Communicate as a team, developing your own communication and tactics.
| Duration: 30 min Number of players: 4 – 9 (plays in teams) Material: cards Link: https://pen-en-pion.nl/en/sign-a-dynamic-mind-game/ |
Short description
The goal for each team is to get five cards from each color with the same symbol. Everyone starts with a hand of cards and on the table is a row with cards. Simultaneously every player can change a card from his/her hand with one from the table.
When you have a combination of five the same cards, you have to give your teammate a secret sign. Only your teammate can announce that you have a winning hand by calling out: Sign!
If someone on the other team catches you signing to each other, they say it out loud and they get the points.
Educational Value
- Practicing executive functions.
- Communicate, responding to each other, working as a team.
Recommendation for use
Take time for preparation with the group. For example, the images on the cards look very similar, so it’s important to first let players take a close look at the symbols and the differences. The secret sign a team has to agree on has not to be too obvious for other teams to guess, so give a team time to think about it.
Because it’s a quick playing game, let players stand around the table. This game requires dynamism and action.
At last: take time afterwards to discuss the different approaches and strategies teams used: what did they agree on first, did individual players change their tactics?
