Icebreaker
Get to know your team with engaging questions
How It Works
- Go to the channel where you would like to add Icebreaker
- Message @icebreaker in the channel to activate the slack app
- Invite the app into the channel
- Use /ice command to start an icebreaker
- Select an icebreaker category: 🏡 Cozy, ✨Dreamy, or 🌶️ Spicy
- Use the shuffle button until you find a question you like
- Hit post and learn something new about your coworkers!
Icebreaker Categories
🏡
Cozy
- How did you get your name?
- If you were a potato, how would you be prepared?
- What is a boring fact about yourself?
Warm and friendly questions for a comfortable atmosphere
✨
Dreamy
- If you were a vending machine, what would you dispense?
- What animal would you ride into battle?
- What are you looking forward to right now?
Imaginative questions to inspire creativity
🌶️
Spicy
- Dark question, but what song would you like to be played at your funeral?
- What's the worst advice you've ever been given?
- What is your oldest or most cherished grudge?
Provocative questions to spark lively discussions
Icebreakers from the Best Sources
Many of our questions come from Rob Walker's public icebreaker list, contributed to by readers of his The Art of Noticing Newsletter. Rob is also the author of The Art of Noticing.
Icebreakers not posting?
Make sure to add Icebreaker to the channel for it to work:
- Go to the channel where you would like to add Icebreaker
- Message @icebreaker in the channel to activate the slack app
- Add icebreaker to the channel
- Type /ice to shuffle and pick the icebreaker you want
