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Thinking Under Fog

Four short lessons on deciding when you cannot see everything: reading what is visible, what information is worth, pretending fairly, and staying steady when things go wrong.

For grown-ups, from what BluffForge teaches children at Spark & Anvil.

  1. Lesson 1Read what you can see
  2. Lesson 2Information has a price
  3. Lesson 3Pretending fairly
  4. Lesson 4Staying steady
At the table · 2 or more, any ages

The two-cup table

You'll need: Two cups and a small object (a coin, a button).

  1. One person hides the object under a cup while the other looks away.
  2. Agree a price: finding it under the left cup scores 1, under the right cup scores 2 for the hider if missed.
  3. Play ten rounds, then talk: did the hider fall into a pattern? Could the seeker read it?
  4. Swap roles and try hiding at random, about two times out of three on the left.

Print the guidebook (all lessons + the table activity) →