Activity: Cluedo!
Deadline: Saturday 14 March at 10 PM CST.
Points: 50/40/30/10 points for First/Second/Third/Participation only. +5 for correctly solving the puzzle without placing.
The Battle of Hogwarts is over, and four members of the DA are still missing! Even worse, you've heard that one student was so severely injured that they had to be apparated immediately to St. Mungo's! By asking questions of the survivors scattered throughout the castle, can you sort out what happened?
Gameplay
I will tell you who is missing, which Death Eaters they dueled with, which spells were used, and where the duels occurred. You have to find the missing DA members in order to figure out who was sent to St. Mungo's, and what spell (and DE) caused their injuries. This sounds more complicated than it is, don't worry. It's really just Clue with a little trivia mixed in. :)
You can ask witnesses (aka me) questions about each of the elements in question. Your questions have to be relevant to the room you are asking in. You can only ask one question at a time. You must wait for me to answer your question before you can ask a new one. Additionally, you can not ask two questions in a row in the same room. This means once you've asked a question about the duel that occurred in that room, you have to move to a new room in order to ask another question.
Your question must be focused on only ONE element. Additionally, you can not ask direct questions like "Was [DE] in this room?" This constitutes a guess at information and you can not share guesses with other students.
Sample Gameplay
You start out in Room 1 and ask "What can you tell me about the DE that dueled here?" I answer and say either a piece of trivia like "He was once tortured by a reluctant teenage boy at Voldemort's command" (leading you to identify him as Thorfinn Rowle) or something to help you suss out the other elements like "He lost his duel" or "He did not use such-and-such spell." Then you move to another room and ask another question about the DE, spell or DA member in that room.
Elements
You know that the four missing DA members are:
ť Dean Thomas
ť Cho Chang
ť Hannah Abbot
ť Seamus Finnegan
You know that two of them lost their duels, while two won. They dueled the following Death Eaters:
ť Bellatrix Lestrange
ť Amycus Carrow
ť Fenrir Greyback
ť (a very half-hearted) Lucius Malfoy
The spells used were:
ť the Cruciatus curse
ť serpensortia
ť stupefy
ť a blasting curse
The duels took place in the:
ť Great Hall
ť Astronomy Tower
ť DADA Classroom
ť Main Stairway
It may help you to use a chart like the ones used in the recent Transfiguration activity; I've made one for you here. :)
Points
The first one to correctly figure out who was sent to St. Mungo's, which spell was used, which DE attacked them and where the duel took place will get 50 points. The second and third to guess correctly get 40 and 30 points respectively. Everyone else gets 10 points participation. Guessing incorrectly automatically knocks you out of the game and you just get your 10 participation points. However, anyone who participates and does manage to solve the puzzle, even if they don't place, will get 5 extra points. Otherwise you just get 10. If you participate minimally but don't make a guess or a real effort to figure it out (for example, you ask one question and then disappear), you will only get 5 points. Okay? Okay.
A Final Note
Just so everyone knows, everything here is unscreened so as to be more fair to people who do not have extensive time to sit around asking me questions. That means everyone will benefit from any knowledge you gain. You may want to consider this in deciding how to phrase your questions. :)
DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR OFFICIAL GUESSES HERE. I WILL MAKE A NEW POST FOR THAT WITH SCREENED COMMENTS MOMENTARILY.
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