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Relationship Mapping

Fun Get-To-Know-You Game That Builds Connections - Who Is It?

Fun Get-To-Know-You Game That Builds Connections - Who Is It? is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Network Design This relationship mapping exercise strengthens Network Design, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Ask your group to stand in front of you.
  2. Explain that you have secretly chosen one person in the group as the ‘mystery’ candidate.
  3. The group’s task is to identify this secret person in as few questions as possible.
  4. All questions must be framed so that you can answer them with “YES” or “NO” responses.
  5. Instruct anyone to whom the answer does not apply (ie the NO applies to them) to sit down for the remainder of the game.
  6. Your group continues to ask questions until one person is left standing and the mystery has been solved.
  7. Who Is It?
  8. Fun get-to-know-you game that builds group connections.
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Prompts to use +

Ask your group to stand in front of you.

Explain that you have secretly chosen one person in the group as the ‘mystery’ candidate.

The group’s task is to identify this secret person in as few questions as possible.

All questions must be framed so that you can answer them with “YES” or “NO” responses.

Instruct anyone to whom the answer does not apply (ie the NO applies to them) to sit down for the remainder of the game.

Your group continues to ask questions until one person is left standing and the mystery has been solved.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Get-To-Know-You Game That Builds Connections - Who Is It?. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask your group to stand in front of you.; Explain that you have secretly chosen one person in the group as the ‘mystery’ candidate.; The group’s task is to identify this secret person in as few questions as possible.; All questions must be framed so that you can answer them with “YES” or “NO” responses.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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