Exciting Team-Based Guessing Game For Strategy & Fun - Up Nelson
Exciting Team-Based Guessing Game For Strategy & Fun - Up Nelson is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Sit 4 to 8 people on each side of a long table, facing one another.
- Announce that the objective of this game is to keep possession of the coin as long as possible.
- Start by giving one team - the hiding team - the coin to hold.
- Ask the other team - the searching team - to nominate a “Captain.”
- Once a Captain has been announced, ask the hiding team to place their hands and arms below the tabletop, and secretly pass (or not pass) the coin to other team members.
- Allow up to 15 seconds for these passing motions to occur before the Captain plays their role.
- Instruct the hiding team that when (and only when) the Captain says “UP NELSON,” they all must simultaneously raise their clenched fists above the table and slam their elbows onto the tabletop.
- If any member of the hiding team raises one or both of their clenched fists above the table at any other time, possession of the coin passes to the other team.
- Up Nelson Team-based guessing game with strategy & exciting competition.
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Sit 4 to 8 people on each side of a long table, facing one another.
Start by giving one team - the hiding team - the coin to hold.
Ask the other team - the searching team - to nominate a “Captain.”
Once a Captain has been announced, ask the hiding team to place their hands and arms below the tabletop, and secretly pass (or not pass) the coin to other team members.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Exciting Team-Based Guessing Game For Strategy & Fun - Up Nelson. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Sit 4 to 8 people on each side of a long table, facing one another.; Start by giving one team - the hiding team - the coin to hold.; Ask the other team - the searching team - to nominate a “Captain.”; Once a Captain has been announced, ask the hiding team to place their hands and arms below the tabletop, and secretly pass (or not pass) the coin to other team members.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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