THE DIG

Uncover what lies beneath — together

Player guide

Objective: Teams excavate a shared archaeological grid, balancing competition, clue sharing, budget discipline, and discovery strategy.

Setup: Join the dig site with the room PIN from your facilitator and join your assigned team.

How to play: Teams spend limited budget to survey, buy information cards, or excavate cells. Artefacts have different values and empty digs still cost money.

Your role: Use your budget deliberately, share useful clues, and decide when to compete or collaborate.

End condition: Compare scores, remaining budget, and collaboration patterns. Debrief whether teams optimized local wins or built shared intelligence.

Host a Game

Host guide

Choose teams and maximum team size, pace each stage, monitor the full map, release facilitator information when useful, and advance once teams have made their dig decisions.

THE DIG
Host
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Waiting
Share this PIN with your teams. Players go to this page and click "Join a Game."

Teams

All teams must have at least one player before starting.

Join a Game

Room PIN: ----
Lobby
Waiting for the host to start the game...

Teams

Stage 1
Team: —
$15,000
Stage in progress...
Unsurveyed Relic found Bronze Tool Shard Empty

Team Activity Log

No activity yet.

Cards released by the host. Buy to reveal the expert analysis. Cost: $1,000 each.

No cards released yet.

These field survey reports are available to everyone at no cost.

Stage Controls

Release Expert Analysis

Release cards to make them available for teams to purchase.

Stage 1 Complete
Between Stages

Stage Complete!

Team Summaries

THE DIG — Final Results
Game Over

Excavation Complete!

THE DEBRIEF
What did you discover beneath the surface?
Debrief
The excavation is complete. Before we look at numbers — what did this experience feel like?

Discussion

Final Results