Motivated from the surrounding property of a point set in R d introduced by Holmsen, Pach and Tverberg, we consider the transversal number and chromatic number of a simplicial sphere. As an attempt to give a lower bound for the maximum transversal ratio of simplicial d-spheres, we provide two infinite constructions. The first construction gives infintely many (d + 1)-dimensional simplicial polytopes with the transversal ratio exactly 2 d+2 for every d ≥ 2. In the case of d = 2, this meets the previously well-known upper bound 1/2 tightly. The second gives infinitely many simplicial 3-spheres with the transversal ratio greater than 1/2. This was unexpected from what was previously known about the surrounding property. Moreover, we show that, for d ≥ 3, the facet hypergraph F(P) of a (d + 1)dimensional simplicial polytope P has the chromatic number χ(F(P)) ∈ O(n), where n is the number of vertices of P. This slightly improves the upper bound previously obtained by Heise, Panagiotou, Pikhurko, and Taraz.