You’ll need 2 small garbage cans (1 per team), 50 pieces of crumpled paper (25 per team) and 4 “Jail break cards” (2 per team).

Set up two territories with a no mans land in between. Divide your group into 2 teams. Explain to your teams that the goal is to sneak your trash into your enemies garbage can, so that your can has the least.

Rules:

1: Someone from each team must stay at a jail (the team will decide) at all times. They may only guard prisoners and if anyone passes them a “jail break card then all in the jail are free.

2. (This one’s really important). At any time any person (except jailer) may be stopped by a two hand touch and must give up anything (garbage or jail break card) that they have. If they have something the stuff is take and used by the other team and that person is placed in jail. If they are stopped but have nothing, the person stopping them is sent to jail (so, be sure the person you’re stopping has something!). Everything taken in a search belongs to the other team.

3. No garbage may be taken from the cans once it is dropped in. No one may guard the can.

The winner is the team that has the least amount of garbage when all 50 pieces of garbage are in the cans.

This is a fun game that is all about strategy and sneakiness. I’ve seen teams go out trying to smuggle nothing and literally put the other team all in jail before the even attempted to smuggle garbage, while others have sent all the garbage with 1 person, who made it through to give their team 25, so that all they need was one more to win. Some make it their goal to get all 4 jail break cards so that the other team can’t get out of jail any more. Teams don’t have to run, everyone can take part and it’s an interesting game every time we play it!

Thanks to Pastor2Youth.com for lending us this game!