Virtual Work Bingo

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Whether you work from home or at the office, playing office bingo is a great way to brighten the day. It’s easy! Here’s how…

1. Choose a theme or search the 1,500+ pre-made bingo cards using BingoCardCreator.com. Work in a law office? Try Famous Fictional Lawyers bingo. An engineering firm? How about Building Materials Bingo. Got a lot of Gen X-ers in your workplace? Do a search for 80s-themed bingo cards.

Play conference call bingo online during teleconferences and video conferences. See what bingo score you get and share with friends on Facebook. Tired of boring conference calls? Thanks for playing Conference Call Bingo! Want to play simultaneously with your co-workers? Bingo, a game played across retirement homes and summer camps everywhere, is familiar, fun, and works extremely well in the online format. Here is an Online Team Building Bingo board you can start with: You can “Right Click + Save As” to download the Bingo board. You can freely distribute and use this virtual bingo board for internal use 🙂. Zoom and online work calls are everywhere. People have flocked to apps like Microsoft Teams and Zoom in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, becoming one of the main ways that people communicate. Zoom chief executive Eric Yuan said Zoom jumped into success overnight because of the need for such an app, according to The New York Times.

Play conference call bingo online during teleconferences and video conferences. See what bingo score you get and share with friends on Facebook. Besides these two benefits, it can also work to promote healthy competition and teamwork. Our team has designed three bingo templates: self-care, work from home, and zoom conference call. The bingo templates are designed to ease stress and make people laugh while they’re social distancing from their home workspace.

Virtual Office Bingo

2. Using the 3 easy steps, create and print a set of custom bingo cards using BingoCardCreator.com. Distribute a bingo card to each staff member and instruct employees to keep their unique card beside their desk for the day.

TIP: Got employees that work from home? Simply email bingo cards to work-from-home employees as an attachment. Assign a different card to each person.

3. Once an hour and using the call list that is printed automatically with your bingo cards, send out 2-4 new words or phrases via email, text, or intercom. Employees check their card and mark it accordingly.

4. When someone gets a bingo, shout it out! Or reply all via email.

5. Have prizes ready. Gift cards, a bottle of wine, or even the rest of the day off are sure to please.

Online Team Building Bingo is a fun and easy game you can play with remote employees.

Other names for Online Team Building Bingo include Virtual Team Building Bingo and Remote Team Bingo.

The game is quick to setup, great for virtual team engagement, a little nostalgic, and a familiar format.

Virtual Work Bingo

Here is a free game board you can use:

You can send your colleagues the URL for this page or “right click + save as” to download the above image to your computer. You may use this game board for your internal virtual team building or conference calls.

Here is a blank template that you can fill in with your own clues:

If this Online Team Building Bingo board is useful for you then we would LOVE if you post it on your company blog and link to https://teambuilding.com/blog/online-team-building-bingo or https://teambuilding.com from your post. #share-the-love

How to play Online Team Building Bingo

Here are the rules for Virtual Team Building Bingo:

  • Distribute the Online Team Building Bingo board to your remote employees.
  • Decide on a timeline, which could range from a single video conference call through a month or longer.
  • A player gets a point when they learn information from a coworker that applies to the Bingo board.
  • Have players track performance, marking an “x” or similar for each box they complete. The center square is a free point for all players.
  • Award prizes for the first player to complete challenges like an entire row or an entire board.

Online Team Building Bingo Tips

Knowing the rules is just part of the game. You can also consider these fun tips and ideas to boost the experience.

Office Bingo Questions

  • Create your own Bingo board. Using ours is fun, and customizing a game board for your team is even better. You can add inside jokes, references to specific team members and similar.
  • Award prizes! Even a $5 gift card ups the stakes from bragging rights.
  • Provide enough time to play. For example, you may want to game to span an entire week so your people have more opportunities to connect.

More Online Bingo Templates

Check out these posts for more online Bingo templates:

Just scroll down or do a “ctrl + f” search for “bingo” on those pages.

Conclusion

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Your team will likely enjoy Remote Work Bingo too.

Next, you can check out our list of free online team building games for remote teams. That post includes more ideas for online team building and free virtual games for remote teams.

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Author: Michael Alexis

CEO of teambuilding.com. I write about my experience working with and leading remote teams since 2010.

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