The Megalist of Ice Breakers

My team doesn’t really love meetings so I have us only meet once a week for a team sync. During this team sync I like to have the team start out with an ice breaker just to get folks talking and to get to know each other more. Our team has had quite a period of change and instability where the members have seemingly continously changed. Additonally, we have a rotation onto our team where folks will join for a period of three months and then leave. That said I’ve found it helpful to spend time with the team getting to know each other and these ice breakers allow us to do so in a low stakes way. Especially since the majority of the team has not met in person.

• What are your favorite games to play together? (e.g: Drawful, Codenames, Gartic Phone, nothing)
• What is your favorite hot beverage?
• Would you go with aliens if they beamed down to Earth? (Let’s assume they invited you to aboard their spaceship)
• What are your favorite songs from your teenage years that you still rock out to?
• If you could only watch one tv show for the rest of your life what would it be?
• Where would you time-travel, if it were possible?
• Favorite thanksgiving dish
• What would be your first question after waking up from being cryogenically frozen for 100 years?
• You have an unlimited supply of one thing, what would it be?
• If you could write a book, what genre would you write it in?
• What is the most versatile flavor?
• Favorite cold weather activity.
• How would you use one extra hour of free time each day?
• You can only eat one food for the rest of your life what do you eat?
• If you had a magic button on your desk to bring you whatever you wanted, what would it summon?
• What is the ideal way to start your day?
• If you were to give a TED Talk without any preparation, what topic could you passionately speak about for 15 minutes?
• If you could mandate that everyone in the world read one book, watch one movie, or play one game, which would you choose and why?
• If you could live anywhere in the world (money is no object) would you relocate? If so where?
• If you could pick up a new skill instantly (matrix style) what would it be?
• What was your dream job as a kid?
• If you could travel to any other planet (real or fictional), where would you go and why?
• If you could have the power of teleportation right now, where would you go and why?
• If you could trade places with a character from your favorite movie/book/show, who would you choose and why?
• What was your favorite prank you’ve ever done or experienced?
• If you were a wrestler what would be your entrance theme song?
• If you could pick an artist or musician to make the soundtrack for your life who would it be and why?
• What is the favorite meal you’ve ever had?
• If you could theoretically keep any animal as a pet which would it be and why?
• What is the best condiment and why?
• What’s you most used emoji?
• What’s your favorite hobby outside of work and why do you enjoy it?
• What’s the most unexpected thing you’ve learned while working on this project or more broadly ████████?
• If you could add any feature to our project without worrying about time, complexities, or resources, what would it be and why?
• If you could choose one skill to master overnight, what would it be and why?
• If you had to name the spotify playlist of your life what would it be called?
• What’s your favorite time of day?
• What’s your “comfort” movie or TV show?
• Does pasta salad with tomatoes count as fruit salad? and other food boundaries.
• You have to sing karaoke, what song do you pick?
• If you could meet with one person living or dead for an hour who would it be and why?
• If you won the lottery tomorrow, what would be the first thing you’d do?