Game of Trades

Yesterday in class, we played a game. The game consisted of 4 envelopes and each envelope contained a different set of resources. Each team had to make shelter, food, a book, and minerals. Some of the materials that were included in this game were: different prints of papers (blank, polka-dot, wavy), scissors, glue, paperclips, and a pen. Each group had until the end of the class to finish and whoever finished first won and the first place prize was a bagel. My group (#4) almost won the whole game. Towards the end of the game, another group approached us asking to combine our resources for exchange of half of our bagels. Aside from that, I think that our group almost won because we were pretty good at trading for other resources. I think that the simpler someone proposes a trade, the more the other person is to trade.
This game represents the American Dream and how coming together to work on something can benefit us all. There were groups that did not trade their resources or were more difficult to trade with.