Over the weekend of the 26-27 October 2024, our Converge on Cardiff event is happening based around the game Cluedo, but everyone in the region is invited to join in with a local challenge. It could be an evening meeting, a day out, a sleepover, a virtual sleepover or lots of home challenges – you decide!
Cluedo Challenge is suitable for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Rangers, young leaders, leaders, Inspire, Trefoil Guild and families. Whilst the original Cluedo game is a murder mystery, lots of recent versions focus on mysteries where something or someone was lost and found, so your challenge can be adapted for all ages.
For your Cluedo themed event do as many of these challenges as you like, or come up with your own.
Activity Ideas
- Play the board game Cluedo at the unit or with family at home
- Play a game of human Cluedo around your meeting place or outdoor space. You could use the classic Cluedo locations and characters, making signs and using people as playing pieces, taking big steps with a roll of a giant dice
- Create your own Cluedo board. What would your locations, items and characters be?
- Create your own Cluedo characters. Who would they be and what would their story be? Have an evening where everyone dresses up as those characters
- Create your own Cluedo items from junk modelling, for example - candle sticks
- Create the Cluedo rooms in a box, with each group taking a different Cluedo location and creating/decorating it
- Watch a mystery or detective film eg. the 1985 comedy film Clue (rated PG). If you're screening a film outside of a home environment, such as your meeting place, please check that the film you want to watch is covered by the Girlguiding MLPC license. Enola Holmes is not covered by the MLPC license, but you could encourage your Guides and Rangers to watch at home (rated PG13)
- Go on a treasure hunt following clues, or get young members to create their own clues for another group to solve
- Hold a quiz night with cryptic clues
- Have a famous detectives' quiz, solving clues to name the detectives e.g. Enola Holmes, Scooby Doo
- Cluedo is a game of logic. Have a go at doing logic puzzles with your group such as sudoku, cross words and word searches
- Visit an escape room, or create your own escape room
- The Cluedo game uses the colours Yellow (Mustard), White, Red (Scarlett), Blue (Peacock), Green and Purple (Plum). Have a go at painting using just these colours
- Play a game of Guess Who using the actual game or come up with your own version based on your group
- Learn some knots (representing the rope)
- Decorate candles using wax crayons (representing the candlestick)
- Do some DIY activities (representing the spanner)
- Create a bookmark (for the library)
- Bake some cakes (for the kitchen)
- Plant some bulbs (for the conservatory)
- Have a dancing evening (for the ballroom)
- Play snooker or pool (for the billiard room)
- Play wink murder or murder in the dark
- What impact would an upstander have on the game of Cluedo? Discover how you can help others in unsafe situations with a Safe the World session run by a Peer Educator which counts towards Take Action UMA minutes and comes with an exclusive badge. Request a Safe the World session for your Brownie, Guide or Ranger unit.
- Anything else you can come up with …
