Barter Puzzle(Time to Do collection)

TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY

Teams must work together to complete a puzzle as quickly as possible. Initially the teams will be divided and given separate bags of puzzle pieces. They will think that they are competing against each other and then come to realise that they have no way of completing the puzzle unless they work with the other sub-teams as they hold the missing pieces of the puzzle.

Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces Setup

Divide up the puzzle and place an equal amount of pieces into each team bag
Split the team into 2 smaller sub-teams (or more depending on the size of your group) and hand each team a bag.

Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces Team Activity Instructions

Provide each sub-team with a bag of jigsaw puzzle pieces. Instruct them to assemble the puzzle as quickly as possible. Try to ensure that each teams puzzle pieces appear to be an entire puzzle.

Introducing the exercise:

“The aim of the exercise is for each team to assemble the jigsaw puzzle as quickly as possible using the pieces provided. All teams have the same puzzle. You will receive no additional instructions”

Teams will assume that they competing against one another, however there is only one puzzle and the pieces have shared out between the two teams. They key point of the exercise is for the team to identify the problem and resolve it by discussing it between them and working together.

Provide enough time for the teams to work on the puzzles. Generally, they shouldn’t need any more than 30 minutes to complete, although this will change depending on the complexity of the puzzle and group size.

Rules

We were separated into 4 groups and each group was asked to cut a picture into 75 pieces. Then we put them into four bags. But some parts of each picture put into another bag and shuffled the pieces.

Thing is:some of your pieces are in another team’ pile.

The goal:Complete your Image puzzel the fastest.

Each team must come to a consensus on how to get missing pieces back_either throught negotiationg. trading, or exchanging team members. whatever they decide to do they must deside as a group.