THE OTHER SIDE
THE OTHER SIDE is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Ask each participant to find a partner. If you have an odd number of participants, pair yourself with the unpopular individual who gets left out.
- Ask each pair to pull out a dollar bill. Have them carefully inspect both sides of the bill for 30 seconds.
- Ask one member of the pair to hold up the dollar bill by its narrower edges so that each player sees a different side. It is important that neither player can see the other side.
- Explain how the game ends. The player who reaches the total score of 5 points first wins the game.
- Let the game begin. After a few rounds, suggest that if the hands that are holding up the dollar bill are getting tired, the other player may take a turn to be the bill-holder (keeping the same sides of the bill facing the same players).
- To repeat the game, ask the players to turn the dollar bill around for the next round. Or, ask the players to use a $100 bill or some other convenient object.
Run this exercise live
The facilitator console stays in this browser. Its QR handoff is a short-lived participant snapshot containing only public exercise instructions, phase, prompt, and timer state.
What participants need now
Materials:
This is a participant-safe snapshot, not a response form. It sends nothing back to the facilitator.
Prompts to use +
Ask each participant to find a partner. If you have an odd number of participants, pair yourself with the unpopular individual who gets left out.
Ask each pair to pull out a dollar bill. Have them carefully inspect both sides of the bill for 30 seconds.
Ask one member of the pair to hold up the dollar bill by its narrower edges so that each player sees a different side. It is important that neither player can see the other side.
Explain how the game ends. The player who reaches the total score of 5 points first wins the game.
Let the game begin. After a few rounds, suggest that if the hands that are holding up the dollar bill are getting tired, the other player may take a turn to be the bill-holder (keeping the same sides of the bill facing the same players).
To repeat the game, ask the players to turn the dollar bill around for the next round. Or, ask the players to use a $100 bill or some other convenient object.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: THE OTHER SIDE. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask each participant to find a partner. If you have an odd number of participants, pair yourself with the unpopular individual who gets left out.; Ask each pair to pull out a dollar bill. Have them carefully inspect both sides of the bill for 30 seconds.; Ask one member of the pair to hold up the dollar bill by its narrower edges so that each player sees a different side. It is important that neither player can see the other side.; Explain how the game ends. The player who reaches the total score of 5 points first wins the game.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from The Thiagi Group; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including The Thiagi Group.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- 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.