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Miniature Lab EscapeItem Showdown

Reduced to 15 mm on a laboratory workbench, your team must turn ordinary desk objects into a route to the restore control before decontamination begins.

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Scenario items

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Miniature Lab Escape gives every team the same survival problem and one shared ranking to lock before the reveal.

Inventive and technicalMedium-highworkplace teams

Sample items

01

Paper tissue

02

Pencil

03

Rubber band

Miniature Lab Escape gives every team the same survival problem and the same item list. The full session asks them to rank all items, lock one answer, and compare that answer with the guide during the reveal.

Best for: workplace teams, innovation workshops, groups that enjoy reframing familiar tools

What teams debate: Rigid routes, reliable anchors, scale-amplified hazards, and imaginative uses that are too difficult to deploy.

Debrief prompts

  • Which item created the strongest disagreement?
  • What assumption did the team make too quickly?
  • Who changed their mind during the discussion?
  • Did the team optimize for safety, speed, rescue, or certainty?
  • What would you do differently in a real group decision?

Which would you keep inMiniature Lab Escape

Reach the Restore Control

Rubber band

VS

Coin

In the full session, your team ranks all 9 items

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full item list?

These matchups are just a taste. In the full session, your team ranks all 9 items and sees where your plan helped or hurt.