Thrilling, Quick Elimination Game to Boost Energy - Match & Out
Thrilling, Quick Elimination Game to Boost Energy - Match & Out is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Invite your group to stand in a circle.
- Introduce and practice three different gestures with your group, each involving two fingers being extended and placed:
- - Above one’s mouth / below the nose (moustache)
- Practice and repeat this slapping and clapping rhythm with your group for 10-20 seconds featuring the random display of any of the three gestures at the same time.
- When ready, announce that you are ‘It’ which means that you will start the rhythm of the beat encouraging everyone to follow with you.
- Match & Out Quick elimination game to energise group focus & reactions.
- Match & Out is a quick elimination game that is super fun and perfect for opening a session, energising a lesson and adding life to boring meetings.
- The friendly competitive format keeps everyone involved from start to finish, triggering focus and concentration skills.
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Prompts to use +
Invite your group to stand in a circle.
Practice and repeat this slapping and clapping rhythm with your group for 10-20 seconds featuring the random display of any of the three gestures at the same time.
When ready, announce that you are ‘It’ which means that you will start the rhythm of the beat encouraging everyone to follow with you.
The friendly competitive format keeps everyone involved from start to finish, triggering focus and concentration skills.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Thrilling, Quick Elimination Game to Boost Energy - Match & Out. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Invite your group to stand in a circle.; Practice and repeat this slapping and clapping rhythm with your group for 10-20 seconds featuring the random display of any of the three gestures at the same time.; When ready, announce that you are ‘It’ which means that you will start the rhythm of the beat encouraging everyone to follow with you.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
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