A QuizBreaker Alternative for Teams That Want a Real Session

A weekly email and a scheduled session solve different problems

QuizBreaker's model is a short icebreaker quiz delivered weekly by email or Slack: a handful of questions about your teammates' quirks and preferences, answered whenever, with results shared asynchronously. It pairs that with random 1:1 "coffee chat" matching to nudge people who'd never otherwise talk into a short call.

Both are useful passive habits. Neither is what you reach for when you've actually got 20 people on a call and 20 minutes to fill with something everyone does together. A weekly email doesn't create a shared moment. Everyone reads it separately, on their own time, and there's no room reacting to the same reveal at once.

• →It's asynchronous by design. Nobody plays at the same time, so there's no live reveal, no reactions, no room energy, which is the thing an actual team building slot is usually booked for.
• →It's one format, indefinitely. The same weekly quiz-about-your-colleague shape, week after week. Fine as a drip, repetitive as the whole team building budget.
• →Coffee pairing is 1:1, not a team activity. Good for relationship-building between two people. Doesn't give you "something for the whole team to do on Friday."
• →It's priced per employee, per month. A flat per-seat licence for a weekly email, regardless of whether that person ever opens it.

What a scheduled-session alternative needs to do

• →Happen live, on the call. Everyone joins at once and plays together: the shared moment a weekly email can't create.
• →Join with a code, not an email address on file. Works for the whole room, contractors and candidates included, without anyone needing to already be enrolled.
• →Cover more ground than one quiz format. Some weeks Trivia Blitz, some weeks a drawing game like Drawing Blind or a social-deduction round like Imposter, so the "get to know your teammates" goal doesn't collapse into the same five-question email.
• →A team home with real history. An invite link, a game log, and a leaderboard people actually visit, not a string of unread weekly emails.

QuizBreaker vs Fun Friday

This isn't a knock on QuizBreaker. A weekly async nudge and a scheduled live session solve different parts of the "help remote people feel connected" problem. Some teams run both: the email as a background habit, a live session for the actual calendar slot.

What to run instead of the weekly quiz

If what you actually valued about QuizBreaker was the learning-about-your-colleagues part, two games do the same job in a single live round:

• →Guess Who Said It is the direct equivalent. Everyone answers the same personal prompt, the answers come back anonymised, and the team matches each one to its author: the same "who said that?" payoff, except everyone finds out together.
• →Two Truths & a Lie is the one to run when there are new starters in the room. It is the strongest onboarding game here, and it needs no preparation from anyone.

For the weeks when nobody wants to talk about themselves, Hot Takes and Top Rank get the same conversation going about opinions instead of biography.

What does it cost?

One person on the team creates a team and subscribes; everyone else joins with an invite link at no individual cost. Plans start at £3.99/month for up to 15 players and 10 sessions per week, flat, regardless of headcount.

During beta, accounts receive Pro access free: up to 30 players and unlimited sessions. No payment card is required. Guest hosts use the Free game list, up to 8 players and 2 sessions per week on this browser.