Team Building
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Title & Description
Team building games free– Indian Poker is a team building game for new friends to know each other or just for old friends to have a good time together. It is a simple, easy-to-understand game for everyone to have a good time together.
Purpose
• For icebreaking purposes
• To observe trust, honesty and bluffing in a group setting
Team Size
About 6 – 12 players
Materials Required
A stack of Poker Cards
Time Required
About 15 minutes
Instructions
1. The participants sit down forming a circle facing inwards.
2. The stack of poker cards is then mixed and made into a (messy) pile in the center.
3. Each player then takes turns picking a card from the center pile.
4. Each player, without looking at their own card, places the card facing outward on their foreheads. This means that everyone else except for them can see the card on their forehead.
5. The objective of the game is to find the loser, the person with the smallest card on the forehead. The loser would have to do a simple forfeit as punishment.
6. When the round begins, one player starts off by asking the other players if he/she should change the card on the forehead.
7. Now his peers can either tell him the truth or bluff him into thinking that he needs to change the card.
8. If the player decides to stick with the initial card, then you move on to the next player and the same cycle is repeated.
9. If the player wishes to change the card, then he discards his card, shows it to himself and picks up the next card.
10. Players may only change their card once. So the second card will be the final card on the player’s forehead.
11. The round ends when every player has been given a choice to change their cards. The loser will be the one with the smallest card!
Things to Note:
1. The sizes of the suits in ascending order are Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts and Spades.
2. Do ensure that there are no mirrors in the playing rooms because players will be able to see their own cards!
Debriefing Notes
1. How did you feel when you were not able to gauge the size of your card?
2. How did you react to your teammate’s opinion of whether you should change?
3. What made you trust a particular friend/teammate’s opinion?
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