Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Where's Waldo

This is a fun one for a big group. It's like a live version of Where's Waldo. Pick a public place to play such as a mall or a park. Make sure it's a place where quite a few other people are and that is okay with games (Temple Square is not a good choice). Select a few well known people from the ward to dress up. One person can dress up as Waldo (see picture below), but everyone else should pick something else. The point is not to stand out. They should want to be disguised enough that people won't know it's them from a first glance, but still be recognizable at some point. Some options might be construction workers, security guards, workers from a store at that location, mothers/fathers with children, etc. Those are things you might normally see at a mall or park, but that person wouldn't normally dress like that. Have these dressed up people keep it a secret of how they are dressed and show up at the place before everyone else arrives. Hand them each a different set of stickers and have them casually fit into the scene for the next 30 minutes to an hour while you play. Note: They don't have to stay in one place and can move about and act as they think their character would act.

Split everyone else up into small groups of just a few people. They shouldn't know beforehand how the people are dressed up. Provide the groups with names of people they should be looking for and a sheet of paper to collect stickers. Send everyone off and set a time limit of 30 minutes to an hour depending on how big your area is, how many people are playing and how much time you have. As each group finds one of the dressed up people, they collect a sticker from them as proof they found them. The first team to collect all of the stickers, or the team with the most stickers when the time runs out wins.


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