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Name Learning ยท Relationship Mapping

Tic Tac Toe Bingo

Tic Tac Toe Bingo is a name learning exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
PairsGROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In personSETTING
Medium 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. When they encounter these folks, they are to play tic tac toe against them
  2. Encourage different types of discussion when meeting each person to play the game" that is the whole point afterall!
  3. Ask each person to find someone they don't know or People Science assigned pairs and stand facing
  4. some sort is always easy and fun Commence round 2 of tic-tac-toe 5.
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Prompts to use +

When they encounter these folks, they are to play tic tac toe against them

Encourage different types of discussion when meeting each person to play the game" that is the whole point afterall!

Ask each person to find someone they don't know or People Science assigned pairs and stand facing

some sort is always easy and fun Commence round 2 of tic-tac-toe 5.

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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.

Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Tic Tac Toe Bingo. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: When they encounter these folks, they are to play tic tac toe against them; Encourage different types of discussion when meeting each person to play the game" that is the whole point afterall!; Ask each person to find someone they don't know or People Science assigned pairs and stand facing; some sort is always easy and fun Commence round 2 of tic-tac-toe 5.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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  • Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Relationship Makers Handbook; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook.)
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  • No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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