Lucky Bean of Life Game
Take one bean in the palm of your right hand. Clasp it lightly. Close your eyes. Imagine the things that you would like to come to pass in your life. Open your eyes and smile. Then, with a light touch, cast your bean upon the board. Take note of where it lands. If it lands in one of the areas indicated by an illustration – dreams, treasure, family, children, travel, love – you will have luck in that area. You have three casts of the bean. If all your casts land between the areas of good luck, don’t worry. It’s simply the same as ever – you have to go on making your own luck !! Good luck!
Mixed-Up Recipe Game
This game is ideal for any adult for whom the kitchen is a dangerous no man’s land. Find a recipe for something fairly simple. For example, it could be something as simple as pancakes, but you have to name it something else just in case someone has cooked this dish before. List the steps. Number them. Then scramble them. Print them in all their disordered glory on a recipe card. Then mix them up with ten other mixed-up recipes. Have the player draw a card. He or she must figure out how to make the item, and will be given an opportunity to show how accomplished he or she is as a chef (or as a cooking forensicist!). Give all the competitors the same amount of time, and the same setup. Let them try to cook what is on the recipe card. Advise them that they follow the steps at their own peril!!
After all the fun is over, gather up all the donated recipes, unscramble them, then publish them in a book. You may even wish to publish pictures of the “creations” made by the “winners.” (Be sure to get their permission first to avoid lawsuits or domestic disputes.) You may wish to keep the original names for them. For example, cakes containing vanilla could be “Vanilla Vibe,” cookies containing red and yellow food coloring could be “Sunny Side of Life.”
Dogs of Chimoio Business Risk Game
Puki, the happiest dog of Chimoio, wants to start up a little garden and marketing business. He’s not sure how to start, so he buys a package of paprika seeds, tomato plants, pepper plants, lettuce, and some packaging, boxes, and other items for selling them. He shares an orange Fanta at O Sitio with his best friends, Rui, Rauf, Rokcelo, and Marquitos. They like his idea and decide they want to do the same. So, they embark on their journey. Whoever ends the game with the most dinheiro and prize items is the winner of the game. You roll the dice and land on different places. The steps you land on can be either lucky or unlucky. You can win bones, free trips on a collective transport vehicle, fertilizer, weed-killer, pest-killer – or, you can have attacks of bugs, of plant disease, be robbed, or have your crop washed away. You can also have the opportunity to borrow money, then sell your crops.
Things that can befall the Dogs of Chimoio
--attacks of bugs
--plant disease
--robbery
--flood
--stray dog attack
Good luck and prosperity things that can come to pass
--bones
--free trip on collective transport vehicles
--if fertilizer purchased and applied you double your crop yield
--if weed-killer purchased and applied you may triple crop yield
--if pesticide purchased and applied you may double crop yield
