💪 Everyone vs. Buga

What you need

Equipment: Depends on the challenges: cups, a ball, paper, a timer. Prepare seven group challenges with time limits and list them on a board or big sheet. Gather simple equipment: cups, a ball, paper and a timer.

How to play Everyone vs. Buga

1. The host announces: "Everyone vs. Buga! You need to win four challenges out of seven."
2. Read out the first challenge and set its time limit, 60 to 90 seconds.
3. The whole group works together. There is no single winner: it is all of you against Buga.
4. Done in time? Tick the board. Not done? Buga gets a cross.
5. Move straight on to the next challenge. Keeping the pace up is half the fun.
6. Use challenges like a 20-cup tower, lining up by age in silence, or passing a ball round the circle in 10 seconds.
7. Once the group reaches four ticks, stop and celebrate the win.

Scoring and wrapping up

Scoring: Four out of seven: the group beats Buga. Six or seven: a perfect victory! Three or fewer: Buga wins, and a rematch is in order.

To finish: Finish with a group photo next to the board and its ticks. Keep the record and try to beat it next time.

By age

• Ages 6-7: Give longer time limits and simpler challenges.
• Ages 10+: Shorten the time and ask the group to win five of seven.

Variations

• Big group: Split into two teams, each playing its own Everyone vs. Buga race at the same time.
• Buga twist: Before each challenge, Buga may add one handicap, like "no talking" or "one hand only."

Tips for the adult in charge

• You are Buga, so be dramatic: "There is no way you can do this!"
• Pick a mix of challenges so quiet kids and active kids both get to shine.

Safety

Keep physical challenges gentle and the space clear of anything breakable.

🖨️ Printable team challenge cards

Pick seven cards, set a time for each and write them on the board.

• Build a tower of 20 cups in 90 seconds
• Line up by age without talking in 60 seconds
• Name 30 animals as a group in 60 seconds
• Pass a ball around the whole circle in 10 seconds
• Make a group statue of a famous building
• Remember 12 objects after looking for 30 seconds
• Make a chain of moves: each person adds one and everyone repeats it
• Keep a balloon in the air for 30 taps
• Spell BUGA with your bodies on the floor
• Everyone stands on one leg for 20 seconds
• Sing one whole song together without stopping
• Count to 20, one person at a time, with no two people speaking together
• Fit the whole group inside a taped square
• Clap one rhythm in perfect sync five times
• Build a paper chain longer than the tallest player
• Find ten things that are blue in 60 seconds
• Make the whole group laugh at the same time
• Pass a paper cup along the line using only elbows