Team game
Origami shelter
A teamwork-under-pressure game - participants fold paper animals while Verbalu splits them into teams, runs the clock and hands out secret tasks.
What is the Origami shelter game?
The Origami animal shelter is a team game about cooperation, time pressure and conflicting goals. Participants fold paper animals at shelter tables. The game itself happens off-screen - with origami paper - while Verbalu splits players into teams, runs the clock, hands out secret personal tasks and collects a report of the figures made.
Each table gets a shared goal: fold as many animals as possible within the set time. Some people will also see a secret personal task (e.g. 'fold as many dogs as you can') - visible only to them. Everyone ticks off the figures they make on their phone, and you watch the report live and keep the time. Only in the debrief do you reveal the secret tasks - they're what spark the most interesting situations (the Kolb cycle).
Features
Key capabilities
Off-screen game
Folding happens with origami paper; the phone only handles splitting, time and the report.
Splitting into teams
Participants scan a QR code and Verbalu assigns them to tables and shows the shared goal.
Secret personal tasks
Some players get a hidden goal that conflicts with the team's - the source of the most interesting tension.
Time keeping
You set the folding time (3–30 min) and can shorten or extend it live.
Live report
Everyone ticks off the figures they make on their phone, and you see the score and tables' progress.
Folding instructions
Participants get the folding instructions on their own screen - upload your own PDF or keep the built-in one, ready to go.
Winning table and leaders
At the end the console announces the winning table and the leaders in each figure category - something to celebrate before the debrief.
Step by step
How it works
Prepare tables and settings
Lay out origami paper and markers, set the time and number of tables, then start the session.
Participants join
They scan a QR code, Verbalu assigns them to a table and shows the shared goal.
Fold and tick off
Teams fold animals, some players pursue a secret task, and everyone ticks figures on their phone.
Tally and debrief
After time you announce the winning table, and in the debrief you reveal the secret tasks and their effect.
Use cases
What it’s good for
- Training team cooperation and dividing tasks
- Showing the conflict between individual and group goals
- An experience to debrief in the Kolb cycle
- An energetic workshop game with a competitive edge
- An offline exercise where people work with their hands
- A game that exposes conflicting goals inside a team
- An experience to debrief together afterwards
Training by Octigo
Want this run as a full training?
You are free to run our games and simulations on your own. But if you would like us to deliver a complete training, with a professional debrief and the concepts behind the “Origami shelter” simulation explained in depth, get in touch. Octigo is a professional training company with 20 years of experience and many awards for its simulations.
- 20 years of experience in corporate training
- Award-winning training simulations
- A professional debrief and takeaways after the session
- A programme tailored to your goals and your team
Prefer to write to us directly? szkolenia@octigo.pl
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