Fifty-Fifty: Strategy

What it feels like

Forget consensus. Tonight, the goal is to divide this room exactly down the middle. Here's how it works. In a private turn, you each get a work dilemma with a blank, and fill it so the team can't agree. Then, one dilemma at a time, everyone else votes on whether they'd take it. After that, each side says why, because that's the best part. A perfect half and half split scores three for the writer, and less the more lopsided the vote. If the whole room agrees, the writer scores nothing.

How to play

1. Take a private turn each: you get a dilemma with a blank. Fill it so the room can't agree.
2. One at a time, everyone else votes: would you take it? On phones, or hands up.
3. The closer to half and half, the better for whoever wrote it.
4. Then argue about it. That's the best part.

Scoring: A perfect split scores 3 for the writer, and less the more lopsided the vote. A unanimous room scores nothing.

You'll get prompts like

• “We ship a month early, but we have to cut ___.”
• “Every meeting is capped at fifteen minutes, but ___.”

What you need

3 to 10 people and one phone, tablet or laptop to pass around — or everyone on their own phone in a room. Nothing to download, no accounts. The best lines can be sealed into your group's Almanac and come back in later games.

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• Quiet Kudos
• The Office Pool