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Can you sneak past the conductor and collect all the carriages without being heard?

https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/as-quiet-as-a-train/

Activty from The Scouts website

Resources

Scrap paper
Coloured pens or pencils
Scarves (such as neckers)

Instructions

You can’t outrun a train. And even if you could, you wouldn’t hear it coming. Today’s trains almost silently reach speeds of 125mph and they run 24 hours a day. - Key Message from The Rail Industry

Before the game:

- The person leading the activity should remind everyone that trains can reach speeds of 125mph. Everyone should write down how fast they think people walk (on average) in miles per hour. They should also write down their best guesses for how fast a cyclist travels, how fast a car goes, how fast a cheetah can sprint, and how fast a plane is when it’s taking off.

The Game:

- Everyone should spread out around the meeting space – no one should be close to anyone else.
- The person leading the activity should choose one person to be the train engine and one person to be the train conductor. Everyone else is a train carriage.
- The train conductor should put on a scarf like a blindfold. They should stand in the middle of the meeting place. When the game begins, they should listen out for the train engine. When they think they’ve heard the train engine, they should point to it. They can guess up to three times.
- The train engine should move so the train conductor doesn’t know where they’ll start from. When the game begins, they should move quickly but silently around the meeting place, tapping the train carriages on the shoulder.
- The person leading the game should count down from three, then say ‘go’ to start the game.
- The train engine should begin to collect carriages. When a carriage is tapped on the shoulder, they should join the back of the train, gently holding the shoulders of the engine or carriage in front of them.
- If the train conductor manages to point to the train engine, they win. If the train engine collects all of the carriages without being caught (or if the conductor runs out of guesses), they win.

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Badge Links

• Personal Safety - Dangers
• Teamwork - Team game