‘I can go through the garden gate’ is fun and doesn’t require any equipment or planning. I think it works best if two people know the criteria for going through, but it works if only one does. It takes longer to explain here than to play! When you are playing, you just tell participants they have to work out and say how they can go through the garden gate, and then start.
Choose - and keep secret - something that will let you through the garden gate. Let’s say, for example, it’s something about the person to the left of the guesser. Obviously don’t tell people that.
The person who knows what the criteria is starts by saying ‘I can go through the garden gate because I am wearing… ‘ then mentions something that the person to the left is wearing, or not wearing (you might say because I am barefoot, for example); or ‘I can go through the garden gate because I have… eye or hair colour of the person to the left’. Ideally it’ll be something they share with the speaker and a few others, but it has to be true about the person in the designated position.
The person to your right now says ‘I can go through the garden gate because’ and chooses a reason. If it is something that is true about you (sitting to their left) or the person in the relevant place, you confirm they can go through. If not, you say they can’t. You keep going round like this, and the hope is more and more people will work out what the criteria is, and thus be allowed through the gate.
At any point, any one in the group can yell out if they think they know the ‘key’. If they are correct the game is over. If nobody guesses how it works, or what they is, you have to start making it a bit more obvious whenever it’s your turn.
I hope that all makes sense!
It’s been a while so I will start us off…….whats for supper and why?
