The Good and Bad Chefs Game

Good and Bad Chefs is a very fun, energetic, creative and highly interactive game to make ideally with large groups.

Nominate one person for every five people in your group to be a ‘chef.’ Identify half of the chefs as ‘good’ and the other half as ‘bad.’

Arm each chef with a pen. Using some method (eg signs, hats, or different coloured aprons) to help your group identify which chef is good or bad.

When ready, invite your chefs to distribute themselves evenly throughout the playing space.

Now, hand a paper plate to every other person in your group and announce that their goal is to collect as many ‘foods’ on their plate as is possible within 5 to minutes. Instruct the rest of your group to visit as many of the good chefs as they can while avoiding being tagged by the bad chefs.

Good chefs are instructed to write the name of one food on the plate of each person who visits them. if they are tagged by a bad chef, a food item will be crossed off their plate.

When ready, invite the rest of your group to race about willy-nilly trying to locate the good chefs, while at the same time, trying to avoid the bad chefs. When a good chef is located, a person will stand in line, and wait their turn to have the name of a food (any food) written onto their plate.

Standing in line is a good thing because it means that they are ‘safe’ from being tagged by a bad chef. Announce that up to three or four people may queue in front of a good chef and not be tagged.

For example, if a bad chef approaches a line of, let’s say, five people standing in front of a good chef (and the limit is three people,) the fourth and fifth stand-in-liners are entitled to be tagged. Every time someone is tagged by a bad chef, they will have one of their food items struck off their plate.

Play two or more five-minute rounds. Gather everyone and count up the number of foods written on each plate.

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