Amazing Race

A Wide Game Guides will love

For a different take on running a wide game, why not try doing an Amazing Race? It takes quite a lot of organisation but makes an exciting evening without costing too much. Work out a route including public transport (bus train or ferry), use a different method of collecting each new set of instructions, add a couple of challenges and send an adult along with each patrol.

Some ways to hand out instructions:

• Map grid points
• Collect emailed instructions at a net café.
• Pick them up from an information centre or kindly shopkeeper.
• Go to page x and line y in the white pages.
• Challenge the shifty looking person dressed in aqua for your next clue.
• Sealed envelopes with a code inside.
• Use tracking signs (if they are unlikely to be disturbed)

Challenges along the way might include:

• Playing boules or frisbee golf in a park.
• Collecting scavenger hunt items - a foreign coin, a café napkin, some sand, a native leaf, an autograph, the cost of something, passport photo of the whole team.
• Solving puzzles.
• Airhockey or tablesoccer at an entertainment arcade - the whole patrol to participate

Be aware that the girls will run the whole way - warn the parents traveling with them! Set clear rules about staying together, watching the traffic and being polite before you start. Have fallback plans. Give the patrol a sum of money at the start and make them account for it at the end.