Free Games
Leadership
Whacko!

Title & Description

Free Games Leadership - Whacko! helps new strangers to get to know each other’s names and also to have a lot of fun at the same time.

Purpose

• For icebreaking purposes

Team Size

About 8 or more

Materials Required

A rolled up stick of newspaper

Time Required

About 10 minutes

Instructions

1. The group sits in a circle facing inward.

2. Before the games begin, everyone takes turns to say his/her name and if you so wish, a little about themselves.

3. The game master chooses one person to be the whacker. This whacker stands in the center of the circle of the group.

4. The round begins when the game master calls out the name of one of the person sitting in the circle.

5. The whacker must immediately find the person and give him a hard WHACK! ( not too hard) with the newspaper roll.

6. To prevent the whacker from hitting the person, the person must quickly call out the name of another individual in the group.

7. The whacker then must approach the other person and attempt to hit him before he calls out another name.

8. The round ends when the whacker successfully hits a person who does not call out the name of another person in time, or calls out a wrong name ( a person that is not in the group sitting down)

9. The person who is hit will become the new whacker and the next round begins.

Debriefing Notes

NIL.

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