Step inside the circle, and face your left-hand side neighbour.
Shaking hands, say your own name, and your neighbour says their name.
You repeat your neighbour’s name, and they say your name, then stop shaking.
Move to your right, and repeat the process with the next person in the circle.
When you reach the third person in the circle, the first person you greeted steps inside the circle and initiates a greeting with their left-hand side neighbour.
Process continues, until everyone has greeted all others in the circle at least once.
Ultimately, everyone returns to their original spot in the circle.
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Played this today with group of 7 adults. I wanted something fun for a starter and this worked beautifully. It had us all laughing. I love how deceptively simple this is. I will play this again.
Oh my gosh Jennifer, you are right. Like some of the activities listed in our database, this is one of those ice-breakers that does not lift off the page when you first read it, but lights up the room every time I play it. Thanks for sharing.
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Also one of my go to activities.. lots of laughter for sure and get to learn some names along the way.. soo much fun
Played this today with group of 7 adults. I wanted something fun for a starter and this worked beautifully. It had us all laughing. I love how deceptively simple this is. I will play this again.
Oh my gosh Jennifer, you are right. Like some of the activities listed in our database, this is one of those ice-breakers that does not lift off the page when you first read it, but lights up the room every time I play it. Thanks for sharing.