All Against One

Group Size: 8-30 people
Difficulty: Medium
Materials: Hoops
Game Duration: 10-15 minutes

Game Description:¶

A cooperative game with strong strategic elements, best played with medium-sized groups. It's not a purely cooperative game, as the name suggests – the whole group plays against a single individual.

Each person takes a hoop and they all spread out evenly across the playing area, leaving their hoops in place so that all hoops are distributed uniformly.

One person, ideally the facilitator at the start, steps out of their hoop and moves as far away from it as possible, leaving that hoop empty.

The Rules:

• The single person may only walk SLOWLY. This point is extremely important; the slower they walk, the better the group's chance of sustaining the game.
• The people in the group may move quickly or run.
• Once you step out of your hoop, you MUST enter another hoop. You are not allowed to go back.
• Quickly jumping between two nearby hoops or occupying two hoops simultaneously is not allowed.
• The people in the group can leave their hoops and occupy other, empty hoops.
• A hoop can only accommodate one person.

The single person's goal is to get into an empty hoop.

The group's goal is to prevent this.

It quickly becomes apparent how difficult it is for the group to achieve their objective for an extended period. A shared strategy, and especially non-verbal communication and looking out for each other, are particularly important here.

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