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Woman saying that she will being an apple to a party, in group lateral thinking game called Come To My Party game

Come To My Party

Problem-solving game to challenge creative thinking skills.

  • Develops critical thinking
  • Promotes creativity
  • Sharpens listening skills
  • Multiple variations
  • No props

Step-by-Step Instructions

This problem-solving game engages groups in an entertaining puzzle that stimulates lateral thinking and creative problem-solving. Come to My Party presents a fun group guessing game that naturally encourages people to think outside the box. Perfect for developing analytical skills, this fun lateral-thinking exercise works brilliantly with any size group and fits seamlessly into training workshops or classroom activities where mental agility is valued.

Come To My Party – Problem-Solving Game
  1. Gather your group together, close enough so everyone can hear one another.
  2. Each person’s task is to identify the ‘key’ which unlocks the secret to a puzzle.
  3. Announce that you’re hosting an imaginary party, and everyone is invited.
  4. To attend, every person must bring some ‘thing’ with them. It can be a food, a prop or even a person.
  5. Next, invite a series of volunteers to nominate what they would like to bring to your party.
  6. Here’s the key: the ‘thing’ must be spelled with two consecutive letters that are the same to be acceptable.
  7. Unless a person brings the correct thing, eg beer, strawberries, Darren, they cannot attend the party.
  8. As each person makes an attempt to uncover the key, congratulate those who get it, and encourage those who do not.
  9. Continue to offer more and more obvious clues until everyone has identified the key.

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Comments (2)

  1. David Piang-Nee

    One of those puzzles activities that gets the group to try to figure out the pattern.. so many variants on the “keys” that you can keep it going for a while. Got to balance it and not drag it out so as not to frustrate participants who aren’t so keen on puzzles

    key suggestions:
    * last letter of a country becomes the first letter of next country,
    * name of a program e.g. space camp. letters becoming the item being brought such as Saucer, Pineapple, Atlas, Crate, Eagle and so on and the name gets repeated until everyone has the key
    * Five letter words only
    * Word ending only with certain letter

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    • Mark Collard

      I like your suggested variations for the key David, thanks for sharing.

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