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 — 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, some weeks a drawing game or a social-deduction round — 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 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.

There's a free tier (2 sessions per week, four games, up to 8 players) — no credit card required to start.