CHAIR GAME

Active, physical engaging variation on "musical chairs"; can entertain a group for hours.

- Place chairs in a tight circle, with the chairs touching each other.

- Have 1 person stand in the middle - there is now a vacant chair.

- The person in the middle tries to sit in an empty seat.

- The group prevents the person by someone moving seat, creating a new vacant seat.

The game moves fast -- due to the strategic "bum-shuffling" by the group, the place of the empty seat is in constant movement, like a Mexican wave, changing directions, tempting, then moving fast - or instantly appearing on the other side if a bold cross is made by someone.

Eventually the person in the middle makes a successful lunge for a seat (it can get very dramatic), the group member who was aiming for the seat (group consensus) now goes in the middle.

And so on....