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Office Olympics - A Beginners Guide

Over the last seven or so years at my present employer, myself and a small group of employees have devised new games and sports (although these are not yet officially recognised) to help cure the ill effects of boredom and repetitive work, I would like to share the basic ideas with you.
Some games are just indoor, and sometimes outdoor, versions of games using appropriate office equipment in place of expensive or inappropriate equipment. Other games are new games in their own right that we have invented. These games range from small games that are merely competitive elastic band firing to large games requiring an arena to be constructed.

As this is a beginners guide I will outline a couple of different sized games depending on your participant's skill, time, effort and ability to get away with stuff. As we work shifts at busy periods, we find that our ability to get away with stuff can sometimes be rather high.

SMALL-SCALE GAMES

1. Elastic band firing
Skill Level: 5/10
Danger Rating: 2/10
Enjoyment: 3/10
Competitiveness: 7/10
Required equipment: Elastic bands, target

This is a simple game with very little danger of getting caught or of personal injury (depending on the target).

Choose a target to either get elastic bands in (a pot or a colleague's coffee cup) or elastic bands round (a nail in the wall or a colleague's ear), try to choose a target that is equidistant from all competitors or make everyone shoot from a definable mark.
There are now different ways of determining a winner, this can depend on if you are playing for points or just having a friendly competition.
You can play a free-for-all' where the winner is the first person to successfully land in, on or round the target.
You can play a limited shot' game where each person has a number of elastic bands to fire and you take it in turn to fire your elastic bands, the winner is the one to score the most times.
Or you could play a least shots' game where the winner is simply the person who takes the least shots to score.

2. Off-ground touch
Skill Level: 4/10
Danger Rating: 5/10
Enjoyment: 4/10
Competitiveness: 8/10
Required equipment: Nothing

This classic game can be played with ease and can be difficult to spot but the moderate danger rating is down to people's desire to avoid getting touched at any cost. This is a game simply to relieve boredom and not really a point-scoring game although this has been known to happen.

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