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Further games...
There are games which cannot be allocated to a specific group or which do not have enough game ideas to warrant a separate category.
Travel games in the bus or car
I spy...
Every journey will become less boring with this game.
- Miscellaneous distractions...
During a bus or car journey lots of ideas and games can be taken from number plates.
Rowing regatta on the bus
Try to discover items and point them out as soon as possible, or make a photo.
City – Country – River
Pencil and paper are necessary.
- Mau-Mau
With a standard 32 card set, between 2 and 6 players can play this game.
- Fiddling
The game is ideally suitable for 3 to 5 players.
- Cheating
Cheating is allowed in this game.
- Battleships
This game is always suitable as a time filler
Relaxation games | Games for relaxing
Imagine the Way
A relaxation game
- Seasons of the Year
A relaxation game
- Changeable Weather
The first player uses his hands to show the different weather possibilities on the other players back.
- Be a balloon
Every player pretends he is a balloon, which is slowly being inflated.
- A Flower’s Day
Each player pretends he is a flower.
- Strong as a Tree
Each player pretends he is a tree.
Wishes
The player who is laying down chooses a way in which he would like to be touched by the other player.
- Lay your Head on my Lap
The other player lays face up with his head on the other players lap.
- Boat on the Water
One player (the boat) lays across the others (the sea) facing up and closes his eyes.
Crawling Blindly in the Room
All players close their eyes and crawl about the room.
- Noises
With their ears, each listens to the sounds of the others stomachs.
Experience games
The shortest path
Each tree must be visited with as few steps as possible.
Blind bearings
The blindfolded group members must find each other and then find the stations together.
Morse
Find your partner who has the same Morse letter.
- Forest noises
Write down each noise which you can hear and recognise.
Forest detective
Will the group find all of the clues?
Feel your way along the rope
While blindfolded, the players must now feel their way along the whole trail.
Games for choosing groups
- Lions, hunters, mothers-in-law
A game as scissors, paper, stone
- In order
The group orders themselves according to…
- Giants, elves and magicians
A game as scissors, paper, stone
- Scissors, paper, stone
A well known decision game.
- Chair Contest
All players on the same chair make up one team.
- Stuck under the blanket
When the music stops a number is called out and this number of players must hide under a blanket.
Puzzle
A group division game
- Pulling numbers
A group division game
- Thread Pull
A group division game
- Elimination game: apples - pears - oranges
An elimination game without predictable results.
- Raid
The people who are holding the same objects in their hands at the time of the raid find each other.
Communication games
- Guess the movement
The group thinks of a movement which a player must guess.
- The monkey house
Who wants to be a monkey? It isn't too easy!
- Market Barkers
Two players pretend they are market barkers
- Better than Eddie Murphy
Some people like to talk and don’t give others a chance.
- Foot contact
A funny game with mistakes, concentration problems, overzealousness etc.
- Double statue 2
The blindfolded player tries to follow the instructions and adopts the pose.
- Laying figures
According to verbal descriptions, different figures must be formed or drawn.
- Blind Grabs
The blindfolded players can only take the fruit of their team and place it in their basket.
- Steno
Which teams has managed to write the text down without any mistakes?
- Building
The group can build something using the materials, but speaking is not allowed.
- Mine field with mouse traps
A blindfolded player walks through the playing field without being caught in one of the mousetraps.
Co-operation games
- Crossed roundabout
Run around inside a figure of 8 without touching each other.
- One On leg
Everyone stands on one leg and holds themselves together with the group while the upper body is leant backwards.
- Caterpillar Walk
Everyone takes a leg of the player in front of him and holds it in his hand.
Double roll
2 players lie stretched out on the ground with their feet touching. Both players must now roll.
- Caterpillar race
The group moves forwards on wooden boards (with loops).
- Rope shapes
The group makes a shape using a rope while blindfolded and without talking.
- Catching mousetraps
The group must now try to take the mousetraps harmlessly from the edge of the playing area.
- Through the pipe labyrinth
A hula-hoop must travel from one end of the line to the other without the chain of hands being broken.
- Pullover or T-Shirt rally
How long will the group need for the pullover to be passed on to all of the players?
- Meter stick
In this co-operation game, the whole group is only allowed to touch a meter stick with one stretched out finger.
- The transport solution
A stone or a large ball must be moved from A to B. The group is only allowed to use 5-6 strings.
- Conveyor belt
An object must be passed along the conveyor belt only using the feet.
- Solidarity
Either between the backs of the hands, or index fingers, or knees, a drink coaster is held between the two players.
- A co-operation game: A-wood race
A large wooden A frame is held with 2 ropes. One person stands in the A and moves it forwards.
- Rope co-operation
A player lies in a rope which is held by two group members.
- Rescue Island
Coordination game: working together and solving the problem together.
- Defusing bombs
An object is lifted up on 4 strings and is transported 20 meters without touching the ground.
- Co-ordination
The player lifts on leg, the group pulls the board along a little and the player puts his leg down again.
Bucket co-ordination
A bucket is moved with 4 ropes to fill water into a tub.
- Spider Web
A strategy is developed together, the solution to the problem is worked on together and that no one can solve the problem alone.
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