Cafe Circle: MindTrap

Your brain takes shortcuts. Thousands of them, every day. Below awareness. On decisions that actually matter.

MindTrap is a live behavioral science puzzle game designed to catch those shortcuts in real time.

Fourteen puzzles. Each one built around a documented cognitive bias. Teams of three to four compete to solve them. The right answer is almost never the obvious one because every puzzle is designed around exactly how your brain processes information under pressure.

Anchoring. Framing effects. Sunk cost. Social proof. You have probably heard these terms. Hearing about them and experiencing yourself fall for them in a room full of people are very different things.

The debrief at the end is where it lands. People start connecting what happened in the game to decisions they made last week, last month, last year.

What to expect: