Here's a game I picked up from a Computer Summer Camp in Virginia many years ago:
Everyone sits in a circle and places their hands in front of them. Each person crosses their right arm over the left arm of the person to their right. (my l hand (left persons r hand) (right persons l hand) my r hand). The players pick a start person and direction, and players slap their hands to form a continuous circle. One hand is slapped, then the hand next to that one slaps, etc. To make it fun and challenging, any player may slap _twice_, which indicates that the direction of rotation shall reverse, and a fist slam, which means "skip the next hand". These work like Uno(R). Any player who fails to slap or slaps out of turn loses the hand that slapped out of turn or should have slapped. Last player left with a hand wins. This game provided lots of entertainment back then. (It's harder than it sounds, especially at higher speeds!)
I would recommend one of the games that I got from a childrens' theatre school.
Bippity/Boppity:
Everone stands in a circle.
One person chosen as "It" approaches one of the circle-members and says either "Bippity" or "Boppity". If It says Bippity, then the circlemember must respond with Boppity. If It says Boppity, circlemember may not say anything. It may repeatedly say both words to anyone any number of times. i.e. you can go up to someone and say "bippity bippity boppity bippity" and the circlemember must make the proper response, then move on to someone else. When a circlemember either fails to say boppity when required, or says it out of place, they become It.
Advanced rules for this game
Elephant,"Charlie's Angels"
It may approach someone and say "Elephant". After It says this, the person they spoke to plus their neighbouring friends must pose like an elephant(center person sticks their hand out like a trunk and the sides raise their far hand to their head to imitate an ear. If this is not successful (ie someone goofs), that person is It. If more than one goofs, It selects someone to be It. Same thing with Charlie's Angels, except that the trio must pose in the manner of this show. (three gun pose, outer members turned to the side)
I would recommend one of the *general games, like Panzer General or Star General. These military strategy games are run on a turn basis, so "quick fingers" are not necessary. (Move all of your select(grunts,tanks,fighters,bombers,transports,bo ats,starships,etc)into position, select what to attack, then let the next player go!
The rise and fall of technology depend mostly on the popularity of the technology and not on the pick (speed, throughput, reliability, power usage, opensourceness, physical size, code size and elegance). This is due mainly to marketing The reason that we have such penetration of wintel boxen was the IBM brand name. Perfectly useful (often superior) technology are suppressed b/c of their respective acceptance among the public (e.g.) Betamax, Amiga, OS/2, 2.88M floppies, Virtual Boy, etc.
The DOD Sticker on the Atari probably means nothing anymore. Over here in N-VA, the Pentagon regularly dumps old hardware. I have some hard disks sitting here with "This medium is unclassified, US Govt. Property" on them.
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Here's a game I picked up from a Computer Summer Camp in Virginia many years ago: Everyone sits in a circle and places their hands in front of them. Each person crosses their right arm over the left arm of the person to their right. (my l hand (left persons r hand) (right persons l hand) my r hand). The players pick a start person and direction, and players slap their hands to form a continuous circle. One hand is slapped, then the hand next to that one slaps, etc. To make it fun and challenging, any player may slap _twice_, which indicates that the direction of rotation shall reverse, and a fist slam, which means "skip the next hand". These work like Uno(R). Any player who fails to slap or slaps out of turn loses the hand that slapped out of turn or should have slapped. Last player left with a hand wins. This game provided lots of entertainment back then. (It's harder than it sounds, especially at higher speeds!)
Bippity/Boppity:
Everone stands in a circle. One person chosen as "It" approaches one of the circle-members and says either "Bippity" or "Boppity". If It says Bippity, then the circlemember must respond with Boppity. If It says Boppity, circlemember may not say anything. It may repeatedly say both words to anyone any number of times. i.e. you can go up to someone and say "bippity bippity boppity bippity" and the circlemember must make the proper response, then move on to someone else. When a circlemember either fails to say boppity when required, or says it out of place, they become It.
Advanced rules for this game
Elephant,"Charlie's Angels"
It may approach someone and say "Elephant". After It says this, the person they spoke to plus their neighbouring friends must pose like an elephant(center person sticks their hand out like a trunk and the sides raise their far hand to their head to imitate an ear. If this is not successful (ie someone goofs), that person is It. If more than one goofs, It selects someone to be It. Same thing with Charlie's Angels, except that the trio must pose in the manner of this show. (three gun pose, outer members turned to the side)
I would recommend one of the *general games, like Panzer General or Star General. These military strategy games are run on a turn basis, so "quick fingers" are not necessary. (Move all of your select(grunts,tanks,fighters,bombers,transports,bo ats,starships,etc)into position, select what to attack, then let the next player go!
My best teacher had to be a Mr. A. Who allowed me to set up a class web server running Linux as a final project.
The rise and fall of technology depend mostly on the popularity of the technology and not on the pick (speed, throughput, reliability, power usage, opensourceness, physical size, code size and elegance). This is due mainly to marketing The reason that we have such penetration of wintel boxen was the IBM brand name. Perfectly useful (often superior) technology are suppressed b/c of their respective acceptance among the public (e.g.) Betamax, Amiga, OS/2, 2.88M floppies, Virtual Boy, etc.
The DOD Sticker on the Atari probably means nothing anymore. Over here in N-VA, the Pentagon regularly dumps old hardware. I have some hard disks sitting here with "This medium is unclassified, US Govt. Property" on them.