name games
Learning everyone's identity
Name games are activities or exercises where participants learn, remember, or play with each other's names—common as icebreakers at camps, workshops, or the first day of school: We started with a name game where everyone had to add an adjective matching their initial.
The term can also describe wordplay involving names, or the strategic use of names in politics or media: The campaign's name games tried to make the opponent sound foreign.
- icebreakerTension-easing social activity
- guessingEstimating without certainty
- partyGathering for celebration
- introductionPreliminary section or presentation
- memoryMind's retention capacity
word · circle · tag · alias · nickname · pseudonym · identity · moniker · twenty questions · riddle · label · title · matching · celebrity · famous · who am I · recall · association
- group activitiesvoting, protest, group dance, group project, rally
- group gamesicebreaker, team building, energizer, energizers, team challenge
- circle timestory time, show and tell, weather chart, singing, nursery rhymes
- onboardingonboarding, first day, employee handbook, welcome packet, welcome kit
- book games
- memorizationrote learning, cramming, mnemonics, rehearsal, by heart
name gamestrivia games
Contests testing miscellaneous knowledge
charades · word games · Pictionary · Trivial Pursuit · Taboo
name gamescharades
Wordless guessing game
Pictionary · trivia · word games · sports · board games
name gamesstraight talk
Honest, direct communication
direct address · calling a spade a spade · clear communication · transparency · forthrightness
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