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Description

Guess your friend’s favourite activity or badge, using just six questions to ‘read their mind’.

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/if-you-could-read-my-mind/

Resources

A4 paper
Pens or pencils
Chairs

Instructions

Before you begin
- Divide into teams. Give each group a chair, a piece of paper, and a pen.
- Each team should sit in a horizontal line in front of their chair.
- Players should think of their favourite activity or badge. Everyone must keep their favourite a secret, and not tell anyone else. Anyone who’s joined recently can think of an activity or badge they’d like to do. This is a great chance for people to help anyone who’s new to join in.


Play the game
1. The first player should sit on the chair, and think about their chosen activity.

2. The player at the start of the line should ask a question which can be answered with a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’. The person on the chair should answer with either a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ – they can’t say anything else. Teams should ask questions that everyone will understand – for example, if your team has people who’ve joined recently, it wouldn’t be fair to ask ’did we do this activity as a group last summer?’

3. If the answer is yes, the player should ask another question. As long as the answer is yes, they should keep asking questions until they have asked six, or until they think that they know the activity or badge.

4. If the answer is no, the next player in the line should ask their first question.

5. Repeat these steps until someone guesses which activity or badge the person on the chair is thinking of. If everyone has asked six questions, and no one has correctly guessed the badge, the team should have one final guess together.

6. Once the team has guessed the activity or badge, they should write it down. The person on the chair should explain why they chose it as their favourite.

7. The player who asked the first question should sit on the chair; the person on the chair should sit at the other end of the line.

8. Teams should repeat these steps until everyone has had a turn on the chair.

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Badge Links

• Team Leader - New cub
• Teamwork - Team game
• Teamwork - Team-building