Barter Puzzle

Are we to WIN or DEFEAT?

Barter Puzzle

-solving the puzzle-

I heard the name for the first time in my life when doing the activity in the PPD class room. But it was something we had done before as kids. But here some rules were changed as matching to ourselves to learn something valuable to our life. At first it looked a dull game. We were assigned into few groups, and the group leaders were asked to come front with a supporting person. Then they were asked to cut into 75 pieces each picture given to the team.

 Then the lecturer collected those parts into separate bags and exchanged some picture pieces with other pictures. And teams were given those bags as they have been exchanged. None got the set of pieces which they cut in. Then we tried to solve the puzzle. It was a terrible thing to imagine what the picture was. Even not knowing what we were making we were creating the picture!!! Amazing!

-our team-

We began to solve that puzzle from one end. Then we added matching parts into that and grew up the picture. As we had some picture parts which belongs to another picture in another group, we were asked to necessary actions on that. So, we did exchanging parts with what we had from others.

-team work-

The society is so cruel! Everyone wants to make you down! No matter whether they win or not, They want to make you not to win

-a small solved part of picture-

It was like a social experimental activity; the barter puzzle took us along a long journey in learning about who is next to us. As the first finished team becomes winner, some other fellow groups had stolen some parts of our picture, while we were continuing with rest. Anyhow we could realize that thing in the meantime. And they had not become genuine as we used to be. When we were exchanging the pieces, we gave them the whole part we had. But they had cheated us. They had teared the parts they had into few small pieces. Actually, this thing was done by one team. They were the ones who stole pieces from us too.  And they had stolen from other groups too. And that made us not to finish the picture anyway. How to get the rest of parts, without having anything left with us? No any team, helped us! They wanted a piece!!!

Competition-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

is it to,

WIN or DEFEAT????

I am asking you to conclude it. I don’t want to say anything. Decide yourself. That’s how most people are.  So, get yourself secured. Otherwise though how good you work, it will be useless.