Team Scavenger Hunt Builds Fun, Collaboration & Problem-Solving
Team Scavenger Hunt Builds Fun, Collaboration & Problem-Solving is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Copy this list and distribute it to every small team.
- Challenge each team to locate and collect every item on the list within a set time limit, eg 1 hour.
- Answer any questions and describe any boundaries, if necessary.
- When ready, announce that the time has started.
- All teams must return before the allotted time expires.
- Scavenger Hunt Team scavenger hunt to build collaboration & problem-solving.
- This team scavenger hunt is a thrilling and active team-based game, creating excitement through competitive time pressure whilst encouraging creative thinking about where to locate specific objects.
- The points system rewards teams for their thoroughness and persistence.
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Prompts to use +
Copy this list and distribute it to every small team.
Challenge each team to locate and collect every item on the list within a set time limit, eg 1 hour.
Answer any questions and describe any boundaries, if necessary.
Scavenger Hunt Team scavenger hunt to build collaboration & problem-solving.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Team Scavenger Hunt Builds Fun, Collaboration & Problem-Solving. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Copy this list and distribute it to every small team.; Challenge each team to locate and collect every item on the list within a set time limit, eg 1 hour.; Answer any questions and describe any boundaries, if necessary.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.