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Description

This is a game that is to be played to test the groups understanding of map reading and grid referencing by putting them in to a game based situation.
The difficulty of this game can be altered by the leader depending on the knowledge and understanding of the group by using 6 Figure Grid Referencing instead of 4 Figure Grid References

Explorers difficulty could include the use of contours and land marks alongside using longer Grid References.

Resources

At least one whiteboard - this is for the recording the grid reference of the ships or targets location. Multiple whiteboards can be used depending the number of teams playing
Coloured Board marker pens - for recording hits and misses. This needs to be enough for each team to have one of every colour being used
Floor Tape - this is for making our the grid in which the activity will take place.
Markers (preferably colour coded for each team)

Instructions

Prerequisite
- Mark out Map Grid on the floor of Hut or Hall ( this can include as many squares are though necessary)
- Have Grids marked out on whiteboards so the Scouts can record target locations, hits and misses

1. Split Troop into team: between 2 and 4 teams
2. Get Scouts to discuss and record the placement of their targets on their whiteboards
3. Each team will take it in turns to guess the location of the opposing teams targets

3.1. This will be do by a team member walking to a location on the grid, calling out that grid reference and placing there teams marker
3.2. This is repeated for all of the teams until only one team has any targets left

4. If a grid reference called is being used by any of the other teams as location for a target. It will count a as hit against all teams opposing teams using that grid reference.
5. All hits and misses will be recorded by the team

6. The winning team is the last team with their targets remaining.

Tags

• game
• grid references
• Map Reader - Contour

Badge Links

• Navigator - 4-figure reference
• Navigator - 6-figure reference
• Navigator - Contours
• Skills - Problem solving
• Teamwork - Team-building