Office Break Games

Word games

Hangman

The classic letter-guessing game, played on a whiteboard. Use office words for the inside jokes.

Players
2–10
Time
5–10 min

What you need

  • A whiteboard or paper and a marker

How to play

  1. One player picks a word or phrase and draws a dash for each letter.
  2. The others guess one letter at a time.
  3. Right letters are written in; each wrong one adds a stroke to the drawing.
  4. Solve it before the drawing is finished; whoever solves it sets the next word.

Office tip: Swap the gallows for a melting snowman if anyone in the room would rather not.

Where it works