New Game - I catch you… RED HANDED! (Akachu!)

Aim: To catch the person with the red hand (“red hand” being the hand with the red ball).
Age range: Preteens, teens and young adults

Equipment: 1 small red ball, 5 small blue (or any other colour) balls, goody bag.

Players: 6 players from 2 teams; A and B, 12 players in total.

How to play:

1. Place all the balls in the goody bag.
2. All players from each team are lined up to face the opposing team.
3. The moderator takes the goody bag BEHIND the players who pick ONE ball each WITHOUT LOOKING (hands at the back and not to be brought forward until later in the game) at the content of the bag or the piece they have (this is to ensure the players do not know the colour of ball they have and hence no facial/body language giveaways occur).
4. Once all the members of Team A have picked a ball, the first CATCHER of Team B steps up to catch the man with the red hand.
5. Each catcher has 3 guesses/tries/catches.
6. (Menacing facials may be encouraged)
7. To catch, the catcher points to his suspect and say the phrase “I catch you…” while the suspected brings forward his hand to finish the sentence.
8. Suspect may reply with either “…red-handed” or “…BLUE-HANDED” depending on the colour of ball in his/her hand.
9. A ‘catch’ is recorded when a player finds the man with the red hand.
10. After each catcher has had 3 tries, all the balls are returned to the goody bag and the process is repeated for the first Catcher of Team A.
11. The process is repeated for all the players until all players from both teams have had a go.
12. The winner is the team with the most catches.

Lessons: Though in the game, the choice of being red-handed is not the individuals' to make, but in life, we make our choices; good or bad - blue or red, and though we may not be caught at all times, one day, all red shall be brought to light.

When all is caught, would you rather be red-handed or blue-handed.

Other lessons may also be inferred as deemed necessary.