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Description

A type of "board" game. It can be played to kill an hour on a soggy camp or played over Zoom

Resources

A hat or other container
A 1 minute timer or stopwatch
Lots of small pieces of paper
A pencil for each player

Instructions

Give each player 3 small pieces of paper and a pencil, and ask them to secretly write down on each piece the name of a famous person or character (alive or dead, fictional or non-fictional, real or cartoon). Fold each paper in half and put them into the hat. When all the names are in the hat, give it a good mix.

There maybe duplicates. This is fine and can add a further element into the game.

Divide the players into two teams. Try to mix up ages and abilities.

One player is chosen from each team to start, and one team is chosen to start.

Round one - Describing - 60 seconds per go.
At the signal, that player must pull a name from that hat and try to describe to the other players on his team who that character is, without using any of the names which are actually written down. For example, he could describe "Prince Charles" as "current British royalty, next in line to the throne, Queen Elizabeth's first son" and so on, but not "a British prince". As soon as the character is guessed correctly, it is placed in the team's "correctly guessed pile" and another pulled from the hat. If there is a breach of the rules, or a pass then the piece of paper goes back into the hat.

That player has 60 seconds to describe as many characters as possible.

The play then moves to the first player in team two. Then to the second player in team one and so on.

Carry on until all the pieces of paper are used, count up and declare which team has won that round.

All the pieces of paper are then returned to the hat

Round two - charades - 90 seconds per go.
Using the same pieces of paper/characters, at the signal, that player must pull a name from that hat and act out the character to the other players on his team. There must be no sounds other than "correct" or "incorrect" or similar. As soon as the character is guessed correctly, it is placed in the team's "correctly guessed pile" and another pulled from the hat. If there is a breach of the rules, or a pass then the piece of paper goes back into the hat.

Tip - Start the play where it was stopped at the end of round one, so that everyone has an equal turn.

That player has 90 seconds to act out as many characters as possible.

Carry on until all the pieces of paper are used, count up and declare which team has won that round.

All the pieces of paper are then returned to the hat.

Round three - one word- 60 seconds per go.
Using the same pieces of paper/characters, at the signal, that player must pull a name from that hat and try to describe, only using ONE word, to the other players on his team who that character is, Similar rules to previous rounds. With this round there may be more passes or just lots of random guesses where the team members try to recall all the characters.

That player has 60 seconds to describe as many characters as possible.

Carry on until all the pieces of paper are used, count up and declare which team has won that round and the game.


Playing on Zoom
Introduce two moderators (leaders or young leaders).

The players send via private chat their three characters to the host/moderator one, (Watch out for safeguarding concerns whilst using private chat *,)

Moderator one
- creates a list of the characters
- Randomly sends the player a character via private chat
- notes which ones are used or passed (passed goes back into "the hat)

Moderator two
- Keeps a note on who is on what side
- declares which player is playing next
- keeps score
- keeps time

* ways to address safeguarding concerns
- save the chat
- use a video link (eg whatsapp call) to other leaders with the camera focused on the chat

Tags

• articulate
• charades
• memory game
• Team work game
• virtual
• Zoom game,

Badge Links

• Teamwork - Team-building