Take a piece of paper. Write your name on it, and a venue/time, maybe a restaurant or coffee bar. Give it to someone you know who wants to come along. They write their name after yours. Have a number of spaces for names, however many people you want to come along.
They have to give it to someone they know, but who doesn’t know anyone else on the list. Once the last person gets it, they can give it back up the chain to the first person so everyone knows who is going.
So you end up with a number of people most of whom only know two people there (the exceptions being the first and last people).
Feel free to apply other restrictions to this basic formula – making it boy-girl-boy-girl only, or whatever. It may be necessary to have some other inducement, like paying for the first X amount of the cafe bill.
I’m thinking of doing this for 10 people – quite whether its possible to find 10 people who are only simply connected like this, I don’t know!
