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Description

Work together while you’re distanced to crack this life-size people puzzle.

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/gridlocked-people/

Resources

Hoops, cones or other markers (items to make a grid with nine spaces)

With larger groups, enlarge the grid- but always leave one space or run 2 grids who can race to complete the task.

Make the game more difficult by asking everyone to complete a challenge without speaking.

If you have enough people, you could try making a four by four grid with 16 hoops (and 15 players).

Make sure each marker is at least 2 metres away from the next.

Instructions

Before you begin
- Make sure you’ve risk assessed your meeting, and also have a COVID-19 safe risk assessment that’s been agreed by your line manager.
- This game works for eight players. If you have more people, they’ll have to take it in turns to swap in and add their opinions from the sidelines.

Play the game
1. The person leading the game should lay out nine hula hoops in a three by three grid on the ground. Make sure each hoop is at least two metres away from the next.

2. Eight people should move onto the grid and stand in a hoop. There should be one empty spot left in the grid – to start off with, make sure this space is in a corner.
[Think about how everyone can get on to the grid while staying socially distanced. People may need to take it in turns to walk on, for example.]

3. The person leading the game should choose a player standing in a corner and explain that the first challenge is to move them into the empty space while following the rules: only one person can move at a time and people can only move if they're next to (not diagonally across from) the empty space.

4. Everyone should work together to move one by one until the chosen player is in the right corner.

5. The person leading the activity should set a new challenge, for example, moving an entire row of people from one side to the other (keeping them in the right order), rearranging everyone in order of height or age, or numbering people and asking them to get in order.

Tags

• game
• problem solving game
• puzzle
• socially distanced game
• team game

Badge Links

• Skills - Problem solving
• Teamwork - Goal