See:
Ice Breakers 1: Why do it?
Ice Breakers 2: Scenarios, favourites and experiences
Ice Breakers 3: Either Or?
Here's another type of ice breaker. It's odd one out. Given a given short list of say three or four things, the challenge is simply to identify the odd one out, and ideally why. These can vary to quite light hearted, through to more thoughtful and taxing.
| Choices | Odd one out because it's… | |
| 1 | KCB | |
| MBE | ||
| CBI | X - Not a British Honour | |
| OBE | ||
| 2 | Stain | |
| Blow | ||
| Engrave | ||
| Sew | X - No somehing done to glass | |
| 3 | Boxing | |
| Judo | ||
| Karate | X - Not an Olympic sport | |
| Tae Kwon Do | ||
| 4 | Silk | |
| Satin | X - Not a Wedding anniversary | |
| Lace | ||
| China | ||
| 5 | Monaco | |
| Silverstone | ||
| Melbourne | ||
| Ottawa | X - Not a Formula 1 racing circuit | |
| 6 | Juliet | |
| Kilo | ||
| London | X - Not a letter in the phonetic alphabet | |
| Mike | ||
| 7 | Eastern | X - Not a London underground station |
| Northern | ||
| District | ||
| Central | ||
| 8 | 144 | |
| 84 | ||
| 44 | X - Not in the 12 times table | |
| 24 | ||
| 9 | Moderate | X - Not a world climate type |
| Polar | ||
| Temperate | ||
| Tropical | ||
| 10 | Discus | |
| Hammer | ||
| Javelin | ||
| Shot | X - Not thrown but put | |
| 11 | Garibaldi | |
| Nice | ||
| Bourbon | ||
| Dundee | X - Not a type of biscuit, but a cake | |
| 12 | Pelican | |
| Camel | X - Not a type of predressian crossing | |
| Zebra | ||
| Puffin | ||
| 13 | George | |
| Dick | ||
| Julian | ||
| Peter | X - Not a member of the famous five | |
| 14 | Cane | |
| Able | ||
| Seth | ||
| Colin | X - Not a son of Adam and Eve | |
| 15 | Tobermory | |
| Madame Cholet | ||
| Wellington | ||
| Bongo | X - Not a womble | |
| 16 | Banana | |
| Grape | X - Not needing to be peeled before eating | |
| Orange | ||
| Lychee | ||
| 17 | Barolo | |
| Valpolicella | ||
| Rioja | X - Not an Italian wine, but spanish | |
| Chianti | ||
| 18 | Trigger | |
| Champion | ||
| Silver | ||
| Flame | X - Not a famous TV horse | |
| 19 | Supergrass | |
| The Police | ||
| The Clash | X - Not a trio. | |
| The Jam | ||
| 20 | Monkey | |
| Pony | ||
| Carpet | ||
| Monty | X -Not a slang term for an amount of money |
