Mystery Writing
Thanks very much to Susan Cokley, who e-mailed this game to me!
The person who starts it needs a large stick and a free space to 'write' on the floor. She announces that she is going to write a word and describes how she is writing the characters of her word as she 'scribbles on the ground'. The 'clue' to this puzzle is the first letter of each word you emphasis while describing the letters.
For example, if the word you're writing is "Guide" you might say: "The word starts here and GOES UP and down then gets smaller IN this section. Then the writing of this word moves DOWN to this section before ENDING here." In the mean time the person is making imaginative scribbles on the ground, which hopefully resemble something like what the 'author' is saying.