Indoor Team Building Games, NYC

Many of us here in New York City remember the Great Blackout of 2003, which while hot and inconvenient, still provided great opportunities to be outside, socialize and enjoy the life pause it offered. With Hurricane Irene, however, when the power goes out we will all be stuck indoors, without the usual distractions of TV and Internet to occupy ourselves with.

Here is a list of fun & productive things you can do when the lights go off later tonight, so that you don’t completely spaz out (if trivia team building events aren’t an option):

• 1. Storytelling contest
• 2. Sing-along
• 3. Reorganize your furniture
• 4. Clean your apartment
• 5. Bananagrams
• 6. Crossword puzzles
• 7. Staring Contest
• 8. Charades
• 9. Trivial Pursuit
• 10. Card games
• 11. Start writing a journal
• 12. Make a collage
• 13. Visit (or meet?) your neighbors
• 14. Organize your closet
• 15. Tickle War
• 16. Listen to your podcast backlog
• 17. Dust off your college musical instrument and jam
• 18. Write poetry/haiku
• 19. Draw a graphic novel
• 20. Play chess
• 21. Shadow puppets
• 22. Make a cartoon flip book
• 23. Write those thank-you cards you’ve been putting off
• 24. Do your Passover clear-out early
• 25. Write/ask trivia questions
• 26. Memorize & perform a famous soliloquy
• 27. Try and remember as many Greek/Roman gods as you can
• 28. Draw a family tree
• 29. Get creative with what’s currently going bad in your freezer/fridge
• 30. Impression contest
• 31. Truth or Dare
• 32. Write your strategic life plan
• 33. Knit, sew, quilt or embroider
• 34. Paper airplane contest
• 35. Spin the bottle
• 36. Meditate to candlelight
• 37. Give each other massages
• 38. Inventory your pantry items and kitchen spices
• 39. Spackle
• 40. Categorize all the loose business cards you’ve collected
• 41. Reorganize your filing cabinet
• 42. Try and recall everybody’s phone numbers
• 43. Stretch/do yoga
• 44. Organize your photo albums
• 45. Match the song title to the band
• 46. Alphabetize your bookshelf/CD tower
• 47. List every Broadway show you can possibly think of
• 48. Sweep/dust your apartment
• 49. Stitch up the holes in your pants pockets
• 50. Make a list of fun things to do during a hurricane

Can you think of any others?