A brilliant game which helps coordination and communication!
This game can be played with groups of 8 right up to 30!
Warp Speed is the final part of this game and the stages before it are “Group Juggle!”
When we play this game we use rubber chickens, quoits, balls of all sizes and materials and anything else that makes the game challenging, fun and interesting! Rubber chickens are awesome because kids (and adults) love the range of colours and the fact that they may have never seen them before; and more often it’s because they have never considered using them in a game… It is also worth noting that rubber chickens (slightly different from the sort we use) can be bought in a good pet shop!
Anyway, back to the game…
Keep your items for throwing concealed for the time being and arrange the group in a circle; and to begin with you should be part of the circle too. The challenge is to throw the first object (a normal object is best at this stage), without dropping it, from one person to the next until it returns to you. Advise the group that they should not throw the object to the person on their immediate left or right and that each person is only allowed to receive the object once.
The next stage of the challenge is to pass the object in the exact same order. Remembering who they received from and threw to can be a real test of memory, especially in larger groups. Again, the aim is to do with this without any drops – do it a few times if needs be and discuss how to get better at it if there are drops.
If the group did it perfectly without any drops then you should ask them if they can do it faster and see how they get on.
Now that the object has been passed a few times and the last go being faster ask the group if they can go faster again to which they usually reply yes. And this is where you surprise them! After the 1st object has been round the first few people you should introduce your second object – this will momentarily create some excitement within the group but as they are so well practiced they will just get one with things.
As soon as both objects have reached you challenge the group to pass both objects around the circle without there being any drops. And when they have mastered this you can introduce your 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th object and see how many of them get back to you.
Chaos? Madness? Flying objects falling all over the place? Yes! These are what you will most likely experience as well as loads of laughter and big smiling faces – especially when you introduce your more peculiar objects 
Warp Speed! – When the group have mastered 6 objects ask them if they could manage to keep all 6 objects “juggling” for a period of time that they set themselves as a challenge.
It takes a little practice to know when to move from one stage of the challenge to the next and there are absolutely loads of variations on how to use this game:
- It’s a fun way to learn people’s names by calling out the name of the person you are about to throw to
- If the group are really quick at nailing the first object then you could introduce more objects much faster
- How many any objects can they get to complete the cycle in a set time?
- Why stop with 6 objects?
- There are loads of natural opportunities in this game to review processes, systems and communication
Enjoy