Globetrotters' Blackjack - Tactical quiz game
Globetrotters’ Blackjack is a strategic quiz game that requires teams to combine knowledge, tactics, and controlled risk-taking. Teams progress in the game by answering questions and playing at the blackjack table. The points earned from the questions serve as the game’s currency.
The game features 3 levels, each offering greater points and bonuses, providing teams with increasing opportunities to accumulate points. The team with the highest score at the end of the game wins.
Purpose of the game
Globetrotters’ Blackjack is perfect for team-building during meeting breaks or even before dinner.
This game takes trivia quizzes to a whole new level. Teams don’t just answer questions one after the other — they need to strategize, track the scores of other teams, and take calculated risks to win.
In the game, creating a strategy, teamwork, and leveraging the skills of different team members play a crucial role.
The game allows you to choose the desired topics for the questions and add your own custom questions.
You can include your own, customized questions for your meeting or event. Teams’ answers and statistics are immediately visible, making them useful during the meeting itself.
Additionally, the game offers the option to use default questions, which involve slowly revealing images of different global destinations that teams need to identify.
Game duration and adaptation to events of different sizes
The recommended effective duration of the game is 30-60 minutes.
The game can be organized in one or multiple sessions.
For example, the game can be experienced at the start of the day or while waiting for dinner, perhaps as a one-hour session. Alternatively, the game can be played throughout the day during breaks.
The game is perfectly suited for events of all sizes.
It works equally well for small groups as well as events with thousands of participants.
Teams can continue the game whenever it suits them. Playing does not need to happen simultaneously, and it can be done throughout the day, during breaks. This makes it easy to manage even large numbers of participants.
Gameplay overview
1. Game start
The game setup takes only a moment.
At the start of the game, participants are divided into teams of 3-5 people. The team allocation can be planned in advance.
Each team requires one mobile device to join the game by providing a team name.
2. Playing
In the game, teams can answer 50 questions and play 50 rounds at the blackjack table.
Teams progress to higher levels by successfully answering questions and performing well at the blackjack table.
3. Game results
The representative of the client group has access to a real-time results link, which displays the teams’ earned points, their answers to the game’s questions, and the game statistics. The results link is also available after the event day.
Videos and images of the game
Instructions for players
Here’s how you play Globetrotters’ Blackjack:
- Join the game using the free ActionTrack app.
- Download the game by entering the join code you received, provide your team with a name, and join the game.
- The game features a blackjack table and globetrotter questions.
- You can play a maximum of 50 blackjack rounds by pressing the “Play” button.
- You can activate up to 50 globetrotter questions by pressing the “Puzzle” button.
- The game has bronze, silver, and gold levels. To reach the bronze level, you need two consecutive wins at the blackjack table and five correct answers to globetrotter questions. To reach the silver level, you need three consecutive wins at the bronze level at the blackjack table (with at least 100 points bets) and 10 correct answers to globetrotter questions. To reach the gold level, you need three consecutive wins at the silver level at the blackjack table (with at least 500 points bets).
- Reaching the bronze level grants you 500 points, unlocks a 500-point bet, and gives a 100-point bonus for each correct answer to globetrotter questions at the bronze level. Reaching the silver level grants 1000 points, unlocks a 1000-point bet, and gives a 200-point bonus for each correct answer to globetrotter questions at the silver level. Reaching the gold level grants 5000 points, unlocks a 5000-point bet, and gives a 500-point bonus for each correct answer to globetrotter questions at the gold level. Be sure to save questions for higher levels.
- The team with the highest score wins.
Globetrotters’ Blackjack Table Rules:
- The deck is shuffled each time before a new round starts.
- At the beginning of the round, you must place your bet, choosing from 20, 50, 100, 500, 1000, or 5000 points. Your bet cannot exceed your current point total. At the start of the game, you can only place bets up to 100 points. Higher bets become available when you reach the bronze, silver, and gold levels.
- Next, the dealer deals one card to herself and two cards to you.
- You then decide whether to take another card or not. You can draw as many cards as you like, as long as the total of your hand does not exceed 21. Your goal is to get as close to 21 as possible without going over.
- Each face card (Jack, Queen, King) is worth 10 points.
- An Ace is either worth 1 or 11. The value of Aces is automatically determined to maximize the value of your hand while keeping the sum 21 or below, if possible.
- If you get a total of 21 with two cards, you have a “Blackjack” and win 2.5 times your bet.
- Once you no longer want additional cards, the dealer starts drawing cards for themselves. The dealer must take a card until they reach a total of 16, and will stop drawing cards at 17 or higher.
- If your hand is closer to 21 than the dealer’s, you win 2 times your bet.
- If the hands are tied (totals of 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21), the dealer wins if they have a “Blackjack.” Otherwise, it’s a draw and you get your bet back.
- If the dealer’s hand is closer to 21, they win and you lose your bet.