Who Am I?
Guess the saint from inside their story. A figure from Scripture speaks in the first person, interior truth first and plain fact last. Listen to the clues one at a time and name them when you are ready. To know them early is to know them deeply, and every round ends in a word for you, never a score.
- Players
- Solo or together
- Kind
- Bible quiz, Together
- Built on
- Hebrews 12:1
- Cost
- Free, inside Living Bread
How to play
- A voice begins: one clue, in the first person, about what they felt or feared or hoped.
- Ask for another clue, or guess now from the names offered.
- A wrong guess is never punished; it simply reveals the next clue and you keep listening.
- Name them, and the game tells you at which word you recognised them.
- Read their closing line, a word from their story to yours, then walk in another's sandals.
A session, start to finish
A round takes a minute or five, depending on how long you choose to listen. Most people ask for two or three clues before they guess, and the ones who wait for the fifth usually say the same thing afterwards: they already knew, and wanted to hear the rest. When a name lands, the figure gets the last word, a line from their story addressed to yours. Then the next voice begins, from a different century, and the room leans in again.
The Scripture it stands on
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12:1, King James Version
What it forms in you
Empathy with the people of the Bible as people. It replaces flat facts with the inside of a life, so David or Ruth or Peter become companions rather than answers.
Who it is for
Groups passing one phone around, Sunday school teachers, and readers who know the stories but have never stood inside them.
A reflection
You recognised them by the third word, or the fifth. How many words would it take someone to recognise you, and what is the true thing they would hear first?
Questions people ask
Is there a score?
No. The game records which clue revealed the figure to you, and ends in their word to you, not a number.
How many figures are there?
A wide cast from both testaments, drawn at random so the same round rarely repeats.
Can children play?
Yes. The clues start with feelings any child understands and only become factual at the end.
Play it in Living Bread
Who Am I? lives inside the app with every other game, your progress, and the family to play it with. Open in Living Bread App Store Google Play
