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1. 16 Virtual Christmas Games to Raise the Fun Factor
1.1. Merry ‘Guess’mas – What’s in the Picture?
Merry ‘Guess’mas is an engaging Christmas picture guessing game to test your team’s observation skills and share holiday fun. A host shares the screen and shows a series of festive images for teams to identify as quickly as possible. You might find pictures of Christmas treats, holiday memes, symbols, snowmen, elves, and other festive images.
Participants might also see slides from popular Christmas movies like Love Actually, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Arthur Christmas, or Home Alone. Some rounds may also have tricky rebus-style puzzles or riddles to make the game even more engaging for your team. If your heart is set on some particular interests, you can also personalize your experience with specific categories or themes.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.2. Virtual Christmas Trivia
Get ready to add some buzz to your virtual Christmas games with Hooray Teams’ Virtual Christmas Trivia. A lively game master will be there to guide your team through four to five rounds of Christmas-themed trivia. You can expect questions on topics such as Christmas traditions, movies, carols, Santa, treats, and pop culture.
The game lasts for an hour and is suitable for flexible team sizes ranging from 2 to 1000 participants. You can also theme your game around your team’s inside jokes or add Christmas icebreakers and a scavenger hunt game for a personalized experience.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.3. Solve the Candy Cane Lane Murder Mystery
Set off on this Christmas caper to solve a chilly mystery with Hooray Teams’ Murder on Candy Cane Lane. A disaster has turned the winter parade into a chaotic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Ruckus.” Your team’s mission is to put on your detective hats and use your sleuthing skills to uncover the truth behind the holiday catastrophe.
An energetic host will be there to lead you through riddles, chase clues, and help figure out the answers. You'll question suspects played by live actors, including the mysterious woodsman and the winter queen. Each character offers unique insights that could either help or mislead your investigation.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.4. Virtual Christmas Karaoke Competition
Participating in virtual Christmas games such as karaoke can add a lively and entertaining touch to holiday festivities. It provides a platform for team members to express their creativity and share the joy of singing beloved festive tunes, including carols.
Virtual Christmas party games like karaoke competitions can have solo, duo, or group acts. Encourage participants to dress up for their performances to make it feel like a concert. At the end of all the acts, vote on winners and runner-ups. If you’re looking for powerful songs to wow everyone during your showcase, here are some to consider:
🌟All I Want for Christmas by Mariah Carey
🌟Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms
🌟Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee
🌟It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas by Meredith Willson
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.5. Jingle Mingle Bingo
Jingle Mingle Bingo is a virtual Christmas game that puts a holiday twist on the classic game by adding Christmas elements. Bingo cards can feature festive words or images such as “Holiday Traditions,” “Christmas Carols,” or “Seasonal Treats.” You can also include fun prompts like, “Has a collection of Christmas ornaments,” “Has hosted a holiday party,” or “Makes homemade holiday gifts.”
The host will randomly select a card and read out the prompts or names. Participants will mark off the corresponding items on their cards. When someone completes a winning pattern, they can shout “Bingo!” to claim victory for that round.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉
1.6. Never Have I Ever Christmas Edition
The Never Have I Ever Christmas Edition puts a holiday spin on the traditional game for teams to laugh and bond together. The game's premise revolves around participants revealing whether they have or haven't experienced certain holiday-related scenarios. These scenarios can range from quirky traditions and festive mishaps to heartwarming moments.
This holiday adaptation prompts team members to share amusing and lighthearted Christmas-related experiences, creating a unique and enjoyable way to connect with colleagues. It encourages a lively exchange of stories that showcase the diverse and often humorous aspects of holiday celebrations, like:
🎄Never have I ever decorated my house with too many lights and caused a power outage.
🎄Never have I ever built a snowman.
🎄Never have I ever listened to Christmas music before December.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.7. Holiday Hangman
Holiday Hangman is a fun twist on the classic word-guessing game with Christmas-themed words and phrases. In this version, the familiar gameplay is played with holiday-themed words and phrases, such as seasonal decorations, favorite holiday foods, or well-known traditions, and more.
Players take turns guessing letters to decode these festive terms, creating a lively and interactive team bonding experience. This version of Hangman adds a fun, interactive twist to holiday gatherings, bringing people together with teamwork while spreading holiday cheer.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉
1.8. Christmas Movie Charades
Christmas Charades is one of the fun and festive games that's perfect for your team building holiday events. It's a classic game that celebrates the season and puts everyone’s knowledge of holiday movies to the test. Teams take turns acting out scenes from popular Christmas movies while their teammates guess the movie title.
Players can take on the challenge of acting out famous Christmas films like Miracle on 34th Street, Jingle All the Way, Die Hard, or A Charlie Brown Christmas. Each round will have them channel their inner actor, relying only on gestures and actions. With each team member adding their unique flair to the charades, it’s an entertaining and creative way to bring everyone together.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.9. Christmas Pictionary
Looking for fun and easy Christmas game ideas for your remote team? Pictionary is a great way to spread holiday cheer and get everyone laughing. A player draws festive words or phrases like "Christmas tree," "reindeer," "snowman," or even "Santa Claus", but without using any letters or numbers. The rest of the team has to guess what they’re drawing before time runs out.
Christmas Pictionary can be made even more fun with various creative themes to keep everyone on their toes. Here are some fun categories with prompts to play with your team:
- Christmas Traditions: Christmas tree, Gifts for loved ones, Mistletoe
- Christmas Carols: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Silent Night, Jingle Bells
- Christmas Movies: Elf, Home Alone, The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Holiday Foods: Candy canes, fruitcake, gingerbread, eggnog
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.10. Holiday Coworker Feud
Holiday Coworker Feud is a festive and fun twist on the classic “Family Feud” game that’ll bring holiday cheer to your workplace. Teams will go head-to-head to answer survey-based questions and match the top responses, just like in the TV show. A lively host, just like Steve Harvey, leads the event and keeps everyone entertained throughout the session.
The host will ask holiday-themed questions, and the more popular your answer is, the more points you will receive. For example, the host might ask, “What’s the most common topic of conversation during the office holiday party?” Teams would then guess answers like “Secret Santa gifts” or “Holiday plans.” Teams that guess the most popular answers get awarded the most points. At the end of the game, the team with the highest number of points wins.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.11. Holiday-Themed Escape Room
For thrilling yet fun games this Christmas, consider a virtual Christmas escape room for your remote team. Teams must work together to save Santa from a holiday mishap or track down a missing ingredient for a Christmas feast. The escape room puzzles are filled with seasonal fun, from searching for reindeer tracks to unlocking the secrets hidden in Christmas ornaments.
You might have to explore hidden compartments in Advent calendars, decode messages in the candy cane stripes, or follow a trail of mysterious notes left by elves. Working together to solve challenges will strengthen your teamwork, making it a fun way to celebrate and create lasting memories with your team.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.12. Jumbled Christmas Carols
"Jumbled Christmas Carols" is a fun virtual Christmas party game where players work to decode scrambled lyrics from popular Christmas songs. The host shares a jumbled snippet of a carol that looks like gibberish, and players race to figure out the correct lyrics. The first person to correctly identify the song earns points.
For example, a misheard lyric like "The Least Knobby Dot" would be decoded as "Feliz Navidad," or "Sigh Lent Height Hole Invite" as "Silent Night, Holy Night." The game continues with more jumbled lyrics, and the player with the most points at the end wins. It's a simple and engaging game that encourages teams to think creatively while entering the holiday spirit.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉
1.13. Christmas Minute To Win It Games
If you're looking for Christmas games that are fun and will keep everyone on the edge of their seat, these mini-games are the perfect choice. These fast-paced, 60-second games will amp up the excitement as participants race to complete quirky mini-challenges with the clock ticking down.
Teams can try “Jingle Bell Toss,” where you toss bells into cups, or “Create a Mini Tree,” with things like broccoli or marshmallows. You can also play Christmas Cookie Face, where you move a cookie from your forehead to your mouth without using your hands. Candy Cane Fishing is another popular mini-game where you use a candy cane to hook a small object like a paper clip.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.14. Christmas Scavenger Hunt
Add some competitive fun and festive cheer to your workplace with Hooray Teams Hosted Christmas Scavenger Hunt. A lively host leads the event and gives and shares a list of festive prompts or hidden items. Participants must race to find seasonal items around their homes and show them on camera before the time runs out. These items can range from decorations like Christmas ornaments and garlands to personal keepsakes, holiday treats, and cozy winter wear.
For example, you might ask team members to find a holiday keepsake or showcase a cozy Christmas sweater or pair of fuzzy socks. You could even encourage participants to locate a holiday card or handwritten greeting from a loved one to add a personal touch. The event is customizable as well if you want to go with any specific themes of your own, add icebreaker questions, or even a bonus round of Christmas trivia.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.15. Christmas Taboo
Christmas Taboo is a popular word-guessing game with a holiday twist, perfect for virtual team celebrations. One participant from a team receives a Christmas-themed word, along with a list of forbidden (taboo) terms below it. They must give their team members clues to help them guess the word correctly before time runs out. The words can be anything holiday-related, like Christmas movies, music, ornaments, festive foods, and drinks.
A host is usually there to lead the teams through each round, ensuring everyone stays engaged. To personalize the game, you can customize the word list with inside jokes, company holiday traditions, or any fun categories of your own.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
1.16. Christmas Mad Libs
Christmas Mad Libs is a lighthearted and easy-to-play Christmas game for remote teams. To play, you can either choose from pre-made holiday-themed story templates or create your own. Each story will feature a series of blanks, which participants will fill in with various parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more. The key is to keep the story's context secret, so the players only know the type of word they need to provide, not how it fits into the larger narrative.
Players give their word choices, and once all the blanks are filled, you'll read the complete story out loud. The best part of Christmas Mad Libs is that you can play multiple rounds, generating new and absurdly funny holiday tales each time you play, ensuring endless laughter and entertainment.
Fun Rating: 🎉🎉🎉
2. Why Teams Will Love Virtual Christmas Games?
2.1. Team Bonding
Virtual Christmas games offer colleagues a lighthearted, enjoyable way to engage, fostering a sense of camaraderie and teamwork. These activities help break down barriers, improve communication, and build a stronger sense of unity among team members.
2.2. Stress Relief
In a work environment where deadlines and responsibilities can create stress, virtual Christmas games can serve as an outlet for stress relief by allowing workers to momentarily step away from work pressures.
2.3. Inclusivity
Virtual Christmas games for remote teams can be inclusive, as everyone can participate during the holiday season regardless of location. This inclusivity is crucial in promoting unity among team members who might be miles apart.
2.4. Morale Boost
When employees participate in online holiday games, they experience a break from the routine, injecting a sense of enjoyment and celebration into their workday. These activities can serve as a form of recognition and appreciation for employees' hard work throughout the year.
When this happens, it leads to improved morale, and a heightened morale often translates into increased job satisfaction.
3. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
3.1. What Christmas games can you play over Zoom?
Popular holiday games for remote teams to play on Zoom include Secret Santa, Christmas Cookie Decorating, holiday trivia, and a holiday scavenger hunt, among others.
3.2. How to host a virtual Christmas party?
You can host a virtual Christmas party by choosing a video conferencing platform and sending out invitation links to your team. Include several virtual holiday party games to keep your team engaged. Keep the whole experience exciting and upbeat with holiday music constantly playing in the background.
3.3. What are some online Christmas games?
Fun Christmas games for work online include Christmas movie charades, virtual Christmas karaoke, jingle mingle bingo, virtual Christmas jeopardy, and Christmas Pictionary, which you can play on virtual platforms.
3.4. What are some virtual Christmas games for large groups?
If you’re looking for virtual office Christmas games for teams that are large in size, try out holiday pictionary, charades, or bingo. You can also incorporate games like hangman, karaoke, and trivia to ensure that everyone in your large team feels involved and engaged.
