Sssstrike

Topic
- Strategy & logic
Learning skills
- Cooperation
- Logical thinking
- Spatial orientation
Activity type
- Board game
- Physical distancing
Materials
- Basic
- Self-made
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
- 15 - 17 years
- 18+ years
5 - 15 minutes
2 - 4 players
Easy
Calm
Small (office, pavement)

Contributors

Arnoud

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Everything you need to play this game

Cardboard
Coloured pens or pencils
Coloured paper
42 bottle caps
Scissors
Glue

Make it yourself

Step 1

Create the game board

Create 2 identical game boards:

Draw 2 battle ship fields of 3 squares by 3.
Write 1, 2, 3 above the upper squares and A, B, C next to the squares on the left-hand side.
Underneath the 2 battle ship fields, draw 9 squares and number them from 1 to 9. This will be the scoreboard.
Next to the battle ship fields, create a yellow, green and blue square with coloured paper or pencils to indicate the different types of exercises.
Yellow stands for physical exercise. Write down physical exercises the players can do, such as: thumb or arm wrestling, Twister, skipping rope,...
Green stands for team exercises. Write down team exercises the players can do, such as: a relay race, building a human pyramid, ...
Blue stands for logical thinking. Write down logical thinking exercises the players can do, such as: 4 in a row, chess, ...

Step 2

Colour the bottle caps

Colour 2 bottle caps yellow (1 for each team)
Colour 2 bottle caps green (1 for each team)
Colour 2 bottle caps blue (1 for each team)
Colour 6 bottle caps red (3 for each team)
Leave 14 bottle caps white (7 for each team)

Good job!

A step-by-step guide to play the game

Both teams (or players) place their 3 boats (a yellow, blue and green bottle cap) on their battle ship field (the upper battle ship field on the game board).

Team 1 tries to hit a boat of the other team by naming a number (from 1 to 3) and a letter (from A to C), e.g.: A1.

If they do not hit a boat of team 2, they put a white bottle cap on the A1 square of the lower battle ship field, indicating a "miss".

If they do hit a boat of team 2, they put a red bottle cap on the A1 square of the the lower battle ship field, indicating a "hit". For every hit, 1 point is earned.

Team 2 has to say whether the yellow, green or blue team was hit. Team 1 can then choose one of the exercises on the square of the corresponding colour.

E.g.: If a yellow square was hit, they can choose one of the physical exercises mentioned on the panel to play against the other team.

The winning player or team, earns 1 point.

Then, team 2 tries to hit one of team 1's boats etc.

The score is kept by moving a bottle cap on the scoreboard at the bottom of the game board.

The team that scores 9 points first, wins the game!

Variations

Create a bigger battle ship field to make the game more difficult.
Vary the game by coming up with new types of exercises.

What people said about this game

Mobile School NPO

Mobile School NPO BE

28 August, 2019

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Best game ever ;-)

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