Theme Ideas: Minute to Win It
Friday 17th February 2017Minute to Win It is an international game show where contestants take part in a series of 60-second challenges that use objects that are commonly available around the house.
Create your own Minute to Win It challenge with your young people by trying out some of these challenges. You can decide whether to make the challenges team based or individual, or you could have a mix of both with individuals being nominated for certain events from within a team. Most of the games can be adapted slightly to work for teams or individuals. This is achievable with most of the games by creating another setup or going one team at a time and timing how long it takes – it is best though if teams can go head to head.
Penny Fork
You will need a level surface, you could use a table for this. Set up a fork at one end and fix the fork to the surface so it will not move. Players must roll a penny from the opposite end of the table in an attempt to slot one in between the prongs of a fork.
Balloon Cup
Setup 15 plastic cups around the edge of a table (approx. 10cm in from edge). Players must blow up a balloon and use its escaping air to knock the 15 plastic cups off of the table.
Ping Pong Bounce
Setup a large egg box (ideally at least 18 egg box, or place multiple together) and locate on floor, setup a small table to bounce the ball off of around the egg box. You will also need different coloured ping pong balls for each player/team. Players must bounce ping pong balls in an attempt to land 6 balls into the sockets of an empty egg tray before the other team does.
Fall into Place
Setup a line at about 1 metre by placing a stick across the tops of two chairs, the chairs should be facing outwards. You will need two different colours of plastic cups, with a stack of one colour of plastic cups on each chair. Place one cup upside down on the floor (you should weight this cup down so it will not fall over). Players must stand behind the stick and from the height of the stick going across the chairs drop a cup in an attempt for it to fall into place on top of the cup on the floor. The stack of cups must use alternative colours and the winner is the first player to stack 6 cups with alternate colours.
Sliding Towers
On a table mark at one end (approx. 10cm from the end) a start line and again at the other end for a finish line. Then using 6 cans create a stack of three, a stack of two and a single can on its own. Starting with the single can and using only their face, players must take turns moving stacks of fizzy drinks cans in increasing heights from the start line to the finish line.
Moving on Up
Starting with a stack of 10 cups, one of the cups must be a different colour and should start on the bottom of the stack. Players take the stack and must take cups from the top and put them on the bottom one at a time until the cup (different colour) which started on the bottom gets to the top.
Spoon Frog
Players must use a teaspoon to launch another teaspoon into a glass/mug. Place the teaspoons one in front of the other, players bring down their fist on to the spoon to attempt to flip the tea spoon into the glass/mug.
Check out a video of Ollie from 10th Enfield Company attempting this game! Check out http://bit.ly/2l8v9Uv
Flip Cup
Setup plastic cups on a table, cups should be upright. Team members must one at a time go up and attempt to flip the cup upside down. To do this, players should place the cup on the edge of the table, half off, half on and use their hand to flip. If they fail they should keep attempting until they achieve this. On completion all the cups should be upside down on the table with all team members having taken part.
You can find many more games that you could try out by searching ‘Minute to Win It’ online. Let us know what times your young people achieved and share your pics/videos on Twitter mentioning @BBGazette.
