  The Game of Poker Chips, Dominoes and Survival fosters team building and high
level cooperation in large groups, and is a tool applied in management training
exercises. Each player, initially given two colored poker chips, is allowed to
make exchanges with the game coordinator according to two rules, and must
secure a domino before time is called in order to `survive'. Though the rules
are simple, it is not evident by their form that the survival of the entire
group requires that they cooperate at a high level. From the point of view of
the game coordinator, the difficulty of the game for the group can be
controlled not only by the time limit, but also by the initial distribution of
chips, in a way we make precise by a time complexity type argument. That
analysis also provides insight into good strategies for group survival, those
taking the least amount of time. In addition, coordinators may also want to be
aware of when the game is `solvable', that is, when their initial distribution
of chips permits the survival of all group members if given sufficient time to
make exchanges. It turns out that the game is solvable if and only if the
initial distribution contains seven chips that have one of two particular color
distributions. In addition to being a lively game to play in management
training or classroom settings, the analysis of the game after play can make
for an engaging exercise in any basic discrete mathematics course to give a
basic introduction to elements of game theory, logical reasoning, number theory
and the computation of algorithmic complexities.
