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HipBone Game for Ice Breaking Fun and Relationship Building

The HipBone Project is an ambitious, visionary project to create thinking tools and encourage cognitive strategies.

HipBone Games have been used for ice-breaking in Rl and online conferences.

The HipBone Games

A style of thinking, a way of playing, a tool for problem solving, a new approach to conflict resolution. A HipBone Game is a game of creative leaps between thoughts. The thoughts themselves are the "moves" the players make, and the "links" they claim between them are what make the game challenging and enjoyable -- and the process itself a powerful tool for uncovering tacit knowledge, while building bonds of collegiality, respect and friendship between players.

A HipBone board is like a mind-map, in that you place ideas in circles on the game-board, linked by those creative leaps of thought to other ideas which other players have come up with - but it pushes the limits of creativity farther than mind-mapping, by providing a "tight" formal structure in which the links must be made.