Hot Seat: The Ultimate Get-to-Know-You Game
Hot Seat: The Ultimate Get-to-Know-You Game is a prompted conversation exercise for psychological safety: it helps participants build trust while keeping the stakes low.
How to run it
- Select one person to sit in the "Hot Seat".
- Set a timer for 2 minutes (or any desired duration).
- Other players take turns asking rapid-fire questions to the person in the Hot Seat.
- The person in the Hot Seat must answer as quickly and honestly as possible.
- When the timer ends, switch the person in the Hot Seat.
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Prompts to use +
Select one person to sit in the "Hot Seat".
Set a timer for 2 minutes (or any desired duration).
Other players take turns asking rapid-fire questions to the person in the Hot Seat.
The person in the Hot Seat must answer as quickly and honestly as possible.
When the timer ends, switch the person in the Hot Seat.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Hot Seat: The Ultimate Get-to-Know-You Game. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Select one person to sit in the "Hot Seat".; Set a timer for 2 minutes (or any desired duration).; Other players take turns asking rapid-fire questions to the person in the Hot Seat.; The person in the Hot Seat must answer as quickly and honestly as possible.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The current corpus has one observed source organization: Icebreaker-Games.org. (1 source observed, including Icebreaker-Games.org.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.