How it works
At work the game needs one extra rule: every card must be something a colleague is glad to be named for. These 96 most likely to questions for work are compliments and harmless habits: snack drawers, mute buttons, printer jams.
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How to run it in a meeting or on a call
In a room, one person reads the card, the team counts to three and everyone points. On a call, everyone types a name in the chat and sends it on three. The winner says a sentence about why, then presses Next card and reads. Nobody keeps score: at work the story behind the vote is the point.
Four topics, and what the deck leaves out
Meetings and video calls suits a distributed team, and Desks, coffee and the break room one that shares a kitchen. Helpful colleagues and celebrations is mostly praise: who's most likely to know where anything is on the shared drive? No card is about performance, pay, lateness, looks, age, health, family or faith.
- Managers vote last, or not at all. A team votes more freely when the boss has not pointed yet.
- Writing your own cards? One test: would the person named be glad to hear it in front of a client?
- Easy cards are compliments, Medium cards name a habit, and Hard cards suit a team at ease with each other.
Questions and answers
Are these questions safe for the office?
Yes. The deck was written against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's list of protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability and genetic information. No card comes near them. It is not legal advice: your HR policy comes first.
How many people do you need, and how long does it take?
Five is enough for a vote to mean something, and one room works up to about thirty. Past that, each table agrees on a name. Allow thirty seconds a card: ten cards open a weekly meeting.
Does it work on a video call?
Yes. The reader shares the screen, and everyone sends a name in the chat on three. Meetings and video calls holds the cards written for it: who's most likely to be the first to say "you're on mute"?