Gaminar

Unlock

Everyone holds a piece. Only talking puts it together.

  • In the room
  • Online
  • Phone or laptop
  • Your own content

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 – 1,000
Teams
1 – 99
Duration
20 – 90 min
Cost
8 credits / participant · $475/yr unlimited

Teams find the right order of a set of images they can describe but not show. Play it as Unlock (find the sequence, then beat your own score), as Pixtory (each person holds one picture of a story), or with your own images.

Just as a puzzle is complete when the right pieces interlock, Unlock is complete when participants find the sequence of a set of images and put them in the right order. Teams that communicate and collaborate reach the goal; teams that assume, don't.

In Pixtory mode, each participant is given one image from a bigger picture and can only describe it. By listening, questioning and validating, the group discovers the story — the fastest way to see how people really communicate. Multiple rounds let teams reflect, plan and execute better each time, and the live scoreboard shows it.

Either mode runs on your own images too, so the same mechanic can be about your product, your process or your values.

Unlock in play

Two modes

  • Unlock

    Find the sequence of a set of images. Several rounds, so each attempt can improve on the last.

  • Pixtory

    Each participant holds one image of a story and describes it. The team finds the order. Two picture sets: Windmill and Traffic.

Run it with your own content

Upload your own image set and run either mode on your own product, process or values.

Included — same price, no add-on.

Facilitators who run Unlock

I have been using Gaminar activities in almost all my virtual sessions. Pixtory is nice and short and brilliant for looking at all sorts of communication, teamwork and leadership skills, and the Survival exercises are fantastic for showing the power of synergy. I stopped using them in the classroom because they seemed old-fashioned and the adding up was laborious, but Gaminar have given them a whole new lease of life!
Shirley GastonManaging Director, Azesta — award-winning facilitator and leadership developer
Playing Pixtory in the online environment made me recognise that it helps participants quickly relate with aspects of communication and learn the need to be fully present, listen carefully and actively, and explain concepts with a level of detail that requires real empathy for the receiver.
Maxine MerrifieldAnchored Solutions

Run Unlock with your next group

Sign up in two minutes, get 100 free credits, and rehearse any game as often as you like — sessions with up to 2 participants are always free.