Amanda

I was wondering if I could get some help. My oldest DD (she is 8) has
been reading a lot of mysteries lately. Today she asked me to make up
a mystery for her. I am drawing a blank and was wondering if I could
get some ideas of things to do from you wonderful people :)

Amanda

k

Scavenger hunts make great mysteries. Try hiding things and leaving clues
with each object for the next object to look for. If you can figure out
something that matches a theme your daughter might have an interest in, that
might be really fun.

~Katherine


On 1/21/09, Amanda <horein@...> wrote:
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> I was wondering if I could get some help. My oldest DD (she is 8) has
> been reading a lot of mysteries lately. Today she asked me to make up
> a mystery for her. I am drawing a blank and was wondering if I could
> get some ideas of things to do from you wonderful people :)
>
> Amanda
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Emile Snyder

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 20:24 +0000, Amanda wrote:
> I was wondering if I could get some help. My oldest DD (she is 8) has
> been reading a lot of mysteries lately. Today she asked me to make up
> a mystery for her. I am drawing a blank and was wondering if I could
> get some ideas of things to do from you wonderful people :)

Boy, making up good mysteries; a tall order!

I don't know if there have been any or these sorts of games targeted at
a younger age bracket, but you might try researching "Immersive Games"
or "Alternate Reality Games" (see
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_args for an
overview article in wired.) They tend to be games/puzzles/interactive
fiction where clues are planted online and/or physically in the real
world.

Somewhat similar, you might look into the "geocaching" world.

Sorry, I know it's not advice for how to make up a mystery.

-emile

Joanna Murphy

I had some thoughts that aren't exactly what you asked, but might appeal to your daughter:

My kids have loved playing I spy-type games. One you could try is to have her look at the
room, then close her eyes and change something, and then play guessing games, with clues
or without, until she guesses what's changed. You could also play "hot and cold," where you
have an object in mind, and the closer she gets, the "hotter" she gets.

Joanna


--- In [email protected], "Amanda" <horein@...> wrote:
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> I was wondering if I could get some help. My oldest DD (she is 8) has
> been reading a lot of mysteries lately. Today she asked me to make up
> a mystery for her. I am drawing a blank and was wondering if I could
> get some ideas of things to do from you wonderful people :)
>
> Amanda
>

k

I don't know what your daughter is interested in about mysteries. It
sounded from your email that she may be interested in what goes into making
a mystery. I absolutely adored reading mysteries when I was a kid.. all the
Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys you could throw at me was just so fascinating to me.
Here's a couple things on how mysteries are made.

Here's something about presenting mysteries to an audience by Alfred
Hitchcock (and maybe the rest of the website (I didn't look further) has
more of that kind of thing if she likes it:
http://www.on-cue.org.uk/articles16.html

Here's a writer talking very much along the same lines about more on that
same subject: http://www.aprilhenrymysteries.com/AHMWTCluesMakeMystery.htm

I thought this was neat (for myself anyway), a mystery writer's blog:
http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/

If she's more interested in playing with mysteries, here's something I saw
... preteen mystery party kits: http://tinyurl.com/begm5k

~Katherine*


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Robyn L. Coburn

Jayn (9) adores and is crazy about mysteries and detectives, especially
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. She loved the recent Doctor Who when they met
Agathe Christie (based on a real event in her life apparently). We have
many, many ND and Poirot mystery games and other Wii mystery games.

Jayn makes up mystery stories using her dolls and the characters - with
special clothes that say "detective" to her. Here's the thing - the made up
mysteries don't have to have the complexity or super fab logic of Agatha
Christie. I have found that it's ok to just play investigation without
worrying about actually catching the crook, or for every clue to line up in
the end.

Jayn's scenarios - a theft at an art museum, where the thieves took a
painting out the skylight. Another - her doll is a detective with an alter
ego/disguise (so doll play with clothing) investigating a murder in a Paris
hotel. Another - the theft of fashion designs (which she drew) from a
designer's atelier. The only one that has reached the point of being solved
after many hours of doll play is the Parisian murder. Sometimes my job is to
be characters in the game, others to take notes of the story for later
rewriting.

Another game might be a scavenger hunt or a hunt with a series of clues
hidden in your house and yard.

Robyn L. Coburn
www.Iggyjingles.etsy.com
www.iggyjingles.blogspot.com
www.allthingsdoll.blogspot.com

k

>>>> Somewhat similar, you might look into the "geocaching" world. <<<<

How about looking into letterboxing.

~Katherine


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Ward

I am not sure if the game has the same name in the US but Cluedo which is a murder mystery game might interest her. Just discovered on Wikipedia it is called Clue in North America - rundown here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo

Cheers,
Julie
Wellington, New Zealand.


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