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In- or outdoor games: 50 Missions

An activity game very well suited for large groups (up to 80 people)
The participants are divided into groups (at least 3 groups of at least 5 members.)
Both, children and adults are involved and become active
The tasks do not always have to be carried out by individuals, but the whole group will present the solution
The game can be shortened or extended according to your needs (but one hour is the least you should schedule for)
The game can be played indoors, outdoors or around the house
In the field hang up 50 envelopes. Each contains one particular task.
On a game board, using a dice and a small figurine, each group casts the dice once. Whatever number on the dice, they go and find the according envelop, solve the task and present it to the youth worker. Only then they can cast the dice again.

Notes on the implementation of the 50-missions-game for 80 participants aged 5-70 years.

Game Rules:

Divide into 8 groups, each group has a different colour
It's about completing missions as a team
Find the missions in the field (or the house). Red and then execute them.
The places where the tasks can be found have to be clearly marked.
The envelopes containing the tasks must be left in place.
All answers to the tasks must be shown or brought to the youth worker with the entire team present.
If the task requires additional material pick it up by the youth worker
Each team starts at a different point on the board at 1,7,13,19, etc. This ensures that several teams do not work at the same task at the same time.
Each group receives a pen and paper
Start rolling the dice at each respective starting point and add the number on the dice
The game is over by the ring of a bell.
At the end of the game, each group returns 6 envelopes

To prepare:

All the tasks are printed out in a big print. The envelopes are numbered 1 – 50 and the tasks put inside.
Divide into teams
Keeping material ready
Task sheets with the solutions for each adult (4x), one youth worker works with 2 teams at the time
Spread the envelopes around the house or field. (Use Sellotape, Tesa, etc ...)
Game board with numbers up to 50, figurines (8x), prepare dices (only numbers from 1-4)
Prepare tasks that are personal or refer to a particular place (No. 1, 3, 19, 30).

Required material:

Paper and pencils for each group
Schedule (large)
Some dices (numbers 1-4 on it)
Figurines in various colours.
Exercise sheets and solutions for each youth worker
50 missions in envelopes
Tesa, masking tape, stapler, for securing the envelopes

For the tasks:

For some tasks keep the material ready, in case several groups must complete the same tasks at the same time (e.g. filling a bottle, doing a puzzle, paper clips ...)

Newsprint
Balloons
Paperclips
Clothesline and clothespins -
Mark 10m on the ground
Measuring tape or yardstick (more than one)
Puzzle (2 units with an equal number of parts)
Toilet paper
Colours for painting
Large Paper
Lid of a shoebox
Empty bottles
Sponges
Filled water buckets
Pretzel sticks or similar
Effervescent sticks - sweet
Some Tesa rolls
Rope to tie the feet
Spoon on a string
Ruler (15 cm)
Clothesline
Clothespins

Tasks for 50 Missions – an in- or outdoor game

What is the license plate of (name used)
Bring an object that begins with "Z".
Bring the signatures of two youth workers (or other persons)
Using stones, lay out the name of your group (at least 5 letters).
Go back to the game line and on the game board move three spaces forward
Using newsprint, each child has to tear out an animal
Bring 5 different leaves of trees
Three people from your group to appear in pyjamas
Together sing a song for your youth worker (not “All my ducks”)
Calculate how old you are as a group and write it down.
Move back the double of the last number you have cast
How many steps are there from (give corresponding instructions here)
Bring 3 different shoe-laces (without shoes)
Blow up two balloons on until they burst
Go to the game line and do a puzzle
solves the following riddle:
- a) Who lives from hand in the mouth?
- b) What was Peter's profession?
- c) What is the wolf in the fairy tale, to impersonate the mother of the little kids?
- d) What is in the middle of Paris
- e) What is the female deer?
What is the Watchword 2014 and where exactly is it written down?
Bring two pairs of shoes: one in size 40 and one size 44
What is the phone number of (for example, of the youth centre)
Cast the dice again
Get of roll of toilet paper from the youth worker and cover one kid from your team in it
Paint a picture of your group (Self-portraits but recognisable). Paper and colours get it from the youth worker
Writes 10 names beginning with the letter "B."
Bring the object that is referred to in Matthew 24.2
Go to the game leader, where each eats three pretzel sticks. Then whistle.
Set the names of those animals right. Please write down
- a) EITRG
- b) SEUMO
- c) FRAGEIF
- d) KYDNOE
- e) PATNEELH
Bring a 20-cent coin with from the year 2002
Four of you drive like a wheelbarrow to the game line
Using a sheet of newspaper, fold a hat for each team member.
When is the birthday of the youngest team member?
Bring 5 natural objects with the following property
- Something yellow
- Something hard
- Something light
- Something living
- Something smelly
Fills 1 bottle of water by using a sponge that you carry from the bucket to the bottle.
Using natural materials lay out an image on the lid of a box. When you are finished, the cardboard should be entirely covered.
Together form a human pyramid
Two out of your team perform a wheel and a handstand
Bring your game leader a little refreshment
Take a 2 minutes’ rest
Create a meaningful sentence, containing 6 words that all begin with "A."
Get yourself a little candy from the game line
Everyone get their right foot in the middle, tie all right feet together and then turn around twice like a star.
Bring 5 different socks
Bring three different pieces of rubbish that people have thrown out into nature
Thread a spoon on a cord (available at the game line) through your group
From a newspaper tear a 10-meter-long snake that you stick together with Sellotape
Using paperclips make an 80 cm long snake
Make a total of 30 push-ups (in succession)
Hang 6 pieces of clothes, which you are wearing on a clothesline.
Cast the dices in turns, and count the numbers together until you reach the number 50
Find a blade of grass, which is at least 50 cm long
Tell the youth worker a joke and perform the joke at the same time.