In a few weeks time, a few local youth groups are meeting up for some widegames, and I've been tasked with the game(s). There should be ~30, perhaps less. We're thinking of playing Haggis Bandits, as it's a game I know well. But I want to play something a bit different.
So have you guys got any ideas for any games to play? I was thinking of Bacterius or Day of the Thing, both of which look fairly easy to put together and play. The players will be about 11-18, and (as I said before) there should be about 30. The playing area will probably be a woods or a park, and playing time should be about 1h 15ms, possibly with two different games in two places and switching over after half an hour.
I'd recommend The Potato Game for sheer simplicity-to-strategy ratio - it's very easy to set up and explain, but has room for a lot of deep tactics and on-the-spot innovation from players. It does require some props, but could double up with Haggis Bandits.
Hunt the Scavenger takes a little more setup and requires a scavenger-hunt style list of objects to find in the wild, which may or may not suit your terrain. For a game with barely any setup, though, Holla-Lulu is maybe worth a go.
Thanks for the info; I would have answered earlier but forgot to check the post.
I had thought of The Potato Game, but initially abandoned it for lack of depth: however, after rereading the rules now, it does seem to have more depth than I initially thought.
I ran Hunt the Scavenger with my dad for my little brother's birthday party (about 8 12-year olds). It worked okay for that group but I thought it was a bit meh. Besides, it requires lots of pencils, sheets and bags...
Holla-Lulu looks interesting: hadn't considered it before. It seems fairly short? It could be longer, but people shouting for 10 minutes would get very hoarse throats. Perhaps for use as a 'filler' game if we have any time left at the end.