Preparation
1. Arrange nine people into a 3 X 3 grid of chairs.
2. Prepare a series of questions related to your topic. Give the questions to the nine people in advance.
3. Divide the rest of the group into two teams. Designate one team as X and the other as O.
4. Large printed X and O for each of the nine people sitting in the tic-tac-toe grid
Game Play
1. The team chooses a square
2. A moderator, Game Host, asks the next question to the person in the desired square.
3. This person may answer the question truthfully or create an answer that sounds truthful i.e. bluff. (The people in the squares are provided correct answers to factual questions, but are not obligated to use them)
4) The team member decides to agree or disagree with the answer given. The team must then correctly decide whether it is a bluff or the person is giving the correct answer to get control of that square. Team members may not talk to each other and must take turns.
5) If the team member’s decision is correct s/he receives the team’s X or O in the square. If incorrect the opponent teams X or O is placed into the square.
6) Teams alternate
7) First team to get tic – tac – toe is the winner of this round.
Have enough questions for multiple rounds. Team that wins the most rounds is the voerall winner.
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Materials
John D. Rockefeller, the man who built the great Standard Oil Empire, was a person who demanded high performance from his company executives. Then, one day, one of those highly paid supervisors made a two million dollar mistake.