talking with someone, being ignored or having them look away while they listen feels completely different from being listened to with smiles and encouraging nods, doesn’t it? Conversation experiment games are important to re-confirm this obvious truth.
By actually trying this out as a team, I believe the team’s bonds will grow even stronger.
