Gamification strategies for ChatGPT

As you're rolling out ChatGPT, you may want to explore some new ways to get users engaged in discovering innovative ways to use ChatGPT, enhancing their proficiency with prompt engineering, and fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing across teams. Here's a guide to help you think about gamifying generative AI and getting your end-users excited.

1. Define your objectives

Before you start, clarify what you want users to achieve:

Do you want employees to explore new use cases for ChatGPT?
Do you want them to learn more advanced prompting techniques? Discover and deepen their understanding of new features?
Are you aiming to foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing?
Is this a live activity (encourages quick thinking and iteration) or async (promotes thoughtfulness and thoroughness)?
Do we want users to work individually or in groups?

By aligning your activities with clear objectives, you’ll know which gamification strategies make the most sense!

2. Design your game (examples below)

✍🏼 ChatGPT Prompt: I am creating an internal challenge for new users of ChatGPT. Here are the instructions: "Prompt Quests (Leveling Systems): Provide a progressive path where users start with simple tasks (“Summarize a report”) and advance to more complex challenges (“Create a role-play scenario to train a new team member”)." Create 5 prompt quests, each with 5 levels of tasks that get increasingly more challenging

ChatGPT Levels Challenge

Participants progress through 5–10 levels by creating prompts that meet specific criteria. Each level introduces a new scenario and output requirement to expose new users to a variety of tasks with increasing complexity.

Resources:

Type: Individual
Time: 1.5 hours (async)
Tools/Tech: Shared spreadsheet
People: 1 event facilitator, 1-2 judges

Instructions

Draft a “prompt journey” with about 5–10 levels.
At each level, assign a scenario and desired output format.
Users submit their prompts and outputs; if they meet criteria, they unlock the next level until they reach the end.

✍🏼 ChatGPT Prompt: I am hosting a ChatGPT prompt tournament for my team of marketers and social media content managers. Brainstorm a list of overly simple prompts that someone might use in their job. The goal of the team is to improve these prompts using prompt engineering best practices. Generate a table with a task, an overly simple prompt, then a more comprehensive prompt in the second column. Limit this to 20 total prompts.

Prompt Improvement Tournament

This game is a prompt engineering challenge designed to help participants refine their skills in creating effective ChatGPT prompts. Teams or individuals start with a list of overly simple prompts, rework them into more comprehensive versions, and compete for points awarded by judges based on prompt quality and adherence to best practices.

Resources:

Type: Individual or Team
Time: 1 hour (async or live)
Tools/Tech: Shared spreadsheet
People: 1 event facilitator, 2 judges

Instructions

List 20 prompts for ChatGPT tasks that are overly simple. Use ChatGPT to help you generate a simple prompt, and then a more comprehensive prompt for that same task.
Give each team the list of just the simple prompts, and a blank column for the team to input the new and improved prompt.
Teams or individuals go through each task individually and submit an improved prompt.
Judges review all of the prompts for prompt engineering best practices, and award points for each team/individual.

✍🏼 ChatGPT Prompt: "Create a Slack message for a facilitator to send out instructions for a Use Case Identification Workshop. The workshop involves:

Identifying repetitive tasks in daily workflows
Prioritizing top use cases
Designing and testing tailored ChatGPT prompts to improve productivity

The session is 2 hours and involves dividing into teams, brainstorming tasks (with Post-its or digital tools), grouping similar tasks, voting on top use cases, creating ChatGPT prompt packs, and sharing results. Include clear steps, timing for each phase, tools needed, and make it engaging and concise for a Slack audience."

Use case identification workshop

In this hands-on workshop, participants will identify repetitive tasks in their daily workflows, prioritize top use cases, and design tailored ChatGPT prompts to automate them. By testing and grading ChatGPT's performance, the team will uncover actionable strategies to enhance efficiency and productivity.

Resources:

Type: Team
Time: 2 hours (live)
Tools/Tech: Post-its and white board (or online version like Stickies or Miro), timer, shared spreadsheet
People: Team captains

Instructions

Divide groups into teams that most closely represent their function.
Give everyone a stack of Post-its
Set timer for 5 minutes and have everyone list out all the tasks they spend their time doing every day.
Group post-its into similar themes
Vote on top 5 use cases
Have teams or individuals create prompt packs or GPTs to solve and share out.

✍🏼 ChatGPT Prompt: I am hosting a scavenger hunt with my team to encourage them to use ChatGPT features. Provide a list of 10 unique ChatGPT tasks (e.g. "Convert an FAQ into a decision tree") that a user might accomplish using ChatGPT.

ChatGPT Scavenger Hunt

Participants collaborate in a live, 1.5-hour group scavenger hunt using ChatGPT to complete a list of creative or problem-solving tasks. Teams craft prompts to achieve each task, earning points or badges for successful submissions, with a facilitator guiding the event and judges scoring the results.

Resources:

Type: Group
Time: 1.5 hours (live)
Tools/Tech: Shared spreadsheet
People: 1 event facilitator, 2 judges

Instructions

Share a “Scavenger List” of tasks.
Users submit the prompts they crafted to achieve each task.
Offer points or badges for each completed item.

Tips for faciliatators:

Be inclusive

Ensure everyone feels included and empowered! Not everyone is a prompt pro from the start, and gamification can often highlight these insecurities in a negative way. Consider incorporating the following:

Quick-Start Guides: Offer a basic “formula” for prompts (e.g., Action + Content + Format)
Examples: Show before-and-after prompts so users can see how small changes yield better results.
Collaboration: Pair power-users up with novices
Office Hours or Q&A Sessions: Set aside a time when the AI Champion or power users can answer questions and offer tips.

Start Small and Scale Up

Begin with one or two gamified elements: maybe just a single prompt challenge or a small set of trading cards. Once you see engagement, gradually introduce more complex quests, bigger tournaments, or additional badge categories.

Gather Feedback and Iterate

Surveys or Polls: Ask participants which challenges they enjoyed, what felt difficult, and what they’d like to try next.
Analyze Participation: Track how many people enter tournaments, complete scavenger hunts, or level up in quest challenges.
Adjust and Evolve: If certain activities are more popular, lean into those. If some are underused, tweak the rules or try a different format.

Celebrate Successes
Highlight and celebrate outstanding participants and teams. Share stories of how someone’s clever prompt saved time or solved a real work challenge. These success stories show the tangible value of investing in your generative AI skills!

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