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The Rope Puzzle
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An Exercise in Teamwork,
Patience & Creative Thinking
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| The 'Rope Hand-cuff
Puzzle' is a superb example of problem solving through collaboration
and creative thinking. As you'll see in the video, it makes for
a lively Tuesday meeting! We've used this 'team puzzle' in
conjunction with the roll out of our new agent development
initiatives. (In the video, you notice our "Six
Weeks To Success" program on the screen. This was rolled out
in October 2004) |
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The Set-Up |
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Two 'Volunteers'; each with a piece
of rope with a loop tied in both ends. The rope should be
reasonably long, so that the person wearing it can easily step over it
if they want. |
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through the loop on the end of the rope, however they first 'link' the
ropes as shown in the diagram. |
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The Rope Puzzle Rules |
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Once the ropes are on their wrists they cannot be
removed. |
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The challenge is to separate yourselves without
removing the ropes. |
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Do not break, cut,
saw through, bite through or in any other way damage the rope. |
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Damaging each other is probably a bad idea too. |
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It CAN be done! |
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Tom Walters and Kate Murphy begin
thinking through the rope puzzle. |
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Nicci Brown and Shaun Zaudtke attempt several different
solutions, only to hit a dead end. Did they eventually solve it?
(Click Here or on any of the
photo's to start the streaming video.) |
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The Solution |
| Give up?
e-mail me and I'll
reply back with the solution. |
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