Give each
student a small piece of paper, about the size of your thumb. Ask them to write
down their favourite animal, sport, month, cartoon character, whatever. Collect
the paper, write all entries on the blackboard (makes things a lot faster). The
object is to try to guess what the student wrote by asking “James, is your
favourite month July?”. If James responds yes, then he becomes apart of your
empire, and you ask someone else. Cross that month off the board. If James
responds no, then it is his turn to ask anyone in the class to attempt to build
his empire. If, for example James acquires an empire of 3 students, and you
guess that James' favourite cartoon character is Stewie, for example, then you
acquire him and his empire. The game ends when a student has everyone in his
empire.
