Barter Puzzle

Barter puzzle



Team building activities and games are supposed to be not only educational, but also enjoyable. They help you to learn about each other, how each person thinks, works, solve problems and has fun. It was not just another PPD activity, it was a meaningful lesson to our lives. What we did was, we were formed into four groups. Then all the members of each team discussed and appointed a leader for each group. According to instructions, team leader should go to the front with a supportive person and they had to select a paper with an image and cut it into 75 pieces. Among them there should be 12 squares. Then put all the pieces into a bag. After the other groups done, some pieces were exchanged among four bags.

Then each team got a bag with exchanged pieces and no one got the same bag which they put their pieces. The goal was complete the puzzle faster. Because of that there was a huge competition among each group. First, we thought that it was very difficult task no one might not reach to the end like that. But step by step we identified parts of the picture.  Each team must come to a consensus on how to get missing pieces back-either through negotiating, trading or giving ideas to other teams. We also had to exchange some pieces with other groups. It was the hardest thing we had to face.  Because we had to deal with different kind of people in different ways. Though it was a critical thing, our team members didn’t do any single unfair thing.  But some groups stole pieces from ours as well as other groups. Not only that they have teared some pieces and increase their number of pieces to exchange. Although it was totally wrong and unfair thing, they tried to prove it as their strategies. But we never expect such a bad thing from our batch mates. As my views it is cheating, nothing else. If not what it is? Totally up to you to decide it.


Anyway, we could learn many things to our lives from this activity

  • Time management is very important whatever we do
  • We must get right decision on right time
  • Communication and collaboration are important skills when we do group activities
  • Most of the people in the society try to let you down whether they are win or loss.
  • People can trust no one, the person next to you is the most dangerous.
  • We also should use strategies whether they are good or bad way, otherwise people who use bad ways to win will be always winners.
  • In this society, everything has become a competition we need to be straight and fight for achieve our goals.   


Without using proper strategies in our day to day lives, we cannot survive in this competitive world.  Some of them are,
Differentiation
  • Time management
  • Find our strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
  • Decision making
  • Proper communication
  • Leadership

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