3 thoughts on “LDS Games”

1. it was awesome

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2. I’m using win 10. How can I change the cat, question and answers? I would like to connect my computer to HDMI in put and use w/audience.

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3. I was assigned to teach the YW/YM a couple weeks ago for a combined 5th Sunday class, and decided to make it a game. I google searched for ideas, trying to see what other people have done in the past, and there were some really great ideas. From those ideas, I borrowed a little bit from this idea, and a little bit from that idea, and came up with the following game, all thanks to the ideas from teachers before me who have shared their ideas online. So I am in their debt, and I thought it only right that I should pay it forward by sharing the game that was created out of their collected ideas.
   So here’s how it goes. Keep in mind, in my ward, we have a pretty small group of youth (about 10), so you may need to adjust the details to better fit the size of your group. For us, I asked all the leaders to play too so that it made the groups bigger (and so there was a clear separation of which adults helped which team if a kid didn’t know an answer).
   I had them split into two groups, with an even ratio of boys to girls, and adults to youth.
   There are 5 categories of questions, and each of the five category titles are taped across the top of a wall. There are 10 questions per category. Like Jeopardy, each question in a given category is worth an ascending amount of points (Question 1 is worth 100 points, question 2 is worth 200 points, and so on). So under each category, is taped 10 sheets of paper, each with the number of points it represents (again in ascending order from top to bottom). For anyone that’s seen Jeopardy, I’m sure you get the idea.
   A coin is flipped to determine which team goes first (let’s say it was Team 1).
   As the first member of each team approaches the “mark”, the member from Team 1 gets to choose which category and number of points. Then for the next round, the member from Team 2 gets to choose. In theory, the larger the points, the harder the question. Only you have an idea of how much your kids know, so only you can decide which questions you consider are harder than others. So when you get to the list of questions I came up with, what I may have considered a 1000 point question for my group, might be more of a 400 point question for yours. Feel free to adjust as necessary.
   Something else to keep in mind, if you have an even number of members on each team, then the same people will always be the ones to get to choose. In this case, once you’ve gone through a full rotation, switch to the other side, so that everyone has a chance to be the “chooser”.
   After a selection is made, you’ll read the corresponding question. But here’s where the Memory part of the game comes into play. Players will not blurt out the answer, instead, before them, laid out on the floor in neat 5 x 10 rows, are 50 paper plates, each with an answer to one of the 50 questions, taped to the bottom of it. As soon as you’ve read the question, the players must find the plate with the corresponding answer and hold it up as soon as they’ve found it. You’ll need a fairly large space for this because you want to have the plates spread out as much as possible so the kids aren’t on top of each other. Also, you’ll need to establish one very important game rule: All plates must always be laid back down in the same spot with the answer on the bottom as soon as they’ve determined it’s not the right answer. That’s important for the memory part of the game to work. As the players come back through the rotation for another question, they’ll find they remember where they saw that answer the last time they were searching through the plates (so long as it’s still in the same place). It also might help to use different colored plates, or in my case, because all I had were white paper plates, I took 5 markers and colored in a large circle on the top each plate. It’s up to you how you want to lay them out. The color is just to help with memory (“oh I remember seeing that answer on a red plate somewhere on the left side!”).
   Once a player has successfully found the plate with the correct answer, the winner can pull the piece of paper from the wall that reflected the points it represented. This serves two purposes. One, it lets everyone know which questions are left to choose from. And two, at the end of the game, the teams can each just count up the points on their papers, no need for someone to actively keep score throughout the game.
   That’s pretty much the logistics of the game. The kids seemed to really have fun with it, and even the adults enjoyed it too.
   So, if you’re curious to know the questions I came up with, here they are. Feel free to use them, or come up with your own. And as I mentioned earlier, adjust their worth in points as you see fit. (Also, if you replace any questions with your own, just make sure the answer doesn’t already exist in the game for another question. Every question should only match up to one plate that can answer it.)
   Category 1: Church History
   Q1: Who was the second prophet of the church?
   Q2: When the church was reorganized in 1830, what state were they in?
   Q3: How old was Joseph Smith when he went into the woods to pray and two personages appeared to him?
   Q4: What state has the most temples?
   Q5: How many times did Moroni appear to Joseph Smith telling him where the find the plates?
   (*Note: notice I didn’t ask how many times “during the night”….I asked how many times, as in “total”).
   Q6: Utah is referred to as the…”what”…state, which also represents the youngest members in Young Womens?
   Q7: On the very first day that the church was first reorganized, how many members did it have?
   Q8: Who was the first scribe to help Joseph Smith in translating the Book of Mormon?
   Q9: What was Joseph Smith’s wife’s name?
   Q10: In which state was the first LDS temple built and dedicated?
   (*Note: notice that I added “and dedicated” as that does make a difference since there was another temple built prior but was never dedicated).
   Category 2: Scripture Trivia
   Q1: How many articles of faith are there?
   Q2: What was the Book of Mormon originally made out of?
   Q3: What is the last book in the Book of Mormon?
   Q4: In which of the 5 scriptures can you find the book of Isaiah?
   Q5: In which of the 5 scriptures can you find the book of Jacob?
   Q6: In which of the 5 scriptures can you find the book of Abraham?
   Q7: In which of the 5 scriptures can you find the book of Hebrews?
   Q8: Which book in the Old Testament can you find the story of Adam and Eve?
   Q9: Which book in the New Testament can you find the parable of the Prodigal Son?
   Q10: How many sections are in the Doctrine & Covenants?
   Category 3: Bible Stories
   Q1: What did Noah build to carry all the animals?
   Q2: What rule did Samson have to follow in order to keep his strength?
   Q3: How many plagues were inflicted onto the people of Egypt because Pharaoh refused to obey Moses?
   Q4: What weapon did David use to slay Goliath?
   Q5: What kind of animals den was Daniel thrown into after being caught praying to God?
   Q6: What did King Solomon suggest to cut in half in order to resolve an argument between two women?
   Q7: What possession did Joseph have that made all his brothers jealous enough to sell him into slavery?
   Q8: What did Lot’s wife become after she turned around?
   Q9: What was the name of the structure that was built in order to reach to the heavens so they could be like God?
   Q10: Which of the 12 Apostles denied Christ 3 times?
   Category 4: Gospel Trivia
   Q1: What is the highest degree of glory?
   Q2: Who is the third member of the Godhead?
   Q3: What does the sacrament bread and water represent?
   Q4: How many General Authorities are in the quorum just underneath the 12 Apostles?
   Q5: At what age is the earliest you can be baptized in our church?
   Q6: Who on this earth is allowed to exercise all the keys of the Priesthood?
   Q7: Which priesthood comes after Aaronic?
   Q8: What is it called when an ordinance is performed in the temple that links you to another family member for eternity?
   Q9: What type of blessing tells you which tribe you belong to?
   Q10: Who is the head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
   (*Note: this one may not be a 1000 pointer question…I only made it higher because I thought it might be sort of a trick question since some kids might first assume the answer is the Prophet)
   Category 5: Finish this Sentence
   Q1: Faith without works is ______.
   Q2: Let he who hath no sin, cast the first ______.
   (*Note: So this one I ran into a small issue, obviously the answer to this one is stone. However, earlier in the game, Q4 from Bible Stories came up. Now I had “sling” as the answer to that question. But one of the kids found the plate with “stone” first and held that up as the answer. Technically, stone could be considered an answer to that question, even though it wasn’t the one I intended. After I informed them that “stone” isn’t actually the answer I was looking for, the player from the other team found “sling” and got the points. Luckily, the first kid was a good sport, and didn’t mind that the points went to the other team when technically his answer wasn’t wrong. But I wanted to bring this up to explain the importance of why its necessary that each question only has one plate that can answer it.)
   Q3: Charity never _______.
   Q4: As I have loved you, _______ _____ _______.
   Q5: And God said, Let there be ________.
   Q6: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only _______________ _____.
   Q7: The Lord is my ________.
   Q8: Adam fell that men might be; and mean are that they might have ______.
   Q9: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the __________ __ ________.
   Q10: Every member a ___________.

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