Get Active: Four Square
Monday 21st November 2016A great game to play with 4 or more players. The object of the game is to eliminate players in higher squares so that as a player you can advance to the highest square yourself. Four square is played with a bouncy ball on a square court with four players, each occupying a quarter of the court. You need to number each square between 1 and 4.
To serve the player in the highest square (4) drops the ball and hits it to the lowest square (1). The ball should bounce in the square and then the player in that square hits the ball to another square. The ball must bounce in the square, and then be hit by the player in that square. This continues until someone makes an error and is eliminated (i.e. the ball goes out of bounds or bounces twice in the players own square). Eliminated players leave the court, all players advance to fill the empty squares, and the player eliminated goes back to square 1 or if there are other players waiting to play, a new player joins in at square 1 and the eliminated player goes to the end of the queue.
An additional rule you could add in, is that once a ball has bounced in a square and then been hit out by the player in that square, any player may now touch the ball and hit into any other square. Once hit into another square play continues as normal where that player must hit the ball out of the square once it has bounced.
