Work icebreakers fail when they ask people to share something personal in front of a manager. This one never does. You point at a colleague over something harmless — who replies to emails at midnight, who has forty tabs open — and the whole exercise stays on the safe side of the line.
It fits the first ten minutes of an offsite, a new-joiner session or a long meeting that needs a break. Fifteen questions is enough; the game gets thin if you push it past twenty in a work setting.
One rule for managers: read the questions yourself first and drop any that could land on the same person repeatedly. In a team, being pointed at eight times in a row stops being funny much faster than it does with friends.
All 79 for work questions
1.Who's most likely to reply to an email at midnight
2.Who's most likely to have 40 tabs open right now
3.Who's most likely to send a message that says just one more thing
4.Who's most likely to turn a meeting into a longer meeting
5.Who's most likely to say this could have been an email
6.Who's most likely to schedule a meeting at 8 a.m.
7.Who's most likely to join a call one minute late every time
8.Who's most likely to talk for a minute before noticing the mute button
9.Who's most likely to forget to turn the camera off
10.Who's most likely to have the most chaotic desktop
11.Who's most likely to have a folder called final final v3
12.Who's most likely to name a file asdf and never rename it
13.Who's most likely to reply all to the whole company
14.Who's most likely to use three exclamation marks in an email
15.Who's most likely to write an email in one long sentence
16.Who's most likely to send a message and then unsend it
17.Who's most likely to react to every message with an emoji
18.Who's most likely to start a thread nobody reads
19.Who's most likely to be first to the free food
20.Who's most likely to microwave fish in the office kitchen
21.Who's most likely to leave a mug in the sink for a week
22.Who's most likely to label their food in the shared fridge
23.Who's most likely to eat someone else's labeled food
24.Who's most likely to make coffee for the whole team
25.Who's most likely to drink six coffees before noon
26.Who's most likely to bring snacks for everyone on a bad week
27.Who's most likely to know where everything in the office is
28.Who's most likely to fix the printer
29.Who's most likely to break the printer
30.Who's most likely to have a drawer full of office supplies
31.Who's most likely to steal a good pen
32.Who's most likely to have the tidiest desk
33.Who's most likely to have a plant that is somehow thriving
34.Who's most likely to have a plant that is definitely dead
35.Who's most likely to decorate their desk for every season
36.Who's most likely to be the first to book time off for next year
37.Who's most likely to never take their holidays
38.Who's most likely to work from a beach and pretend it is home
39.Who's most likely to answer work messages on holiday
40.Who's most likely to be completely unreachable on holiday
41.Who's most likely to be late to the offsite
42.Who's most likely to organize the team lunch
43.Who's most likely to pick the restaurant everyone complains about
44.Who's most likely to remember every colleague's birthday
45.Who's most likely to sign every card with just their name
46.Who's most likely to organize the office secret santa
47.Who's most likely to buy a joke gift for secret santa
48.Who's most likely to win the office sweepstake
49.Who's most likely to start a team quiz
50.Who's most likely to take the team quiz too seriously
51.Who's most likely to volunteer for something and regret it
52.Who's most likely to say yes to every request
53.Who's most likely to protect their calendar ruthlessly
54.Who's most likely to have a color-coded calendar
55.Who's most likely to double book themselves
56.Who's most likely to keep notes on paper in a digital company
57.Who's most likely to have a shortcut for everything
58.Who's most likely to teach someone a shortcut they will never use
59.Who's most likely to explain something in far too much detail
60.Who's most likely to ask the question everyone was thinking
61.Who's most likely to speak up in a room of senior people
62.Who's most likely to send a follow up within an hour
63.Who's most likely to have the best handwriting on a whiteboard
64.Who's most likely to draw a diagram nobody understands
65.Who's most likely to be the one who actually reads the document
66.Who's most likely to find the typo in the final version
67.Who's most likely to catch a mistake before it goes out
68.Who's most likely to push a change on a Friday afternoon
69.Who's most likely to still be online at 9 p.m.
70.Who's most likely to log off exactly on time every day
71.Who's most likely to take the stairs instead of the lift
72.Who's most likely to walk during every phone call
73.Who's most likely to know the whole building's gossip
74.Who's most likely to be friends with everyone in every team
75.Who's most likely to become the manager one day
76.Who's most likely to quit and start their own thing
77.Who's most likely to come back a year after leaving
78.Who's most likely to keep in touch with everyone after leaving
79.Who's most likely to be remembered for one legendary moment
Who’s most likely to ghost the group chat?
Vote in secret instead
The app turns the pointing into anonymous voting. One person starts a party, everyone joins with a 6-digit PIN from their own phone, and every vote is revealed at once — plus the Gossip Wheel, where the group writes the secrets.
It is one of the few that needs no preparation and no personal disclosure. Everyone understands the rules in one sentence, and a round takes under a minute.
How do you play it on a video call?
Read the question, count to three, and everyone types a name in the chat at the same time. Revealing all the names at once keeps people from copying each other.
Which questions should you avoid at work?
Anything about salary, appearance, relationships or performance. Every question in this set is about a working habit, which is why it stays harmless.