In this crowdbreaker, youth will try to guess the identity of a murderer, before they are murdered.

1. Summer Youth
Camp - Murder
In this crowdbreaker,
youth will try to guess the
identity of a murderer,
before they are murdered.
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2. Game Materials
Deck of playing cards, chairs
arranged in a circle for 6 to 52
players. Reduce the cards to the
number of players available to
insure someone gets the
“murder” card.
Optimal Group Size
6 or more youth
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3. Game Venue
Open area large enough for the
groups to form a circle. This
game can also be played as part
of a youth camp. Simply decide
the boundaries of when
challenges/ murders can or
cannot occur. One common
variation allows challenges and
kills only during mealtimes.
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4. Game Play
1. Sit the group in a circle and
pass out one card to each
person, (they can not show
their card to anyone else).
2. In the cards passed out there
needs to be a joker. The joker
is the murderer, and the
murderer’s job is to kill
everyone in the game. The
murderer does this by
winking at the others before
he/she gets caught!
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5. 3. Group members can jointly issue
a challenge to identify the
identity of the murder. There
must be two challengers.
Without discussion or
communication between them
of any kind, on the count of
three they must each point to
the person they believe to be
the murderer.
4. They should be careful. If they
point to different people both
challengers are dead and out of
the game. This is true, even if
one of them is correct about the
identity of the murderer. If they
both point to the same person,
but that person is not the
murderer, they are also killed.
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6. 5. When a member sees
someone wink at them, they
have been killed, and they
need to count (silently) to 5
and say, “I’m dead” and flip
their card over. Alternatively
they can liven it up with a
dramatic death scene.
6. If you have already been killed
or died because you guessed
incorrectly you can no longer
guess the killer.
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7. Bible Studies based on the book of Jonah
Only. This youth camp curriculum was
designed to teach the basic truths
of obedience in addition to evangelism in the
context of a Biblical character. The advantage
of going through a book and looking at one
man's story is that we see not only the
teaching but the example. It becomes much
more real!
Camp Curriculum - Whale of a Tale
-> Tell me about “Whale of a Tale”
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8. Creative Youth Ideas
Camp Bible Study Series
“Who Do You Say that I AM?”
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-> Tell me about “Who Do You Say that I AM?”
Jesus asked the disciples, "Who do others
say that I am?" It was easy to answer
because it required no conviction, no
commitment, and no risk. But then he
follows that question with another, "Who
do YOU say that I am?"
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9. Live the Fruitful, Abundant Life
Jesus Promised. Great for youth camps or
weekly Youth Bible Study. There are 7
Primary Bible study Sessions in the series.
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-> Tell me about “Fruit Of the Spirit”
Creative Youth Ideas
Youth Camp Bible Study Series
“Fruit Of the Spirit”
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10. "The Great Adventure" is western
themed Bible study series loosely based
around the song of the same name by
Steven Curtis Chapman. It was initially
written for a large Texas Church to use for
their Summer Youth Camp but has since
then proven popular around the world.
Camp Curriculum - The Great Adventure
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-> Tell me about “The Great Adventure”
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