The Barter Puzzle Game team building

Barter Puzzle

  

This is also a one of funny activities of Personal Progress Development session. First we were divided in to four teams. In each team has 7 or 8 people. All of us assign a team leader for each team.

• Time: three hours 
• Number of Participants: Seven or eight.
• Tools Needed: Different jigsaw puzzles for each group

Rules: Have everyone break off into small, equal-sized groups. Give each group a different jigsaw puzzle with the same difficulty level The goal is to see which group can complete their jigsaw puzzle the fastest.  However! Some pieces will be mixed around in other group’s jigsaw puzzles. It’s up to the team to come up with a way to get those pieces back — either through negotiating, trading, exchanging team members, etc. Whatever they decide to do, they must decide as a group

The Activity:Give each team half of the pieces needed to complete their puzzle, along with puzzle pieces belonging to the other teams. Each team is trying to complete the puzzle before the other teams, and they have to find a way to convince the other teams to give them the pieces of their puzzle. Methods could include

• Bartering for pieces.
• Merging teams
• Giving time to help solve the puzzle
• Exchanging team members

Objective: This game is all about finding creative solutions to problems, and trying to figure out a way to get what you want from others. It’s also about working together and with each other.


Our team Activity

We had to build the picture from that pieces. All of our team members started to build the picture by keeping the parts one by one. First it was too difficult because we could not identify how can match the pieces correctly.

Outcomes for each members

1. thinking
2. Decision Making
3. Work as a group
4. Communication skills
5. Solves problems and has fun.

Finally we got second place of the game. But we were happy about that we have 3 extra pieces. However all students enjoyed this game very well.