Friday, January 28, 2011

Tennis Ball Game


The challenge of this game was to have everybody touch the ball as quickly as possible. At the beginning, that was the only criterea. Later in the game though, we added more criterea and consraints. After the first game, only one person could touch it at a time. After that, we had to be arms length apart. The last constraint was having to have our eyes closed.

For the first and second rounds of the game, my team did a kind of funnel with our hands. The only difference was we only used one hand for each person during the second round. For the round where we had to be arms length away, we tossed the ball to every other person, which worked out because we had an odd number of people. The last round we had to have our eyes closed. We had one person in the middle and spuna round touching everyone's hands.

We lost the first round, because our funnel took to long. During the second round the funnel idea worked, because we only used one hand per person and it really cut down on the time it took for the ball to touch every person. The third round we took to long and lost, so our idea didnt really work out. The last round was really close, but we lost. we lost by like a second.

If we did this again, I'd use the funnel idea a lot more, because it was really effective. It would work for almost evry round except for the eyes closed one. For the eyes closed round I'd do the same thing but put a faster person in the middle.

If we did this again I'd probably revise our strategy during the arms length apart round. It took really long and didnt work very well.

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