What type of player are you? A quiz before your next adventure

A team benefits from someone who spots the little things, someone who connects the information and someone who keeps the conversation going. But you don’t have to pick one role forever. Depending on the task, you might act completely differently.

This short quiz, written by our team, is a bit of fun to get you talking before a visit to an escape room or a city game. It has four questions and three possible results: the Observer (A), the Fact Connector (B) and the Collaboration Keeper (C). It doesn’t diagnose your personality, rate your intelligence or predict how the game will go. For each question, choose the answer closest to what you usually do. Note down the letters.

Don’t confuse it with the player typology described by Richard Bartle in 1996. His four types (achievers, explorers, socialisers and killers) refer to players of multiplayer computer games and describe what motivates each of them in a game. This quiz asks about something else: how you behave when a team is solving puzzles together in one place.

Four questions about working in a team

1. You walk into a new space. What do you do first?

A. I look closely at the details and search for something unusual.

B. I try to understand the goal and link it to what I can see.

C. I ask the others what they’ve noticed and how we’ll split the tasks.

2. A friend suggests an answer. How do you react?

A. I check whether it fits all the visible elements.

B. I ask what it’s based on.

C. I make sure the others can add their ideas too.

3. You’ve been stuck for a while. What do you suggest?

A. Looking at the surroundings again, but from a different angle.

B. Going over in my head what we know and ruling out unconfirmed assumptions.

C. Swapping tasks, or agreeing together to ask for a hint.

4. After the game, what do you most like to talk about?

A. The detail everyone missed at first.

B. The moment when several clues came together into a solution.

C. The teamwork and the team’s funny reactions.

How to read your answers

Mostly A suggests that in these situations the Observer role comes more naturally to you. Share your discovery before you start building a solution on your own. The information might be useful to someone somewhere else.

Mostly B points to an interest in connecting facts. That’s useful, as long as you leave room to check whether your theory really follows from the clues. Not every elegant answer is correct.

Mostly C shows your attention is on collaboration. Don’t forget your own ideas, too. Looking after the conversation doesn’t mean you have to spend the whole game just helping others.

A tie is a perfectly normal result. You don’t have to break it, because the quiz isn’t meant to give you a permanent label. You can compare answers and think about which behaviour you’d like to try next time.

The quiz at a team-building event

The quiz works well as a warm-up before a game with colleagues, because it takes a few minutes and doesn’t require sharing anything personal. A simple format:

• Before the game: everyone answers alone, then the team compares letters. Check whether any role is missing. If everyone chose C, someone can deliberately take on the Observer’s job.
• During the game: roles aren’t assigned for the whole game. When the team gets stuck, a swap helps: the Observer says what they can see, and the Fact Connector checks the theory.
• After the game: ask two questions. When did information quickly reach the right person? When didn’t it get through? The answers tell you more about teamwork than the quiz result itself.

With a big group, teams can play in parallel in several rooms or on a city game route. Gamescape welcomes corporate groups and also runs games in English, which matters for international teams. Check the current terms and group sizes directly in the offer.

One caveat: the quiz isn’t suitable for assessing employees or choosing a leader. It’s an excuse to talk about how the team shares information.

Choose a theme the whole crew will enjoy

Adventure, magic and crime scenarios each set a different mood for the get-together. Among the Gamescape rooms, take a look at Chimera Protocol, Anatomy of Crime 2 and Dead Man’s Chest, among others. Go by the description and restrictions of the specific game, not by your quiz result.

A team doesn’t need a perfect mix of personalities. It needs the chance to listen to each other and test ideas together.