Playground for Entrepreneurs

Share your challenges as an entrepreneur, work on your progress and collaborate with others.  

Duration: 30 + min (agree on an end time in advance)
Number of players: 2 – 7
Material: boardgame
Link: https://pen-en-pion.nl/en/reflect-on-your-business-with-playground-for-entrepreneurs/

Short description

The game board is divided into four squares on which there is a selection of cards. As the starting player, I have the honour of throwing the die first. You read all the cards with the same number as the die. Then you choose a card, read it out loud and tell in 2 minutes what it has to do with you. 

The game board with dice and cards acts as a guide for conversation and exchange between the players. The cards sometimes raise unexpected and surprising questions. The feedback from fellow players, from different industries and with different years of experience, can provide refreshing input.

Educational Value

The goal of the game is to:

  • Empowering entrepreneurs – the game helps you review and enrich market insights and teaches you to navigate the entrepreneurial journey. 
  • Promoting resilience – because the game focuses on adapting strategy and the ‘search’ that characterizes the early stages of entrepreneurship, it helps budding entrepreneurs face those challenges.
  • Encouraging resourcefulness: entrepreneurship requires a lot of ‘figuring out’. Through the game, entrepreneurs exchange information and can benefit from and build on collective knowledge.
  • Promoting collaboration among colleagues: the game fosters an environment where entrepreneurs learn to support each other.

Recommendation for use

To play this game a game master is needed. The game master asks questions, Asks clarification questions, helps reflect and involves all players. The game can be played with:

  • Early stage entrepreneurship. This is a great introductory tool as it enhances entrepreneurial thinking and behavior.
  • Entrepreneurs who are in their search for a new business model.
  • Entrepreneurship students, classes.

Image: https://playgroundforentrepreneurs.com/entrepreneurship-game/