Activity Overview
Try this variation of the game of Twenty Questions called Virginia Woolf. Keep minds of all ages sharp when you play this entertaining game that seeks to solve the identity of a selected famous person. One person selects a famous person that is familiar to all players and the players have to ask up to 20 yes or no questions and guess the identity of the famous person.
Try to link questions and build upon them so that you can best narrow down an answer. This is a great game to play while awaiting your meals at a restaurant, while sitting around the dinner table, or even on car trips. It is fantastic for keeping minds of all ages on task and thinking.
Materials Needed
How to Play
- Choose one person to start. This person must think of a famous person that is familiar to everyone in the group.
- One at a time the other player ask questions about the famous person that can be answered with yes or no.
Players continue asking questions until a total of 20 questions have been reached. At that point they can guess an answer. They are able to guess earlier but if they are wrong they are eliminated from the game.
- If the identity of the person is not revealed by the end of the 20 questions, then the person who can came up with the name of the person reveals it and gets to go again.
- If a player correctly guesses the object, they now become the chooser of the mystery person and the former chooser takes a place as a guesser/ asker of questions.
