The 5 best virtual team building activities and events ideas for New Years' Eve

Looking for inspiration and ideas for a virtual New Years' Eve event, team building activity or game? Look no further, here are our top 5.

Best Virtual New Years' Eve Team Building Events and Ideas

1. Virtual Escape Room

What better way to bring teams together for a virtual New Years' Eve team building activity than fighting against the clock to escape a virtual room? Whether you want to take on the snowy landscape of the Arctic or embark on a (un)deadly adventure and escape a zombie-invested London, there’s something for everyone to get involved with. Participants will have to work together to solve riddles, crack clues and beat the clock.

2. Virtual Around The World Activity

What better way to end the year than with a virtual trip around the world? Teams will arrive in different countries and work together to unlock interactive tasks. You’ll start in Argentina and work your way around the globe! Every country contains a different series of challenges. Earn enough travel credits to make it to the next destination.

3. Virtual Trivia Night

A guaranteed hit; hosting a virtual trivia night is the perfect way to bring teams together for a bit of quizzical fun. An idea is to theme all of your questions around New Year's Eve and famous traditions that take place across the globe to celebrate the start of the New Year. You could also bring employees together to take part in a hosted Team Quiz packed full of nostalgic throwbacks that will see teams travel through the decades and test their knowledge on all things film, music, and so much more!

4. Guess The Resolution

A great idea to help employees connect, self-reflect and start a conversation is to encourage teams to write and share their New Years' resolutions. Our top tips on how to do this are below: 

• Use Slack to send a poll and compile resolutions into a shareable slideshow or graphic
• Encourage team members to share resolutions during a weekly huddle or meeting 
• Create a resolution board using digital whiteboard software

5. 'Never Have I Ever' This Year

There’s no better game to play at a New Year’s team building activity or event than Never Have I Ever: This Year.

So, how to play, at the beginning of the game, players hold up ten fingers, and each player takes a turn naming a New Years activity prefaced by the phrase “this year, never have I ever…’ players who have taken part in the stated action within the calendar year lower a finger. If there are drinks flowing, you can require players who have put down a finger to take a sip of their drink. 

Some New Years' Eve Never Have I Ever prompts include:

• Fallen asleep before midnight 
• Broken a New Years resolution 
• Spent New Year's Eve in Sydney, Australia 
• Crashed a New Years Eve party 
• Spilt champagne on myself

Final thoughts

Whilst a virtual New Years' Eve activity might not have the same buzz as an in-person event, getting colleagues together via Zoom enables you to celebrate with those in different countries and time zones. Best of all, nobody has to leave to catch the train home, so you can enjoy as many glasses of bubbles as you'd like!