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It's not often that a Youth Group Game can be life changing, but I can safely say this about this game. Highly recommended, this is the type of activity that can make a positive difference in young people's lives.

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Drop the lid

Everyone is seated in a circle and one person stands in the middle holding a lid.

The person in the middle must walk around the circle and take the hand of someone of the opposite sex. That person then takes the hand of the opposite sex and so on. This continues until the first person drops the lid and everyone runs to a seat. The person left without a seat picks up the lid and the game begins again.


Features
  • Free / Low Cost
        • Night
        		Objectives
        • Ice breaker
              		Age

                      Group Size
                        • Medium (10-29 people)
                        • Large groups (30+)
                        		Space
                        • Indoor
                        • Large area
                        • Outdoor
                        • Small area
                        Duration
                          • Medium (11-29 minutes)
                          • Short (1-10 minutes)


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                          Comments

                          This is a good game. It may help to put a time limit on the amount of time that someone can pick someone else like 5 secs. It seemed that we started off slow because the youth were reluctant to pick someone else's hand. Some people weren't picked so it may also help to have a leader jump in grab the isolated youth and hold the lid and prolong the amount of time to drop the hat to get more people involved.
                          - Jason Furtak (7 Jan 2009)

                          I used the fact that some people weren't picked the first few times to talk about "the fringe" people, the lost that Jesus came to save, and how we do/should treat other people.

                          Great game, thanks for the discussion that followed it!
                          - Ish Engle (20 Mar 2009)

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