participants are given a scenario where they are lost in a desert. individually, they are requested to rank the following 15 items that will enable them to survive a 44-degrees desert heat.

- 1ft x 1ft fishing net
- camping knife
- plastic rain coat
- dried bushes
- a loaded pistol
- wooden planks
- and more...

participants are then grouped into teams and they discuss to come out with a group solution to the issue on hand. they are then presented with model soutions. participants can then compare their individual score and group score with the model answer, finding out for themselves that interestingly even though their individual answers may not do very well, their team score will have significant improvements.

learning values
- team answers are usually better than individual answers
- during discussions, we need to seek the opinion of all team members and give them air time to explain themselves
- domineering leaders need to listen more

duration: 1 hour
indoor/ outdoor: indoor
equipment required: lcd projector and screen
group size: 10 to 300
physical rating: very low
ideal for: ice-breakers for meetings, dinner & dance, indoor teambuilding, team bonding

other indoor team building games:

team builder - indoor team building and training game ::more
paramount conquest - leadership, team building & strategy board game ::more
team works - indoor or outdoor -a series of short team building games with debrief after each segment ::more
brains, brawn & bucks - indoor game show style team building adapted from dr. howard gardner's theory on multiple intelligence ::more