Problem-Solving Game Tests Creative Skills - Come To My Party
Problem-Solving Game Tests Creative Skills - Come To My Party is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Gather your group together, close enough so everyone can hear one another.
- Each person’s task is to identify the ‘key’ which unlocks the secret to a puzzle.
- Announce that you’re hosting an imaginary party, and everyone is invited.
- To attend, every person must bring some ‘thing’ with them. It can be a food, a prop or even a person.
- Next, invite a series of volunteers to nominate what they would like to bring to your party.
- Here’s the key: the ‘thing’ must be spelled with two consecutive letters that are the same to be acceptable.
- Unless a person brings the correct thing, eg beer, strawberries, Darren, they cannot attend the party.
- As each person makes an attempt to uncover the key, congratulate those who get it, and encourage those who do not.
- Come To My Party Problem-solving game to challenge creative thinking skills.
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Gather your group together, close enough so everyone can hear one another.
Each person’s task is to identify the ‘key’ which unlocks the secret to a puzzle.
Next, invite a series of volunteers to nominate what they would like to bring to your party.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Problem-Solving Game Tests Creative Skills - Come To My Party. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Gather your group together, close enough so everyone can hear one another.; Each person’s task is to identify the ‘key’ which unlocks the secret to a puzzle.; Next, invite a series of volunteers to nominate what they would like to bring to your party.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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