Clue Hunters

Procedure

• 1. Hand each participant a paper and a pen/pencil.

  2. Participants will write two truths and one lie on their piece of paper in any order they wish, then hand their paper to the facilitator.

     1. Do not write names or any kind of identification on the paper

     2. These should be less obvious truths and lies. It should be two truths that wouldn’t be confused with another participant in the activity.

        1. For example, don’t write:

           1. “I am a male.”

           2. “I have hair.”

           3. “I like eating food.”

           4. “I have never been to the moon.”

  3. After receiving all the completed papers from the participants, shuffle the papers and give the whole stack to a participant.

• • 1. Have the participants each take a paper and then pass the whole pile to the next person.

    2. If any participants gets his/her own paper, he/she will put it back into the pile and take another one.

• 4. Once every participant has a paper, they may begin moving around, asking other people questions.

• • 1. The goal for the participants is to find the owner of the paper they are currently holding.

• 5. Participants may only ask questions that pertain to the three statements on the paper they are currently holding.

• • 1. Example: Adam’s paper says these three things:

       1. I am allergic to the sun.

       2. I used to live in Italy.

       3. I currently have 2 cats.

    2. Adam goes to Eve and asks her, “Did you use to live in Italy?”

• • • 1. If Eve answers, “No,” then Adam must go to another person to ask questions.

         1. Once Adam asks someone else a question, he may come back to Eve if he wants to.

         2. Participants just cannot ask the same person a question twice in a row unless that participant answers, “Yes.”

      2. If Eve answers, “Yes,” then Adam can ask her another question.

• • • • 1. If Adam asks another question and Eve answers, “Yes,” again, then it most likely means that Adam has found the owner of the paper he is holding.

        2. Adam can then ask to confirm if he really did find the owner of his paper.

        3. If not, then Adam must continue asking around until he finds the owner of his paper. 1

• 6. Once you have identified the owner of your paper, take the other person’s paper and look for the owner of the paper you just received.

• • 1. The participant who had to give you his/her paper will join you.

       1. (((Once a participant has found the owner of the paper he/she is holding, the owner of the paper must give the one he/she is holding to that person and will join him/her to find the next person.)))

1. The activity will end once the last two players remain (they should have each other’s papers or their own). 2

Variation:

• 1. You can increase it to 3 truths and 2 lies for a slightly longer activity.

     1. This would change step 5i from two “yeses” to three since there are now three truths.

Notes

• • 1 This would be a very rare case.

  • 2 It is possible that more than two players remain at the end depending on how the papers are shuffled.

    • In this case, just declare whoever is left as the winners, regardless of how many people there are.

  • Ideally, the facilitator should arrange the papers in a circular fashion and hand them out to the participants, but that is extremely tedious.