Chinese whispers

Whispers (also known as whispers ) is a no-brainer, but the term is also used figuratively for the falsification of news by the multiple informal disclosure. The joke The official channel is one example.

Regulate

In the game, the participants organize (the more the better) in a row or a circle on. One player thinks of a message. This message is now passed in whispers from mouth to ear from one participant to each neighbor. The game play is given by the following resolution, in which the or the last in the series pronounce aloud what was whispered as the last message in his ear. The increasing distortion of the original message can be documented that each participant understood the message for all repeated aloud what the number of laughs sequence can rise.

Assessment

With older children and adolescents may in pedagogy in this way also the emergence of rumors or misunderstandings are explained, as always change messages by the subjective perception of the disclosure.

Variants

A variant of Chinese whispers can be the first player to write a sentence on a piece of paper. The next player then paints a picture for this set. The next player writes a sentence about this picture again and so it goes on until the game is resolved with a set.

Another version of Chinese whispers can be the first player to his partner to read a long story aloud. In the next round, another partner is added, has not heard the story, and get it from the previous telling, etc. The audience recognize this very well the interpretation and filtering behavior.

Footnotes

• Children's game
• Game without material