Mix & Meet

A relaxed icebreaker game for junior youth

Also known as: The M&Ms Game, Who's a Smartie Then


How To Play Mix & Meet

Materials Needed

M&M chocolates

This is a really fun and simple (and yummy) small group get to know you game. Get each person to grab a small handful of M&M's but be sure to tell them not to eat them yet.

Each person will need to take a turn to share a fact about themselves for every chocolate they have grabbed. The fact they share must be associated with the colour of the M&M they picked. For example, if they have three blue and one green, they would have to say three facts for the "blue topic" and one fact for the "green topic".

Here are some examples of topics you can do for the colours. Feel free to mix and match to use the topics you like.

VERSION #1
Blue = Something about your family
Green = Something about your school
Yellow = Something about your friends
Red = People you admire
Brown = Music & movies you like

VERSION #2
Blue = Something about your childhood
Green = Favourite hobbies
Yellow = Most memorable or embarrassing moment
Red = Favourite foods
Brown = Favourite places to travel

This food-based small group icebreaker game can be played with other colourful chocolates too.
- M&Ms
- Smarties
- Jelly beans
- Jubes
- Clinkers

Added by
Samara
on 16 June 2008


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i love this game "mix and meet"! its very fun, and i upvoted it!

Posted by KittyDragonClan 2 years ago

Wow that sound like a very fun game, will try it out soon in my I-fam

Posted by Marvin arimpa 3 years ago

This is great, I'm planing on using it for my neuroscience club.

Posted by Shakirah 4 years ago

ooohh I Love this game, for sure this can be helpful for me as camp director this coming summer. thank you so much for this Ideas. I'll try this. :)

Posted by mabbss 4 years ago

Thank you for the ideas and I will definitely use them!πŸ™‚

Posted by Klempp 4 years ago

You could use Bingo chips too!

Posted by Denise 4 years ago

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Posted by oh i wuz a young warhog..... 4 years ago

This game sounds fun. I especielly Liked billy bob joe's comment about it. right on bro

Posted by Tobias Eaton, Tris Prior, and Peter the betrayer 4 years ago

hi i am the president of a youth alive club at my school and i've been looking for a fun game to have every one get to know each other i think i might have found just the game .

Posted by kayle drogosch 4 years ago

I personally totally like it

Posted by sweatlana Darji 4 years ago

I would like to know this ice breaker i have a group work i need to use it in my team please explain it to me how to play the game please

Posted by Buziwe Swartbooi 4 years ago

We’re doing this Sunday with 25-30 middle schoolers and high schoolers. This is how I’ll do it:

Going to split the big group up into 4 by their birthdays. Group 1 is Jan-Mar bdays, Group 2 is Apr-Jun...and so on. Once divided, have them grab some M&Ms and give 6-8 minutes to go through the activity. Should work well

Posted by Brent 4 years ago

I love this game

Posted by joseph 4 years ago

Perfect ❀️

Posted by Qamar 4 years ago

Can I have your advise how to play this game?
Thank you for your help...

Posted by Alvin thian 5 years ago

I can't wait to use this for my tutoring sessions

Posted by Zoey 5 years ago

Thanks you! This appears to be a nice game .
Will use this game at our youth group on Friday.

Posted by Tanaka Mutaurwa 5 years ago

I love the M and M game - I teach English to Japanese students and there is always a few days of really trying to get them to talk!!! This will be good..

Thankyou so much..

Posted by Andrea 5 years ago

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Posted by Billy Bob Joe 5 years ago

This is a great game. I'm sure my group will enjoy it and I plan to use the M&M's.

Posted by Jean Walker 5 years ago

I like the game very much!

Posted by Sumona Choudhury 6 years ago

Such an awesome ice-breaker, I am starting a homework club in my township today. It's definitely gona help me a lot...☺

Posted by Siphindile Moloi 6 years ago

It's my first time as a youth President and am not sure how to get my your and Sunday school children active learning and having fun same time please help me so I can have a successful groups

Posted by Cammesha Brown 6 years ago

Thanks you! This game is amazing
I use this game in my community project

Posted by stephen fayiah salay Boiyah Sr 6 years ago

Thank you we Samara we share the same name!!!

Posted by Samera 6 years ago

We used this game for our Confirmation Retreat on Saturday! It was a huge success!! :-)

Posted by Veganda Wasserman 6 years ago

I love this game , am going to try it with my group

Posted by Beatrice Omondi 7 years ago

This game really sounds like a great game I am going to try the M & M's in my group. My group starts with 13-19 year old. Thanks! so much because they really get bored quick especially when they can't use their phone.

Posted by Cathryn Thompson 7 years ago

Wow it really sounds interesting i have a birthday party and i need to knw how to play this game please help....

Posted by Faith kanyiva 7 years ago

Thank you , i am a missionary in Colombia. I am using it on friday with our Medellin youth Group

Posted by Andrew 8 years ago

When you give out the toilet paper, you make them think that this is their ration for the night, in case they have to use the bathroom - that way, they will take more than one square. (You don't lie; you don't say anything at all, except for something like, "Please take as much toilet paper as you think you will need this evening" or something like that.)

Posted by Judith McRae 9 years ago

Thanks we are going to use this game on Sunday can you post more icebreakers please.thanksπŸ˜†πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€

Posted by Ammar 9 years ago

i wouldn't think of toilet paper to be a good idea because then they could just grab on square so they wouldn't have to talk

Posted by Lsudd7317 9 years ago

Thanks so much i will defnitely use this one,this Saturday! Anyone has some more activities especially for older people? We have church funday day after tomorow, for the first time in 15 years....
Ebrahim

Posted by 10 years ago

hi there... i was told to prepare games for our farewell dinner with our missionary thats about to go out on his mission, and i found this... it was funnier then i thought..lol.

Posted by Julie 10 years ago

Great way to get everyone to share a little about themselves. Especially in a 'shy' group of kids

Posted by Jason 10 years ago

That is a great game and im gonna try it with my youth group

Posted by jesse 11 years ago

I love this game

Posted by Anon 11 years ago

Another way to play this is to use colored paper squares or poker chips. I have a lot of sick kids with specific food needs come through, so we have to steer clear of a lot of food-based stuff, and so I keep some red/yellow/blue paper squares on hand, as well as some red/white/blue poker chips (but the paper ones are easy to add to, and I sometimes don't have enough poker chips).

Posted by Kat 12 years ago

I play this game alot using the toilet paper.I find the young people have a great time and have many laughs especially the boys.When they realise what they have to do they always ask can they put some back.It really is a great way of getting them to open up about themselves.

Posted by Denise 12 years ago

Hi There,
I dont know how to play games here! Thanks in advance for your advises

Posted by Arthur 12 years ago

i wanna use to try your game as ice breaker in our youth group

Posted by abigail 14 years ago
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