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Coded Phrases.

January 09th, 2008 Comments(0)

These are a bit of fun as a starter or as people arrive and can be done individually or as a team.

1: 52 C in a D

2: 7 W of the W

3: 10 Y in a D

4: 26 L in the A

5: 60 S in a M

6: 12 M in a Y

7: 88 K on a P

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Link words.

December 02nd, 2007 Comments(0)

These frustrating little word puzzlers seem so simple when you know the answer.

If your group like this kind of thing they can work great as an opener when people are arriving.

Stick them around the room or on sheets.

You have to find one word that goes before or after the others and links all three.

1: It links:

Life, Rise, Wire

2: It links:
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Say the colour not the word.

October 14th, 2007 Comments(0)

This is a great brainteaser, visual illustration. It could help open up the subject of how we judge people, first impressions, things are not always as we think. I am sure you can find many more. Enjoy.

Even harder if you are colour blind like me!

Riddles 1

November 30th, 2005 Comments(0)

 

1: Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, when I have flown.
Answer: Time.
2: Even if you give this to someone else you get to keep it
Answer: Your word.
3: The more there is the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness
4: What do you throw out when you need it but take in when you don’t.
Answer: An anchor
5: Some may not admit to wearing a frown, what always goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.

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Acronyms

October 31st, 2004 Comments(0)

Once someone mentions an acronym to me I can keep going for hours, it could be a sign or lorry driving past with a logo on. To use on a journey just wait for something to naturally set you off then get giong by offering a few possible definitions. To use else where print up a few in large and set people off either individually or in teams some examples are below, the real meanings are first! <P&;

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Watch It.

May 06th, 2004 Comments(0)

Simply ask several people to lend you their watches and then tell them you are going to test their powers of observation by asking them questions about it such as:*What colour is the face? *What colour is the strap? *Apart from the numbers what else is printed o­n the face? *Does it have a second hand? *Which numbers are shown etc? <P>

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Crossed, Uncrossed

February 26th, 2004 Comments(0)

Everyone sits in a circle and passes a pair of scissors around, each time it is passed the person passes them o­n must say if they are crossed or uncrossed. <P>

The leader of the group must say yes or know and slowly the group has to work out what is going o­n. <P>

The scissors are crossed if the person who passes them has their legs crossed and uncrossed if they do not. <P>

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