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Millennial Warriors Competition

 

Ages:  10 to adult. Object:  Two teams (Crusaders and Infidels) try to win spice bags by playing several games.  Members of the team that wins the most spice bags are declared Millennial Warriors. Where:  Outdoors or in a very large room or tent. Prizes:  Medals made from ribbon and old Mardi Gras doubloons.

How to play:  Pick teams by lining everyone up by height, then assigning every other person to a given team.  Designate teams with cloth arm bands (white with red cross for Crusaders, red for Infidels)
 
 

Games

Serfs Up.  Relay runners carry "chamberpots" while making their way along a "medieval street" filled with cowpies, dead bodies*, stacks of hay and other obstacles.  How played:  At the beginning of the race, each team gets a bucket full of 1 1/2 gallons of yellow-colored water or gross-looking slop, a large ladle, and five plastic bowls.  An empty bucket is placed at each team's finish line.  When the game starts, the teams fill the bowls and send runners off down the course. After the runners cross the finish line, they empty the bowls into an empty bucket, then run back to the starting line with the empty bowl so that it can be filled again. The first team to fill the bucket to the one gallon line wins a spice bag. No team member can run more than once.

Mongolian polo.  The two teams play a game of polo with hockey sticks and a "human head," sort of the way Genghis Khan would have played it.  First team to score a goal wins.  (The head is a large, very round doll's head.)

Battering Rams.  Team members form a long human chain by holding the waists of the people in front of them. They then run down the medieval street, around a chair, and back to the starting line.  If the chain is broken, the team must stop and reconnect before continuing. First team over finish line wins a spice bag. (Note:  This game is a variation of Centipedes.)

French Foreign Legion.  Team members line up side by side with the lead person standing next to a large amount of sand.  Using only their hands, team members pass the sand down the line, trying to spill as little as possible. Person at end of line pours sand into a bucket. Team with most sand when the time is up wins a spice bag. (Note:  This game is adapted from "Pass the Sand," which I found at the Party411 web site.)

Prussian Soldiers.   Each teams stands around a circle that's about 10 feet in diameter. In the center of the circle is another one that's three feet in diameter. An adult member of each team puts on a bathing cap with a needle sticking out of the top of it--he or she is the Kaiser. The Kaiser must stay within the inner circle at all times. Team members throw balloons (one balloon per team member) into circle so that the Kaiser can pop them.  The team that has the most popped balloons after 10 minutes wins a spice bag.  The team forfeits one popped balloon each time the Kaiser steps outside of the inner circle or touches a balloon with his or her hands, or each time a team member steps within the outer circle. The Kaiser can't pop balloons that are on the ground, but he or she can kick them out to other players.

Tug-of-war.  (Outdoor activity; omit if it's raining) Winning team gets a spice bag.
 

*We're asking teenagers to make scarecrow-like "bodies" out of old clothes, rags, and straw.  Later in the evening, we'll throw the bodies on the bonfire. 
 


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