A boxing day tradition!! (Build a Beetle)

Member Name: Liz Wood

Product:	Build a Beetle
Date:	13/06/01 (155 review reads)
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Advantages: Great fun, Cheap

Disadvantages: Can get rowdy

Beetle, is the name of the game rowdy behaviour is usually the result! well it is for us on Boxing day. All of the family (which is naturally growing in numbers) decend on my aunties house to play Beetle. We have three stations to play at with an even number of people at each station.

A dice is thrown by each player in turn very quickly and each dice reading represents part of the beetle. (it has 1 head,1 body 1 tail, 2 feelers, 2 eyes, and 6 legs) you start on a 6 which is the body, and once this has been achieved the other parts are added as the numbers come up on the dice that correspond with the body parts.

You play in pairs opposite each other and the winning pair move onto the next station for the next 'heat' but don't play with each other this time.

THE REALLY FUN BIT, as we all get quite wellied! we get louder and louder as the dice gets rolled faster and faster. The great release coming at the amazing yell of Beetle!!! when you have completed a picture.If you need just one part for a while the release of shouting is fantastic.

The winner of the night can be pre determined and written down in a hidden place as 'the person with the most tails' for eaxmple so its not necessarily having complete beetles that makes you the winner.

This game can be played with very little 'outlay' as you need pens paper and some dice. As long as you agree the form of the beetle before hand. It is a game that children and adults can play together at the same level, and its good clean fun!

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