During the next round, the facilitator gives 1 point for each time an answer is selected as best and anonymously lists all of the answers and the scores awarded. Usually, the game is repeated weekly with a new open-ended question. This game is designed for virtual teams working over the Internet. It uses an interesting scoring system that rewards individual contributions to the team's output. To begin, players are divided into three to five teams, each with five to seven members.
Virtual teams organize themselves in any fashion and interact through e-mail to complete the task.
In round two, a panel of experts evaluates the plans from different teams and distributes 100 points among these plans to reflect their relative value. The experts also provide a brief critique of each plan. During those evaluations, the facilitator asks each player to use an alias to make a confidential recommendation for how the points should be divided, based on each player's contribution to the team's plan. The facilitator then computes average percentages for each player on each team. Organize your own e-mail play group and try out any of the sample games described above.