Remote Lean Training? The Wordpoint Game
It's been about a year now since the term social distancing has become part of our daily lexicon. The big question for lean training is, are there any lean games that can be facilitated remotely? Some pen and paper games like the 5S Numbers Game and Standard Pig can be modified to be used over a video call, but few games are designed specifically to be used in MS Teams, Skype or Zoom. One remote training game I came across recently is called the Wordpoint game, created by Boris Glogner , who also created the Ball Point Game . The rules are in German, but it seems simple enough to understand, with the help of some Google translation. The idea is that participants in the call attempt to spell out words using body language or hand signals. Each person is responsible for one letter, and you should be able to "read" a word by looking at the participants in a row on the video. Wordpoint Game flow: There are 4 rounds, 60 seconds each. Each round, the participants attempt to
