15 Office Games that are Minute to Win It Challenges

Make office games easy to play yet fun with these 15 Minute to Win It games. These high-energy one-minute games are perfect work games for staff. They need minimal setup, and you can play most of these with office supplies. They are perfect for office party games and even fun office games to use as icebreakers, teambuilding activities, or office event celebrations.

15 Office Games Minute to Win It Challenges

Desk Scavenger Sprint

This game is perfect when you are hosting at the office and want to beat the fun without going outdoors. Give the player a list of desk items to find, include a mix of easy and difficult to find office supplies like staplers, highlighter sticky notes, USB folder etc. set a 1 minute timer and each player needs to find the items mentioned on the list from their own work desk. Whoever finds all of them first, or most of them in under a minute, wins. It gets funny when colleagues with messy desks or who don’t use much stationery struggle to find them.

The best part is that you almost need no supplies to play this game; just make a list of random items one can find on their work desk or get this office game printable bundle.

Post-It Note Face Race

This is a silly and fun game to play in a group with your coworkers, and you will be able to grab a lot of photos of the event too. This game is perfect for office parties or fun Friday activities. All you need is one pad of sticky notes per player. Set the timer for 1 minute, and as the game starts, players have to stick as many sticky notes on their face as possible using only one hand, with the rule that they cannot stack the Post-its. When one minute is up, you need to count the Post-its that are still pasted on their face, and the one with the most wins. Fun game that will get everyone laughing and perfect to set up a fun, light-hearted mood for the event.

Office Word Scramble

This game is a good option if you are looking for a break from physical challenges into something where the players sit and put their thinking hats on. Prepare a list of unscrambled words which are office-related, such as meeting, deadline, laptop, etc. Make it a good list of at least 10 such words and print them. Set a timer for a minute, and let players find the right word. One who does it fastest under the minute or most in a minute wins the game. Perfect for a quiet time or when you have limited space to plan many physical games. You can skip the work of preparing this and grab the office game printable bundle.

Cup Stack Attack

This is a classic 1-minute game to get the groups competitive. You will need some disposable paper or plastic cups. Set a bunch of 10 cups on the table, and when the time starts, each player needs to build a pyramid with these cups in the order 4-3-2-1, and unstack them into one Tower. Those who do it the fastest under a minute win. You can make this more challenging or a group activity by turning it into a relay. Instead of placing all the cups on the table, keep them at a distance, and each team needs to relay to pick up the cup and run to the table to make the pyramid together as a whole team. If you are looking for a tournament-style challenge, this game will be a good choice.

Rubber Band Shootout

This game is perfect for small groups or if you are planning for head-to-head competition. To play this game, you just need a few plastic or disposable cups and rubber bands. Place five plastic cups in a row on a table and have the player stand 5 feet away. Each player uses one rubber band at a time and shoots at a cup. The player who knocks out the most cups in a minute wins. This is perfect for office parties, a quick work break, or even as a team-building challenge where you can ask each team member to take turns to play this game, and the team with the most cups knocked out wins.

Paper Toss

This is a casual competitive game that you can play at office parties or team activities for a quick break. Place an empty bin or a box a few feet away from the player, and give each player some waste paper that they can crumple and make into a ball and aim to land inside the box. The one who is able to land the most paper balls in the bin wins the game. It’s an easy game to explain to the team and gets everyone competitive and joins the crowd for fun cheering. And you don’t need any special supplies, just some waste paper you probably have at your office and an empty box.

Cookie Face

This is a fun game to play at office parties, especially Christmas or Thanksgiving, or even if you are just hosting a casual potluck at your office. You will need some cookies to play this game; in my experience, Oreos are best for this. Place a cookie on the forehead of the player, and when the timer starts, the player needs to use their facial muscle movement to bring the cookie down to their mouth and eat it without using their hands. If the cookie falls, you can either disqualify the person or give them another cookie to try; it’s your choice. It gets very funny not just for the player but even for the colleagues watching the player’s attempts to eat the cookie.

Clip & Chain Relay

This is a simple game of chaining the paper clips, but it’s not as easy as it looks. Give a bunch of paper clips to each player, and they need to connect them and make a long chain, but with just one hand. Making a chain of paper clips is easy, but when they can use only one hand, it gets tricky, and the pressure of a 1-minute time running out makes it even more challenging.

Speed Sort It!

This game is all about speed and the organisational skills of your colleagues. Make a mix of random office supplies like paper clips, rubber bands, pushpins, and pencils into a pile. Just make sure they are equal items to make it fair for everyone. When the timer starts, you need to use just one hand to sort these items into groups, or you can provide individual containers for players to separate the items and place them in the container. The one who sorts everything, or most, in a minute or most of it wins the game.

High Five Count-Off

This is a perfect game if you want people to get out of their seats and get interactive. Just a simple game where players need to give a high five to different colleagues. This game is perfect for team celebrations or as a team-building activity. You need to play this game one at a time to keep it easy to monitor. When the timer starts, a player gives a proper, full palm to plan contact high five to coworkers. They cannot repeat the high fives. The one who gets the most high fives under a minute wins the game. This is a good game to play at team celebrations for office parties or even as icebreakers for any event.

Office Stack ’N’ Grab

This is a competitive game to check your colleagues’ balance and coordination skills. Grab some stackable office supplies such as a small notepad, eraser, stapler, paper clips, and sticky notes. Give these random items to the player, and when the timer starts, they need to stack and balance as many items as possible to make a free-standing tower; they cannot lean it against a wall or desk. When the time is up, the one with the tallest and unbroken stack of supplies wins the game. You can keep it individual or as a group game to check the coordination skills of the team.

Pencil Flip Game

This will definitely make your team nostalgic and remind them of the fun time they used to play these silly games at college. Each player gets a pencil, and they need to place it on the back of their hand, flip it, and catch it. The one who manages to do this in under a minute, or is able to do the most in a minute, wins the game. This is one of the easy, no-prep games that you can plan. I need no extra space to play it; you can just literally play it at the work desk.

Sticky Note Speed Art

If you are looking for some creative games to play at the office with no extra supplies, this is the right game. Use the sticky notes that you already have in the office; get them in multiple colours if possible. Each player will have a minute in which they need to make a creative or simple design by pasting the sticky notes on the desk or wall. It can be a smiley face or heart that they must make by pasting the sticky notes. Make the game more fun by letting the team vote for the funniest design, determining the winner.

Binder Clip Chain

This game is all about speed: grab money binder clips and give some to each player. When the timer starts, we need to connect the binder clips to make a chain. The one who makes the longest chain in under a minute time which is unbroken, wins the game. You can just repurpose your office supplies to play this game, practically needing no special setup or supplies. And you can actually play it right at the desk, making it a good game to play during breaks.

What’s Missing?

This is a simple yet fun game to check the memory and observation skills of your colleagues. You will need a tray and a towel or a cloth, along with 10 small office items; stationery items will be the perfect choice for it. Set out the 10 items on the tray and show them to the player for 15 seconds, cover the tray, and secretly remove one item from it. Then uncovered and the player needs to find the missing item within a minute. This isn’t an individual game, and the same setup can be used for multiple players. It’s a good break from physical games, and you just need to prepare the setup once and use it for many players to play.

Most of the games shared are no-problem games to play at the office, and some need supplies, but they are easy to find at your office. Making these games easy to plan and play at any office event. Hope you found a few games to quickly play at work with your colleagues and make your team meeting more fun.