Keeper of the Ball

How to run it

One ball. It goes somewhere in the venue on the first day and stays in the game all the weekend.

The rule

1. Find it and it is yours. Hold it up and say so out loud — no shout, no points.
2. The Keeper can, at any moment, point at somebody and call them out. That man drinks, or does the forfeit, or sings. Agree which before you start.
3. Rob it off him and you are the Keeper. Same shout, same rule, or it never happened. It has to come off him without him noticing.
4. Whoever is Keeper on the last morning takes the points on top.

Worth knowing

• Sips or water, never shots, and nobody has to drink at all.
• The Keeper has to carry it — a belt loop, a bag, a pocket. Locked in a room or buried in a case is not carrying it, and the room can call it off him.
• Asking for it, wrestling for it and buying it off him are not robbing it.
• The same man twice in a row is lazy. The room decides what happens to a lazy Keeper.
• Claiming it while somebody else has the ball is a forfeit and everybody knows it.

What you need

• A soft ball — Small enough to carry, soft enough to throw indoors

If it goes badly

Robbed inside ten minutes of taking it? You drink to whoever got you.

Add this to your event

Fayla builds the whole weekend around it — a scoreboard everybody can see, a shopping list that writes itself out of the things you picked, and one link for the group chat.

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