Fete-style Games

[BlueCello]

I've been tasked (for a reason I'm not completely aware of) with thinking up some simple, old styles fete games. Y'know the stuff, harmless things like pennies in a jar and hook-the-duck-on-a-pole-from-a-bucket-of-water (or whatever the hell it's called). Thing is, I've never actually been to a fete, so I thought I'd ask on here where there is at least one person thats done everything.

Thanks in a advance!

Edited by BlueCello on Tuesday 12th August 08:24

[andy400]

Bash The Rat is always a fave. Especially after a couple of beers......

Treasure Hunt?

[Fer]

andy400 said:

Bash The Rat is always a fave. Especially after a couple of beers......

Treasure Hunt?

Bash the rat was going to be my suggestion too. Thinking back to the dim and distant past, another one from the schole fetes was trying to find the tenner in a phone book, opening the page with a cake slice.

[Simond001]

welly toss.

brilliant game, and nearly always humiliates the village strongman.

[whitechief]

Lucky dip, tombola.

[tegwin]

Cut out some plywood fish shapes....Screw an eye into them all...

Get some canes, bit of string on the end, and a hook on the bottom..

Number the fish underneath, lots of 3s, a few 2s and one or two 1s..

Award prizes for hooking the rare fish....

[B.J.W]

Simond001 said:

welly toss.

brilliant game, and nearly always humiliates the village strongman.

Tossing in wellies sounds a bit messy.

Why not try a spot of welly 'wanging' instead - less likely to make children cry and old ladies inhale sharply

[AndyAudi]

Coconut Shy/Knocking over tin cans/Long putt whole in one/Skittles/Quoits/throwing Darts at playing cards / throwing ping pong balls into goldfish bowls

Edited by AndyAudi on Tuesday 12th August 09:26

[mr_spock]

My Wife arranged a bunch of these for the school summer fair (which was a huge event). Drop me a PM and I'll forward it to her.

[illmonkey]

i done one when i was at school, made the most money that year.

Go to your local photo processing place and get loads of film canisters.

Then you fill each one with either a 1p,10p,£1 along with sweats or "free go" etc. You charge 10p a go. Making sure you have say 500 pots (£50) and the value of all the prises is half that. Clear cut profit.

Only problem now is getting the film canisters!

[davido140]

big bit of wood with a couple of hundred little holes drilled in it.

Paint the end of a few match sticks in the holes 3 or 4 different colours and one "gold" one for a star prize. get some colour coded prizes, sweets, cheapo toys etc and a nice teddy bear for the star prize.

then fill the rest of the holes with unpainted "looser" match sticks. (you could give a penny chew as a prize for these maybe, nobody likes being a looser)

[mechsympathy]

Knock a few 4 inch nails into a log, charge 50p for people to see if they can knock a nail in the rest of the way with a single go.

[Fetchez la vache]

you can't go wrong with toss the cowpat

[Saddle bum]

Carving a slice off the vicar's daughter was always popular.

[GKP]

Plywood with a face sized hole cut-out and a comedy body painted on the front, then add a a bucket of water and lots of sponges. You just need a stooge to fit his/her face into the hole. (Unfortunately I'm busy that day)

[davido140]

mechsympathy said:

Knock a few 4 inch nails into a log, charge 50p for people to see if they can knock a nail in the rest of the way with a single go.

Giving members of the public a HAMMER!

I'm having great fun imagining the health and safety guys reaction to this one!

Awesome game though, you will get all the DIY dads competing all day long on that one!