Our sports team offsite this year is much smaller scale in previous years (not getting to goto Vegas this year) but because of that, there’s no “work” planned for the offsite. Instead, we’ll be team building/drinking and one of the activities might be a version of the Family Feud.
And we’re the 100 people surveyed. So we have a survey and it’s got questions not about life in general like “What is something green that you keep in your refridgerator?” but they’re about the team. You know, team building.
Which is great for questions like “Who is the hardest working person on the team?” or “Who’s the funniest person on the team?”
But it gets more interesting with questions like “Who’s the hottest person on the team?” or “Who’s been arrested the most times?”
And then down right fun with “Who bathes the least?” or “Who needs a style makeover the most?” or “Who would you least like to go on a cross country trip with?”
These are great questions because people debate over whether they should even answer those “less nice” questions. Debate internally or over lunch. But it gets better when you actually play the game.
Say, for example, people say I need a style make over and vote me to the top. It’ll hit me several times. Once, when I’m the 58 point answer. Then another time when someone playing the game says my name and their teammates start cheering “good answer! good answer!” or if that doesn’t happen, then it’ll be when another team huddles together, debates the answer, and then comes up with my name, all pumped up about it. That’s a lot of emotional change from one question.
It is also bad if I’m not on the list for needing a style make over, yet someone shouts out my name as their answer and others cheer “good answer! good answer!”. I get a little redemption when the strike buzzer sounds, but still, I know what so and so thinks of me and my style…and even the others on the team cheering on that answer…didn’t take much for them to get behind it! Remind me to update my “dead to me” list.
Final twist – suppose I’m on one of the teams. And my teammates think I’m a viable answer, but don’t want to go through the uncomfortable situation of nominating a teammate and peer pressuring me into cheering “good answer!” to my own name for this less desirable question. So then we don’t say my name and we get our 3 strikes and then the other team huddles up and says my name, and my teammates are all silently thinking “Yup…too bad we couldn’t say it.”
I guess the same could be said for a positive question – “Who’s the hottest in the group?” “Me!” and then just a groan of disapproval and no “good answer” comments…but that doesn’t seem as violent emotionally and the person saying it is kind of asking for it. The other questions – no one was asking for it.
This game is gonna be delicious.
I think the name of the game was because it was a fight between “rival” families. Our interpretation seems like it’ll cause a little stir within a family. But the name still applies.
I had fun filling out my survey, but have one question left – it wrong to put someone who’s married down for “Who’s gonna get engaged next?”