Gaminar

Diamonds

A fast-paced mining expedition about deciding with too little data

  • In the room
  • Online
  • Phone or laptop
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The walkthrough is the real game in your browser. Nothing to install, no account, and you see the facilitator screen as well as the player's.

Participants
4 – 500
Teams
1 – 99
Duration
90 min
Cost
8 credits / participant · $475/yr unlimited

Teams search a 15 × 15 grid for diamonds with limited moves and incomplete information. Prioritise, test hypotheses and communicate, or dig in the wrong place.

Diamonds is an engaging, fast-paced team strategy game that focuses on important team processes: selecting and prioritising information, making decisions on insufficient data, communicating, and creating test scenarios to validate hypotheses.

Teams choose every move carefully while they search a 15 by 15 field for diamonds: exploring a slot costs 1,000 and mining it 2,000. Between stages a leaderboard ranks the teams by money, but the objective is the wealth of the community, and that changes the last stage.

A real session in 60 seconds: the control room, a team exploring and mining the map, information bought, and the twist that changes the last stage.

What facilitators run Diamonds for

Each one walks through a whole session: how to set it up, what to say, and the questions that make the debrief land.

Session plans with Diamonds

All session plans

The whole session for one skill, already written: run sheet, script, debrief, handouts and slides. Free with every account.

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Unlock

8 credits
per participant
$475/yr

Everyone holds a piece. Only talking puts it together.

  • In the room
  • Online
  • Phone or laptop
  • Your own content
4 – 1,000 20 – 90 min

Ranking

8 credits
per participant
$475/yr

Rank it alone, then as a team. The synergy score shows what the conversation added.

  • In the room
  • Online
  • Phone or laptop
  • Your own content
4 – 500 30 – 45 min + debrief

Expressive

3 credits
per participant
$275/yr

Picture cards that start the conversation you actually need

  • In the room
  • Online
  • Phone or laptop
  • Your own content
1 – 99 Flexible

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