{"id":7395,"date":"2016-01-12T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2016-03-02T15:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:41:29","slug":"the-gilgal-mixer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/the-gilgal-mixer-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gilgal Mixer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mekerah P., Age 16<\/p>\n<p>Every year at Camp Gilgal various ice breakers are played on the first night once all the campers and various staff have arrived. This year, there were three \u2013 The Human Knot, \u201cHoney, If You Love Me\u201d and, of course, Steal the Kosher Bacon.<\/p>\n<p>These three games have various rules. In The Human Knot, you play by forming a circle with campers and staff alike, joining hands with two different people and then attempting to un-knot yourselves \u2013 basically, you twist and turn until your group has formed a rough circle once again. And, all this, without releasing each other\u2019s hands!<\/p>\n<p>This year, there were several different results of the game. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7396\" src=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/Mixer-Games1-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Mixer Games1\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/Mixer-Games1-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/Mixer-Games1-768x599.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/Mixer-Games1-1024x798.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/Mixer-Games1.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>One group managed to get untangled twice! Two cabins didn\u2019t get untangled at all and one group achieved it once. Sadly, I was a camper among one of the two groups that were never able to get completely untangled.<\/p>\n<p>For the game \u201cHoney, If You Love Me,\u201d the rule is simple \u2013 don\u2019t smile. How the game is played is that everyone gathers into a circle, except for one person. That single person goes around the circle until they pick a victim and say in varying degrees of strangeness (one staff member did a handstand!), \u201cHoney, if you love me, won\u2019t you please, please smile?\u201d The chosen person must then \u2013 without laughing or smiling (if they haven\u2019t already) \u2013 respond with \u201cHoney, I love you, but I just can\u2019t smile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last game played was Steal the Kosher Bacon. For this game, we all went onto the one big grassy field and were sorted into three teams. Three objects (the kosher bacon) were placed in the center \u2013 a roll of tape, a tennis ball and some unfortunate person\u2019s shoe. Every person was numbered when placed into their teams and either Streetlight or Snapple would call out random numbers. The people with those numbers would then sprint into the center in an attempt to obtain one of the three objects \u2013 if not more. All in all, it was a pretty eventful first day of camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mekerah P., Age 16 Every year at Camp Gilgal various ice breakers are played on the first night once all the campers and various staff have arrived. This year, there were three \u2013 The Human Knot, \u201cHoney, If You Love Me\u201d and, of course, Steal the Kosher Bacon. These three games have various rules. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5984,5981],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teen-camp-west-gilgal-gazette-2015","category-gilgal-gazette-2015","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7397,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions\/7397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}