Detective Puzzle Game for Team Problem Solving - County Fair
Detective Puzzle Game for Team Problem Solving - County Fair is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- In advance, visit the Resources tab to download the Print+Play County Fair mystery puzzle clues.
- Print each of the 13 clues on separate slips of paper.
- Gather your group and ask them to sit or stand a small distance away from one another.
- Distribute one clue (small slip of paper) to each person.
- Instruct each person that they may read their clue out loud to others, but they must never show or display it to anyone.
- Announce that the group now has all of the information it will need to solve the problem.
- Explain that the focus of this problem-solving activity is on a fictitious pie-baking competition.
- Your group’s task is to identify which person baked which pie and what prize did each pie win.
- County Fair Detective puzzle game to enhance team problem-solving skills.
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In advance, visit the Resources tab to download the Print+Play County Fair mystery puzzle clues.
Gather your group and ask them to sit or stand a small distance away from one another.
Instruct each person that they may read their clue out loud to others, but they must never show or display it to anyone.
Explain that the focus of this problem-solving activity is on a fictitious pie-baking competition.
Your group’s task is to identify which person baked which pie and what prize did each pie win.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Detective Puzzle Game for Team Problem Solving - County Fair. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: In advance, visit the Resources tab to download the Print+Play County Fair mystery puzzle clues.; Gather your group and ask them to sit or stand a small distance away from one another.; Instruct each person that they may read their clue out loud to others, but they must never show or display it to anyone.; Explain that the focus of this problem-solving activity is on a fictitious pie-baking competition.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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