Q: If you drop a white hat into the Red Sea, what does it become?
A: Wet.

Q: What do you call a boomerang that won’t come back?
A: A stick.

Q: What travels around the world and stays in a corner?
A: A stamp.

Q: What is white when it’s dirty and black when it’s clean?
A: A blackboard.

Q: What has many keys but can’t open any doors?
A: A piano.

Q: Who earns money driving their customers away?
A: A taxi driver.

Q: What is orange and sounds like parrot?
A: A carrot

Q: Can a kangaroo jump higher than any building?
A: Yes, because a building can’t jump!

Q: A man goes into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun, and points it at the customer. “Thank you” replies the customer and walks out. What happened?
A: The customer had hiccups.

• The world record for a human to hold their breath underwater is 8 minutes 27 seconds. False, in 2010 a Swiss diver named Peter Colat held his breath underwater for 19 minutes and 21 seconds.
• The world’s oldest known tree is over 9000 years old. True – In 2008 a tree calculated to be 9550 years old was found in Sweden
• Muscle turns to fat if you stop exercising. False – muscle cells and fat cells are two different types of cell.
• The world’s smallest book is 1cm wide, 1cm tall and 4mm deep. False – The smallest book in 2008 measured 2.4 x 2.9 mm and was presented in a wooden box with a magnifying glass.
• The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue True
• A cockroach will live for nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death True
• Women can read smaller print than men; Men can hear better than women False
• The brain is more active when we are asleep. True
• In France, it is legal to marry a dead person. True
• In Bangladesh, children as young as 12 can be jailed for cheating on their exams. False
• Apples are part of the rose family. True
• The Pacific Ocean is saltier than the Atlantic Ocean. False
• Clinophobia is the fear of hospitals False, it’s an abnormal and persistent fear of going to bed.

What is this?
It’s a pen.
What’s a “pen”?
You use it to write.
What is “write”?
You make words with it on paper.
What are “words”?

ETC…

You can make it as difficult as possible; at some point, though, you’ll need to say “OK, I understand”, and go to the next object. 

Alongside Rory’s Story Cubes Original are Rory’s Story Cubes: Actions and Rory’s Story Cubes: Voyages and the newly released Rory’s Story Cubes: Max.

Rory’s Story Cubes: Actions

Rory’s Story Cubes®: Actions is the first expansion set for the Rory’s Story Cubes® range. 54 unique icons (or picto-verbs™) that depict the most important verbs (action words) to be learned in second language development.

Rory’s Story Cubes: Voyages

Rory’s Story Cubes®: Voyages is the second expansion set for the Rory’s Story Cubes® range. Let every roll of Rory’s Story Cubes®: Voyages inspire tales of epic adventure from “far, far away…

Rory’s Story Cubes: Max

The 30mm version of Rory’s Story Cubes original, especially designed to help with reduced motor skills, reduced visual acuity and group training. Rory’s Story Cubes Max also avoid accidental choking hazards so are suitable for younger children.

3 Dice expansion for Story Cubes (Enchanted, Prehistoria & Clues).

The game is similar with the Debates. At first we discuss a topic and find out who’s for and who’s against some idea we discussed, then we separate into two groups. The interesting thing is that the groups must protect the opposite of what they’ve chose before. For example the topic is: do you think that it’s necessary to colonize the Moon in the nearest future, building cities with McDonalds and Starbucks? One group thinks it’s not worth it, but others are saying that it’s a great idea. Suddenly both groups need to “change their minds” and represent the opposite side’s opinion.

Pass around the candy and tell each participant to choose anywhere from 1 to 5 pieces of anything that they want.  Instruct them not to eat it yet, though :) After they have chosen their candy, you will tell them what each candy type/color represents.

If there is a whiteboard or chalkboard present, write on the board the following:

• Red – Favorite hobbies
• Green – Favorite place on earth
• Blue – Favorite memory
• Yellow -Dream job
• Orange – Wildcard (tell us anything about yourself!)

If you don’t have the above colors, change the above to match the candy types that you have.  Each person takes turns introducing himself or herself, beginning with their name and then saying one fact for each candy type that they have.  This easy introduction game should go relatively quickly (assuming they weren’t greedy and that they didn’t take too many pieces of candy! :))

Using improvisation skills, the player begins telling a story with a single sentence. For example, he might say, “I just found out I have a long lost twin.” The instructor then points to a new speaker who must continue the story and the rhyme. Example: “I guess Mom tossed a coin and my Bro didn’t win.”

The rhymes are couplets, so the next chosen player creates a new line of the story with a new sound. The improvised tale goes on until a student fails to produce a rhyme. Then he sits in the middle of the circle. This goes on until the circle shrinks down to one or two champions.

Instructors should make certain to increase the speed as the game progresses. Players may want to prohibit tricky words like orange, purple and month.