A two-minute team game, every workday.

Give your team one small shared thing to play, compare, and talk about. Async by default. No host, no forced fun.

Full access for 30 days · No credit card

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Mobile Halftime Today screen showing the daily game card and weekly standings
Mobile Halftime Today screen showing the daily puzzle, daily prompt, and joke of the day
01A day in halftime09:00 to 16:00

A day, two minutes at a time.

● Open
09:00 am

Today's game drops.

One round, in your browser. Today it's One Line. Tomorrow it's something else. The element of surprise does a lot of the work.

One Line3 rounds1 shot
Slack notifications announcing Halftime is open and reminding the team that seven teammates have played One Line
● Trickle
10:30 am

Teammates take their shot.

Whenever the calendar opens up. Between meetings. Before the call. Most rounds finish before lunch, but the door stays open all day.

4 of 6 playedall timezones
The One Line game card open for the team with the play button, team progress, and close time visible
● Lunch
12:00 pm

The room fills up.

By lunch, most teammates have played. Scores compare. The prompt's small replies start showing. The joke earns its stars or its eye-rolls.

1 prompt1 joke
Today page mid-day after Maya plays. Game card showing personal best, weekly standings, prompt with team replies, joke of the day.
● Wrap
04:00 pm

Results land.

The day's scores reveal at four. Top three on the podium, full team ranked, weekly standings refresh.

Today's podium1 record broken
One Line results page with Sarah on top of the podium, Maya and Priya on the sides, and the full team leaderboard below
02Why it works

Day one it's a laugh. A month in it's a team that actually knows each other.

Quiet teammates

Quiet teammates start joining in.

A low-stakes game is far easier to enter than a conversation. Once people are playing, they start talking too.

Game chat

Game chat becomes work chat.

The people who trash-talk about scores are the same ones who speak up in the meeting after. The game is just the excuse.

Streaks and records

It compounds, quietly.

A streak. A record entry. A run at this week's crown. Showing up daily turns into its own small reward.

No forced fun

No host. No audience. No mandatory fun.

Nobody has to organise it. Nobody has to attend. The team plays because they want to, which is the only kind of team-building that works.

Run it with one team

See if the ritual sticks before you roll it out.

03The long gameRecords & champion

Five days. One champion. A book of records.

Points stack across the week. Friday at four, somebody's name lands on top. The record book remembers everything that came before.

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Weekly leaderboard showing day five standings, daily score breakdowns, and the full team race
04Bonus modeFor meetings & offsites

For the moments when everyone is actually together.

The daily habit stays async. When there is a kickoff, offsite, or all-hands, open a live room and play together in five minutes.

  • Run a live game over video, or in-person
  • One join code, browser only, no installs
  • Multiple games back-to-back, random or hand-picked
Live session lobby with a room code, joined teammates, and the real game picker
05The library50+ games · always growing

Enough variety to make the habit stick.

Arcade, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy. Old favorites and weird experiments, all built for the same two-minute window.

Avalanche
Arcade
Art Critic
Creative
Blackjack
Strategy
Color Flood
Puzzle
Anagram Sprint
Word
Rapid Fire
Trivia
Gone Fishin'
Arcade
+43
in the library

Before you roll it out

Start small. Keep what sticks.

Will people actually play?

Start with one team and watch the pattern. Halftime is opt-in, async, and small enough to become part of the day without a manager hosting it.

Does everyone need to be online together?

No. The daily game opens for a window, teammates play when they can, and the reveal gives everyone one shared result.

Do we need Slack or Teams?

No. Halftime runs in the browser and can send daily nudges by email. Slack and Teams notifications are there when your team uses them.

What if it doesn't stick?

Then you stop. There's nothing to cancel. The first 30 days are free with no credit card, and even after that your team keeps the daily puzzle, icebreaker and joke free.

Most team-building tools want an hour. This one wants two minutes.

Run a game today. Full access for 30 days, no credit card. No installs, no calendar invite.

Full access for 30 days · No credit card