A Simple Game with Great Benefits

Only 20 minutes... That's about how long your participants can focus on a speech. After that, the likelihood of your audience spontaneously falling asleep and tipping off their chairs increases dramatically ;) To prevent this, successful trainers always include short interaction sessions. When chosen appropriately, these interactions can significantly enhance the learning effect. People learn less by listening and more through playful understanding. Therefore, select a variety of mini-games to help your participants grasp different aspects of team building while keeping their attention through fun.

A quickly organized game with simple means is the Folding Ruler Game.

The Folding Ruler Game not only helps you with team building among craftsmen and engineers (though it fits these groups particularly well due to context). Generally, you can use the Folding Ruler Game with all types of teams across all age groups. The fitness or stamina of the participants does not matter.

This game is especially suitable for restless participants, as it requires not only quick but primarily thoughtful and calm actions.

The Folding Ruler Game is perfect for in-between moments.

Since the Folding Ruler Game requires hardly any preparation, it is a good filler and a small concentration booster to break up a dry theory session. This way, you can easily maintain your participants' attention. Because the material needed is quite manageable, you can play this game spontaneously with your participants anywhere—whether on the green field, in the gym, or during on-site training at the office.

What do the participants learn?

With the Folding Ruler Game, you can playfully teach your participants the relationship between speed and quality when completing tasks together. Since hasty movements usually lead to losing the checkers pieces, participants train to focus on calm but swift collaboration. The goal is to find the right balance between speed and accurate task completion.

Game Procedure

One folding ruler is placed on the floor per team. The individual segments are alternately bent at a 90-degree angle, creating a zigzag shape. Checkers pieces are then placed on the corners. The participants' task is to pick up the folding ruler and straighten it out. The ruler should be fully unfolded and placed down again without any checkers pieces falling off. With enough participants, it is advisable to work with multiple teams to create time pressure through competition.

Advantages of the Game

• Age-independent
• Fitness hardly matters
• Very quick to prepare
• Minimal material required
• Indoor / Outdoor
• Playful teaching of the relationship between quantity and quality
• The group must act as a team

Appearance Matters

To give your training a professional touch, please don’t use old game pieces from grandma or folding rulers from the last renovation found in the basement! In our shop, we have prepared the Folding Ruler Game in a neat design for you. This way, you make a good impression in front of every training group and don’t lose their respect with carelessly prepared materials.