Games Day!

Today, we had a session filled with fun and laughter. As this week was recess week, only a few of us met up in school for dinner before heading to the home. Despite the fact that it is recess week, the volunteers turn up was nonetheless good!

This week’s games session is slightly different as there is no game master, and we were asked to bring card or board games if we have any. So basically, we had a “minds cafe” session at Blk D. We were given games like UNO, UNO Stacko, Mother Sheep, Headbands, Risk and Poker Cards. Some of these games are brand new! Then we were assigned games and split into groups to play. I was in charge of Headbands, together with Celine. This game is basically like Indian Poker, where we have to wear bands on our heads and a card with a picture that we are supposed to guess. Rule of the game is that we can only ask yes or no questions within a limited time. At first, the boys in my group were rather reluctant to play as the box of the game says “For Kids”, and we look rather silly wearing the headbands (we looked very much like Sun Wukong). However, after much persuasion, we started playing the game, and it turned out to be really fun. =) They had so much fun they actually changed the rules and it became like a charade, with the guesser not having to ask any questions but the members acting out the answer.

As I looked around the room, everyone was having lots of fun, with Ah Chai’s group getting really excited and loud with their card games. Rabin and his boy were absorbed in their game of Risk, and Jianwen was playing with his Sheep game, which he was the only big fan of. The other room sounded like they were having fun too!
Our session ended later than usual due to some of us still playing and not willing to leave until the game ended. All in all, volunteers and the boys bonded really well, and enjoyed themselves tremendously.

1 of the games - RISK a game of global domination


By Yan Sing