With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Simple game that requires a playing area with a number of places to hide making it ideal for playing as a wide game… particularly at night. Establish a base, one person is chosen to be the tagger...
Age – Adult
Find the Leader (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe This one I know used to be played in and around Bakewell by the youth staying there on church houseparty holidays. One definitely for older youth and not always as easy as it sounds! Players are divided...
Fox and Hounds (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Divide into two teams, the “foxes” with around 25% of the players and “hounds” with the other 75%. Foxes are given either a whistle or a packet of flour, and a time limit is set (usually 10...
Coastguards and Smugglers (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe This is one of the simplest wide games and the basis for many of the more complex wide games. It is effectively an embellished version of `Tag’ Players are divided into two teams, a small team of...
Wide Games and Night Wide Games
If there was ever a favourite game of mine when I was a youth (and possibly still the case :-), it was the Wide Games. ‘Wide Games’ include any game requiring or making use of any large area of land. Provided you stick to a few simple rules they...
County Lines: A risk to children
Sounds innocent, but it’s not. “County Lines” is the name given to criminals using children to courier drugs for them often getting them to travel to other counties. Sometimes children as young as 12 and there is an estimated 46,000 children currently involved in gang activity across the UK....
Stick (Card Game)
Sent in by Kathrin Logan Silly but fun game for any number of players of 3 or more, but best in small groups. This game can get extremely fast and players win by being able to concentrate on several things at once…. One person is chosen as dealer. Pack...
Spoons (Card Game)
Sent in by Debbie Reed, Elkhorn Valley Adventures, Bergholz, OH, U.S.A You will need: enough spoons for every person in your group but one, and 1 deck of cards (or 2, depending on the size of your group) Set up: Sit the group at some kind of table or...
Solitaire (Card Game)
One of those timeless card games you can play by yourself, particularly when looking for something to while away the hours such as long waits or journeys. If you have a Windows PC you may already have played this and have the idea. Shuffle a pack of cards (without...
Slap Jack (Card Game)
Sent in by Mellisa Bear For 2 (or more) players, but best with 2. Shuffle and deal out all the cards in a pack between the players, face down. Keeping their cards face down in front of them on the table players take it in turn to turn over...