Namenpuzzle

Game instructions

Each youth group member receives as many pieces of paper as they have names (1st first name, 2nd first name, 1st surname, 2nd surname (for double names...)). Everyone cuts out the letters they need from newspaper headlines and sticks them on pieces of paper so that each piece of paper contains one of their names. Finally, all the slips of paper are shuffled in a large basket. The youngest participant is allowed to roll the dice first. Depending on the number on the dice, he/she then draws the corresponding number of names from the basket. When he/she has all of them, the stopwatch is used. The aim is to get rid of the slips of paper to the right people as quickly as possible. A member of staff writes down the time that everyone needs to do this on a poster - as a record time for this number of cards. Only when this record is broken can a new number be written on the poster. The cards do not have to be distributed to the people who made them: It is only important that the person has the name written on the card!

Picture credits

• Cover picture: Clipart courtesy of the publisher buch+musik ejw-service gmbh, Stuttgart - www.ejw-buch.de from: Jungscharleiter Grafik-CD plus; Second revised edition 2002 © buch+musik ejw-service gmbh, Stuttgart