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One person with crossed arms and another with fingers pointing forward playing Slap Bang game

Slap Bang

Highly focused, energetic & fun partner-duelling game.

  • Playful
  • Energising
  • Rock-Paper-Scissors variation
  • Promotes critical thinking
  • No props

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Form into pairs, standing a metre apart from each other.
  2. Establish (and practice for 5 seconds) a beat by slapping open hands on thighs, about once per second.
  3. Introduce three unique physical gestures, asking your group to mimic them one at a time:
    – Safe: arms crossed on chest and fingers resting on shoulders;
    – Loading: with fingers clenched and thumbs pointing over the top of your shoulders; and
    – Bang: with both hands forming a gun-like gesture in front of the body.
  4. Between beats, an individual will strategically play one of these three gestures – Safe, Loading or Bang.
  5. Safe and Loading gestures can be played at any time, but Bang may only be played directly after Loading.
  6. When ready, each pair resumes the beat.
  7. In each round, an individual aims to win by playing Bang at the same time their partner plays Loading.
  8. All other combinations of gestures produce no result, so the beat will continue until a win is secured.
  9. Play several rounds over 2 to 3 minutes, and then swap partners.

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Comments (2)

    • Mark Collard

      Sort of, Cory. While there are three elements to choose from, they are not equally weighted. That is to say, unlike RPS, the three elements of this game do not possess the same power, ie Loading doesn’t actually ‘beat’ anything.

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