Camp Games

[Scott Card]

I will be taking my family camping and with the threat of daily rain, I was wondering what are your favorite in-camp, or in-the-tent games? My kids are old enough to play most any game with the oldest being 16 youngest is 8. Suggestions??? :popcorn:

[trackrunner]

a party game I've played that has passed hours camping with close friends
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)

I've only played it with townspeople, mafia, police (or sherriff). minimum groups towns & one mafia. never used the nurse or doctor option.

[jman]

Obviously, any deck card game. I personally like Nerts (sp). It's a mix of speed and solitaire, and it's easy to remember and setup. Scum is another good one too. Or BS.


Or you can bring some specifically designed portable games like Monopoly, Chess, Clue, etc.

[DOSS]

whittle a spoon.. whittle a musical instrument.. make rope out of bark.. start fires with flint and steel.. start fires with only a piece of cord.. Identify plants.. make alcohol stoves out of pop cans.

[elkshadow]

Bottle Toss. Take a disposable water bottle you don't care about destroying, fill it with water to your taste for weight and throw back and forth. Leave the cap a little loose or it will blow off. Very fun in a forest where you can bounce it off of trees and stuff.

[denaliguide]

snipe hunt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Scott Card]

Thanks folks. We are wandering a bit. :haha: Games/activities IN the tent and my tent has a floor so no fires and I don't let sniped in.:lol8: Yes, I have taught many a kid how to do a flint and steel fire and I have hunted many a snipe. All great fun...just not in a tent.:mrgreen:

[Scott Card]

Mafia is a lot of fun and I forgot about Nertz. I have not tried the bottle toss. Knowing my kids, someone's going to get hurt. :haha: Thanks for the suggestions. Keep them coming!

[tcope]

Games with several kids? The silence game... first one to talk loses.

[Scott Card]

Games with several kids? The silence game... first one to talk loses. My favorite in-the-car game. My teenagers stink at it however.

[denaliguide]

i thought the first post said, in-camp or in-tent games. i guess hide and seek gets ruled out.

[Cirrus2000]

the oldest being 16 youngest is 8.:

Wow, you've got 9 kids!?!? (I've heard about you Mormons...) :wink:

We're all big on card games - rummy, cheat, Newmarket (http://www.pagat.com/stops/michigan.html) (aka Boodle, Stops or Michigan) that kind of thing. All easy to play with just a deck of cards. Another good game that can be played in a tabletop size area is Rummikub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummikub).

[Don]

In scouts we used to play a game we called Rambo. It was sort of like reverse hide-n-seek ‘cause only one person hides and the rest seek him out. And it was like steal the flag ‘cause if the hiding person was able to steal a flag hung in camp he wins. And it was an elimination game ‘cause everyone playing would wear a flag (a sock hung from the belt) and if your flag got pulled you were out until the next game.
Rambo would go hide, and hope to ‘kill’ his seekers and then the town by pulling their flags before they pulled his.
Hours of fun.

[Dr. Nebz]

I am probably not much help here. I usually play poker or we bring throwing knives when we are bored or waiting out a storm. We found some horse shoes in Grand Daddy this year. We played those at camp.

[Udink]

Camp games with my friends, rain or not, usually involve alcohol and a rickety old Huffy mountain bike. Probably not appropriate for a family with kids. :lol8:

[Scott Card]

Camp games with my friends, rain or not, usually involve alcohol and a rickety old Huffy mountain bike. Probably not appropriate for a family with kids. :lol8:Probably not... but I want to see the video:haha:

[Cirrus2000]

Camp games with my friends, rain or not, usually involve alcohol and a rickety old Huffy mountain bike. Probably not appropriate for a family with kids. :lol8:

Sounds a bit like Don, except on a cruiser bike... :bootyshake:

[Jaxx]

I have made leather stuff while camping. It passes the time and then you also have a new belt!

[Wasatch Rebel]

Logs is a fun game. At least that's what we call it. How it's played is you form four long logs into a square. Then each person playing gets on the logs. The object is to knock all the others off the logs (once off, you're out of the game), and become the last one on the logs. Of course, there's potential for injury in this game, but in all the times I've been involved I've never seen anything serious happen.

[taatmk]

Here are some in-tent, rainy day camp games:

Baby Food Roulette
Six or more participants (works better if you don't tell them what they are in for). Have the jars of baby food in a sack or box so the players can't see them. Have them stand in a circle and pass a spoon while music plays (like hot potato). When the music stops, have the loser blindly pick out a jar of baby food and take a big bite. The grosser the flavor the better. Continue until there is only one person left in the game. Works well at large group events.

[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Alphabet Letters
[FONT=Tahoma]When the leader calls out a letter, the participants must form that letter using their bodies.

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Balloon Baseball
Players are divided into two teams. Each team designates a pitcher who pitches to his own team. Each batter gets two pitches to hit a balloon with his fist. If the ball is hit, the fielding team tries to blow the balloon to the ground before the batter runs around the bases. If they do not, a run is scored. Play continues until everyone on the batting team has been "up to bat". Then, the inning is over and teams switch places. The game continues for a specified number of innings.

[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Celebrity Heads
[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]One child is selected at a time, and this child tries to guess

[timejinx]

this has gotten me through many sand storm in iraq and is one of the best backpacking games because of how little you need to play it.. we called it splat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farkle

[Don]

this has gotten me through many sand storm in iraq and is one of the best backpacking games because of how little you need to play it.. we called it splat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farkle

Nice! I haven't played that game since Iraq (where we played it a lot too). Never heard the name splat, but I'm glad you mentioned this; I'm going to carry dice more. :2thumbs:

[Caddis]

Farkle rocks, we laugh so hard at all the comments that are made with the name.