The rope bridge game.

 

The rope bridge game.
Subject	A flexible game that can be used with basic questions, structures or in a review.
Richard’s comments.	Personally, I love this game. It’s productive and full of action… great. (And the threat element always energises the students when we play).
Group size:	Teams of up to four or five would be ideal.
Team teaching game?	This game can be played with one teacher.

 

Materials	The bridge. Playing cards 1 suit A-K Dice Timer Prompt cards. Team tokens.
Game set up.	Play in teams with your bridge on the board.

  

Playing rules.	Answering questions. Playing in teams. A team player throws the dice. For each point on the dice we allow the teams five seconds to answer their questions.   Using suitable prompt cards complete as many sentences as you can in your time. Incomplete sentences do not count. Each member creates a sentence before passing the team token to the next team member.
	Movement over the bridge. After the timer goes off, move across the bridge. One step per answer. (If there is no bridge plank where you stop, you fall into the water and must start again.) If you land on a spot occupied by another team token, you push that token forward one. (The other player falling if there is no plank)   After each turn take a playing card and remove the ‘plank’ corresponding to the card number. If you are standing on the spot when the plank is removed you fall into the water and must begin again.
	Removing more planks. (When I have removed four cards, I replace one each time before I remove the next so that there is always four planks missing.)   Cross the bridge successfully to win a point. The team with the most people across the bridge wins the game.
Variations.		You can make your bridge just by drawing steps on the board and erasing the lines. (Taking the time to make your bridge just adds that little…)
Check out my multiple bridge version.