Water Cooler Trivia

Water Cooler Trivia is a team building tool that sends out a weekly quiz for employees to answer about a wide variety of topics from sports and arts, to science and pop culture.

Spark conversation and some healthy competition in a fun way for your employees with Water Cooler Trivia’s tool for team building. Founded by Colin Waldoch, a self-proclaimed “trivia nerd,” Water Cooler Trivia sends out a weekly quiz for employees to answer within a certain time frame. The tests cover a wide variety of topics; from history and arts, to pop culture and science. Waldoch decided to make this team building tool after creating similar quizzes for his co-workers, just for fun. His quizzes were so well received that they made him realize that trivia can spark conversations in the workplace, which helps with developing friendships. 

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This team building tool is extremely effective as it’s easy to use and does not require a big-time commitment from your employees. Going to a pub trivia night takes lots of time and trying to create your own trivia game is challenging because you need to find the questions and then grade the questions yourself. The quizzes come out just once a week so that it doesn't become a chore.

The goal of using this team building tool is to give employees something to talk about either in the elevator or on a video call. This helps your team bond and get to know each other better contributing to better teamwork on projects and company culture.

Water Cooler Trivia is equipped with thousands of questions and counting to keep the game interesting. Employees can use the tool individually or their trivia score can be added to a team so that they can see which department has the most skills. Other features include:

• Downloadable reports: track participation data to see how this team building tool is working for your organization.
• Choose topics: include or exclude certain topic’s questions on your quizzes. Plus, you can even make themed quizzes like Halloween, the 1980s, Black History month, and more.
• Score report: only shows the top 10 players to not “trivia shame” anyone on your team. The more competitive folks can check out the leader board to see where they rank among their coworkers. Tiebreaker questions are sent out when there’s a tie.
• Funniest answer: There’s a category for the funniest answer chosen by the Water Cooler Trivia team so even if you don’t know the answer you can still have fun taking the quiz. ‍
• Personal service: For particularly hard questions Water Cooler Trivia will reach out for a quote from someone who got it right to hear how they knew that fact.

Water Cooler Trivia offers pricing based on the number of participants your organization has on a monthly or annual basis. The cost can come out to be $1 per user per month based on your company size. If your organization has more than 250, contact them for special pricing. Nonprofits and schools can claim a 50% discount.

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Water Cooler trivia offers a 4-week free trial so that you can test out this team-building tool with your organization. There’s no credit card required and you can cancel anytime.

Setting up and maintaining Water Cooler trivia is simple and designed to be low maintenance. Get started and you’ll have a quiz in your inbox in minutes.

• Sign up for the team-building tool and choose between email, Slack, or Teams integration to receive your quizzes. 
• Send out invites to your employees to sign up. There’s no limit to how many people can participate.
• Decide when you want your team to receive the quiz, how much time they have to do it, and when they’ll get the results back. Most teams choose Monday mornings at 9 to send the quiz so give people something to look forward to. They are usually due the same day at 8 p.m. Your team can receive the results as soon as the next day. 
• Start having fun with your team!