Five card decks and seven steps. Here's the whole game, start to finish.
The five decks
The journey
Read your Town, Opportunity, and Bylaw cards together. What is life like here? Houseboats that drift with the tide, a glowing city under the desert, a place where umbrellas are banned. Then choose the one Opportunity your team will pursue.
Come up with as many ideas as you can for solving that Opportunity in that town. No bad answers, quantity over quality, build on each other. The strange ideas are usually the ones worth keeping.
Pick one idea and shape it into a business: a name, a slogan, a logo, your customer, and how it makes money. Your Bylaw adds one real business concept you have to build around, so the idea has to genuinely satisfy it.
Flip the face-down Wildcard. Something just changed: a competitor arrives, a law passes, the town turns on you. Adapt your business to survive it, exactly like real founders do.
Plan one to three minutes: the Problem in your town, the Solution your team created, Why It Works with the quirks and the Bylaw, and the Pivot the Wildcard forced.
Present to the room. Ask questions after each pitch. Then vote for Best Solution, Best Pitch, and Most Creative Idea.
Flip your Aha! card and take a few minutes as a team. What worked, what would you change, and what was the biggest insight? Share one with the room.
One page that holds the whole idea. Teams fill it in as they build, and it becomes the script for their pitch.
Six boxes, not sixteen. It's printable from Town Hall, and the back is an Idea Storm page for the messy part. Every half-thought goes down there first, then the team works boxes 1 to 6 in order.
Fits your session
Same seven steps, scaled to the time you have. No prep or business background needed.
Every town has challenges. Every challenge creates an opportunity.
What will your team build?