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In this era of lean and mean effective focus on the bottom line, the concept of “office games” may seem like a relic of the dotcom era picturesque. Based on my experience as a small business in the early to mid 2000 when the office contests were treated with reverence and passion usually reserved for the Olympics, I say it’s time to bring games back office (within reason).

What began as a race-profit, to see who may have one or two penguins hit the longest distance with a rubber ball quickly into official tournaments “Penguin Ball,” a contest of skill and strength that is marked as a combination of bowling and football. penguin ball spread through the office faster and wider than the hole in the ozone layer in Antarctica, making interdepartmental relations in a company plagued by turf wars and factions to build. Time spent at the end of Friday to place on small Paris that could knock over most of the penguins in a battle of 10 rounds penguin ball Royale helped put the tone for more civil interaction Monday morning. Youse guys want Star Play Ball?

Like all good things, penguin ball ended. The small group of employees who had invented penguin ball took their frustrations in a new game called Star Ball, which was played like Stickball, but the parking lot of the office with a Wiffle ball bat and a piece of candy wrapped in Starburst fruit as the ball. Star Ball, you could experience the thrill of a shameful 10 years, with bonus points for winning a Starburst on the roof of the nearby post office and at least one copy of a candy rattling the windows of the building offices across the street and a suit 20 – and 30-something players as a diffusion rage resident leaned his head out the window screaming. Ball was never a star sensation Inter, but offer an outlet for stress required to select players.