Bad Bite
14–30 players 10–15 min Minimal materials
Bad Bite is a hilarious and challenging team game that tests your agility, coordination, and teamwork. You split into two teams and use only your mouth to pick up and hold onto…
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Games for 30 People
At thirty, logistics take over from game design. Every transition — forming teams, moving to a space, collecting equipment — costs several minutes, and a session that looked like an hour on paper is ninety minutes in a hall. Budget for it, and cut the number of different games rather than rushing each one.
Explain once, to everyone, before splitting up. Explaining the same rules separately to six teams takes four times as long and produces six slightly different versions of the game.
Thirty is large enough that elimination games become a problem: the first people out have a long wait with nothing to do, and they are usually the ones who were least keen to start with. The games below favour structures where players who are out re-enter, or switch to a different role, rather than sitting down.
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Balloon Defense
10–30 players 15–20 min Minimal materials
Balloon Defense is a capture the flag variant where teams must compete to pop the other team's balloons.
Bench Ball
10–30 players 20–30 min Ball, Gym bench
Each team defends a court half, with one teammate — the catcher — standing on a bench at the far end behind the opposing team. Players throw the ball over the opposing team, try…
Electricity
10–30 players 10–20 min Small object to grab at the line’s end (coin, small trophy)
Two teams form lines holding hands, everyone facing away from the referee — except the two players at the head of each line, who watch the referee flip a coin. On heads, the hea…
Matball
10–30 players 30–60 min Kickball, Gym mats
Kickball's big-gym cousin, beloved in schools. Bases are large gym mats, and any number of runners can stand on a base at the same time — so a whole team can pile up on second w…
Red Rover
10–30 players 10–20 min No equipment needed
Two teams form lines facing each other about 30 feet apart, holding hands firmly. One team calls "Red Rover, Red Rover, send [name] right over!" The named player runs and tries…
Stealth and Seize
20–50 players 50–60 min Minimal materials
Divide into teams. All players have a flag tucked into their pocket. They are captured when that flag is taken, regardless of where in the area of play they are. Players must re…
Get the Golan
8–50 players 90–120 min Minimal materials
A combination of OC and Risk, teams compete at stations to win "armies" which can be used to conquer the various regions of Israel. The regions have different values, Golan havi…
Hula Hoop Pass
8–30 players 10–15 min Hula hoop
The group joins hands in a circle with one hula hoop hanging on someone's arm. Without anyone letting go of their neighbors' hands, the hoop must travel the whole way around the…
Salt and Pepper
8–30 players 15–20 min Sticky notes, Pens
Write famous pairs on sticky notes — salt/pepper, Batman/Robin, thunder/lightning, peanut butter/jelly — and stick one note on each player's back without letting them see it. Pl…
Beach Ball Icebreaker
6–30 players 10–20 min Inflatable beach ball, Permanent marker
Write twenty short getting-to-know-you questions all over an inflatable beach ball with a marker. Toss the ball around the circle; whoever catches it answers the question closes…
Opposites
6–30 players 10–15 min No equipment needed
The goal of this game is for guests to do the opposite of what they are told. When you say, "put your right foot out," they put their left foot out. When you say, "look up," the…
TNT
6–40 players 60–90 min Minimal materials
Teams compete at stations to win "gold coins". They can "sell" these to the bank. Police walk around the area and can take gold coins from teams if they touch one team member. T…
Two Rooms and a Boom!
6–30 players 30–60 min Two Rooms and a Boom game set
Two Rooms and Boom! is a social deduction game where players are divided into two rooms, and a "bomber" must be found before time runs out. Players are divided into two groups,…
Piñata
5–30 players 10–20 min Piñata, Stick, Blindfold
Hang a candy-filled piñata from a branch or beam with room all around. Players take turns — blindfolded and spun for the classic version — swinging a stick to crack it open whil…
Silent Ball
5–30 players 10–20 min Soft ball
The classroom-taming classic. Players spread out (standing or sitting on desks) and toss a soft ball to each other in total silence. You're out if you talk, laugh, drop a catcha…
Gaga Ball
4–30 players 20–40 min Minimal materials
A variation of dodgeball played in a pit or arena, where players try to hit each other below the waist with a ball while avoiding being hit themselves.
King Solomon's Mines
4–50 players 60–90 min Minimal materials
A camp-wide economy game. Split into small teams, each belonging to one of four categories. Teams travel between simple challenge stations, earning money for each one completed,…
Guess Who
2–30 players 10–15 min No equipment needed
Each guest has a name of a person, animal or object taped to their forehead or back. Each person gets to ask 20 questions of various guests to figure out who he is.
Rearrange Your Group to make Words
27+ players 20–30 min Minimal materials
Each player on a team gets a letter around their neck or on a printed t-shirt. The group needs to arrange themselves to make as many words as possible. Add difficulties or obsta…
Grouped by Numbers
20+ players 20–30 min No equipment needed
In an open space, a large group moves around. The game leader shouts out a number, and everyone must quickly form groups of that size. Anyone who can't find a group gets elimina…
Ships Wreck
20+ players 15–20 min Minimal materials
Ships Wreck, Divide the kids into teams of around 10 people. Each team will need a "ship" - this could be a hula hoop or something else of a similar size (small blanket, plank o…
Pea Pipes
16+ players 15–30 min Minimal materials
Pea Pipes, Simple relay structure for this game. 4 teams line up at one end. Place a bowl of peas (or whatever you are using) at the other end. The first player from each team h…
Fruit Salad
15+ players 25–30 min Chairs (one fewer than players)
All sit in a circle facing the center. One person in the middle says for example: "everyone with glasses". Then everyone with glasses gets up, changes seats and the one in the m…
Mingle mingle mingle
15+ players 10–30 min Wrapped candies or popsicle sticks (optional scoring tokens)
Get the whole group together. The leader running the game calls out a category question (for example - what is your favorite color?). Everyone in the group would then have to st…
Quidditch
14+ players 25–30 min Minimal materials
The game from Harry Potter except without broomsticks and flying. Have three small goals on each side with a keeper guarding them. Three "chasers" from each team play handball,…
Actionary
12+ players 10–30 min Minimal materials
A mash-up of Pictionary, charades, and sculpting. Prepare a list of guessable words, split the group into teams, and give each team paper, pens, and a tray of modeling clay. Eac…
Birdie on a Perch
12+ players 15–30 min No equipment needed
Players should pair off into partners (girls with girls and guys with guys is usually better). One player will be the birdie and the other will be the perch. All of the perches…
Human Relay
12+ players 10–30 min No equipment needed
Each team forms a straight line behind the start line. When the relay starts, the first team member carries the second team member to the finish line. Once they arrive, the pers…
Rock Paper Dragon
12+ players 30–60 min No equipment needed
First, everyone finds someone and plays basic "Rock-Paper-Scissors" with them. Then the loser attaches themselves onto the winners by grabbing their shoulders like a "train". We…