+74vwBus Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Hello, I am hosting an event and wanted to have some games to play onsite while the event is going on. It's a potluck dinner and we have the lodge for four hrs. Plenty of time for geo related games. One I do know of and like is the GeoBingo where there are squares filled with things that you have to find that have been done or accomplished by the cacher. Once all squares are signed first, a winner is declared. Also have done the Toss the Ammo Can where men, women, and kids have three separate ammo cans they have to toss for long distance. What fun games have you played at geo events? Thanks! Quote Link to comment
+Panther&Pine Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 A good one is having everyone use a golf tee to mark where their GPS says a specific set of cords are, it can be really helpful for showing folks the difference in devices. If you can swing it using a commercial GPS to find the cords before hand and marking it can help. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I once came up with the idea of bobbing for film canisters, and they could contain little prizes in them and stuff. I was pretty much joking, and someone said they were going to do it at an event, but I don't know if they ever did. Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I once came up with the idea of bobbing for film canisters, and they could contain little prizes in them and stuff. I was pretty much joking, and someone said they were going to do it at an event, but I don't know if they ever did. I like that idea! You could use slips of paper with the prize listed (or "Sorry, not a winner")! How about spin the bottle? Quote Link to comment
+Panther&Pine Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Maybe some word searches? Coloring pages? Jeopardy? Puzzles (with Cache Owner permission of course)? Quote Link to comment
+T.D.M.22 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 One cacher had a cache container that was a puzzle to open. Depending on what you did you could get different objects from it, each corresponding to a prize. If you managed to open it and get access to everything you got you your choice of prize. 2 minutes per person until prizes where gone. Same person hid partial sets of co-ords around the room in black light ink. You had to find them all, pick a set of North, and a set of west, and hope they lead you to the prize. There where 3 sets each for North and west. He also had the black light attribute on the event page. Last year it was a late event. He put reflectors around the park near the venue. One of them had a prize hidden within 6 feet of it. These are simple prizes- one or two coins, and gets everybody involved. Kids love it too. Also had a cacher hide a bison tube in a coffee shop. We had to find it. Quote Link to comment
+Pork King Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 This one wasn't necessarily geo-related, but one event I went to, someone had made a Jenga game using pieces of 2x4. It stood about 3 feet tall. It was fun, but loud as heck whenever it finally fell. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 One of my favorite event ice-breakers was a pin swap. Everyone received a lanyard with 10 identical pins on it, but everyone received pins of a different design. The idea was to swap pins with others until you had an assortment of 10 different pins. Geocacher bingo is a good ice-breaker too. Fill a bingo card with categories that could apply to geocachers (geocaching for more than 10 years, geocaching for less than 1 year, owns a letterbox cache, etc.), and let everyone mingle, ask questions, and write the name of someone who meets each category in each square. At the end, you can use completed (blackout) bingo cards as raffle tickets for a raffle. Another one I've heard of is to display an assortment of trade items. Letter the trade items, and have everyone arrange the letters in order from least valuable trade items to most valuable trade items. The person with the most correct entry form wins all the trade items. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 100 temporary caches hidden 50 to 150 feet away from each other. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 100 temporary caches hidden 50 to 150 feet away from each other. Funny guy. Boy, this thread didn't get much interest, and it included me and my half joking bobbing for film canisters idea. How about a Bingo type thing? Seen that a lot. You have to go around and find people who own an Earthcache, or have found 5,000 or more caches, just for a couple examples of some squares I've seen. I think they have people fill out the whole board, and they draw prizes from the entries. Not sure, I guess I've never paid that much attention. Great way to force people to meet each other though. Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 100 temporary caches hidden 50 to 150 feet away from each other. Funny guy. Boy, this thread didn't get much interest, and it included me and my half joking bobbing for film canisters idea. How about a Bingo type thing? Seen that a lot. You have to go around and find people who own an Earthcache, or have found 5,000 or more caches, just for a couple examples of some squares I've seen. I think they have people fill out the whole board, and they draw prizes from the entries. Not sure, I guess I've never paid that much attention. Great way to force people to meet each other though. I've seen it done where for each row/column/diagonal completed you get a raffle ticket. So even if you don't get it totally filled in, you still have a chance at a prize. Just the more you fill in, the more chances you get. Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Also have done the Toss the Ammo Can where men, women, and kids have three separate ammo cans they have to toss for long distance. It might be fun to have two identical cans, but one with some lead or other way to weight one a lot more, and give that one to the big he-man in the group as a joke. Quote Link to comment
+Mike in FN20hc Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Also have done the Toss the Ammo Can where men, women, and kids have three separate ammo cans they have to toss for long distance. They had that today at MEtroGAthering (GC56TP7) Mega in New Jersey. In the adult group, one of the last entrants threw the can "hammer toss" style and he sent it far enough to come in second, but it burst open when it hit the ground and the contents flew everywhere. Fortunately the can was not damaged and they could finish. Quote Link to comment
+popokiiti Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Guess which geocacher belongs to which job/hobby. The hint for me was Tooth Fairy - easy for my caching friends who have also been patients! Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 I've seen it done where for each row/column/diagonal completed you get a raffle ticket. So even if you don't get it totally filled in, you still have a chance at a prize. Just the more you fill in, the more chances you get.I like that approach. I've seen raffles where you had to blackout your bingo card. I've seen parallel raffles, one for blackout cards and one for any card with at least one bingo. But I think one raffle ticket per bingo (max 12 per card) is a better approach. Quote Link to comment
+sparklefingers Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Paper planes. You get three sheets of paper, sign your geocaching name on them and then make them into planes (make sure the name is hidden) then you have everyone throw them around and for about 5 minutes and then after that you get a box or a bucket and make people aim for the box. the first one in the box is the winner. Quote Link to comment
+derektiffany Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 My take on an event icebreaker: http://coord.info/GC5E8W9 If you read the logs, you can probably figure out what it entails. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Paper planes. You get three sheets of paper, sign your geocaching name on them and then make them into planes (make sure the name is hidden) then you have everyone throw them around and for about 5 minutes and then after that you get a box or a bucket and make people aim for the box. the first one in the box is the winner. Nice to see you back, after the demise of CacheFace, which no one seems to want to talk to me about, by the way. Very interesting idea. Probably a UK only thing, I've certainly never heard of it. But I'm sure you could do that anywhere!! Quote Link to comment
+humboldt flier Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 A variant of a game played at baby showers involving safety / diaper pins. All guests given X number of safety pins as they registered and the admonition that the words cache,caching and geocaching were not permitted until after XXX O--clock. Any time one of those words was uttered a safety pin was forfeited to the person who called you out for your use of the forbidden word(s). Person with the most safety pins at XXX time was declared the winner and was awarded a Geo-related prize. OK, OK, OK ... some of you modern day folks are probably wondering what on earth a diaper pin is ... and how they work on pampers ... LOL, LOL, LOL. Quote Link to comment
+humboldt flier Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Ran into this at an event 11/15/2014 One weighted ammo can and the requirement was to guess the weight of the can. Closest guess claimed the can. A ready to go cache cammoed and concealed inside a large SEALED contractors trash bag. The task was to I.D. the container and it's cammo be feel without violating the integrity of the outer bag. Correct guess claimed the cache Quote Link to comment
+Shaved Ewok Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 One that I have seen at local events and had at mine is a timed event. You take a nano put it inside a film can inside a pill bottle inside a lock and lock inside an ammo can. Picture a Russian nesting doll type cache. You then time how long it takes each person to open all the caches, sign the log, and repack the caches as they found it. Fastest time wins. Lots of fun and very competitive. Quote Link to comment
+74vwBus Posted November 17, 2014 Author Share Posted November 17, 2014 Some great ideas! I will be sure to remember them at my next event. We ended up playing the "Ice Breaker" game where you sign blocks of things that you may have or not done while geocaching. I was surprised how many people could sign the "Cried While Geocaching" block! Quote Link to comment
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