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Jelly Bean Trade

Interactive icebreaker game to energise & build rapport.

  • Great mixing activity
  • Ideal for sweet-tooths
  • Very simple
  • Fast-paced
  • Non-threatening

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This interactive icebreaker game creates an energetic social atmosphere while encouraging mixing & mingling among participants. Jelly Bean Trade combines a delicious icebreaker game with the excitement of friendly competition and trading. Perfect for conferences, meetings and social gatherings seeking a fun ice-breaker game that stimulates conversation naturally. The sweet incentive motivates engagement while providing a light-hearted activity that appeals to all ages.

Jelly Bean Trade – Interactive Icebreaker Game
  1. Distribute ten randomly picked jelly beans or various coloured sweets to each person.
  2. When ready, ask your group to mix and mingle with one another with a view to trading different coloured jelly beans, one for one.
  3. Everyone aims to collect a set of ten jelly beans of the same colour.
  4. The first person to achieve this goal within, say, three minutes, wins.
  5. Upon identifying the winner(s) invite everyone to eat their treats.

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  1. Erin

    I used M&Ms. We discovered that the distribution of colors is not equal (there are more blue, green, and orange than red, yellow, or brown). This lead to a situation where kids were unable to complete their set because so many others had completed their sets with the same color. It led to an interesting discussion about distributions and why that might be the case and graphing.

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