If you’re in a modern workplace like ours, your team probably lives and works on Slack. You have a #fun channel for everyone in the company to share jokes, memes, pictures of pets, and light-hearted moments. You invite remote workers to participate and give everyone a sense of a shared water cooler experience.

Now you can easily add some fun games for Slack to #fun too. Adding interactive puzzles can be a powerful way to boost engagement, reinforce learning and bring some fun into the workday. Think of running a weekly or daily Wordle-like game with words related to the theme of your company. Or a fun jigsaw puzzle with a memorable photograph of a company outing. Or a crossword about your customers. Or even a quiz with little known facts about people in a group.

By combining Slack with our PuzzleMe employee engagement platform, you can easily create, launch and score games across the company in just a few clicks. PuzzleMe natively supports Slack, providing powerful authoring tools for an on-brand, gamified experience, while Slack offers single sign-on and a familiar user interface. You do not have to worry about limits on the number of people who participate because PuzzleMe is infinitely scalable.
Here’s a practical guide to setting up a PuzzleMe game and using it effectively in Slack.

What Is PuzzleMe?

PuzzleMe is an advanced puzzles CMS (content management system) that enables you to create interactive puzzles, along with powerful ways to customize, distribute and track player performance. It supports multiple game types such as WordroW (Wordle), Quiz/Trivia, Crossword, Jigsaw, Crossword, Sudoku, Word search, etc. Each game type can be customized with your content. What’s more, PuzzleMe has powerful AI features that make creating a sophisticated game a breeze. It’s often used by large companies such as GE for internal communications, learning and development, education, marketing and team engagement.

Why Use Slack for PuzzleMe Games?

Slack is more than a messaging app – it’s a collaboration hub. Hosting PuzzleMe games in Slack allows you to:

  • Drive team bonding sessions
  • Run quick knowledge checks during training
  • Introduce or reinforce onboarding messages for new employees
  • Organize team-building competitions
  • Encourage participation without extra logins
  • Launch instant engagement campaigns

For work teams (especially remote or hybrid), this makes learning interactive and social.
Further, the environment provided by such games helps break the ice and gives employees a chance to talk over lunch about something other than their day-to-day work. Many employees do not want to talk about work at leisure times, but are also not comfortable talking discussing personal matters with their colleagues. These games provide a happy middle-ground – a shared experience that is neither about work nor personal matters.
You can launch a fun game on Slack in 3 easy steps.

Step 1: Add PuzzleMe to your Slack workspace

Step 2 : Create Your Puzzle

  • Log into your free PuzzleMe account and create the game you’d like your teammates to play. You can create and customize a game just by chatting with PuzzleMe AI (like with ChatGPT or Claude). You can preview the games as they would look on a mobile, desktop or tablet.
  • Go to the Publish page for your puzzle, click on the Slack option and copy the message.

Step 3 : Share the Puzzle in Slack

Go to the channel where you want to share the puzzle and paste the message copied in the last step.
That’s it! Your team can start playing and having fun while keeping an eye on the leaderboard! 🙂
The beauty of Slack apps is that users see a preview of the game, are invited to click on it and can see a running leaderboard at all times. Since users are already logged in to Slack, they get a single-sign-on experience and do not need to log in again. Their play details and score are automatically tracked and a leaderboard is maintained by the PuzzleMe system.

Best Practices

  1. Based on my experience, here are some best practices I have seen for gamified employee engagement.
  2. Name your particular game something distinctive and fun so that people will remember it.
  3. Pin the Slack message launching the game to the channel for visibility and greater engagement.
  4. Add @here or @channel to bring the message to everyone’s attention.
  5. Use PuzzleMe’s branding options to use colors and fonts distinctive to your brand
  6. Schedule games at a predictable time, for example Monday mornings 8.30 am, or Wednesday evenings 5pm. This builds anticipation and lets people know when to find them. The competitive people in your team will be waiting to pounce on the game!
  7. Add Friendly Competition
    1. Post a leaderboard screenshot.
    2. Announce the top 3 finishers for each week publicly
    3. Offer small rewards
    4. Offer stats about participation and completion times in the company all hands or Christmas party!
  8. Encourage Discussion:
    1. Share the correct answers after 24 hrs
    2. Ask a follow-up question in the thread
    3. Invite feedback
    4. Invite the top brass to participate – yes, even CEOs enjoy a fun Wordle or Quiz!
  9. Use PuzzleMe’s messaging features to customize the start and end screens. For example, your start screen can explain when the games go live, and prizes offered, if any; your end screen can link to resources that you want the team to open. Remember that gamified links that employees had to work to earn are prized much more and are more likely to be opened than a link in a bland internal comms email!
  10. Start small, keep it consistent and watch participation grow!!! 😀

Advanced Uses for Work Teams

If you’re using Slack for work (as many teams do), PuzzleMe can support:

  • Onboarding games – “Guess the Policy” quiz
  • Product launch challenges – Feature trivia
  • Culture building – Holiday word searches
  • Knowledge retention checks – Post-training quizzes

Using Slack for smart games turns everyday communication into an interactive experience. Whether you’re running training sessions, boosting morale or simply adding a bit of fun to the work week, integrating puzzles into Slack makes employee engagement and internal comms easy and accessible.

If you’d like advanced features or premium support, PuzzleMe also has affordable Plus, Professional and Enterprise plans that can easily be paid with a credit card. Go to the pricing page to find out more.

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