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Secretary

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Translation detailsModel: mistral-large-2512.

Each participant receives a piece of paper and writes a masculine personal noun on it. They then fold the top of the paper to conceal what they have written and pass it to their neighbor, while receiving another piece of paper from their other neighbor, on which that person has already written (as they did) a masculine name. On the received papers, everyone now writes feminine personal nouns. In this way, each person answers the following sequence of questions: masculine name, feminine name, where they were, what they were doing, what came of it, what people said about it? Each answer is written on a separate piece of paper, meaning each piece of paper contains the successive answers of 6 players. The papers are then read aloud, resulting in much laughter. It is necessary to appeal to the boys’ sense of honor and decency so that they do not abuse their discretion and write anything indecent.


Source scan: Polona / National Library, marked “Public Domain”. View scan — image 46.

  • Type: game
  • Traits: Not stated in the source
  • Source: Juliusz Dąbrowski, Gry i zabawy w izbie harcerskiej (1934)
  • Printed pages: 44–45
  • Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
  • Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 44
  • Read the source text: gih-102