1. Disaster Game
Submitted by: on March 20, 1999
Materials: bowling ball and paper
Messy Rating: No Sweat
Duration: 5-20 minutes
Cost: $0.00
The Disaster GameSupplies : 1. Bowling ball 2. Colored paper house, water, silo, and land 3. Pencil and paper
Object: to survive
Opposition to survival: Natural disaster and man made calamity
Play begins in this way; participants each form the following from the corresponding paper: 1. Paper house (fold paper in half to form a frame dwelling) 2. Paper water blue square of paper 3. Land (for income and food) brown paper square 4. Roll yellow paper into a tube to form a grain silo
Place items on the floor according to your own personal strategy. The disasters come one each day in this game. They come in the form of a bowling ball rolled slowly (very, very s l o w l y). Each object covered by the ball is considered destroyed and removed from the game.
Special note: This is a game of reliance. Because one person cannot survive without all four items sharing becomes strategic and necessary.
One person may survive without some of these things for the following time. Shelter (paper house) ………………………….3 days Water ……………………………………………..1 day Food (paper silo) .……………………………… 2 days Land ………………………………………………4 days
Resources can be shared in the following manner:
One shelter will support 3 people One food will support 2 people 1 water will support 3 people 1 land will support 4 people
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