You Know Social Skills Games and Therapy Games, A Fun Game That Opens Communication and Encourages Meaningful Conversations to Establish Relationships

Learn More About Yourself and Others. Improve Self Reflection and Social Skills. Learn Something New About Someone Every Time You Play!

The goal of You Know is to establish high-comfort gameplay that subtly promotes further discussion on topics such as personal values, struggles, and goals

Familiar Gameplay - Gameplay that is familiar to most and easy to learn allows for quick and easy child integration

Initial Question - Fun 'Would you rather?' type questions allow for low pressure responses and comfortable engagement

Exploration Question - Each 'Would you rather?' question is carefully chosen and paired with an additional 'exploration' question to reveal further information and promote additional, more personal, discussion

You Know can be used...

• In counseling groups to build social skills and positive communication
• In a small group setting such as a classroom camp or team building activity
• With your family - provides insight into children's social skills decision-making process frustration tolerance level of respect for rules boundaries and problem-solving abilities
• In individual counseling sessions as an assessment tool that is in alignment with solution focused counseling

Gameplay Instructions

• Each player is dealt 7 cards. Remaining cards are placed in a “Draw” pile. One card is flipped over to begin the discard pile
• The goal is to discard all cards in hand. To discard a card onto the discard pile, it must match the color, number , or symbol of the card at the top of the discard pile
• A “Wild” card can also be played at anytime on the discard pile
• If a player does not have a match they must draw a card from the draw pile. It can be played if it’s a match, otherwise it is the next player’s turn
• When a player has one card remaining, he/she must shout “YOU KNOW!”. They then win the game if they are able to discard the last card

Every other round, players must answer the “Would you rather…?” question on the card they play as well as the secondary question underneath. (Optional) When a player yells “YOU KNOW!”, other players must say something they learned about that player from earlier answers or draw 2 cards

Special Cards

TAKE 2 - Next player in order must pick up 2 cards

WILD - Pick any color

WILD +2 - Pick any color and next player must pick up 2 cards

SKIP - Skip next player

REVERSE - Change direction of order

CARD SPY - Player can choose to see the cards of any one player