Similar to British Bulldogs and other invasion games, this is a tag game where one person is a tagger and attempts to tag as many people as possible when they cross the playing area, but those who are caught line up in the middle of the pitch and start to form a wall (the Great Wall).
Use a relatively wide space like a tennis court or larger. One player is the ‘tagger’ while everybody else stands on the base line on one side of court.
When the tagger shouts “Great Wall”, everybody has to run and try to reach the baseline on the other side without being caught by the tagger.
Anybody caught by the tagger stands in the middle and starts to form a wall with anybody else who has been tagged. The wall is created by players standing next to each other hands and feet spread, holding or touching the hands of the players on their left and right.
Remaining players have to reach the other side without being tagged AND without touching the wall. They can navigate around it and under it (through legs or under arms). Players in the wall should be passive and not make any movements to try and touch players who are still running.
If and when caught players complete a wall that fully spans the court side to side. Decide whether to start a new wall a few feet behind the first… or add players to the wall to make it more compact and harder for runners to go between standing players.
Continue until all captured or last person standing. Replay with somebody else as the tagger.
Incidentally, although the call to run given here is ‘Great Wall’, those who play the taggers can use any other appropriate phrase that’s been previously agreed.
