Virtual
Aliens Have Landed
Explain Your World to Aliens Who Know Nothing About It
4.9 rated•45–90 Mins•10–200•Virtual•Medium intensity
Explain Your World to Aliens Who Know Nothing About It
Aliens Have Landed is a virtual team activity built around a simple, funny premise: aliens have arrived, and they understand nothing about human life. Teams have to explain everyday objects, habits and ideas to them, from scratch, without assuming any shared knowledge.
The challenge forces people to strip their explanations back to basics and think creatively about things they normally take for granted. Describing a doorbell, a birthday or a traffic jam to someone with zero context turns out to be harder, and more entertaining, than it sounds.
Run over video call and led by a facilitator, it gets remote teams talking, laughing and building on each other’s ideas. It is a light, imaginative session that works especially well as an icebreaker or an energiser for distributed teams.
Teams join the call and are briefed on the scenario: aliens have landed and need everyday human life explained to them.
The facilitator issues prompts, such as an object, custom or concept, that each team has to explain to the aliens from first principles.
Teams collaborate to build the clearest, most creative explanation, presenting their take to the group.
Teams share their explanations, with the funniest and most inventive rewarded. The gap between what we assume and what we can actually explain drives the fun.
Trebound runs the activity end to end. Your team turns up and plays.
What your team practises beyond the game itself:
Explaining familiar things to a blank slate forces clear, assumption-free communication.
Teams build explanations together, combining perspectives to make their case land.
The absurd premise rewards imaginative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Breaking a concept down to its basics for an alien audience is a genuine reasoning challenge.
Seeing the ordinary through alien eyes builds empathy and fresh perspective.
The humour and low stakes make it an easy, inclusive way to get remote teams talking.
Designed for video call, it connects people who rarely share a room.
A light, funny opener that gets a quiet virtual group talking quickly.
Needs no special skill, so it includes every level of a mixed group.
A short creative burst to reset energy in a long virtual agenda.
Explaining customs from scratch surfaces and celebrates different backgrounds.
A high-impact session of real pressure, genuine laughter, and the kind of honest teamwork that only happens when everyone has to trust each other. Book Aliens Have Landed with Trebound today.
