Mysterious Circumstances Cards

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How these cards work: These 88 cards provide little mysteries that could appear in a story – it's up to kids/teens to think like a storyteller to come up with potential explanations for each scenario. Participants will need to draw on reasoning and logic along with their critical, creative and lateral thinking skills.

There are two ways to use these cards!

For the open-ended option: use only the top portion of the card. We describe a mysterious circumstance and participants imagine possible explanations. 

For the Q&A option: someone reads the mystery and players, using their detective skills, ask yes or no questions to determine the answer, which is on the bottom half of the card. Some answers are detailed and/or difficult, so the reader has to exercise judgment as to what they will accept. (And some answers veer into sci-fi/fantasy, so flexible thinking is required!)

FYI: In the intro to this PDF, we offer a few tips for participants, including for the person reading the mystery on how to handle their role. You can learn more by viewing the intro pages to this pack.

Age range: We'd say around 9/10-ish and up.

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    • With this PDF you get two versions:
      • A version created with one card/slide per 4" x 6" page that is easily viewed on a device.
      • A version with four cards per page, that you can print and cut into physical cards. These printable pages are created for standard letter size, 8.5" x 11". 
    • Our PDFs are not editable. You can print as well as copy & paste the content, but you cannot alter the PDF you receive.
    • Size of file: single cards package - 94 pages, 490 KB |  printable package -  26 pages, 400 KB