Make Some Noise
Half the room versus the other half. Loudest side wins. There is no prize.
You split the room down the middle and have the two halves out-cheer each other, escalating until everyone is on their feet. It is the shortest and bluntest thing in the set — ninety seconds, no rules to explain, and it works on a room of four hundred.
This half is one team. That half is the other. When I point at you, make as much noise as you can. When I point away, silence. Loudest side wins, and there is absolutely no prize.
A big room has gone flat and you need volume immediately, with no space, no props and nothing to explain.
Props: None
Run this when…
If none of these is your room, pick another.A large conference room after a long session
Straight before a break, to lift the room
Any group too big for anything else
How to run it
Written to be glanced at mid-room, not memorised.
- Split the room down the middle with a gesture — no moving required.
- Point at one side. They make noise. Point away, they stop.
- Point at the other side. Same.
- Go back and forth, faster, so they have to watch you.
- Raise the stakes: now stand up while you do it, now stamp too.
- Both sides at once for the finish, then cut it dead with a flat palm.
Running it well
Only the host sees these. Participants never do.
- Your own energy is the entire activity. Called flatly this is embarrassing for everyone; committed, it works on any size of room.
- Cutting it dead at the end matters more than building it. The silence after four hundred people stop at once is the moment worth having.
- Do not declare a winner. The moment there is a real result, half the room feels they lost a thing they did not want to play.
Watch out for
Space, safety and the traps worth knowing before you start.
- It gets genuinely loud. Check what is happening in the next room, and do not run it where there is a session behind a thin wall.
- Loud noise is painful for some people. Say at the start that anyone who would rather sit it out can, and mean it.
- Nobody needs to move, which is what makes it work in packed rows.
Already seated
Nobody has to stand for this one.
It is already seated for most of it; the standing round is optional and the activity works without it.
Run it yourself
Free for thirty days, no card. Put it on the projector and step through it — nobody in the room needs a phone.
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- Where
- Needs a room
- Props
- None
- Big screen
- Required
- Teams
- Supported