Big Games
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It is a universal fact that any kind if game or activity super-sized is instantly more fun. Check out these ideas and please add your own.
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[edit] Billiards
Use basketballs or similar. If you don't have enough, or for younger children, beach balls are a cheaper and lighter alternative.
Don't bother with cues, just have kids roll or throw the white ball.
Use tables laid on their side to create the pockets and table sides.
[edit] Word puzzle / Scrabble
For playing in groups and teams, large letter tiles allow everyone to see the board easily.
For a simpler version ignore double word and letter scores, or maybe even letter points altogether. The same set of cards could also be used to play Boggle.
[edit] Pick-Up Sticks
The original pick up sticks game, as described by wikipedia:
A bundle of sticks is held in one hand with the bottoms of the sticks touching a flat table. A helper stick, usually black, is set aside to use as a tool. The sticks are then released, and fall in a pile. The first player chooses a stick and removes it by hand by lifting it, pressing down on the tapered end of a stick, or flicking it out with the helper stick. A turn ends if any other stick moves. The next player continues to extract sticks. The sticks may be worth differing numbers of points (based on color), each player trying to reach the highest total score possible.
To make the giant version, use tubes from carpet rolls. Paint them to indicate point values (red 10, blue 5, green 2 and yellow 1. The black stick, worth 25 points, acts as a helper stick - though you ofcourse free to make up your own rules or point values)
Rather than one person holding the bundle in one hand, you will need a fairly sizeable group of people. Once you break free from the sticks, be sure to run away fast!
Giant Pick-up Sticks was originally designed for the Philadelphia Bicentennial celebration (now more than 25 years ago), and was the most successful game by far.
Source, and picture: Deep Fun, Bernie DeCoven
[edit] Cards
Giant-sized playing cards offered a mix of the exotic and familiar. Everyone recognizes the two of clubs, or the Ace of diamonds; but to see them four feet by three feet, walking across campus? Students debated whether to make up new games, new cards, new rules. While they had some fun exploring different possibilities, students decided that the simplicity of a deck of 52 cards would be inviting, while the giant scale should be suitably mindblowing and thoroughly challenging.
The cards are designed to be so large that no one person could expect to carry more than one or two. For a full game of poker, you'd need three or four other people to help you manage a hand, and keep it hidden!
Source, Deep Fun, Bernie DeCoven. More photos at the Big Game Flickr pool.
[edit] External Links
LettuceMakeThyme is a commercial site with lots of giant games for sale.
