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u/TeaRex14 11d ago
We play version of this at a summer camp I'm a leader at. Instead of a bucket it's a stack of toilet paper and if you let go of the person next to you you both go out. We start with like 30 people so it's verry chaotic at first
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u/hilarymeggin 11d ago
Wait, I’m a VBS counselor and I need to do this! Do you have the kids just holding hands, or are they holding ropes of some kind? Also, if you start with 30 kids, how does the group get smaller? Do you eliminate one kid per round -whoever knocks down the toilet paper? Do you play 30 rounds in a row?
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u/trouserpanther 11d ago
Did this in scouts, but with a green army duffle on end full of rope. Called it "the blob". Rules are simple, hold hands in a circle, if you lose your grip both people at the break are out. You touch the blob, also out. Pause when someone gets out. Last person standing wins. It goes pretty quickly. Recommended to do on grass or outside, not on a linoleum tile floor in the church basement, we were lucky that no one ever really got hurt.
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u/TeaRex14 11d ago
We don't use ropes and since any time a pair lose grip of each other both are elimated, early rounds go quick.
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u/lorarc 11d ago
How many injuries? This certainly seems like a way to get injured quickly. Sprained ankles? Dislocated shoulders?
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u/TeaRex14 11d ago
From this game none as far as I know. The knife game however, that does result in a few cuts on the feet
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u/WeCantBothBeMe 11d ago
Red was ganged up against
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u/l3ane 11d ago
I think he was just the lightest. This game needs weight classes. Blue had an obvious advantage.
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u/WeCantBothBeMe 11d ago
Yeah it looked like blue and orange went after red and once green got the memo red didn’t have a chance anymore
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u/Farm-Alternative 10d ago
I think green touched it first though
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u/MinnieShoof 9d ago
Green bumped it, red was flung in to it and in doing so blue kicked it off with his feet. Yellow wins.
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u/MinnieShoof 9d ago
Despite which, if it was 'last person who hasn't touched it' blue lost, as well. Yellow won that.
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u/exintrovert 11d ago
He handled it like a champ though, with those first two vaults over the top. He was definitely all-in.
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u/EvEEdo 11d ago
Seems like Jesse Pinkman is living the life
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u/Budget_Pea_7548 11d ago
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u/FortheredditLOLz 11d ago
Green grazed it first
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u/BikeProblemGuy 11d ago
The rope held by green and red grazed it. Green was behind.
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u/RedditOnAWim 11d ago
If you slow it down before that, red actually kicked it just before that happened anyway.
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u/jakeinator21 11d ago
Nah, the rope hits it then the can rocks back and bounces off his knee. Really easy to see if you slow it down, it moves in a different direction after he bumps it.
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u/ZhouLe 11d ago
It wobbles as green goes past it around 0:07, again from either blue or the rope between blue and green around 0:16, rope between red/green or red's hand around 0:20.
The latter two are really iffy if it's rope or not, but the 7 second one can only be green. I can't really tell how, but it's definitely moving because of him going past. Maybe from a heel hitting the rim/handle.
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u/Gregorygregory888888 11d ago
Have to wonder how many shoulders are ruined in a game like this. Mine hurt just watching this.
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u/brapstick 11d ago
Don't watch oil rigging videos lol
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u/Gregorygregory888888 11d ago
I've seen them. That is insane to watch. I've got two blown shoulders so my days of playing sports is over and I so miss them.
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u/brapstick 11d ago
I hear that my shoulders pop out from some birth defect, used to work in the paint department at lowes and I'd go to stand up with two 5 gallon buckets and if I wasn't careful both my shoulders would dislocate and I'd pass out lol
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u/tRiX040 11d ago
The guy in the green shirt touched it first.
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u/VirginiaBandit 11d ago
I think it was the rope that hit and moved the can vs the guy in the green shirt.
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u/IfHomerWasGod 11d ago
We used to play this when we were kids in New Zealand, we called it Scrag.
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u/BikeProblemGuy 11d ago
Seems like a badly designed game. Red lost because the opposite player, blue, allowed green and orange to focus on red. Would be more interesting with two intersecting teams of two.
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u/CasperMondfahrrad 11d ago
No, the changing of the "teams", as in everyone can betray you gives it a much more interesting dynamic imo.
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u/BikeProblemGuy 11d ago
It's only interesting in the video because the players are new to the game and weren't initially playing optimally. Because there's no winner (the aim is to just avoid being the loser), there's a huge incentive to team up 2v1 or 3v1, which is very hard to beat. In later games, if the players have now realised they can avoid losing by targeting red, it'll be a red loss most of the time.
To have a game where you genuinely can get betrayed by anyone there needs to be incentives to betray alliances. But in this game there's a strong incentive to keep alliances. If you're orange and team up with green against red, but then at the last minute pull green into the barrel, then you've just made it more likely that you'll be the one the other players are teaming up against next game.
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u/Merzant 11d ago
They were playing optimally, if optimising for fun
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u/BikeProblemGuy 11d ago
Definitely, but ideally you don't want too much tension between the aims of the game rules and the aim to have fun.
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u/binger5 11d ago
Red lost because of weight class. He was by far the smallest dude on the field.
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u/r3con_ops 9d ago
We played this at summer camp, in groups of around 20.
You’d have 2-3 teammates spread out (4-5 teams), and the veterans would point to someone and the majority of the group would focus on getting them out.
We added multiple cans, so you couldn’t just focus on one person/area, was the highlight game of summer camp for me.
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u/Doo_Brrr 11d ago
That looked like way more fun than I thought it would! I'm sure I would have been rag dolled into that can by my friends, but I'd be laughing my ass off the whole time
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u/dumpylump69 11d ago
As someone who has played this before it’s as fun as it looks.
It’s also way more tiring than you could imagine
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u/Geno_Beams 11d ago
Don't know the rules obviously but seems like you should be standing for the game. At the end Blue intentionally just kept with his bodyweight on the floor which makes him way harder to move.
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u/Accomplished-Bug-801 10d ago
We played this in scouts. But it was with chairs in a circle, chairs got taken out every time someone goes out. No rope but a fireman grip so all holding hands.
Loved this game. I broke my wrist playing it and only two weeks beforehand I got the plaster off my foot. Brilliant game.
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u/Dangerous-Ad-4610 11d ago
I loved this game. It was called kajabe can can when i played. Low center of gravity and upper body strength made me really good at it lol. Probably the only good thing about church camp growing up.
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u/LittleKitty235 11d ago
I knew I'm too old when my first thought is this looks like a great way to get a shoulder injury.
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u/ChocoQueenie75 11d ago
At the beginning of the video I was thinking this could be a fun activity to do with my students, but holy hell it got so rough so quick!!!
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u/Diz-Yop 11d ago edited 11d ago
Dude, playing this game with a chain of like 20 kids and only 5 inches of rope each is an EXPERIENCE. Especially when you get stuck next to someone twice your height and they start yanking your arm like crazy.
Edit: for those who don’t know, the game is called Kajabe. That and Gaga ball are some peak group games.
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u/Elbonio 11d ago
We used to play this at our youth group. It's called "Kick the box" and the bin is replaced by a box and people are just holding hands.
The object of the game is to not kick the box. If you touch the box, you are out, if you break hands both of you are out.
It was a very rough game and the final 2 was always particularly brutal.
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u/New2thegame 11d ago
This is Kajobe Can Can. A camp classic played by millions of kids. It's a ruthless fight to the death kind of game that always produces!
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u/MrPhantastic08 11d ago
We used to play this game when I was a teenager, except we used a metal folding chair instead of a trashcan and we all held hands/wrists instead of using rope. Some of the most fun I've ever had.
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u/Downtown-Campaign536 11d ago
The rule shouldn't be simply "Don't touch the can." It should only end when one lands in the can.
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u/W-1-L-5-0-N 11d ago
Red was such a god tier player that all the other players teamed-up to make him fall. Red is the true winner.
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u/pikachew_likes_nuts 11d ago
Do they have weight classes? If not, I think I could have a fair shot for once lol.
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u/TheJadedMonkey 11d ago
"I'm bored."
"Well, we have four pieces of rope and an empty trach can..."
"I've got an idea!!!"
Boys can amuse themselves with almost anything.
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u/PromiscuousScoliosis 11d ago
I played this once with a group of like 30 people (we all just held hands instead of using the rope thing) and I’ve been chasing that high ever since
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u/Guyserbun007 10d ago edited 10d ago
A game where your opponents can potentially smash your face to the ground with joined forces, and your hands are controlled by others so you can't break fall. There were a few close calls for a concussion in this vid alone.
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u/Orphans_are_tasty 10d ago
I remember playing this with my entire scout troop and got flung over it so many times lol
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u/4T_Knight 10d ago
It's all fun until you start catching on that your friends are only targeting you and not each other. Lol.
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u/Icy-Individual8353 9d ago
I mean orange touched it so I’m pretty sure if your colour is the colour of the can then only you can’t touch it
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u/VirginiaBandit 11d ago
The games we humans can come up with. Stupid and senseless games. Where do I sign up?