With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Equipment A number of differently coloured straws (one colour for each team) + some ‘bonus’ straws coloured black and/or some that have been covered in luminous paint. Open playing field, or similar area with short grass. Optional:...
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Hunt the Leader (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Use a limited area of fields and/or woodland. Leaders can move freely around if they wish (advisable). Players have to collect signatures from each leader, but the objective is to collect as many signatures as possible in...
Elves, Wizards and Giants (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Equipment: Life-bands or life tokens A number of tokens marked either Elf, Wizard or Giant Play: Split the group into two teams. Either create a base for each team of allow each team to find and make...
Raiders (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Equipment: Life bands or other token (e.g. potato see Fools Gold) Play: Establish 3 bases some distance from each other and divide into 2 relatively equal teams the “Raiders” and the “Runners” (number of players in each...
Human Pac Man (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Sent in by Anne Crotty It is fun watching the reaction when a player is being escorted to jail and the roles change! A combination of Crows and Cranes and Leader Hunt. 4-5 leaders hide around the...
Fools Gold (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Sent in by ‘Big Al’ Equipment: Lifebands # (one colour per team) 15 potatoes per team (The Gold) Play: For 2 or more teams. This game is essentially best when played in sand dunes at the beach...
“Big Foot” (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe (c) Kit Logan, 2001 – licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5 License. A more complex wide game for teens and older children. Big Foot is based on the idea and legend of the “Sasquatch” and an original...
Witch in the Woods (Wide Game)
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...
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...