Find Someone Who Game for Work Day Events

Company all-hands events are one of the few times the whole team is in the same room. And most of the time, people spend that time talking to the same five people they already sit near.

The marketing team sticks with marketing. The engineers find each other. The people who commuted in together stay together.

Nobody does this on purpose. It just happens. And when it does, you miss one of the biggest benefits of getting everyone together in the first place.

The Find Someone Who game fixes that. It gives every single person in the room a structured, low-pressure reason to walk up to a stranger and start a real conversation.

Find Someone Who is a networking game where each participant gets conversation starters. The app gives conversation starters sequentially - like: 'Find someone who has worked here for more than 5 years' or 'Find someone who has worked on a different continent' or 'Find someone who has a side project outside of work.'

To move-on, you have to find a real person who fits the prompt and have a brief conversation with them. They sign your card, you sign theirs, and you both move on to find your next match.

The goal is to fill as many squares as possible. But the real outcome is that everyone in the room has talked to people they would never have approached otherwise.

It is not a trust fall. It is not a trivia quiz. It is just a good excuse to walk up to someone and say hello.

Paper cards work fine for small groups. But when you have 100, 200, or 500 people in a room, paper cards become a logistics nightmare. Someone always forgets theirs. People lose them. And you have no way of knowing whether anyone actually played.

For large company events, a digital Find Someone Who Bingo app is the better move.

Jam Bingo is built exactly for this. Guests scan a QR code to join. Their bingo card loads on their phone, they complete prompts by meeting real people in the room.

You can customize every single prompt to fit your company culture, your team, or the theme of your event.

How you kick off the game sets the tone for how people will engage with it. If you sound stiff or overly formal, people will check out before they even start.

Here is a simple script you can use or riff on:

"Alright everyone — before we get into the main program, we are going to play a quick game. It is called Find Someone Who. You are going to scan the QR code on the screen, and go find real people in this room who fit your prompts. You have got [X] minutes. Let's Jam."

That is it. Short, clear, a little competitive. The prize mention at the end matters — it gives people a reason to actually move.

If you are using Jam Bingo, show the QR code on the main screen as you finish the intro so people can scan immediately. Do not let the momentum die.

Here is the full set of instructions to share with your team:

• Scan the QR code on the screen // or, pick up the bingo card.
• Read through your prompts. Each prompt describes a type of person you need to find.
• Walk up to someone, introduce yourself, and ask if they fit the prompt.
• If they do, scan their QR code to unlock the next prompt // or, ask them to sign your bingo card.
• Keep going until you complete all your prompts — or until time is called.
• The person with the most completed prompts wins.

One rule worth adding: you can only use the same person at most twice. Otherwise everyone just finds one friendly coworker and uses them for every square.

You do not need to spend a lot to make the prize feel meaningful. The point is to give people something to play toward, not to create a high-stakes competition.

Here are some prize ideas that work well for workplace events:

• A company gift card (coffee, lunch, Amazon) in the $25 to $50 range
• An extra half day off or a late start on a Friday
• A premium company swag item that is not part of the standard onboarding kit
• First pick at a team lunch order or seat at a reserved table
• A small experience: a cooking class, movie tickets, or a spa voucher
• Public recognition from a senior leader in front of the whole group

That last one is free and it often means more than anything you could put in a gift bag. Calling someone up in front of their company and recognizing them goes a long way.

The best time to run Find Someone Who is before food is served, whether you are doing a lunch event or a dinner reception.

Here is why: Running it before food also serves as a natural warm-up. By the time people sit down to eat, they have already had four or five real conversations. The room feels warmer. The meal goes better. The rest of the program is easier because people are already comfortable.

Once people have a plate of food in hand, they find a seat, settle in, and stay there. The natural movement of the room slows way down. The game depends on people being willing to get up and walk around, and that is much easier to do when nobody has committed to a table yet.

If you are running the game before food, keep it to 15 to 30 minutes. That is enough time for most people to complete several prompts and have a handful of real conversations without dragging on so long that people get restless or hungry.

The goal here is to get people warmed up, not to run a full tournament. Think of it as a pre-game. You want people energized and connected by the time they sit down, not exhausted.

If you are running the game after food, you have more flexibility. People are relaxed, the pressure is off, and a 30 to 60 minute window gives everyone a genuine chance to move around the room and meet people at their own pace. This works especially well for evening events or longer all-day formats where there is natural downtime built into the schedule.

Either way, announce the time limit clearly at the start so people feel the gentle pressure to keep moving instead of getting stuck in one long conversation.

If you have a company event coming up and you want to run Find Someone Who without the paper card headache, Jam Bingo is the easiest way to do it.

Create a Jam Bingo game QR code, and be ready to go in under a minute. No printing. No collecting cards at the end. Just a room full of coworkers who actually got to know each other.

That is the whole point. Make it easy to connect, and the connections will happen.