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Description

How well do you know your local personalities and landmarks? See how much you can learn with this guessing game.

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Stopwatch or phone

Instructions

Before you begin
It’s probably a good idea for someone to do some research in advance, to give the thinkers some ideas of famous local faces and places (you can decide what ‘local’ means – it could be your village, town, city, county, or region). It’s up to you whether the people leading the game do this, or whether the players do it in advance. We’ve included some suggestions of places to start researching, to make it easier.

Play the game
1. Split into groups of about six people.

2. Each group should choose one person to be the thinker. They should think of a famous person who lived in the local area, or a famous place in the local area.

3. The rest of the group has two minutes to ask questions to help them guess the place or person the thinker is thinking about. The person leading the game may want to say ‘start’ to tell all of the groups that it’s time to start asking questions, and then let them know when two minutes is up.

4. If, after two minutes of asking questions, the rest of the group haven’t guessed the person or place, the thinker should give them a clue, and they should guess one last time.

5. If they still can’t guess, the thinker should tell them the answer.

6. Once the group know what the thinker is thinking of, the thinker should tell them a bit more about the place or person.

7. A new person should become the thinker, and the group should play again.


Change the level of challenge
- You could make a list of places and faces for people to choose from if they don’t have any of their own ideas.
- You may want to chat about this game the meeting or session before you play it. This allows everyone to go home and do some research, so they can come back with their own places and faces to think of when it’s their turn.
- Thinkers could be allowed to draw clues, to help the rest of their group guess what they’re thinking of.
- You could add more rules about the questions. For example, can the thinkers only answer with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’?
- You could give each team a stopwatch, and allow them to time their own question time. This is especially useful if some groups are quick at guessing, and may be ready to move on at different times.
- You could get pictures or pictures of faces and places, and cut them up into pieces. Give teams one piece of the ‘jigsaw’ at a time, and see how quickly they can guess the answer.
- If there are any famous faces who live in your area now (for example, the town mayor or an artist), you could ask them to visit and talk about their experience of living in your area.

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