Ball Point Game

By Boris Gloger

The objective of the Ball Point game is to get as many balls through the team as possible within two minutes.

Rules:

1. Provide an overview of the game and the rules.
   • Everyone is part of one big team.
   • Each ball must have air-time.
   • Each ball must be touched at least once by every team member.
   • Balls cannot be passed to your direct neighbour to your immediate left or right.
   • Each ball must return to the same person who introduced it into the system.
2. There are a total of five iterations.
3. Allow the team two minutes of preparation time to determine how they will organize themselves.
4. Get an estimate from the team of how many balls they can pass through the system.
5. Run a two-minute iteration.
6. Allow the team one minute to discuss how to improve the process.
7. Repeat for five iterations. Make the fifth iteration a challenge. If you need to, make up some ridiculous statistic such as “The world record is 150 points. Can you beat that?”