Challenge Ideas

I was going to need to come up with some anyway, so I figured I might as well make a blog about them.

There are a couple categories that challenges can fall into:

1. Easy: challenges that cause minimal embarrassment, such as placing stickie notes around the school or taking selfies with people you know.
2. Medium: challenges that are not embarrassing, but would be difficult to do in the small breaks between classes or require more than four people to complete. ex: getting 40 people to sign your arm
3. Difficult: challenges that require you to do something embarrassing or strange in front of a lot of people, ex: act like a chicken in the back commons during lunch or scream Michelle Obama off both balcony’s
4. Competition: A challenge in which only one person can get the credit
5. Partner: challenges which require one other competitor to complete
6. Item: challenges that require outside items to be provided to competitors. These are best later in the game so we don’t have to spend as much money.

The more difficult challenges would be used as the game goes on for longer, but all ideas are helpful.

Easy/Medium/Difficult:

1. Walk like a crab down one hallway. Snap your hands like pinchers at at least two people.
2. Find one person who follows @gdchallengegame and follow them for all of break. You are not allowed to talk to them. (no repeats)
3. Get 40 people to write their least favorite vegetable on your arm
4. Pretend to be an octopus for 30 seconds in every class
5. Take a selfie with a ginger (no repeats)
6. Give a piece of paper labeled “Ginger” to the ginger you took a selfie with yesterday
7. Yell “I’m the karate kid” off the main staircase
8. Act like a piece of seaweed for 1 minute during break
9. Go up to five lunch tables and ask “how much stuff can you stuff in your stuffie till your stuffie’s stuffed enough stuff?”
10. Somersault down the length of the library
11. Stand in front of a class and teach a lesson on how cereal is made
12. Make a paper crown and proclaim yourself the fish prince whenever you walk into a new classroom.
13. Thumb wrestle with a sophomore
14. Get the same sophomore you thumb-wrestled and have them write you a haiku about milk
15. Walk up to a lunch table, stand there silent for five seconds, then say “surprise! I’m the muffin man!” and walk away.
16. Scream “It’s raining tomatoes!” and run from the front to the back commons
17. Bring a piece of broccoli or (insert green vegetable here), hand it to Anna Rimkus (or any blond person) and say “eat your greens goldilocks”
18. Go up to someone who does not follow @gdchallengegame and say “thank you for the plantains”
19. Play rock paper scissors with a freshman
20. Draw a ring on a piece of paper and use it to propose to Ms. Gounis
21. Do the Macarena in two of your classes
22. Get 40 people to sign your arm
23. Get everyone in your B block class to sign a retirement card and give it to your teacher.

Competition:

1. Rock Paper Scissors Tournament with all the other competitors. Whoever wins gets the credit. Ties will be settles during lunch.

Partner:

1. Play paddy-cake with an eliminated player for 30 seconds. If you mess up you must start over (no repeats)
2. Play ring around the rosie with three other competitors (no repeats)
3. Do a rain dance in the front commons during lunch with another player (no repeats)

Item:

1. Put a stuffed animal on your shoulder all day
2. Eat a mystery item at break
3. Wear a halloween costume of your choosing from the dollar store for three class periods and lunch

I’m not participating in Challenge Game this year as a participant because it was honestly super stressful last time. Don’t get me wrong, it was really fun and I would definitely recommend playing, but every night when the challenges were posted I would have to make a plan for how I would complete them in time. It was not the easiest of things. And I feel like if I was to participate again I would be expected to do well and I don’t really want that sort of pressure.

I’m not yet sure when exactly GD Challenge Game will be starting again. It will most likely be later in the year, maybe around March, because Josh and I have to apply to college and stuff so we must prioritize. It could start in November though, it all depends on when we finish applications and how many scholarship essays we are going to have to write. Those will be super fun. But we also need over sixty challenges before we start the game again. Coming up with them on the fly is super difficult, so having as many as possible lined up is going to be a real help.