GAME #23: Group Shuffle
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical
❖ Purpose: To divide participants into small groups.
❖ Time Required: 5 minutes.
❖ Size of Group: Unlimited.
❖ Materials Required: A deck of playing cards.
❖ The Exercise in Action: Here are two ideas for creatively dividing participants into small groups:
• Use ordinary playing cards. If you’ve got 32 participants, for example, and you want them in four groups of eight, simply take eight spades, eight diamonds, and so on out of the deck. Shuffle, distribute the cards, and then assemble groups according to suit. The same can be done more humorously using children’s card decks, such as Crazy Eights. Form your groups based on identical pictures in the deck. • Use the experience levels that exist in the group . Divide your participants into two groups and have one form a circle facing inward, the other form a circle inside the first circle facing outward so that each person looks at a partner. Tell the outer group to move clockwise and the inner group to move counterclockwise until you tell them to stop. Have the people directly facing each other spend a few minutes talking about their previous jobs and how those positions prepared them for their current positions. That information is then used for everyone to introduce their partners to the rest of the group. Clusters of partners can form the work groups for the next part of the class.
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