Team building exercise with drinking straws and eggs?

Question

There is a team building, creativity exercise where team members get a raw egg and are required to build a basket out of drinking straws. Then they throw the contraption out of the window on the hope their contraption will stop the egg from breaking.

I have been looking online and found a number of cool variations, but I want to original with just an egg and drinking straws. What I am curious about is how many drinking straws I should give to each group.

By the way, I have done this before with little children, but I gave them lots of straws and masking tape to make their contraption.

Answer 1

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