Moon landing - a team building game

Team building activities can be simple games, creative problem-solving tasks, or ‘pen and paper’ group survival situations. ‘Moon Landing’ falls into the third category. Apart from the ‘fun’ challenge of trying to stay alive, it can help encourage communication, cooperation and decision making skills among your young people.

You are a member of a space crew scheduled to rendezvous with a mother ship on the lighted surface of the moon. However, due to mechanical difficulties, your own ship was forced to land at a spot 200 miles from the rendezvous point.

During re-entry and landing, much of the equipment aboard was damaged and, since survival depends on reaching the mother ship, the most critical items available must be chosen for the 200-mile trip.

15 items are listed as being intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank them in terms of their importance for your crew, to allow them to reach the rendezvous point. The 'expert' answers were compiled by a team of scientists and engineers at NASA.

As the young people work together in a team, sharing thoughts and ideas, this should produce an improved score over the individual results. But will this be enough to survive?

Download (pdf) the complete Moon Landing team building game.


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Comments

[team building ideas]

Hi, Thanks for sharing the excellent ideas for team building games.

[Ben]

Amazing ideas. Thanks for sharing.

[Ashish]

Excellent

[Susan]

what a great idea! I think that it's so important for team building games and exercises to focus on the main purpose of, making colleagues feel like their role within a team is important, making colleagues feel that the team is important. And although the 'it's a knockout' game I've been playing with my employees for years ticks all those boxes, it's definitely time for a change and this looks to be very interesting.