Lost Wedding Ring
a game for 4 to 10

lost wedding ring-
fireflies flicker across
the field

You Are: Married or Recently Not. You pick. But there should be some of each.
You Have: Lost your wedding ring.
It Is: Dusk turning to night.
Someone Has: Placed a ring somewhere in a big field.
You Have: A flashlight.
The Ring Placer: Takes two minutes to tell a story about how the ring has special meaning. A story about the wedding, about the engagement, about life, about love, about death, about family, about kids, about why this ring can’t just be replaced.
You Must: Find the ring.
On Each Minute: The Ring Placer picks one player and calls out, “[Player's Name], have you found it?” The player then tells a quick story about loss. If divorced, it must be about the loss of their marriage. If married, it must be about the loss of the past and how the relationship has changed. No more than 30 seconds. This must be loud enough so all players can hear it. Stop after ten minutes of searching, stop.
After Searching: Everyone comes together and sits in silence while thinking about loss. The Ring Placer reads the haiku from above, and then hugs each player one at a time. After this, the players can hug each other.
If the Ring is Found: Rejoice. The Ring Placer reads the haiku from above, and then opens a bottle of red wine and all celebrate with cheers to the Ring Placer.

You play holy reincarnated monks as children found by the monastery and destined to become great leaders. Children will be children. To break you of your childhood, the master monks have given you a plate of peas to count while blindfolded. You’ll spend the day counting peas in order to break you of your childhood.

Set-up: Get a timer that ticks and set it for 15 minutes. For each player, fill a bowl full of dried beans, peas, or something like that and give it to them, and wrap a blindfold around their eyes. Wrap them in a blanket made to look like a robe. Sit the players on the floor, cross legged, in a circle.

To play, for fifteen minutes the players must loudly hum “Ohm Ohm Ohm Ohm,” and throw peas at each other. When a player’s plate is empty of peas, they must feel around on the ground for peas to throw. At no point may the players stop humming “Ohm Ohm Ohm Ohm.” If a player has to converse while looking for peas, the player may vary the pitch and sound of the “Ohm Ohm Ohm Ohm.”

Once fifteen minutes is up and the alarm goes off, the players stop exactly where they are and someone removes the blindfold. You are now enlightened.