Keep your team engaged with daily trivia competitions and conversation-starting icebreakers. Both post automatically to your Slack channel on a schedule you choose.
🎯 Trivia vs Icebreakers
| Feature | Daily Trivia | Icebreakers |
|---|
| Format | Multiple-choice questions | Open-ended prompts |
| Scoring | Points and leaderboards | No scoring |
| Goal | Friendly competition | Spark conversation |
| Themes | Rotating weekly topics | Varied personal prompts |
🧠 Daily Trivia
A new trivia question posts every day at your scheduled time. Answer quickly to earn more points!
How It Works
- Question posted → Multiple-choice trivia appears in your channel
- Team answers → Everyone submits their answer
- Faster = more points → Speed bonus for the first 20 correct answers
- Leaderboards → Track weekly and monthly standings
Scoring
| Component | Points |
|---|
| Correct answer | 100 points |
| 1st place speed bonus | +20 points |
| 2nd place | +19 points |
| 3rd place | +18 points |
| …down to 20th | +1 point |
Weekly Themes
Topics rotate each week: Science, History, Geography, Pop Culture, Sports, Movies & TV, Music, and more.
GIFs posted with questions may (or may not!) be helpful clues…
🧊 Icebreakers
Fun prompts that help teammates get to know each other. No scoring — just conversation!
Example Prompts
| Category | Example |
|---|
| Personal | ”What’s your go-to comfort food?” |
| Fun | ”Share the most ridiculous photo of your pet!” |
| Travel | ”What’s the best trip you’ve ever taken?” |
| Work | ”What’s the best career advice you’ve received?” |
| Random | ”If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” |
🚀 Getting Started
- Open Doozy from your Slack sidebar
- Select Start a Doozy
- Choose Daily Trivia or Icebreakers
- Pick your channel, days, and time
- Click Start
To post in a private channel, first invite Doozy by typing /invite @doozy in that channel.
Schedule trivia and icebreakers at different times to avoid overlap!
⭐ Best Practices
| Practice | Why It Works |
|---|
| Post in the morning | Gives people time to participate throughout the day |
| Vary frequency | 1-3 icebreakers per week avoids fatigue |
| Lead by example | Respond first to encourage participation |
| Mix it up | Run both trivia and icebreakers for variety |
