Hot Potato Status Meeting Game

Originally posted at YouMightBe.com.

Object of the game: Don’t be caught giving your status update when the potato goes off.

Requires: Hot potato timer or random timer smartphone app.  If you know of a link to a good one, please leave it in the comments.

Rules of the game:

1. A different person starts the status meeting every week.
2. The random “Hot Potato” timer starts when the first person begins his or her update.
3. When an update is complete, the person picks a random person to hand/toss the “hot potato” to.
4. Repeat giving updates and handing off the potato until updates are complete or the hot potato goes off.
5. If the potato goes off during your update, you must buy coffee and donuts/bagels/etc. for the entire team the next morning.
6. If the entire meeting goes off without the potato going off, the manager buys the food.
7. Interrupting an update means that you get to hold the potato next, or if you’ve gone already, until the person giving the update is finished talking.