The Trading Table
A high-energy indoor team building activity where teams run rival smoothie businesses. Buy ingredients, trade with other teams and compete to finish with the biggest profit.
How The Trading Table Works
Each team takes control of its own smoothie business, starting by completing challenges in our app to build up its cash reserves. Then the buying begins.
There’s a catch. Your team can only buy two types of fruit, and those fruits can’t make any of the smoothies on your recipe card. To start making money, you’ll need to find the teams with the ingredients you need and negotiate a deal.
As world events send fruit prices up and down, the value of every deal can change. Buy, trade and sell well, and you’ll have more cash to reinvest as the game goes on.
The team with the most cash at the end wins.
Key Benefits
Plenty of Interaction
Changing Challenges
High-Energy Atmosphere
Friendly Competition
Team-Based Strategy
What Happens During The Trading Table?
The game runs over four trading rounds, with teams building cash, buying fruit, trading with rival teams and selling smoothies. As the game progresses, market prices change and new opportunities are introduced.
Build Your Cash Reserves
Start with 10 minutes of challenges to build your team's cash reserves. This gives you the money you'll need when buying begins.
Buy Your Fruit
Use your cash to buy fruit from the bank. Each team can only buy two types, and neither gives you everything you need to make a complete smoothie.
Trade With Rival Teams
When the Trading Table opens, one person from each team steps up to negotiate for the ingredients they need. Teams buy, sell and trade with each other to complete their smoothies.
Make, Sell, Reinvest
Complete your smoothies and sell them back to the bank for cash. Use that money to buy more fruit in the next round.
React to the Market
Breaking news can send fruit prices up or down, while later rounds introduce new opportunities and higher-value ingredients. A good deal in one round might not look so good in the next.
Why Choose The Trading Table for Your Team?
The Trading Table is a good option when you want something competitive and interactive without making the event physical. It’s easy to understand, quick to get into and works well for a wide range of corporate groups.
No specialist knowledge needed You don’t need any finance or trading experience. We explain how the game works at the start, then manage each round as it happens.
Teams have to interact No team has all the ingredients it needs, so you can’t play the whole game at your own table. To complete your smoothies, you have to trade with the other teams in the room.
Competitive without being physical Teams are competing to finish with the most cash, but there’s no running around, sports or physical challenges involved.
Easy to fit into your day At 90 minutes, it can sit neatly within a company offsite, conference, team day or alongside an evening event without taking over the whole schedule.
Fully managed by our team We provide the technology and game materials, brief the group and run the activity from start to finish.
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