40 team building photo challenges for work events

By the Mission Memories team · Updated 6 October 2026

Why photo challenges work for team building

• They mix people. Missions can require someone from another team, office or role.
• Anyone can play. No sporting ability, trivia knowledge or confidence on stage needed.
• They fit around the agenda. People play in breaks rather than needing their own time slot.
• They scale. The same game works for 8 people or 300.
• You get content. Every photo is ready for the recap email, newsletter or careers page.

Icebreaker challenges

1. Selfie with someone from another team
2. Snap two people who've never met chatting
3. Find someone who started the same year as you
4. Photo with someone who started this year
5. Find someone with the same first initial and take a selfie
6. Photo with someone who has a hobby you've never tried
7. Get a selfie with three people from three different departments
8. Photo with someone who's worked here longer than you

Team challenges

1. Get your team's best group shot
2. Recreate your team's org chart in one photo
3. Recreate a cheesy stock-photo handshake
4. Get your table doing a power pose
5. Film 10 seconds on why you love your team
6. Spell out your company name with your bodies
7. Recreate a famous painting as a team
8. Get your whole team mid-jump

Creative challenges

1. Make a product advert with whatever's on your table
2. Photo that sums up your company values
3. Recreate a famous film poster
4. Most creative use of office supplies
5. Photograph something that represents your team's year
6. Film a 10-second pitch for a ridiculous new product
7. Recreate your company logo using people
8. Take a photo that would make a great all-hands slide

Conference and kick-off challenges

1. Photo with a speaker
2. Snap the best slide of the day
3. Photo with someone from a different office
4. Film a 10-second takeaway from today
5. Photo with the event organiser
6. Selfie with the most senior person in the room
7. Snap the busiest stand or session
8. Photograph the snack everyone's talking about

Remote and hybrid team challenges

1. Show us your desk setup
2. Photo with your office pet (or houseplant)
3. The view from your window right now
4. Your mug and what's in it
5. Recreate your video-call face in real life
6. Photo of something within arm's reach that tells a story
7. Your best home-office hack
8. A selfie with your screen showing the team call

How to run a photo scavenger hunt at work

1. Pick 10–20 challenges from this list and add a few about your company.
2. Create the event in Mission Memories, add a password, and put the join link in the calendar invite or your event channel.
3. Show the QR code on the opening slide and give people two minutes to join.
4. Let it run through breaks, lunch and the evening.
5. Freeze the leaderboard in the closing session, show the top three and hand out prizes.
6. Download every photo and video as one zip for the recap.

Keeping it inclusive

• Make every challenge doable in a few minutes by anyone, regardless of role, mobility or confidence.
• Keep it optional. The leaderboard brings people in better than an instruction does.
• Tell people that photos are shared with attendees, and remove any photo someone asks you to.
• Avoid challenges that rely on drinking or that single people out.

Plans are one price per event, not per head: free for 5 people, £4.99 for 40, £19.99 for 120 and £49.99 for 300. See plans.

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