Groups and turns

Splitting people up, sitting them down and handing out the jobs.

13 generators

The running order with each speaker’s minutes worked out beside them.

A question a stranger can answer in thirty seconds without oversharing.

A question to answer out loud before somebody asks it for real.

The first round of a knockout, drawn in front of everyone — byes included.

Who goes first, settled before the first turn instead of during it.

Names in, jobs out — everybody gets one before anybody gets two.

One name at a time, taken out as they go — everybody before anybody twice.

Names into twos, with a sensible answer for the odd one out.

A student, a speaking order or a set of groups — from one class list.

Split a group into even teams, or into teams of a fixed size, and hand the result out as text.

Rows and columns filled at random, for the class where the same four people always sit together.

Two lists in, one rota out — with the leftovers shared evenly instead of landing on whoever asked.

Draws the whole group as one loop, so nobody gets their own name and everybody gives once and receives once.

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