Complex Problem-Solving Game For Logic Skills - Traffic Jam
Complex Problem-Solving Game For Logic Skills - Traffic Jam is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
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- Lay a series of nine rubber spots in a straight line on the ground/floor, spaced about 600mm apart.
- Invite eight people to stand on the spots, leaving the centre (5th) spot empty.
- Ask each person to face towards the centre (empty) spot, thereby creating two teams of four people facing the back of another team member.
- Challenge each of the two smaller teams of four people to swap places with the other team of four, ie so that they all end up facing away from the middle.
- All moves must adhere to three strict parameters:
- - An individual may only move into an empty space directly in front of them;
- - If two people are facing one another, one of them may move around the other, provided there is an empty space to move into; and
- Traffic Jam Complex problem-solving game requiring logic & collaboration.
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Invite eight people to stand on the spots, leaving the centre (5th) spot empty.
Ask each person to face towards the centre (empty) spot, thereby creating two teams of four people facing the back of another team member.
- An individual may only move into an empty space directly in front of them;
- If two people are facing one another, one of them may move around the other, provided there is an empty space to move into; and
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Complex Problem-Solving Game For Logic Skills - Traffic Jam. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Invite eight people to stand on the spots, leaving the centre (5th) spot empty.; Ask each person to face towards the centre (empty) spot, thereby creating two teams of four people facing the back of another team member.; - An individual may only move into an empty space directly in front of them;; - If two people are facing one another, one of them may move around the other, provided there is an empty space to move into; and. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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