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Four people blindfolded participating in blindfold team-building game Blind Maze

Blind Maze

Blindfold team-building game to develop trust & communication.

  • Promotes collaboration
  • Focus on effective communication
  • Multiple metaphors

Step-by-Step Instructions

This blindfold team-building exercise creates a powerful opportunity for groups to develop trust and collaboration. Blind Maze is an immersive team-building game that immediately challenges participants to step outside their comfort zones. This problem-solving exercise combines the intensity of a blind group initiative with purposeful communication to achieve shared goals. The activity’s unique design ensures every person contributes meaningfully to the group’s success.

Blind Maze – Blindfold Team-Building Game
  1. In advance, tie a series of short ropes between multiple trees to represent a path out of a wooded area.
  2. Create one entry and one exit for the path, allowing for one or more gaps (between trees) in the path as well as dead-ends where possible.
  3. Download a sample diagram for guidance from the Resources tab.
  4. Out of sight of the maze, ask your group to put on their blindfolds.
  5. Standing in a straight line with hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them, lead your group carefully to the start of the maze.
  6. Place the hands of the person at the front of the line on the tree and/or rope connected to the maze entry.
  7. Challenge your group to work together and embark on a journey to find their way out of the maze.
  8. Announce that all members of the group must be connected to the rest of the group at all times.
  9. At least one member of the group must be touching/holding a rope at all times.
  10. No one is permitted to open their eyes (remove blindfolds) until the whole group has exited the maze.
  11. All members of the group may communicate at any time.
  12. A small bell will ring when the group has discovered the exit for the first time.
  13. Allow your group at least 20 minutes or more to solve the problem.
  14. In conclusion, facilitate a conversation that invites your group to reflect on their experience.

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Comments (5)

  1. tim jordan

    I don’t understand how they can have one person always with hand on rope when there looks like large gaps in sample maze, please advise, thanx, Tim Jordan

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    • Mark Collard

      Thanks for your question Tim. It might be a matter of scale in the sample map, but the gaps between the different lengths of rope should always be less than the stretched out length of the blind participants with hands on shoulders. Remember, only one person (minimum) needs to have a hand on the rope (often the last person) – all others will be holding shoulders of the person in front of them, while the front person is searching blind for another rope entry point. Let me know if this still does not make sense 🙂

    • tim jordan

      thanx so much for your help, that does make sense, can’t wait to try it out. I did a version of this years ago with a group of college-aged kids, the goals was to get our of the maze, the trick was that no one thought to just go under the ropes! that created a lot of ahhhhs and blaming the leader. Much thanx for all the ideas. I’ve been running summer camps (Camp Weloki for Girls) and weekend retreats for girls for 35 years now so always looking for new fun games.

  2. Tara Martin

    I did this with a group of 12-15 year olds inside a large, open room using chairs instead of trees. We had two groups going at the same time. They switched up leaders every so often. They went through it twice. They first time blind. The second time the leader could see. The discussion after was great. We talked about vision in terms of life and goals, leadership, mentoring, obstacles, etc.

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    • Mark Collard

      Great adaptation for the indoors Tara, well done. I also like what you did to sequence the challenge.

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