Looking for a team meeting icebreaker?

Want fun yet humanness?

Here, red10‘s Karen Hyde provides everything you would need to lead the team icebreaker “Through the Keyhole”, where team members have to guess who’s house it is from a photo of one of their rooms.

Inspired by the British Comedy Game Show

First broadcast in the 1980s, Through the Keyhole was a comedy panel game show where the presenter goes round a celebrity’s house pausing in each room to give the panel a chance to guess “Who lives in a house like this?”.

The clues increased with every room visited.

Our icebreaker version is slightly different:

  • Each team member submits a photo of just one room, ideally with some clues in the picture.
  • The team guess who’s room it is
  • The owner of the room does the big reveal
  • The host asks the room owner to tell us more about that room, as an opportunity to share a bit about their personal life and build team-bonds. The team might even be nicely nosey ?!

Leading the Icebreaker with a Team

  1. Pre-work for each team member to send their photo of 1 room in their house
  2. Create 10-15 min slots throughout the meeting where you guess 2-3 people’s rooms in each slot.
  3. Award a prize at the end for the most correct guesses

Pre-work

Prior to the team meeting, each team member is asked:

  • Please provide a picture of a room from your house, without any people in the photo
  • Please provide it only me, so that in the meeting others can guess who’s room it is, in a team icebreaker
  • This is an opportunity to share something about your personal life with your colleagues – be prepared to explain why you chose that room
  • It’s hard guessing who’s room it is, please provide some sort of clues – you choose how kind you want to be!

(You’ll notice that the above points are written so that you can copy and paste them in instructions to the team)

Virtual? Chat Bombs make it more fun

If you are meeting virtually, it makes it more fun if you use Chat Bombs to guess who’s room it is:

  • Ask everyone to write their answer in the Chatbox yet don’t press enter
  • Everyone presses enter at the same time, “1…2…3!”

If you’re fortunate enough to be physically together, then you can show the photos on the screen and ask everyone to point at who’s room it is after the count of 3.

Ready to Run The Icebreaker?

Please ask us for the slide template if you’d like it. Have fun!