Globe (game)
Erdball is the name of a community game in which the players move a giant ball through the playground together. In terms of the game system, it belongs to the genre of peace games .
Play device
The most common play equipment is an inflatable, voluminous plastic ball that can be lifted like a large balloon. The countries of the world, the seas, mountains and ice zones are shown in color on its surface.
Game thought
The globe symbolizes the planet earth . The players agree on the course of the game and are then jointly responsible for what happens to the globe. It can be rolled across the playground, in a circle or in a zigzag. The players can also lift it and carry it together or pass it over their heads. The core idea is the interaction of the players in handling the ball. There is no competition, any opposition, any aggression. For this reason, the globe game has become the trademark and demonstration example of the peace games. It is represented at almost all major public gaming festivals, where it can most conspicuously develop its community-building effect. It is not uncommon for political parties to use this desired effect for their own purposes by making a globe circling in joint action with those present in the assembly hall.
Game variants
In addition to rolling, carrying and handing over the ball, the game program is often varied with the globe, so that boredom cannot arise: You cross obstacles together with the ball. It is passed on from group to group. He is catapulted up together and caught again. Sometimes globe is played competitively as a party game , which is not necessarily conducive to the idea of peace.
literature
- Andrew Fluegelman, Shoshana Tembeck: New games. The new games . Vol. 1st, 18th edition, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1996.
- Andrew Fluegelman: The new games . Vol. 2nd 12th edition, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1996.
- Terry Orlick: New Cooperative Games. More than 200 competitive free games for kids and adults . 4th edition, Weinheim and Basel 1996.
- Anita Rudolf, Siegbert A. Warwitz: Playing - rediscovered. Basics-suggestions-help. Freiburg 1982.
- Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: From the sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th edition, Verlag Schneider, Hohengehren 2016, ISBN 978-3-8340-1664-5 .
Single receipts
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz / Anita Rudolf: Peace Games . In: Dies .: The sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th edition, Verlag Schneider, Hohengehren 2016, pp. 145–152
- ↑ Andrew Fluegelman, Shoshana Tembeck: New games. Die neue Spiele Vol. 1. 18th edition, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1996
- ↑ T. Orlick: New cooperative games. More than 200 competitive free games for kids and adults . 4th edition, Weinheim and Basel 1996
- ↑ Anita Rudolf, Siegbert A. Warwitz: Playing - newly discovered. Basics-suggestions-help. Freiburg 1982