I’m tired of only working out my brain. I feel the need to cross-train and so, in this spirit, I offer the first of what is hopefully an entire warehouse full of brilliant ideas on games that work out your mind AND body.
Scrabble For Sweatin’. The Scrabble Table is an immense pattern, painted out onto the floor of your gym. Each tile is hand-cut Vermont Granite, and is one foot square and 2 inches thick. You yourself get to chisel the letters and values INTO the tile by hand, using our handy Templates !!! Fun, and a terrific work-out !!! Purchaser must be at home to sign for delivery when the truck and forklift arrive.
HumanTrap
it’s going to take a whole group to turn that crank to drop the cage.
Salisbury
Pictionary where you have to carve out the pictures from the white chalk downs of Wiltshire, extra points for using stonehenge in an interesting manner. ages 18-45 and 45-??? (some one has to come up with the picture) trowls and JCB diggers not included.
Crop Circle Rotation Come up with crop mixtures and interesting patterns to make it more colourful for the circles. Judging is subjective. minimum play 3 years and 6 circle submissions, the same grains can’t be used within 3 turns of each other. Agronimists Unite and have fun
I’d much rather play the Queen’s Jenga using 2x4’s at Faire rather than those itty-bitty sticks. If nothing else, a six-foot tall stack of lumber adds a certain element of danger to the game.
Back to the body-building games…
Poker, but using 4x8 foot sheets of Sheetrock. The challenge is not just holding up your cards, but shuffling and dealing them carefully so they don’t break. Use manhole covers for chips.
This happened in NYC in the last year, I’ve been searching the WNYC and NPR Archives for a link and simply cannot get a link going. They played human chess, using the grid of Manhatten as the board. People got instructions by cel phone, and some were dressed elaborately, carrying huge faux swords and whatnot.
The game took hours, as you had to allow time for the ‘piece’ to move around the ‘board’.
