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One might wonder what sets an icebreaker game apart from other types of icebreakers. Icebreaker games are longer and a bit more complicated than other icebreaker exercises. Many of them need some advance preparation. Some of the best icebreaker games work for any size group and any age and have modifications and variations to help them work for any occasion.

Additionally, an icebreaker game can be "played" just as any other type of game can be. Our group of icebreaker games includes some for teams as well as whole group games. Getting-To-Know-You icebreaker games take a while and are excellent at the beginning of an extended group activity such as a conference, class, or camp where you want members to get to know each other thoroughly. We have icebreaker games that challenge thinking, require creativity, and some that simply provide many laughs. You are sure to find the perfect icebreaker game among the following.

Adult Icebreakers for Parties

Whenever a group of adults gets together, an icebreaker game is an excellent way to get everyone familiar with everyone else. Even those who think they know everyone well may be in for some surprises when you use our icebreakers for adults. Use them for parties, meetings, or anytime you have a group of adults getting together for any purpose. We have arranged our list into two categories - Adult Icebreakers for Parties and Adult Icebreakers for Meetings - to make it super simple to find the perfect adult icebreaker for any occasion.

Icebreaker games for adults are a fun way to start a party and keep it going. You will find one for introductions, one for adults to get to know each other, and some that are simply crazy and fun.

How Much Do You Use

A fun adult icebreaker game, this game can provide plenty of laughs.

1. Have the participants sit in a circle and tell them that you are going to pass around a roll of toilet paper.

2. Invite players to "take as much as they will need to get the job done."

3. After every one has had a good laugh over the amount of paper they took, tell them that for every piece of toilet paper they ripped off, they must tell the group one thing about themselves.

Crazy Questions and Answers

An adult icebreaker game that can take quite a bit of time, Crazy Questions and Answers is perfect if the party is slow to start or bogs down halfway through.

You will need two index cards for each adult that will participate. If you collect and keep the cards, you can use this game multiple times.

You can use the questions and answers below or create your own:
Questions: Answers:
A rather noisy, but very fun adult icebreaker, this game is sure to relax the group.
The Story Once upon a time, there was a charming young lady named BETTY who was loved by a sailor called POPEYE. BETTY lived near a great forest in which there roamed a big WOLF. One day BETTY decided to visit her grandmother who lived in the heart of the forest where the WOLF lived. POPEYE wanted to go along, but BETTY would not listen and would not let POPEYE accompany her. Soon the WOLF followed BETTY. The WOLF crept closer and closer, but behind him came POPEYE! Just as the WOLF was about to leap on BETTY, POPEYE killed him with his trusty club and saved BETTY'S life. Thus ends the story of POPEYE, BETTY Boop, and the Big Bad WOLF.
The Magic Word

This great adult icebreaker game can be played with many different variations. You can even have this game last throughout an entire party (or conference meeting).

1. Hand a lei, cheap bead necklace, or some party favor to each of your guests when they first arrive.

2. Give each of them a "magic" word they cannot say at any time during the party.

3. Choose words that are commonly said in regular speech to keep people paying attention.

4. Each person is to listen for their magic word and collect leis, necklaces, or favors from other guests who say them.

5. They can also trick people into saying their magic word.

6. The winner is the person who collects the most trophies.

If you wish, you can give a small surprise at the end of the game.

Scavenger Hunt

Put an adult twist on this well-known game.

1. Divide the group into teams of up to five.

2. Provide them with a list of items to find.

3. Choose items that can be found in the immediate area, pockets, purses, or on-line. For example: a credit card, a digital photo of a bald man's head, a pair of reading glasses, a baby picture, a recording of a toilet flushing, and the address of a donut shop in Miami, Florida.

4. Tell participants to use the many types of technology that adults carry on a daily basis - cell phones, PDAs, laptops, etc. The team that finds the most items wins.

Belly Balloon Break

This adult icebreaker game is best played by pairing couples, or at least people who know each other well. The goal is to try to break a blown up balloon between two bellies. Have at least three blown up balloons for each pair. Have everyone stand or sit in a circle, with the blown up balloons in the middle. They are to begin when you say, "Go!" The pair who burst the most balloons wins. You can set a timer for a specific amount of time - five minutes works well - if you wish.

Adult Ice Breaker Games for Meetings

Yes, I Have Done That!

Make a list of 25 or more icebreaker questions for adults with lines after each for a signature and pass it out to everyone. You need to have at least one question for each person. Adults circulate, asking questions until they find someone who can answer, "Yes, I have done that!" That person signs their name on the line next to the question. Once they get at least one "yes" from each guest, they are allowed to obtain multiple "yes" responses from any guest. People may find they cannot find a new someone to answer "yes" to a particular statement. In that case, they must backtrack and remove the name of someone's "yes" response to a particular statement in order to answer another statement "yes". The first person to complete their list wins. You can use the list that follows or make one of your own.

If I Could Have, I Would Have

Books and movies abound with stories of people seeking different paths in their lives, and almost everyone has wished at some point that they had done so. Ask each adult to state their name and what path they have been on - personally or professionally - and what path they would have taken if they could start over, if they knew then what they know today.

Sentence Starters

1. Before the adults get together, write sentence starters on slips of paper.

2. Have each person pull a slip from a bowl and write their name, read the sentence starter, and then complete it.

3. They should also provide several additional sentences of information that coincides with their sentence starter.

4. Read the completed slips when everyone has arrived to help everyone get to know each other.

Variation: Have the adults sit in a circle and pull one slip at a time from a bag, basket, or box. Read the sentence starter and have each person take turns completing them.
The following is a sample list of sentence starters:
Cup Stacking

Everyone, including adults enjoy stacking cups! Have plenty of durable plastic cups on hand and a sturdy, flat tabletop completely empty. Every person that walks through the door must take one cup (or more if you do not have that many people coming) and stack them one on top of another. As more people arrive, the mountain and the difficulty of not knocking everyone else's cups down intensifies. If they are all knocked down and many people are still arriving, you can start over.

Paper Balls

Paper Balls can be played by the whole group, or you can divide the group into teams. Groups of from three to five adults work well. Pass out a sheet of newspaper to each person and tell them to roll it into a tight ball. Have the participants stand at the far end of a room with a basket of some kind on the other side of the room. The object of this adult icebreaker game is to roll the balls as close as possible to the basket. Those who do so score points.

Team Icebreaker Games

Superlatives

A good icebreaker game, this one can be as long or as short as you wish. Divide your group into teams of five to ten people. The goal of this game is for players to reorder themselves as quickly as possible. You can use your own category or one of the following:

From shortest to tallest - how many letters are in your first name.

From farthest away to closest - birthplace.

From least to most - how many brothers and sisters you have.

Shortest to tallest - height.

Beginning to end of year - birthdates.

Once a team has arranged themselves, the leader of the group makes sure they have done so correctly. The first team to do so wins.

Protect the Egg

Protect the Egg is a great icebreaker game to promote team building and requires creative problem solving. This game works best with a large group of people.

1. Divide the group into teams and give each team an egg. Have available a variety of materials each team can use to build a way to protect their egg when it is dropped.

2. Place the materials where all teams can choose what they need. Straws, cotton balls, tape, glue, pop sickle sticks, and paper all work well. Additionally, this icebreaker game is fun to play outside with no materials provided. Players use whatever they can find outside to protect their egg.

3. Set a specific amount of time for teams to design and make a contraption to protect their egg. Then, someone in each group stands on a chair and drops their team's egg. The team whose egg does not break is the winner!

Electric Pulse

The name of this game comes from the two long lines of players resembling electric pulsing.

1. Form two teams using whatever method you prefer. Have the two teams form lines facing each other.

2. Instruct the teams to hold hands forming two long human chains.

3. At the end of the two lines, place a chair with a small object on it - a tennis ball works well, but you can use any object you have on hand.

4. A referee stands at the other end of the lines, facing the chair.

5. Tell everyone in the lines to close their eyes and downward face.

6. The referee then flips a coin and quietly shows it to the first players on each team.

7. If the coin is heads, the two people at the front of the lines squeeze the hand of the next person in line as quickly as possible.

8. Each person, whose hand is squeezed, squeezes the person's hand next to him or her.

9. The goal is to be the team with the "electric pulse" passing all away along the line first.

10. The team that does so wins a point.

If the team makes a mistake and tails was actually the result of the toss, they lose a point. Set a total number of points as the goal for winning the game - ten points for a short game works well.

Getting-to-Know-You Icebreaker Games

Pick a Straw

Good for any size group, you can vary the questions used to cover a variety of topics, groups, and situations.

1. Before the group arrives, count out straws or pop sickle sticks, one for each person. If you decide to use this game at the last minute, no problem. You can simply use post-it notes or small slips of paper.

2. Place them in a cup, basket, or bag after marking 20% of them, i.e. two for every ten.

3. Have each member of the group draw one and, if the one they draw is marked, they answer a question.

You can use any set of questions you wish, or choose one of our Icebreaker Questions. You can repeat this process as many times as you wish.

String a Story

An introduction and conversation icebreaker game, this game gets people to tell each other about themselves. You can make this game as short or as long as you wish and use it for any size group. For a large group, you can divide into teams. It also works for any age, from children to senior adults.

1. You will need to get a big roll of yarn or string. Color or multi-color string is fun.

2. Cut the string in various lengths from 12 to 30 or more inches.

3. Bunch it all into one big clump.

4. To play, ask a volunteer to pull a piece of string from the clump and slowly wind it around their index finger.

5. While they do so, they must introduce themselves and then talk, either about themselves, or you can choose a topic if you wish, until the string is completely wound up.

6. The fun part is that some people get a long string and must keep talking.

Whose Story Is It?

This icebreaker game lets you hear some fun, fascinating, and surprising stories.

This continues until all the slips of paper are used. At that point, each person tells his or her own story with additional details.

Simply Fun Icebreaker Games

Act and React

A funny icebreaker game, players use paper and pen to write down an event, or you can prepare papers ahead of time. Some examples you might include are:

Winning the lottery

Meeting a large, aggressive bear in the woods

You just got fired from your job

Your boyfriend just broke up with you

Put the papers in a bag, box, or basket. Have players randomly select a piece of paper and react to the experience using words, gestures, and facial expressions. Players try to guess what happened. Set a time limit for the players to act out their event. You can give a point for each correct guess. You can also vary the game by making players act out their event without talking. This icebreaker can work with any group size and any age.

This game is fun for any age.

As the game progresses, eliminate any players who laugh or make noise when it is not their turn. The player who avoids laughing throughout the game wins.

Hodge Podge Word Game

One of the best icebreaker games for fun and to get a group relaxed and ready to work with each other, this icebreaker game takes no materials or preparation and is excellent for any size group.

1. Have the group stand or sit in a circle.

2. Choose a person to start the round or do so yourself.

3. Slap a relatively slow rhythm - both legs on the first beat, clap hands on the second beat, thumbs-up on the left hand for the third beat, and thumbs down on the fourth beat.

4. Everyone in the circle matches the rhythm and then the leader says with the rhythm, "Hodge podge, hodge podge, hodge podge, hodge podge," and then the first world for a sentence.

5. The second person is another word to build the sentence and so on around the circle, with one word for each beat. If a player wants to end a sentence or insert punctuation, they do so.

6. When a sentence ends, the next player starts a new sentence. The goal is to create a story.

7. If a player makes a mistakes, in unable to say a word with the beat, says something illogical or grammatically incorrect, they have to start the next round.

The stories are sometimes silly, but always fun.

Active Icebreaker Games

Picture Scavenger Hunt

An active icebreaker game and teambuilding activity, this game takes some preparation and lasts quite a long time. However, it is well worth it as it is fun for those 15 and up.

Make a list of 12 to 15 interesting places, things, and circumstances that players can capture in pictures wherever you are. For example, on a college campus, the following would work:

A group photo with in the chemistry lab

A very relaxing place

Something big and purple

A big tree

A photo with a green car

The funniest thing you can find

Seven things with the letter "P"

Make copies for each team. Divide the group into teams of three or four people and give each group a digital camera. The goal of this game is to find everything on the list within a set amount of time. When teams get back together, award one point for each photo taken and bonus points for extra effort or creativity.

You may also be interested in Mall Scavenger Hunt Game

Icebreaker Games for Groups

Before beginning this icebreaker game, gather items whose names only have one syllable. You need as many items as you have people. Some good items are fork, spoon, pen, shoe, etc.

Have the group form a circle. Choose one person as the leader. The leader chooses one of the objects - let us say a fork - and hands it to the person to their right saying, "This is a fork."

The conversation continues moving from person to person as follows:

Person #2 - "A what?"

Leader - "A fork."

Person #2 - "Oh, a fork!"

Then Person #2 passes the fork to person #3 and the same conversation occurs again. Meanwhile, the leader takes another object and begins passing it, saying the same thing, for example "This is a pen."

The leader continues to take new objects and pass them and the objects make their way around the circle with the same conversation repeated by all players as they pass and take an object. If a player messes up, they are out of the game. You may wish to pass the items around the circle more than once.

Camping Trip

Camping Trip takes concentration and a good memory. Have your group form a circle. Choose a pattern the words used in the game must follow. Some suggested patterns are:

1. Things that start with a certain letter of the alphabet such as the letter D (diamond, dog, drink, etc.)

2. Things that end with a certain letter of the alphabet

3. Words with two vowels or consonants together (wheel, pizza, book, etc.)

4. Words with a certain letter or sound at the of the word such as the letter K (rake, book, coke, etc.)

5. Items consisting of two words (hot dogs, baking dish, waffle iron etc.)

6. Items of the same color

7. Items with the same number of letters

8. Items that begin with the last letter of the last item mentioned

Choose a person to begin the game. They say, "I'm going on a camping trip and I'm going to bring ______." The player picks anything they would like to bring on the trip that follows the chosen pattern. For example, if he pattern is "things which begin with the letter C," they might say "cookies."

You will need a pattern for the players to follow, but only have one player know the pattern before you start. This will make the items they suggest on bringing that much harder to think of.

Let us assume that the pattern is things that begin with the letter 'S' so the player says "socks". Players who have figured out the pattern will say things that begin with "S." All the players who know the pattern will say, "Okay, you can bring that on the camping trip". However, a player who does not get the pattern might say, "Apples." At that point, the players who know the pattern say, "No, you can't bring apples." Play continues around the circle until all players have figured out the pattern. If a player thinks they know they pattern, they begin their turn by whispering to the leader what they think the pattern is. The leader will say yes or no. Sometimes players think they know the pattern, but they simply guess something that happens to fit.

Make your pattern choice according to the age and composition of the group. Some are more complicated than others are. You can also use more than one pattern at a time.

Good icebreaker games provide fun and help people feel relaxed if they are with people they do not know well. The icebreaker games in our list do not need to be limited to a specific length of time. You can play the same game for more than one round. You can also use variations to meet specific needs. Try all of ours; you will find that your favorite icebreaker game is whichever one works best for you.

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Quick breaks that help students refocus so they can return to work feeling centered and ready to learn.

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When presented with new material, standards, and complicated topics, we need to be focused and calm as we approach our assignments. We can use brain breaks and focused-attention practices to positively impact our emotional states and learning. They refocus our neural circuitry with either stimulating or quieting practices that generate increased activity in the prefrontal cortex, where problem solving and emotional regulation occur.

Brain Breaks

A brain break is a short period of time when we change up the dull routine of incoming information that arrives via predictable, tedious, well-worn roadways. Our brains are wired for novelty. We know this because we pay attention to every stimulus in our environment that feels threatening or out of the ordinary. This has always been a wonderful advantage. In fact, our survival as a species depended on this aspect of brain development.

When we take a brain break, it refreshes our thinking and helps us discover another solution to a problem or see a situation through a different lens. During these few minutes, the brain moves away from learning, memorizing, and problem solving. The brain break actually helps to incubate and process new information. Consider trying these activities with your class:

The Junk Bag: I always carry a bag of household objects containing markers, scrap paper, and anything that one would find in a junk drawer-for example, a can opener or a pair of shoelaces. Pick any object out of the junk bag and ask students to come up with two ways this object could be reinvented for other uses. They can write or draw their responses. Once students have drawn or written about an invention, they can walk the room for one minute sharing and comparing.

Squiggle Story: On a blank sheet of paper, whiteboard, or Promethean Board, draw one squiggly line. Give students one minute to stand and draw with their nondominant hand, turning the line into a picture or design of their choice.

Opposite Sides: Movement is critical to learning. Have students stand and blink with the right eye while snapping the fingers of their left hand. Repeat this with the left eye and right hand. Students could also face one another and tap the right foot once, left foot twice, and right foot three times, building speed they alternate toe tapping with their partner.

Symbolic Alphabet: Sing the alphabet with names of objects rather than the letters.

Other Languages: Teach sign language or make up a spoken language. In pairs, students take turns speaking or interpreting this new language for 30 seconds each.

Mental Math: Give a set of three instructions, counting the sequence to a partner for 30 seconds. Example: Count by two until 20, then count by three until 50, finishing with seven until 80. Switch and give the other partner another set of numbers to count.

Invisible Pictures: Have a student draw a picture in the air while their partner guesses what it is. You could give them categories such as foods or places, or other ways to narrow the guessing.

Story Starters: A student or teacher begins a story for one minute, either individually or with a partner. The students then complete or continue it with a silly ending.

Rock Scissors Paper Math: After players say, " Rock, paper, scissors," the last call-out is "math." With that call, students lay out one, two, three, or four fingers in the palm of their hand. The first player to say the correct sum of both players' fingers wins.

Focused-Attention Practices

A focused-attention practice is a brain exercise for quieting the thousands of thoughts that distract and frustrate us each day. When the mind is quiet and focused, we're able to be present with a specific sound, sight, or taste.

Research repeatedly shows that quieting our minds ignites our parasympathetic nervous system, reducing heart rate and blood pressure while enhancing our coping strategies to effectively handle the day-to-day challenges that keep coming. Our thinking improves and our emotions begin to regulate so that we can approach an experience with variable options.

For the following practices, the goal is to start with 60 to 90 seconds and build to five minutes.

Breathing: Use the breath as a focus point. Have students place one hand close to but not touching their nose and the other on their belly. As they breathe in, have them feel their bellies expand. As they exhale, they can feel the warm air hit their hand. Students will focus on this breath for only one minute. Let them know that it's OK when thoughts sometimes come into the mind uninvited. Tell them to exhale that thought away.

Colors: Visualize colors while focusing on the breath. Inhale a deep green, and exhale a smoky gray. Have students imagine the colors as swirling and alive with each inhale. If a student is de-escalating from an angry moment, the color red is a great color to exhale.

Movement: This one is for younger children. Direct students to stand and, as they inhale, lift an arm or leg and wiggle it, exhaling it back to its original position. For younger grades beginning these focused-attention practices, it's good to include an inhale and exhale with any type of movement.

The Deep-Dive Breath: Have students inhale for four counts, hold for four, and exhale for four counts. You can increase the holding of breath by a few seconds once the students find the rhythm of the exercise.

Energizing Breath: Have students pant like a dog with their mouths open and their tongues out for 30 seconds, and then continue for another 30 seconds with their mouths closed, taking short breaths with one hand on the belly. We typically take three energizing pant breaths per second. After a full minute, have students do the deep-dive breath.

Sound: The use of sound is very powerful for engaging a calm response. In the three classrooms where I teach, we use rain sticks, bells, chimes, and music. There are many websites that provide music for focus, relaxation, and visualization. Here is one of my favorites.

Rise and Fall: As we breathe in and out through our noses, we can lie on the floor and place an object on our stomachs, enhancing our focus by watching the rising and falling of our bellies.

When we're focused and paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and choices, we have a much greater opportunity to change those thoughts and feelings that are not serving us well in life and in school. When we grasp this awareness, we see and feel the difference.

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Five Best Online Presentation Creation Tools

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You don't have to download an office suite to build great-looking presentations for work, a talk, or school. There are plenty of online options that work well from any computer with a web browser, whether it's your desktop, a PC at work, or a laptop on the go. This week we're looking at five of the best.

There are plenty of good reasons to consider an online presentation app-by and large, the best ones are either free or low-cost, they store all of your data online for you to access when you need it, and you don't have to carry around files or your own computer to give a presentation-as long as there's a web browser where you're headed, you can give flawless talks-assuming you know your material of course-there's more to a great presentation than the slides. Still, earlier in the week we asked you for the best online presentation creation tools, and you gave us a bunch of great options. Here are your five top picks, in no particular order.

Haiku Deck was founded on the premise that simple, modern, and elegant slide decks should be the norm, instead of overly dense, difficult to read, and difficult to digest ones. Similarly, the service makes creating those presentations easy, thanks to its webapp (and iPad app). Slides made using Haiku Deck focus on imagery and graphics, with a few words per-slide, but you're free to customize your slideshows so they work best for the story you're trying to tell. You can see more than a few examples in Haiku Deck's featured presentation gallery, which gives you a quick feel for how your presentation might look if you used the service. Haiku Deck is completely free, and your account gives you access to over 35 million images and six presentation themes to choose from (additional premium themes and images are available to purchase.) You're free to upload and use your own images as well, or import them from sites like Instagram, Flickr, Dropbox, Google+ Photos, and more. The service also has chart and graph building tools built-in you can use to display data.

Those of you who nominated Haiku Deck supported it because it puts all of the tools you need right at your fingertips to create good presentations. If you have no idea how to license images for use in public presentations, or music, or the only tool you've ever used it PowerPoint and you don't want your slideshow to turn out like everyone else's, Haiku Deck is an elegant, easy to use alternative that handles the details for you. It has tons of presentation options, and you have the choice to make your slideshow private, public, or restricted to a few people. Many of you noted that it's great for people who just want a good looking presentation but don't want to spend all day creating one. You can read more in its nomination thread here.

Prezi isn't just a great online presentation tool, it's one of your favorite PowerPoint alternatives in general. The service made waves when it launched years ago because it gave users the ability to create dynamic, fluid, non-linear presentations with great animations and motion effects that lend an energy to a presentation that you won't get with a static series of one-after-the-other slides. Of course, with its popularity also came some overuse of those features, giving rise to some equally awful presentations that zoom and swoosh all over the screen, overusing motion effects to a dizzying degree. Even so, it's a highly popular tool that's all-online and free to use for anyone who wants to sign up. It's powerful in its own right, and allows you to visually show how ideas relate to one another instead of just putting one idea after another. It's best used for non-linear presentations, where you may need to go back to old topics, show how multiple topics are connected, and show how details relate to a greater picture. Prezi also allows you to make heavy use of images and multimedia, graphs and charts, and other original details to really make your presentation your own. Best of all, if you're working on a presentation with others, like for work or a class project, you can have everyone collaborate on the presentation together at the same time. Like we mentioned, Prezi is free (but all of your presentations will be visible to the public). If you need to use it for work, want storage for files, need privacy, want to edit offline, or want more features, there are premium plans and discounts for students and teachers available.

Those of you who nominated and supported Prezi's nomination liked the fact that you can build and edit your presentations on any device with a browser, and that your work syncs immediately with other devices, including mobile devices. Prezi's library of templates and media lets you find inspiration and use it in your own presentation, too. It's not perfect though-many of you shared your horror stories as well as your praise for the service, but overall, many of you appreciate Prezi's ability to create unique and dynamic presentations that break away from traditional slide decks. You can read more in its nomination thread here.

While other online presentation tools take a more dynamic approach and try to depart from the PowerPoint-esque style of presentations, Google Sides embraces it-and that's not a bad thing. If you're already familiar with tools like PowerPoint, want something familiar but simple and easy to use, Google Slides is the tool for you. In fact, we should mention it was Another of you favorite PowerPoint alternatives. It's come a long way since it was introduced, but it manages to incorporate a professional look and feel along with some interesting and dynamic transitions, images, presentation themes, and other tools that make it fun and refreshing to use. Like other Google Drive applications, Slides also allows you to collaborate in real time with other users, and everything is stored on the web, in Google Drive, so you can get to it any time, on any computer or device, or send it to anyone who needs to see it. Slides also makes embedding your own images, charts, graphs, videos, or just about any other type of multimedia relatively easy. Best of all, if you're coming from a PowerPoint world, Slides can open, save, and convert PowerPoint files. Offline editing is part of the package, and best of all, it's completely free. If you have a Google Account, you already have access to it and don't need to sign up for anything else.

Those of you who nominated it pointed out that it's free, easy to use, and offers a feature set that's on par with more complicated tools but a user interface that keeps things simple and easy to understand. It may not be flashy or dynamic, as some of you noted, but it's that simplicity that really makes it-and the presentations you create with it-stand out the way you want them to. You have more control, and you're not subject to someone's specific design preference for transitions or slide styles or themes. Others of you praised Google Slides' integration with and availability on mobile devices. You can read more in its nomination thread here.

If you like your presentation tools free, open-source, and either hosted on the web or hosted on your own GitHub repository, Reveal.js-and its online editor companion, Slides.com-are perfect for you. Reveal.js is framework that lets you build robust slide decks and presentations using HTML or Markdown, right in your browser, so you don't have to download anything. The builder is remarkably robust and well put together, not to mention simple and easy to use. It may seem like a developer's dream presentation tool, but you don't have to be one to make the most of it, or the online editor. It's easy to create animations, transitions, graphs and charts, or even upload and attach your own to your presentation. Reveal.js makes it easy to check out those presentations on the go, on any device, or embed them in your blog or web site so people can see them when they visit. Similarly, you can just send a link out to people to view your presentation, or save a PDF of your entire slideshow so pass around that way. There are also a ton of advanced features available too-you can create presentations and keep them private, present your deck offline, control your presentation from a mobile device, sync your work to Dropbox if you choose, and more. You can see a full list of features here, most of which are free, but some only available with a Pro account -or the ability to fork the whole project and add or manage them yourself.

Those of you who nominated Reveal.js and Slides.com all commented on how well built the tool is, and how easy it is to do things like nested slides, add speaker notes, and more either by forking the project on your own and running it yourself, or by using the free webapp. Some of you noted the open JavaScript API makes it easy for developers to add in their own features, not to mention save their presentations anywhere they want. You can read more praise in its nomination thread here, over here, and over here.

Keynote is best known as Apple's own presentation software that's part of the iWork productivity suite, but thanks to the iWork for iCloud Beta, Keynote is also available entirely online if you're looking for a web-based presentation builder (and you have an Apple account and access to iWork.) The web version brings most of the same features to the table as the desktop version. It can open PowerPoint files, sports tons of templates to make designing a great-looking presentation from scratch easy, and lets you upload and add your own media, charts, graphs, and other images if you don't want to use the site's built-in editors for them. If you're enamored with the transitions, styles, themes, and presentation types you've seen in Apple keynote speeches, or you just want a good-looking alternative to something like PowerPoint, it's worth a look if you have an iCloud account. All of your presentations are saved in iCloud, and available on your other Apple devices (and Windows PCs.) Similarly, you can present from any computer with a web browser, which is essential to being a good online presentation tool.

Those of you who nominated Keynote recalled its history as being the presentation tool built specifically for Jobs-era Apple keynote speeches, and for being a breath of fresh air in a very PowerPoint-powered world when it came to business presentations when it launched. Being able to work from and present from iOS devices or other devices is a nice touch as well, and the all-web editing tools make working on an Apple computer or a Windows PC easy as well. Also, it's completely free. However, it's worth mentioning that technically the service is in beta, and Apple could discontinue it or place restrictions on it at any time. You can read more in its nomination thread here.

Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them to a vote to determine the community favorite!

No honorable mentions this week, although a few of you expressed some curiosity for Microsoft's Office Sway, a new product that Microsoft recently announced that they're hoping will eventually be a complete shift in the way people create online presentations and multimedia. It's still new though, so the jury is out whether it'll displace other products, rise of its own accord, or, as some people have said, put PowerPoint out of its misery.

Have something to say about one of the contenders? Want to make the case for your personal favorite, even if it wasn't included in the list? Remember, the top five are based on your most popular nominations from the call for contenders thread from earlier in the week. Don't just complain about the top five, let us know what your preferred alternative is-and make your case for it-in the discussions below.
The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!

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