sharonella -> RE: Creative and unexpected ways of using logic puzzles (2/22/2009 9:00:56 PM)
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Well - A few ywars ago, I was a temp for a large company, with many departments. They decided to have what they called a scavenger hunt at their annual holiday party that was held at a local historical home with quite a few large rooms. It helped that many of the rooms had two doors, so you could enter one door & exit another. It was an ice breaker group activity, where teams were created by random drawing - but the final teams were also adjusted so that peoplw who were in the same departments (or people's significant others) were not on the same teams. (The number of teams was decided by the number of rooms/puzzles there were, so that there was a team in each room at all times.) Each room had a puzzle or group activity of some sort to solve. There was a monitor (a person from the party committee who helped create the scavenger hunt) in each room to determine if the puzzle had been completed correctly or not, and how long it took. Some questions were straightforward - name 4 actors who have played James Bond. Another activity had all members of the team stand with a lighweight pole across the back of all our hands - then we had to LOWER the pole to ground without dropping it. (The tendency in this challenge is to RAISE your hands to keep the pole from falling - not as easy as it sounds) There were logic puzzles to solve. Due to my love of puzzles, I'm very pleased to say I was instrumental in the solving of most of the puzzles. The monitor in each room noted how long it took us to solve each room correclty, then you moved on the the next room. Using a simple Conceptis puzzle (printed on a large, laminated poster, that you can use dry erase markers on) could be a great team puzzle used in this kind of party game. Sudoku - Or a maze - or a LAP or Kakuro. You choose a person on the team to use the marker, then with several sets of eyes, solve the puzzle in 10 minutes or less. Sha
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