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Get Aquainted Games

Acquaintance games are always employed when a group must get to know each other at the beginning. This is usually the case at the beginning of a new group meeting or on the first evening of a children’s or youth’s camp.
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1. Elf, Giant, Magician

   On the leaders command, the couples must assume positions to show the character and they must also make the sounds of that character. This game is similar to Rock-Paper-Scissors.

2. A blind pair

   Players turn, walk towards each other and meet up while blindfolded.

3. Partner body positions

   When the music stops, the leader will announce two body positions.

4. Line up

   The groups must line up in correct order.

5. Zipp-Zapp

   The chosen player must name the player on his left (right).

6. Shoe Pile

   Everyone takes off one shoe and throws it onto a pile in the middle of the group. Then everyone will choose a shoe and try to find the player who owns the shoe.

7. Stand up

   Two (or more) players sit back to back with legs stretched out in front of them. They must try to stand up without using their arms.

8. Greeting Rituals

   The members of the group greet each other using different greetings rituals.

9. The ball with names

   The group sits or stands in a circle. A ball is thrown to someone whose name is called out at the same time.

10. Backwards names

    Your own name is said backwards.

11. Name crossword

    Each letter of your name is represented by a question where the first letter of the answer gives the different letters of the name.

12. Making gestures

    Like "I went to the market" but with gestures and movements.

13. Bang

    Out of the game is either: the person who ducked too slowly.

14. Pip squeak

    The blind person in the middle must guess who made the noise.

15. Introduction - Starter questions

    A few questions which can be posed during an introductory round.

16. Smarties and stories

    Each player takes a few numbers of M & M’s or Smarties out of a bag. After all have taken from the bag, each person tells one thing about themselves for each piece of candy taken.

17. Who is it?

    Everyone writes down 4-5 personal characteristics about themselves. The group then guesses who the characteristics belong to.

18. The group (spider) net

    A ball of yarn is thrown randomly from one person to the next while posing a question with each throw.

19. Newspaper Slaps

    The player in the middle must “tap” the person named with the newspaper before that person can call out another person’s name.

20. 3 wishes, 3 truths, 3 important things

    Each person writes down 3 wishes. Afterwards the group guesses whose wish is whose.

21. Formation line

    The entire group must stand on a board. On command, they line up by alphabet, height or age in the right order without speaking.

22. Hands

    Hands behind a stretched over a blanket screen must be recognised.

23. Group estimations

    The group estimates themselves (total age, height, distance to school.)

24. Whose balloon is this?

    Everyone snaps a balloon and brings it to the person whose name is on the balloon.

25. Secret calls

    Each group agrees on a special signal. All members are blindfolded and must try to find each other.

26. Blindly sorted

    All members of the group are blindfolded and have the challenge of standing in a row according to size, age, etc.

27. Animals find their partner

    Each blindfolded member of the group must now try to find his partner by making animal sounds.

28. Spoon grab

    A blindfolded member of the group must try to recognise another group member with a table spoon.

29. Who knows all of the group members by name?

    On the command, the members of staff let the blanket fall. Whoever names the person sitting opposite them first has won.

30. What Belongs to Whom?

    Volunteers stretch out their arms or legs out from under a blanket.

31. I love…

    This is a good game to learn about the others’ hobbies and such.

32. The perfect chaos

    Each group member receives a task. An exact opposite task exists for each task.

33. Family Maier, Meier, Mayer and Meyer

    A game for allocating and finding groups with initial communication difficulties.

34. Like to like

    A game for allocating groups with noises.

35. Lipstick kiss or footprint

    Every player makes a fingerprint, a lipstick kiss or a shoe print on his paper. The group guesses whose paper belongs to whom.

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