What games/ activities can you do with zoom ?

[Florecita]

Friends do you have ideas for games or activities with zoom? 

[Tortuga]

That's an interesting idea. There are a lot of online games but a Zoom game or activity sounds interesting. 

[Luigi62]

Start a meeting and watch the monthly broadcast together from each other’s house.

[Strawberrypeach]

Il be interested to see any ideas that are posted. 😊 Was going to post about ideas for virtual family worship with others. Before the outbreak we enjoyed regularly inviting bros and sisters from the hall to come and join us for fw. As our son is young our fw's are quite simple but we enjoyed being able to include others especially the older ones or those who are on their own. With the restrictions now I’m trying to think of ideas where we can do fw with others over WhatsApp, zoom etc or maybe games as has been already posted. 

[Beggar for the Spirit]

Maybe these could be some fun or good ideas for association over Zoom/Skype?

•  CHARADES - use gestures and facial expressions, dancing, jumping and grimaces; take any poses; show the word in whole or in part; nod or shake your head: “yes” and “no”.
• WATCH MOVIE TOGETHER - Start the movie at the exact same time at each person's home(using Hulu, Netflix, etc) and then you can even talk or critique the movie while watching or pause and discuss parts you liked
• DRAWING/PAINTING TOGETHER - 2 people or a group over Zoom/Skype could decide what to paint together, then each person can create their own drawing/painting, their personal interpretation of a scene or event or item that everyone agreed to draw/paint together. 
• FUN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING - Those who are interested in a specific foreign language could get together on Zoom and try learning together more words and phrases in that language which would sharpen everyone.
• WORKOUTS  - 2 people or a even a group could be formed to do aerobic exercises together with some music or those who have stationary bikes could ride together, weight training, etc.
• SCRABBLE - Maybe there is a way to figure out how to play over video if at least 1 person has the board game or if both have the game and they can keep their boards updated matching the others' boards. Seems like it could work
• CHESS - if each person has a chess board, then they can show the person their move on their camera and then you just move their piece on your own board
• SHARING/TEACHING HOBBY - A group could come together and each person could present a hobby they do and share it with the group or even teach how to do it if others are interested in learning. 
• COOKING TOGETHER - Someone who has a good recipe that everyone is interested in could show how to create the dish and everyone could be following along in their own kitchen making the same thing or just enjoy watching others cook. Warning: This might make you very hungry. 

Edited March 22, 2020 by Beggar for the Spirit

[Qapla]

We have a thread started encouraging getting together with Zoom - you can check there to see if there is a current group with a connection link ... or start one and post the link in that thread

 

 

[Emily Mucklow]

My house hold calls it the bible story game. You give 3 hints to any bible event or character and see who guesses right first...

[Nzer133]

There’s an app called House Party! It’s free and it’s like zoom but with games. Only can have up to 8 people though. But it’s fun!

[1MKnight]

just last night me and 6 other friends played Codenames over Zoom. It was pretty fun. One person aims their camera at the board, and also sends a higher quality image to everyone. Then the codemasters get sent a picture of the key card. 

 

On 3/22/2020 at 3:36 PM, Beggar for the Spirit said:

CHESS - if each person has a chess board, then they can show the person their move on their camera and then you just move their piece on your own board

This brings up a good point: Any game with "Complete Information" (a game in which knowledge about other market participants or players is available to all participants.) could be set up easily over zoom. Games with hidden information would be very difficult and cumbersome over zoom.

[ssentiw]

This isn't a game but several sisters I know get together and do letter writing together over zoom now that we can't go door to door. I was really enjoying their company while meeting at the hall but now we can't go there either...miss them so very much!! My family also gets together to chit chat and we are always sharing recipes etc so, miss them too. But zoom is there, which almost makes this ok for now. But can't wait to see everyone in person again. Just shows us how much we should appreciate our bros/sisters and family in the truth even more as a gift from Jehovah!!😘

[Hope]

Houseparty is a free video chat app that has games built in, like Trivia, etc. It's pretty fun and easy!

 

How to use Houseparty: Video chat and play games with friends while stuck at home | Tom's Guide
https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-use-houseparty

 

[EccentricM]

Staring contest (but I don't tell people they're looking at a photo of me and not a video).

[Amygdala]

Nearly all the kids in our congregation got together today by zoom, and each shared a hobby or talent to the rest in the group. Then afterwards it was games time...the mother organizing it asked everyone to go and fetch things...so for ex. a spoon, a pillow, house keys, bible stories book, meeting shoe, etc. It proved to be fun for even me as the parent to watch, and got alot of laughters out of everyone.

[Peanuts]

We've done a quiz via zoom. One person is the quiz master and reads the questions. 

[M.J.]

Show n' Tell: very fun, everyone could contribute and get to know each other better as they explained the item they selected and why

[Raven]

Just yesterday a small group of friends and I played Pictionary on Zoom, with the help of the drawing feature (We took turns drawing Bible scenes). Was probably more efficient than playing the game in person.

We also played "The Game of Things", which is a simple concept - a person reads a question (e.g. "Things you shouldn't tie to the roof of your car...", or "Things you shouldn't say to a police officer..."), then everyone writes a secret answer and sends that to the reader (reader puts in an answer as well), and then all of the answers are read out together, and players take turns to guess who said which answer.

[New World Explorer]

42 minutes ago, Bjern said:

Just yesterday a small group of friends and I played Pictionary on Zoom, with the help of the drawing feature (We took turns drawing Bible scenes). Was probably more efficient than playing the game in person.

We also played "The Game of Things", which is a simple concept - a person reads a question (e.g. "Things you shouldn't tie to the roof of your car...", or "Things you shouldn't say to a police officer..."), then everyone writes a secret answer and sends that to the reader (reader puts in an answer as well), and then all of the answers are read out together, and players take turns to guess who said which answer.

Wonderful;... I need more questions ideas  

 

Q: what things you should't say to a fireman?

A. Your uniform is made of paper, and your hose sprays gasoline ...LOL 

 

https://quizlet.com/8888703/game-of-things-flash-cards/

Edited April 11, 2020 by New World Explorer

[Raven]

46 minutes ago, New World Explorer said:

Wonderful;... I need more questions ideas  

 

Q: what things you should't say to a fireman?

A. Your uniform is made of paper, and your hose sprays gasoline ...LOL 

 

https://quizlet.com/8888703/game-of-things-flash-cards/

The game itself contains a good list of questions, if you can get a copy of one, though it's easy enough to come up with some too.

 

Yesterday I recall we had "Things you would take with you on a hike", and "Things you would say to aliens during first contact".

 

What a great link!

[New World Explorer]

Q:Things you should never put in your mouth

A. 10 donuts at once! 

 

"Things you would say to aliens during first contact".

A. Hello welcome to earth..please try our donuts! LOL 

[retroHelen]

We have done general knowledge quizzes by having people in 2 teams and giving 20 questions then seeing  which team got most questions right. Pictures of famous decent movies was one section, but music excepts weren't so successful as people couldn't hear the music too well.

 

Another game a sister came in with a covered tray of small common household objects. She lifted the tea-towel off the tray and we were given a minute twhile she scanned her tablet over all the objects - 12-15 items and then she covered them and we had a few minutes to write out as many of them as we could remember -to see who has the best memory.

[Myew]

The other night a sister hosted some Jackbox games via screen sharing with a small group. It was really fun, I don't think I've played party games in 20 years. We played some Quiplash, Fibbage and Drawful. I got Drawful 2 for free and have been meaning to try it out. https://www.jackboxgames.com/games/

[jwhess]

Sunday night my daughter, son-in-law,granddaughter and I (2 households in 2 different states) got together on Zoom and played Yahtzee, the dice game.  We all had our individual score sheets and would roll the dice on our turn.  When it was time to write the score down, we all shared the value with those connected.

[Vido]

My wife and friends did karaoke sessions of JW original songs; it was quite interesting occasion as friends from as far a field as Europe, America and North Africa joined in, and revelled in song and dance, we had our own resident dj Eric on the decks: who pumped up melody....while we were being serenaded by our brothers and sisters...

[Luisabola]

We’ve done a couple congregation quizzes. Where we’d get assigned a team (loosely based around our groups depending on who could participate) and after the quizmaster reads a list of say 10 questions, we all get put into our breakout room for 5 mins to discuss the answer. It’s been really fun so far. 
 

I was thinking of doing categories with my cousins. We’d often play this around the dining table at my nonnas house. And I think it could be done on zoom quite easily. I’ll WhatsApp each of them the answer sheet, something like the one below. With whatever categories we all decide to do, so they can either print it off and use it or just do it with good old pen and pencil. 

 

 

Then I’ll get my youngest cousin to randomly pick a letter for us all. We’ll all get 1 or 2 mins to answer, or until the first person shouts DONE. Then we get 10 more seconds to finish. I might assign someone to be the official timekeeper. And then you score up. You get 10 if it’s a unique answer or 5 if someone else has it. So we’d need to go through one by one to give our answers. 
 

I think it could work! 

[RNGuzman]

My mom and my sister want to do an indoor scavenger hunt.  We will have 3 separate Zoom groups and lists based on ages; one for families with children/teenagers, one for young adults, and one for the older ones.  We are planning to hopefully do this next weekend.  

 

Last weekend for my sister and brother-in-law's wedding anniversary, we did a Zoom dinner for a small group and then afterwards invited friends and family to join us after a certain time.  It was nice to see friends from different places.  We were even able to get my brother-in-law's family in Mexico to connect.  There were noise issues at times, but overall it went very well.