Circle Untangle
An active, team-building, icebreaker game for junior youth
Also known as: The Human Knot
- Play anywhere
- Cooperative
- Standard (15 - 45 mins)
- No cost
- No Mess
- Active
- Team Building
- Icebreakers
- Junior
- Large Groups
- No Prep
Added by
Maria
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How To Play Circle Untangle
Materials Needed
Relatively large space, hands
This is an all time classic icebreaker game!
Everyone stands in a big circle and then grabs onto two different peoples hands (not the people standing on either side of them).
Once everyone is holding onto two other peoples hands then the aim is to work together to untangle the circle.
Depending on how many people you have this can take a long time or can be completed very quickly.
Themes
Working together as one
Variants
Added by
Maria
on 14 June 2010
8 Comments
Add a commentI absolutely love this game one of my teachers taught me this game and I love it it's so fun especially with bigger groups you can divide a big group into smaller groups and then play this game with other groups of 4 or 8 and so on
This Icebreaker is great!
You grab the hands of anyone but the people next to you, so that everyone's hands are tangled together.
This game is even funnier and takes even longer if every third person is blindfolded!!
The following site gives specific directions for how to do this fun activity: http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/knorth/Lessons/knot.html
It makes no sense? Explain
Please explain how this game works??? Who's hands do you grab and how if it's not the person next to you. If you're standing in a circle???
I love this game could not tell you hom many times i have played it. Works well with groups who don't know a lot of people or are just really shy.