A situation lands with more demand than you have people for. Each team decides how to split what they've got — then sees what their split actually cost.
There is no correct allocation. Every option is defensible and something goes unserved. That is the activity: the scoreboard is the conversation afterwards, not a number.
What it teachesMost training games test recall. Operational work is almost never a recall problem — it's triage under a shortage, where the skill is choosing what to sacrifice and being able to say why.
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