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Outdoor Games

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  • 04-01-2006 8:05pm
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    tSubh Dearg
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    Anyone got any good suggestionsds for outdoor games for anytime of year?

    I have one that's good for playing in winter as it needs to be dark. It's just called The Stalking Game.

    You split your scouts/guides into teams of whatever size you like though bigger groups makes it more tricky. Then you split them up around the grounds but that they're all approx the same distance from the finish. We use inside the hall as the finish and spread them out through the church grounds where the hall is. There should be something for the winning team to hit at the finish point (we use an old frying pan and a spoon but you could just use a whistle).

    The teams then have to sneak back to the finish from their starting points. However there are leaders/young leaders/patrol leaders wandering around with torches. If they come across a team, that team has to stay absolutely still until the light has passed over them. If any of the team is seen to be moving the whole team has to go back to the starting point.


    This is great for the winter but we do need a couple of other things for lighter evenings. Any suggestions?


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    Agent Smith
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    we use killiney hill to play man hunt,

    tbh there is a lack of wide games IMHO,

    i rememer that game, but we called it "lighthouse".


    Joe


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    misswex
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    We called it Lighthouse too!!

    Very few Wide Games as A. S. said. Most of the things that we did outside would be Obstacle Courses, Scavenger Hunts - that kind of thing. Sorry that I can't come up with anything specifically.


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    ANarcho-Munk
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    What we usually do on either a sunny or dark evening is we play Raid The Flag. The patrol is split into two groups, one patrol is given a flag (just a bivy bag over a stick or something) and the other isn't. the group with the flag go off and have to hide it (we have a wood behind our hall so we're sorted :) ) They're given about 5 - 10 minutes before the other group have to go after them and try and track down the flag, with forcible or non-forcicble means.

    It's a good auld game for a bit of bashin' though :)


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