2. Divided into at least 2 groups of 4-6
people, an individual youth will attempt to
get his/her team to guess a name written
on a piece of paper.
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3. Game Materials
• Pens
• Small Pieces of Paper
• A Container (basket, hat, bowl, or bag)
for each team
• Timer or stopwatch
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4. Game Preparation
1. Cut several pieces of paper into small pieces, large enough to
have a name written upon them. You want to have enough slips
of paper for each youth to have 10 pieces.
2. Each youth writes down the names of 10 people on the 10
pieces of paper. These names must be famous personalities (real
or fictional) as well as names of those in the youth group, their
parents and other significant adults everyone knows.
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5. 3. Collect all the names into a container for each team
and then distribute each container to a different
team of youth than the one that wrote the names it
contains.
Game Play
This icebreaker game for youth is play in rounds.
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6. Round One
1. must describe that person to the other members of his/her
team.
2. Every time a name is guessed correctly, another name is
retrieved from the container.
3. Each team has one minute to guess as many names as
possible.
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7. 4. If the youth get stuck on a name, they can set the name
aside and draw a new name.
5. When the time runs out, add up the total number of names
guessed and subtract those passed and set aside to
calculate a score for each team.
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8. Round Two
1. Put all the names back into the container.
2. This round is similar to Round One but a youth can
only use one word to describe the person to his/her
group. Some of the names will have already been
guessed so it is easier then it seems.
3. Once again, calculate the score for each team
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9. Round Three
• This round of the game is played similar to the first
two rounds, but this time, the youth must ACT out
the name written on the paper without making any
sounds.
Add up the scores from all three rounds to determine an
overall winner.
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