Moon Landing Game: A team exercise

Moon Landing Game

Instructions: You are a member of a space crew originally scheduled to rondezvous with a mother ship on the lighted side of the moon. Due to mechanical difficulties, however, your ship was forced to land at a spot some 200 miles from the rendezvous point. During landing, much of the equipment aboard was damaged and since survival depends on reaching the mother ship, the most critical items available must be chosen for the 200 mile trip. Below are listed the 15 items left intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank them in order of importance to your crew in allowing them to reach the rendezvous point. Place the number 1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the second most important item, and so on, through number 15, the least important item.

My Ranking:

_____ Box of matches _____ _____

_____ Food concentrate _____ _____

_____ 50 feet of nylon rope _____ _____

_____ parachute silk _____ _____

_____ two .45-calibre pistols _____ _____

_____ one case of dehydrated milk _____ _____

_____ two 100-pound tanks of oxygen _____ _____

_____ stellar map (of the moon's constellations) _____ _____

_____ life raft _____ _____

_____ magnetic compass _____ _____

_____ five gallons of water _____ _____

_____ signal flares _____ _____

_____ first aid kit containing injection needles _____ _____

_____ solar-powered FM receiver _____ _____

_____ portable heating unit _____ _____