18 Things to Do While Counting Election Ballots

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18 Things to Do While Counting Election Ballots

February 1, 2023

Sidra Rutstein Chicago,Illinois, United States
Class of 2024 Read more from this author

Make top 10 lists
Blindly rank Taylor Swift albums
Make superlatives (“most likely tos”!) for the group
Play Simon Says
Try and undo a human knot
Practice cheer circle songs - like the BBG Heartbeat or Identity, Identity
Eat spooey
Write fun haikus
Play Telephone
Play Down By the Banks (The game's song is sang to a specific rhythm as participants clap their hand on the palm in their other hand. This clap is passed around the circle until the song ends, where the person who the song ended on must leave the circle. Circle closes in and the song and clapping starts again).
Play Ultimate Soap (ultimate frisbee but with bar of soap)
Give each other back massages
Play Mafia (Have everyone get into a circle and close their eyes. Tap one person one time to signal they are the “mafia”, tap a second person two times to signal they are the “detective”, tap a third person to signal they are the “doctor”, the rest of the students are the “townspeople”. Then they each wake up one at a time, and mafia wakes up chooses someone who they want to kill, the detective picks who they think is the mafia, and the doctor says who they want to save. Finally everyone awakes and the storyteller says who died in a creative way and if they were saved then the game goes on until the detective guesses)
Get Sturdy
See who can recite the most of the Gettysburg Address/the Constitution/any other historical document!
Share favorite memory from term
Play Pictionary
Play BBYO Trivia

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