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Count The Beans

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Jar filled with hundreds of beans, featured in the classic team estimation game Count The Beans

Count The Beans

Team estimation game to improve group decision-making skills.

  • Simple
  • Powerful metaphor
  • Promotes critical thinking
  • Fosters creativity

Team Estimation Game

This simple team-building task explores the fascinating dynamics of group decision-making in an engaging way. Count The Beans is a team estimation game that drives a powerful learning experience about collaboration and consensus-building. Perfect as a teambuilding activity, it naturally generates meaningful discussions about how groups make decisions while participants discover the benefits of pooling their collective wisdom.

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Original post October 2015, last updated September 2025.

BY Mark Collard - Experiential Trainer, Author & Speaker

Comments (2)

  1. prosivendola

    Hello Mark,
    I have never played this one but I would like to try for a group of 25 people.
    Any suggestions on how to build up the challenge in this case?
    Could I maybe, instead of starting individually, start in pairs so they guess together, then ask them to form teams of 5 and let them compete amongst the 5 teams for the final guess? Would that make sense, from your experience?
    Thanks for your feedback!!
    Irene (Barcelona, Spain)

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    1. Mark Collard

      Irene, yes, I like your idea of graduating the size of the teams. It would also be interesting to compare the variations between the guesses of the pairs, the fives, and then the whole group. I’m gonna predict that the consensus answer of the whole group will be closer to the truth 🙂

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