Here's a way to get a time of >!12 minutes Arranges conversations by >! spliting the party into two groups of five, one with Al and one with Jane, and have each group split into 2+3 in each of the ten possible ways. You can get another two minutes by >! Having each group of 5 in a conversation. and >! Doing the same but splitting a person from each group (not Jane) into a conversation pair, leaving each half with 4. ------ Here's a way to get a slighly better time of >! 13 minutes There's nothing that systematic here. I'll just post the list of conversation clusters. Each line list the people who know the secret beforehand, followed by the conversations, with secret-sharing conversation before the semicolon. >! <code> >! A: AB; CDEFGHIJ >! AB: ABC; DEFGHIJ >! ABC: ABCD; EFGHIJ >! A-D: AD BC; EGI FHJ >! A-D: AC BD; EGJ FHI >! A-D: ABCDE; FGHIJ >! A-E: AE BCD; FG HIJ >! A-E: BE ACD; FH GIJ >! A-E: CE ABD; FI GHJ >! A-E: ABCDEF; GHIJ >! A-F: ABE CDF; GH IJ >! A-F: ACE BDF; GI HJ >! A-F; BCE ADF; GJ HI >! </code>