Description
FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS MYSTERY GENRE GAME:
- Recommended for: Grades 5–8
- Formats: PowerPoint, Google Slides, PDF
- Game time: Approximately 15–20 minutes
- Results & discussion: Approximately 30–40 minutes
- Prep: Low-prep; no student devices needed
- Editable: Presentation text and PowerPoint bookmarks are editable
- Accessibility: Includes alt text and screen-reader accessibility features
COMPLETELY UPDATED!
This longtime Mystery Genre Game has been extensively refreshed with a new design, revised questions, updated character archetypes, Google Slides compatibility, accessibility features, new response cards, and updated mystery book recommendations.
The presentation is ready to use as-is, but text is editable in PowerPoint and Google Slides if you’d like to customize it.
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:
- 10-question Mystery Genre Game
- PowerPoint + Google Slides versions
- 5 mystery character results
- Character traits, archetypes, and mystery vocabulary
- Color-a-dot student response cards
- No-color tally response cards
- 4 editable mystery book recommendation bookmarks
- Newer AND older book recommendation options
- Print-ready PDFs
- Quick Start User Guide
HOW DOES THE MYSTERY GENRE GAME WORK?
It’s simple: Choose → Color → Reveal!
Students choose the answers that sound most like them and color the corresponding dots on their response cards. Some questions allow students to choose two answers. An alternate tally card is included if coloring supplies aren’t available.
At the end, students discover which mystery character they are:
- Red = Detective
- Blue = Sidekick
- Yellow = Mastermind
- Purple = Survivor
- Green = Eyewitness
Then the fun continues! Results slides explore each role’s traits and character archetypes, along with mystery genre concepts such as motive, clues, and red herrings. It’s a natural way to get middle school students talking about characters, books, movies, and the mystery genre.
MYSTERY BOOK RECOMMENDATION BOOKMARKS
Four black-and-white bookmarks help students find their next mystery read:
- Amateur Sleuths
- Missing Persons
- Secrets, Codes & Scavenger Hunts
- Graphic Novel Mysteries & Suspense
You’ll get two sets of recommendations—one with newer books and one with older titles that may be easier to find in established library collections. The bookmarks are also editable in PowerPoint so you can customize them for your middle school library collection.
ACCESSIBILITY + GOOGLE SLIDES
The PowerPoint and Google Slides presentations include alt text and accessibility features for screen-reader users. Some slides contain intentionally placed transparent shapes that hold alt text for images.
A Google Slides link is included. Simply make a copy to your own Google Drive to create your editable version—no edit-access request is needed.
YOU WILL NEED:
- Computer + projector/display
- Printer for response cards and optional bookmarks
- Red, blue, green, yellow, and purple colored pencils or markers OR the included no-color tally cards
No student devices or audio are required.
This Mystery Genre Game is an engaging, low-prep way to introduce or review mystery character archetypes and genre vocabulary in the middle school library or ELA classroom.
HAVE A QUESTION? Click the PREVIEW above for a closer look at the game, character results, student materials, and everything included.
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