You found our guide to free Coworker Feud games for work.
Coworker Feud is a work-focused version of the famous game show Family Feud. Example questions include “name an occasion when you might buy a coworker a present,” and “Name something you could not get through the workday without.” The purpose of the game is to improve teamwork, boost camaraderie, and help employees to understand and predict how fellow colleagues and other folks think.
This challenge is an example of a virtual game show and can be a fun online game night idea. These questions are a subset of Family Feud questions.
This post includes:
- how to play coworker feud
- coworker feud questions and answers
- virtual coworker feud games to play online
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How to play Coworker Feud
Here are instructions for playing Coworker Feud games at work with teammates.
1. Prepare questions and answers
Survey questions are the heart of the game and the main material needed to play the challenge. You can find pre-made questions and answers online with pre-assigned points, or you can make up your own. Points depend on how many people respond with the same answers. If you do decide to run your own surveys, then you may want to survey departments other than the team you plan to play with.
2. Make a game board
Once you have categories and responses, you need a way to display the information. The easiest way to reveal the answers is to use a Family Feud template, however you could also make your own slideshow or actual game board. Be sure that you have all the supplies needed to run your board, such as a projector screen with the proper laptop cables and adaptors, or a whiteboard and markers. You can also play the game virtually on a Zoom meeting and display the gameboard by using a digital whiteboard or sharing the screen.
3. Split the group into teams
The most obvious way to divide the group is department vs department, however you can form teams in any manner you wish. For example, men vs women, by birthdays, by interests, or randomly assigning teams to give employees a chance to mingle. Traditionally, Family Feud teams consist of five players, so teams of 4 to 6 are ideal.
4. Decide who will go first each round
In the normal game, one player from each team approaches the podium. The host asks a question, and the player who buzzes in first tries to guess the number one response. The player who guesses the higher answer gets to decide whether to play or pass. If this method of choosing will not work, then you could also decide via a coin toss or allow teams to take turns playing.
5. Challenge teams to guess the top-ranking answers
The point of the game is to guess the most common responses to each question. One team takes turns guessing at a time, and gains points based on how many crowd members gave the answer. The playing team can guess an incorrect answer three times before the game moves to the other team. The other team then has a chance to steal by giving one answer. If the word is on the board, then the stealing team gets all points for the round. Otherwise, the original team gets the points. The round continues until all answers on the board have been guessed, or until both teams have guessed incorrectly three times.
6. End the game with Fast Money (optional)
Every episode of Family Feud ends with a lightning round called Fast Money. During this game, two members of the winning team race to give one response to five different questions in 25 seconds or less. The second player leaves the room while the first player answers, and must give a different answer. In order to win, the team’s final score must be at least 200 points.
Coworker Feud questions and answers
Here are pre-made questions and answers for Coworker Feud games.
Name a reason you might be late to work
Overslept
Flat tire/car trouble
Traffic
Doctors appointment
Family emergency
Name the perks of working from home
No commute
Casual dress
Hang out with pets
More time with family
Setting own hours/flexibility
Productivity
Alone/unsupervised
Name downsides to working from home
Blurred boundaries
Zoom fatigue
Distractions
Lonely/miss coworkers
No one else to clean office
Name something you would be angry at a coworker for stealing
Lunch
Client
Idea
Pen
Parking spot
Name an email faux pas
Replying all unnecessarily
Sending to wrong person
Spelling/grammar mistakes
Too many emojis/exclamation marks
Too long
Name a food you would be excited to find in the breakroom
Pizza
Bagels
Donuts
Cookies
Sandwiches
Name an occasion when you might buy a coworker a present
Christmas
Birthday
Work anniversary/retirement
Baby shower/wedding
Name something you could not get through the workday without
Internet
Coffee
Teammates
Snacks
Breaks
Name a fictional boss you would hate to work for
Michael Scott
Walter White
Miranda Priestly
Bill Lumbergh
Name a food that would be hard to eat at your desk
Buffalo wings
BBQ/ribs
Crab legs
Watermelon
Hibachi
Name a reason you might be nervous at work
Presentation
Boss says “we need to talk”
Trying to land a new client
Interviewing for a promotion/waiting to hear back
Have a crush on coworker
Name someone besides your coworkers or clients who might call you at work
Spouse/partner
Kids
Parents
Babysitter/Daycare
Doctor
Telemarketer
Name a superhero who might make a bad coworker
Hulk
Thor
Superman
Aquaman
Wolverine
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Name an item you might forget at work that would cause problems
Wallet/ID/credit card
Car keys/house keys
Laptop
Dinner
Name something you might say during a Zoom meeting
“Your mic is off”
“You cut out”
“I’m having technical issues”
“I’m going to share my screen”
“I have to get to another meeting”
“Is that your dog/cat?”
Name something you look forward to at work as Christmas approaches
Break/vacation
Bonus
Christmas party
Secret Santa present
Baked goodies
Name a non-curse word you would not want to say in front of your boss
Moist
Poop
Underwear
Wrong
Slacking
Name a kind deed a coworker might do for you
Help you finish your work
Grab you lunch/coffee
Drop off your mail
Cover for you with a client/the boss
Listen when you are having a bad day
Make a joke
Name something you might pool money with coworkers to buy
Lunch
Gift
Lottery tickets
Charity donation
Name something you might write down on a sticky note
Password
Phone number
Address
Appointment
Doodle
Name somewhere in an office you might run into a colleague and stop for a chat
Breakroom/lunch room
Bathroom
Copy room
Hallway/stairway
Elevator
Name a reason a coworker might give you a high five
Promotion
Nailed a presentation
Had a great idea
Solved a problem
Just saying hi/just because
Name a department that might struggle if the phones went down
Customer service
Sales
Receptionist/assistant
IT
Name a pet you might find in the office
Dogs
Cats
Fish
Birds
Rabbits
Virtual Coworker Feud games to play online
Here are instructions for playing Coworker Feud online.
1. Zoom
You can DIY your own game to play on Zoom. There are several ways to structure the game. For example, you could send teams to breakout rooms with a form to fill out and award points based on an answer-key with pre-assigned point values. Or, you could ask questions to all participants using the polling feature, and then have one representative from each team guess the most common answer. Once all teams have answered, then reveal the results, and award points to the team who guessed the highest-ranking response. You can also input questions and answers into a Family Feud slideshow template and then share the screen.
Here are more Zoom games.
2. Family Feud Live
Family Feud offers an official online game that includes a 1:1 challenge mode you can play with friends or strangers. We recommend using this format to face off against other departments. Each team can download the app, meet up in a separate Zoom room or Slack channel, start the game, and try to best opponents while chatting with each other and messaging the other team.
Learn more about Family Feud Live.
3. Guess It
Guess It is a free version of Family Feud to play on MSN games. Players compete against a computer to earn a higher score before completing a speed round. This version of the game condenses the game show into a few quick rounds, making it an ideal quick team building game to kick off or close virtual meetings. Simply start the game, share your screen, and have teammates shout out and agree on answers.
Play Guess It.
4. Family Feud on Trivia Today
Trivia Today hosts a free online Family Feud game you can play with coworkers. Users face off against a computer to score higher in three rounds of the normal game, before entering a Fast Money round. While the game is single-player, you can share the screen while in a Zoom meeting and work together with teammates to guess the right answers. Or, you can give employees permission to take a break throughout the day to play, post a screenshot or comment to a Slack thread, and give a prize such as a $10 Starbucks gift card to the player who earns the highest score.
Play Family Feud.
5. Office Feud
Play 4 Fun offers detailed instructions and sample questions you can use for virtual coworker feud games. To play the game, a leader sends out a survey to participants and asks teammates to fill the form by lunchtime. Then, that host collects the most popular answers, assigns points, and makes an answer key. Towards the end of the day, team members meet in a Zoom meeting. The host splits the group into small teams, and each team tries to guess the most popular answers.
Check out this Office Feud page.
Final Thoughts
Coworker Feud is an effective team building exercise because the game encourages employees to practice empathy and anticipate how colleagues think. Team members can work together to brainstorm answers and can gain experience practicing teamwork and group decision making in time-sensitive situations. Not to mention, the game is tons of fun and can be an effective morale boost.
For more game show fun, check out this guide to team Jeopardy and list of ways to play Jeopardy online.
Angela Robinson