Verbal Spontaneous Problems

Please Note: These are not official Odyssey of the Mind Spontaneous problems but are supplied here as training tools for improving teams' spontaneous skills. Official practice problems can be found if you purchase the books of spontaneous problems and sample problems can also be found on the Odyssey of Mind website.

Unexpected Delivery

Your challenge is to say either:

What you would want to find in the package

What you would NOT want to find inside the package.

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Wishing Well

Your challenge is to name someone or something that makes a wish and what they wish for.

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Princess in the Tower

Your challenge is to name ways to rescue the princess safely from the tower.

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Links

Your challenge is to give a response that links words from two different lists.

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Once upon a time...

Your challenge is to tell a series of short stories that incorporate all of your chosen words.

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Smile or Scream?

Your challenge is to name things that make you scream or things that make you smile.

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Shark-week

Your challenge is to say something about the picture

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Fixer-upper

Your challenge is to say something about the picture

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Changes

Your challenge is to name things that change or are changed. You may include how something is changed.

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Happy to Start or Happy to Finish?

Your challenge is to name a situation in which someone would be happy that it started, or happy it had finished.

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The Odd Couple

Your challenge is to say something about this picture, or what one animal would say to the other.

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Help, my teacher is a Vampire!

Your challenge is to say what would be better or worse, at school, if your teacher was a vampire.

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