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9 - TOWER BUILDING

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Another old time favourite, watching teams compete to build a paper / cardboard cup tower the quickest without it tumbling down before time is called.

Some paper / cardboard cups may need to be used in conjunction with pieces of paper or card to enable them to be stacked.

EQUIPMENT & DEFINITIONS:

  • 10 - 12 paper or cardboard cups per team.

  • If necessary 10 -12 pieces of paper or card.

  • 30 second countdown timer (it’s good if the timer is on screen as this adds to the excitement but not essential, timer could be a stopwatch, tablet…).

  • Marker for each team.

  • Game-leader - person running game.

  • Team leaders - people leading the teams.

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Ask team leaders to line their players up behind their team marker and number them - 1,2,3,4,5… front to back (if one of the teams are down on a player compared with others, someone will need two numbers so that they can go twice to cover the shortage of a player.)

To commence play, the game-leader calls out a random number, the team member of that number goes down the hall to their pile of cups and starts to build a tower, simultaneously the 30 second timer is started. The cups must be stacked in a single cup tower one upon another. When time is up, it’s the tallest tower that get the points.