Arctic Shores Team Sales Game: How It Works & How to Practice
In the Arctic Shores team sales game, your team and another team sell for the same company and each round set a High or Low price at once. The payoffs, what it reads, and a free practice version.
TL;DR: In the Arctic Shores team sales game, your team and another team sell the same product for the same company. Each round both teams set a High or Low price at the same time. Both High pays 200 each; one Low pays that team 300 and the other nothing; both Low pays 50 each. You are asked to earn as much as possible for the company — and at least as much as the other team. Those goals pull against each other, and how you handle that is what the task reads. Play the free team sales game.
What is the Arctic Shores team sales game?
A candidate who sat Arctic Shores' assessment three times described it in detail, and two prep providers give the same payoffs:
| You \ Them | High | Low |
|---|---|---|
| High | 200 / 200 | 0 / 300 |
| Low | 300 / 0 | 50 / 50 |
The company earns most when both teams price High (400 a round). Each team does best for itself by pricing Low while the other prices High — and if both go Low, everyone does badly. It is the classic repeated prisoner's dilemma, played over a dozen or so rounds against a computer team that candidates say learns from your decisions.
An honesty note: we found no recording of the real screen. The payoffs come from a candidate's account and prep providers, who agree; the number of rounds and how the other team decides are not published. Your invitation and its tutorial screens are the source of truth.
What does the team sales game measure?
It is behavioural, not a skill test. The candidate's real Arctic Shores report places this task on scales such as "more focused on personal needs ↔ more focused on the needs of others" — playing all Low put him at 1/10, playing mostly High moved him to about 7/10 — and "tends to prefer own style ↔ tends to adjust behaviour to context": whether you change course when the other team keeps undercutting you.
So there is no winning profile. Different roles look for different things — someone who protects the team's numbers, someone who builds trust across teams — and the assessment matches you against what the employer set.
How do you approach it?
- Read the instructions literally. The task names two goals: the company's total, and keeping up with the other team. Decide how you weigh them.
- Expect the other team to react. What you did last round shapes what they do next.
- Decide what you do after being undercut. Answering Low, staying High, or something in between all say something different — make it a choice, not a reflex.
- Play the way you would actually work with another team. Inconsistency across the battery reads worse than any single style.
How do you practise for it?
- Play the team sales game: twelve rounds of High or Low with these payoffs against a computer team that answers your moves. The result shows what you earned for the company, your team against theirs, and what you did after they undercut you.
- The balloon game and the energy game are the other behavioural tasks in the battery.
What else is in the Arctic Shores assessment?
Team Sales is usually one of several tasks. The Arctic Shores assessment guide covers the full set; the balloon and energy guides cover the other behavioural ones.
FAQ
What are the payoffs in the Arctic Shores team sales game? Both High: 200 each. You Low, them High: 300 to you, 0 to them (and the reverse). Both Low: 50 each.
What is the best strategy? For the company's total, both teams pricing High. For the assessment, there is no best strategy — it reads how you weigh your team against others and how you adapt.
Does the other team copy me? Candidates say it learns from your decisions. Our practice version mostly copies your last price, with a couple of surprises.
Is GamePrep's version the real one? No. The payoffs follow candidates' and prep providers' accounts; the screen, the number of rounds and the other team's behaviour are our own.
GamePrep is an independent practice platform and is not affiliated with Arctic Shores. Arctic Shores does not publish its game rules; the mechanics above are as reported by candidates and prep providers, and assessments change — verify everything against your invitation. We provide practice only — no leaked questions or answers.
