Mystery Solving Game Tests Group Team Skills - Bank Robbery
Mystery Solving Game Tests Group Team Skills - Bank Robbery 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 Bank Robbery mystery clues.
- Print each of the 24 clues on separate slips of paper.
- Gather your group and ask them to sit a small distance away from one another.
- Announce that the local (fictional) bank has been robbed and your group’s task is to act as detectives to solve the mystery.
- 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.
- Explain that the group has all of the information it will need to solve the case.
- Challenge your group to identify who committed the robbery and the alibis for all other suspects, ie where were they when the robbery actually occurred.
- Bank Robbery Mystery solving game develops teamwork through detective skills.
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In advance, visit the Resources tab to download the Print+Play Bank Robbery mystery clues.
Gather your group and ask them to sit 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 group has all of the information it will need to solve the case.
Challenge your group to identify who committed the robbery and the alibis for all other suspects, ie where were they when the robbery actually occurred.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Mystery Solving Game Tests Group Team Skills - Bank Robbery. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: In advance, visit the Resources tab to download the Print+Play Bank Robbery mystery clues.; Gather your group and ask them to sit 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 group has all of the information it will need to solve the case.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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