Today my friend asked me the meaning of Icebreaker.I have come across this word a lot of times but have never took pain to find out its meaning in dictionary.Why should I? I know the meaning of icebreaker, it is something which is used to break ice..i.e, to melt ice.I even told him icebreaker is sodium chloride..Recollecting my high school chemistry..:)How stupid me!!

Even after hearing all this stupidity he was nice enough to tell me the correct meaning of icebreaker..

Icebreaker :

-Something done or said to relax an unduly formal atmosphere or situation.

-a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere;

-anything serving to lessen formality or break down reserve

After explaining  me the meaning of it, he asked me to think of an IB game.Even though I don’t know Icebreaker I know Icebreaker games!! I told him an IB which we have played and was a great success..

Icebreaker Game :

Here it is after making some modification.If ever you get a chance try it out and let me know how it work out for you.This will be good if played in a team of 15-20.

1.Give a paper and pen to everyone in the team.

2.Ask them to write 3 or more facts about themselves/interesting things they have done which others in the team don’t know.(If the things are interesting and unbelivable your IB will become a success.

3.Collect all the papers. Shuffle it and give to team members.

4.Each person will start to read it aloud and others have to guess whose facts he is reading(If the team size is greater than 20 then the cooridinator can read the papers and if you don’t have much time then read some randomly selected ones..).

5.The guessed person can tell yes/no.

6.If the guessed person is correct,if he wants to tell something about the facts he can do it.

If everyone failed to guess the correct person, then the owner can come up himself.

7.Continue the guessing until all cards are completed.So that at the end everyone will come to know the correct owner of each paper.

This is a simple but good game which helps people to know more about each other and sometimes really humorous/unbelieavable facts can be revealed, which make people surprise and ask “Oh God he wrote that..Ican’t imagine!!”

P.S :When we played,there was a paper in which the following facts were written.

1.I have my lover’s pic in my valet.

2.I am a hard core fan of Julia roberts.

3.I used to sleep in the afternoons.

Everyone was busy guessing smart fresher guys.When all failed,our Group Acct Mgr,one serious person, more than 45 years old, told “Hey,I wrote it!!”

Godde..!!Everyone was shocked..If you play this , you too can hear some shocking facts..