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.
You have 1 minute to think and 4 minutes to respond. You can ask the judges questions; however, time will continue.
Each of you has a piece of paper and pencil. During think time, you may write down your responses, but you may not speak to each other.
Your challenge is to name a situation in which someone would be happy it is started, or happy that it had finished.
For example, you might say, “My teacher's happy when summer vacation starts” or “I’m happy when the dentist stops drilling”.
There are 35 tokens in front of you. Before making a response, you will place a token in the container on the table.
You can respond in any order. You may give responses until the team no longer has any tokens or until time ends, whichever occurs first. Each team member may give as many or as few responses as they wish, until the tokens run out.
Judges:
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Scoring:
You will receive one point for each common response.
If your response is considered creative or humorous by the judges, you will receive five points.
Tips for teams:
Make more difficult:
Have team members alternate giving start or finish answers
Give a situation that would make some people happy that it had started, but other people sad, and say who was happy and who was sad.
Give a situation that would make some people happy that it had finished, but other people sad, and say who was happy and who was sad.