100 Games

About Kingswood's 100 Games

If you come to Kingswood, you will have plenty of chances to play the games you know and love. But what makes Kingswood special is how many games you will learn to love! Over the last 25 years our creative campers and counselors have devised countless new games. The Kingswood Originals listed below have withstood the test of time.

Click on each to learn more:

Crosbee is a combination between non-contact lacrosse and Frisbee. Players are divided into two teams and attempt to throw the Frisbee into the other team’s lacrosse goal. If you have the Frisbee you can run with it. But make sure to shoot, pass, or down the Frisbee before a player on the opposing team tags you, because if you have possession of the Frisbee and are tagged it’s the other teams Frisbee. A player downs the Frisbee by touching the ground with the Frisbee. If you do this, you can no longer move or shoot, only pass. This game has been popular at Kingswood for over twenty-five years!

Escape is a lot like capture-the-flag, except instead of just one flag there is a “treasure chest” full of “flags.” In Escape, the flags are different types of balls – footballs, soccer balls, dodge balls, and tennis balls. The goal of the game is to sneak into the opposing teams treasure chest and get all of the balls back to your side. You can try to run them back, or you can try to pass them back. But beware: if you drop the ball it goes back to the treasure chest!

Evasion is Kingswood’s version of paintball. We use wrestling mats and innertubes to set up soft and safe blinds for campers to hide behind. Younger campers play with Rhino skin dodgeballs; older campers wear lacrosse and hockey helmets and play with tennis balls. The objective: Be the last man standing!

Counselors take great pride in being “un-found.” One counselor even dug a pit in the council fire and had another counselor cover him with dirt, ash, and fresh wood, using a snorkel to breathe! Before the counselors hide they each offer a prize to whichever camper finds them, from breakfast in bed to cleaning their area for inspection to tube rides during rest hour!

Counselors are given twenty minutes to hide. Campers are given forty minutes to search. We reconvene at the council fire after the event to hear about great finds, near misses, and funny things campers said and did when near well-hidden staff.

Question: How do Brazilians living in crowded cities develop such amazing foot skills? Answer: Futsal! This is similar to soccer except the ball is smaller, heavier, and less bouncy. The ball stays close to the ground and you need to be quick-footed to outmaneuver your opponents. It also requires you to put more “umph” into your passes…this helps players put more pace on their passes when they transition back to the regular soccer pitch. Our small sided games are an absolute blast!

Gatorball is a combination of soccer and lacrosse. It is played with a size 3 soccer ball but uses lacrosse goals. When the ball is on the ground the rules are the same as soccer. But if the ball is airborn it can be grabbed. Then the player can run and throw the ball. If, however, a player has the ball in his hands and is tagged it is the other team’s ball. The scoring system is unique too: one point for a thrown goal, two points for a kicked goal, and three points for a headed goal.

Many Kingswood campers like to grab a friend or two and head out to the Kingswood Caymen Golf Course. This course provides a tremendous variety of chips that a player might encounter on a real course. The longest hole is approximately 70 yards, while the shortest hole is just 10! Obstacles abound on every hole. The idea is to land the ball in a circle of about ten feet diameter. To add luster to the contest, landing in an “inner circle” of a one-foot diameter results in the subtraction of a stroke. That’s right, an occasional “hole in zero” is recorded, to happy cheers and huzzahs by all participants!

Javelin Ball — A.K.A. Mr. Wiff’s Favorite Game — is baseball played with a tennis racket and tennis ball. It is played on our Little League Field. In many ways it is superior to baseball. In Javelin Ball nearly every pitch is drilled somewhere and every inning is like the most exciting inning of a baseball game.

\As a batter you get the thrill of hammering the ball all over the place, even over the fence for a home run. Then, in the field, you’ll love the rush of turning a double play or making a diving catch.

The volleyball court on Pines Field is home to many Kingswood games. Perhaps the most popular is Fuke’em. This is a three-on-three game that uses a football instead of a volleyball. If you watch for five minutes you are sure to see at least one amazing diving grab! Variations of this game use volleyballs, Frisbees, and even medicine balls!

Stealth is Kingswood’s version of all-campus capture the flag. But rather than sprinting pell-mell through the woods, campers need both speed and craftiness in this game. The campus is divided in two. Both teams hide their flag deep in the woods. Five CIT’s or counselors guard the flag (though they can not be within twenty yards of the flag). Usually thirty or forty campers are on each team. Boys try to sneak past the defenders and touch the flag. Whichever team tags the flag more wins!

A Kingswood favorite, and one of the most unique games we offer. The goal of the game is to throw the ball off one of the two rebounders and have it land in the field of play. But there are all sorts of special rules - here are a few: teams can only make three passes before the ball must be shot, players can only take three steps with ball and can only hold the ball for three seconds, teams can shoot and score using either rebounder, and the defense can not intercept passes or block shots...thus defense is all about anticipating where the shot will come from and where the ball might land.

Trashball is a popular Kingswood original team sport featuring two balls in play at the same time. The game demands skill and strategy to score a goal in one of the trash cans. Learn more about Trashball

badminton ~ baseball ~ base-ketball ~ basketball ~ billiards ~ block game ~ board games ~ boat races ~ bocce ~ box hockey ~ box lacrosse ~ capture the cumbersome object ~ capture the flag ~ card games ~ catch 22 ~ caymen golf ~ chess ~ circle pong ~ clutch relay ~ corn hole ~ cricket ~ croquet ~ crosbee ~ cup stacking ~ dodgeball ~ Dungeons & Dragons ~ ego ball ~ escape ~ evasion ~ find the camper ~ find the counselor ~ fire building ~ fishing derby ~ flickerball ~ floor hockey ~ flutterguts ~ foosball ~ flag football ~ four square ~ frisbee golf ~ futsal ~ Gaelic football ~ gaga ~ gatorball ~ golf ~ guide frisbee ~ handball ~ improv games ~ javelin ball ~ kick the can ~ kickball ~ king of the court ~ king pin ~ knock out ~ lacrosse ~ line frisbee ~ mafia ~ manhunt ~ marco polo ~ matball ~ miniature golf ~ minute to win it games ~ newcomb ~ Omnikin ball ~ open gates ~ packerball ~ pickle ~ pickleball ~ ping pong ~ porch ball ~ rugby ~ sailing regatta ~ sardines ~ scavenger hunt ~ schtick ~ slackline ~ slip n’ slide ~ soccer ~ soccer golf ~ soccer tennis ~ softball ~ spikeball ~ spud ~ stealth ~ tarleton tennis ~ tchoukball ~ telestrations ~ tennis ~ tetherball ~ trashball ~ treasure hunts ~ triathlon ~ tug-of-war ~ twenty-one ~ ultimate frisbee ~ volleyball ~ water basketball ~ water polo ~ wiffleball ~ world cup