Teaching Sardines

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Sardines

Hide and seek, backwards. One player hides while everyone else counts. Then everyone searches on their own. When you find the hider, you quietly squeeze in with them, so the hiding spot gets fuller and harder to keep quiet. The last person to find the group hides next.

Set up · 1 of 3

Decide which rooms are in play and close the doors to the rest.

Set up · 2 of 3

Turn the lights down low.

Set up · 3 of 3

Pick one player to hide first.

How to play · 1 of 4

Hide

Everyone else covers their eyes and counts to 100 together while the hider finds a spot.

How to play · 2 of 4

Search alone

Split up and look for the hider. Keep it quiet.

How to play · 3 of 4

Squeeze in

Found them? Don't say a word. Wait until nobody is watching, then slip into the hiding spot with them.

How to play · 4 of 4

Keep going

The search goes on until the last player finds the whole packed hiding spot.

How to win

Nobody really wins. The last player to find the group hides next.

that's it!

Go play.

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