We had our midsummer party a few weeks ago. It was a competition based party, with four teams. Each team had to complete four events, trying to earn the maximum points. At the end of the night, the teams that were in first and second place had a bucket race for first place. Third and fourth bucket raced for third place.
The four events were the Meuse; the Tongue Drag, the Square Maze, and the Slide Puzzle.
In the Meuse, the team had a limited number of eight foot boards, and had to get all members of their team across an area, placing the boards on cinder blocks.
For the tongue drag, three members of each team had to drag their tongue down twenty feet of a substance, in a minute or less. A roll of the dice determined what substance each person would get. The five substances were catchup, mustard, mayonnaise, horseradish sauce, and the 2nd hottest BBQ sauce from Buffalo Wild Wings.
The Square Maze consisted of a blank grid, taped to the floor. Each team had to figure out the path through the maze, by process of elimination/ guessing. Every time someone stepped in a wrong square, that person had to go to the back of the line, and someone new had to try.
In the Slide Puzzle, there were giant pieces of a slide puzzle, each with a person underneath. Someone was on a ladder, directing the people to move, in order to solve the puzzle.
Finally, the bucket races consisted of four people on a team, each holding a large bucket with gravel inside. The goal of the race was for the teams to run around a square, holding the buckets. The teams had to stay in order, and when the first person on one team caught up with the last person on the other team, they won.
Here are a few pictures from each event.
