Clap ball
| Type: | ball game |
| Number of players: | any number, usually 10 |
| Location: | small playing field |
| Equipment: | Ball |
| Duration: | arbitrary, a few minutes |
| Preparation: | none |
Clap ball is a simple ball game played in a circle.
Equipment
One ball is needed to play the game. The ball should neither be too small nor too heavy, it should be easy to catch it.
Procedure
The participants are standing in a circle. The ball is passed around among the players, in an arbitrary ordering. The ball should be thrown so the player the ball is passed to can easily catch it, so for instance neither too hard nor to low.
Any player that catches a ball that was passed to him has to clap in his hands once before catching it. If he fails to clap, or fails to catch the ball, he is out of the game (or earns a negative score point).
Combining it with other games
The game can easily be combined with other games like loved engaged married or red blue dead. Then, a player is not out of the game when he makes an error, but has several more "lives" to stay active.
