Mark out a large square and then divide it into 4 smaller squares or quadrants. You can make this as big or as small as you like. Depending on your play area. We usually make our large square 60ftx60ft. So each team’s square is 30ftx30ft.
Place “the bacon” in the four outside corners of each square.
Mark a No Guarding line roughly 5feet away from the corner that has “the bacon”. This is to keep each team from hovering over the bacon and taking away all the fun.
Next Mark a “Jail” to the side of each quadrant, to the left of the bacon pile. We usually make a little circle not to far outside of each team’s area.
Divide your group into 4 teams. Try to balance out the faster players.
Explain the rule and Game on!
Rules & FYI:
Each team is trying to steal as much “bacon” from the other teams as they can.
The team that has the most “bacon” at the end of the game wins. We usually time the game to 30min, taking a break at 15min. There is a lot of running and guarding.
If a player gets tagged they go to jail and can only be freed by another player from their team tagging them. They get a free walk back to their corner/quadrant.
What makes this game interesting is that you have people coming in from all sides. with a typical 2 team game you know your enemy is right across from you and they are easy to watch. With this version they are coming from several different angles and that makes it much harder to guard your bacon and steal from other teams.
Equipment
Perimeter Markers, could be cones or spray paint or chalk
