Pieces of paper with the following smuggled items with point values written on each:
• 10 x Chocolate (50 points)
• 8 x Sugar (75 points)
• 8 x Animal pelts (100 points)
• 6 x Gunpowder (150 points)
• 3 x Designs for new secret weapon (300 points)
• 1 x Map to buried treasure (500 points)
Divide the group into two teams. Have each team put on its armbands. One team
becomes the smugglers - the other the spies. After the rules of the game are given, each
team retreats to separate ends of the playing area (3-20 acres with open woods is ideal for
the game.)
The smugglers each receive the tiny pieces of paper, which they are going to try to carry
into enemy (spy) headquarters. The spies set up their headquarters inside a 10' by 10'
square area that has its definite boundaries. The scorekeeper sits inside spy
headquarters.
After each team has been given the opportunity to devise a strategy, play begins. The
spies fan out away from their headquarters and try to intercept smugglers as they attempt
to take their goods inside.
When a smuggler gets caught (tagged), he must stand still and permit a one minute
search of his person by the spy who caught him. If the spy cannot find the piece of paper
within one minute (paper has to be hidden in external clothing layers), the smuggler is free
to try to advance again into the headquarters. If the spy does find the 'loot', he takes the
piece of paper into spy headquarters and gives it to the scorekeeper, while the smuggler
returns to his headquarters to receive another piece of paper.
If a smuggler penetrates inside the spy headquarters, he gives his goods to the
scorekeeper, and is escorted back to his own headquarters by a staff person or leader
supervising the game.
The game continues for a set period of time. When it ends, goods (points) are totalled, and
a winner is declared.
