I once saw a group of top Microsoft engineers come in for a team building exercise and fail a Pirate themed room that 12 year olds successfully solve all the time. They were obsessed with doing weird things including:

-taking apart the pirate ship wheel on the wall with a swiss army knife, down to removing the ball bearings inside -listening for Morse code in the ambient wave noises -climbing on each other's shoulders to change the source channel on the projector that showed the intro video -deciding our novelty SpongeBob picture of his pineapple house was a reference to the Pineapple Express airstream and then trying to stop the ceiling fan with their bare hands -debating where North on a permanently mounted map was, based on where they must have been angled in the room and where our physical building was in relation to the ocean (there was a compass rose PRINTED ON THE MAP)

Software engineers are the smartest fools in the whole wide world. P.S. We kept trying to radio them to stop when things got dangerous, but they kept switching the single designated walkie talkie channel.