Bethany Baptist Church Student Ministries: Clue: The Super League

The Clue Game was this past weekend - another year is done! This year our theme was The Super League. In the City of Bethany, the superheroes kept order... until the villians decided to build a machine to suck their superpowers away! Teams had to work to collect clues to figure out how to find and disarm the machine to save the heroes.

Clue is our biggest outreach event of the year. This year, Sunshine Ridge and Ebenezer churches joined us for this event - we do May Camp together so it was great to see our friends! We encourage students to bring friends to play with. Teams work together throughout the game to visit the townspeople, complete activities and earn their clues.

a BIG thanks to our volunteers this year - they did an amazing job!! Clue is a big day as all of our set up and take down happens in a 24 hour period.... but our volunteers are incredible and work so hard to make this game a success. If you walk into the church during the game it certainly doesn't look like Bethany anymore!! Scroll down for our full list of volunteer roles.

We get a lot of questions about how the game works - so keep reading if you are curious as I will explain how to win the game. More photos will be added to this post once they are edited, and we have a recap video in the works as well.

The first thing teams had to do (unknowlingly, of course!) was to talk to the four superheroes: Captain Bethany, Myst, Sparrow, and Electra. Each hero gave them one digit of a security code, which they used to unlock the safety deposit box in the Iron Bank. In the box they found 3 clues that lead them down 3 different storylines to the end of the game.

The first item they found was a ripped paper that lead to the Church of St. Francis. In this storyline, at the church they learned how to track down Myst (superpower was the ability to shape-shift and disappear into a cloud of mist), who told them to find out if there were any unusual radiation levels in town. They eventually learned from Bethany City Hall that something was causing high levels in the Stadium - but without the other clues, they couldn't enter to find the machine.

The next item in the safety deposit box was a coupon for ice cream, which lead them to the Little Ice Cream Shoppe. In this storyline, they learned that the birds were behaving strangely, so they had to find Sparrow (superpower was flight) to get a birdwatching card. Then at the Superhero Cinema, they learned that they could buy binoculars from the Black Market in order to go birdwatching at Grimm City Park. At the park, they could find the crows hidden in the forest, where they recorded their tracking numbers - the numbers pieced together to give them a code to unlock the room with the machine - but without the remaining clues, they still didn't know how to disarm it even though they knew how to find it.

The last clue in the safety deposit box was a newspaper article that lead them to the University of Gotham and The Factory, where they learn that a machine was being made by them before a robbery. They were also given a wire to help them. They continued their quest to the Bethany Library, and then to Electra (super power was electricity) where they eventually were given the blueprints to the machine.

With the location of the machine, code to get to it, and blueprint/wire to disable it, they next tracked down Captain Bethany (super power was super strength) who told them the password to enter the hidden room in Stark Stadium ("play for keeps"). So finally, they went to the Stadium, earned entry to the secret room, battled the Human Lizard (our villain) and then were able to disarm the machine and win the game!

A big congrats to our winning teams:

First Place: Emily, Breanna, Robyn and Leslie - this group has come close for several years and finally were victorious!
Second Place: Brady, Ryan, Ethan, Aaron and Miguel - the first game for most of them!
Third Place: Michaela, Samantha, Kyla, and Brittney - representing Sunshine Ridge
Honourable Mentions: Sarah, Corah, Lauren, Francesca came in fourth place, and Connor, Stephen and Brandon were waiting in line to finish when we announced the game end.

Congrats to all! This is NOT an easy game!!

Here is a list of all volunteers in the game - they did a wonderful job and we can't thank them enough:

Captain Bethany - Paul S.
Myst - Carlon S.
Sparrow - Connor P.
Electra - Michelle V.
Human Lizard - Jeff W.
Bethany City Hall - Ebenezer Baptist - Pastor Isaac, Margaret, Marina, Darren and Anthony
Church of St. Francis - Jesse and Riley B.
Bethany Library - Kristina T., Elysia D, Kayla and Tyler S.
Town Jail - Brent L.
Arkham Asylum - Sunshine Ridge Baptist - Pastor Tim, Grant, Lowen, Tynnea, Leah and Javier
The Little Ice Cream Shoppe - James and Marni A.
Bubba's Garage - Helga and Harvey S.
Iron Bank - Joseph, Heidi, Lilly and Susanna U.
Superhero Cinema - Pastor Stef, Nancy, Micah and Faith
Grimm City Park - Angela F and Meghan H
Stark Stadium - Brad, Carolyne, Joel, Nathan, Micah, Spencer and Elias B.
Buglioni's Bistro - Janine B.
Green Grocer - Christine P.
Univeristy of Gotham - Shawna, Peter and Eva D.
Bethany Community Centre - Tara B.
Greasy Rat Tavern - Val C, Joanna P and Carissa
The Factory - Horst and Tonia H.
Black Market - Matt S. and Temi O.
Police - Rick S, Toby R, Kayla M and Taylor K
Villain Robbers - Mitchell P, Heidi S, Jody R
Toll Booth Workers - Don L., Ron H., Harold and Kim B
Coat Check - Mark and Lorraine S.
Media - Sue and Jasmin (photographers), and Eric (video)
Gamerunners - Sheldon, Bob, Shelby and Amanda

And now, the photos - click the link to access them. Thanks to our media team for the great shots - these are Sue's photos and Jasmin's are on the way. Come to church on Sunday for the recap video - it will also be posted here when it is done! Join our Facebook group for ALL of the photos as these are just a selection.

Sue's photos: