Check-in game

🔀 Line Up!

Everyone gets a secret number from 1 to 100 and a theme, for example “Animals: tiny ↔ huge”. Whoever has 90 might write “elephant”, whoever has 12 might write “hamster”. Then the whole team tries to put the words in the right order. Line Up! is cooperative: you win together – or laugh together about the order.

• 3–20 players
• approx. 4 minutes per round
• Free, no app

Play Line Up! for free

How Line Up! works

1. Everyone gets a secret number from 1 to 100 and a shared theme.
2. Each person writes a word that matches their number.
3. Everyone arranges the words on their phone in the order they think is right.
4. The stage shows the real order and how close the team got.

Why Line Up! works

• Cooperative rather than competitive – strengthens team spirit.
• Shows how differently people rate the same things.
• Works great as a warm-up before working together, e.g. on prioritisation.

Great for

• Retrospective
• Planning
• Workshop
• Team building

Examples

• Animals: tiny ↔ huge
• Food: gross ↔ delicious
• Movies: boring ↔ gripping
• Superpowers: useless ↔ overpowered
• Vacation spots: dull ↔ dreamy

Tips for hosts

• Before a prioritisation session in sprint planning, Line Up! makes a charming warm-up.
• From four people upwards, the order gets genuinely tricky.

FAQ

Is this like “The Mind” or “Ito”?

Ordering numbers through words is a mechanic known from card games. Line Up! is our own version for online meetings with its own themes.

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