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Personal Disclosure · Relationship Mapping

Hilarious Secret Passing Game that Builds Suspense - Alien

Hilarious Secret Passing Game that Builds Suspense - Alien is a personal disclosure exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

30 to 60 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. Introduce a small metal washer to your group.
  2. Announce that over the course of a period of time (eg 3 hours to a week) it will be secretly passed from person to person in the group.
  3. Instruct people to pass the washer onto another unsuspecting person as soon as they discover it is in their possession.
  4. Critically, ask people always to hide the washer so that it will be easily discovered.
  5. If the washer is not found within a reasonable length of time, the most recent passer is responsible for retrieving it and hiding it somewhere new.
  6. When the allotted time expires, gather your group to discover who has the washer in their possession.
  7. Alien Secret passing game that develops excitement through mystery & discovery.
  8. Alien takes a simple washer and turns it into an engaging, large group game that keeps everyone alert.
  9. You’ll love how this brilliant secret passing game naturally develops group connection whilst maintaining excitement through mystery and discovery.
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Prompts to use +

Instruct people to pass the washer onto another unsuspecting person as soon as they discover it is in their possession.

Critically, ask people always to hide the washer so that it will be easily discovered.

Alien takes a simple washer and turns it into an engaging, large group game that keeps everyone alert.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Hilarious Secret Passing Game that Builds Suspense - Alien. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Instruct people to pass the washer onto another unsuspecting person as soon as they discover it is in their possession.; Critically, ask people always to hide the washer so that it will be easily discovered.; ; Alien takes a simple washer and turns it into an engaging, large group game that keeps everyone alert.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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