SPEED CUPS

“Speed Cups” tests your agility, visual perception, and speed, making it a fun and exciting game for players of all ages.

Duration: 10 min
Number of players: 2-4 player/s
Materials/ Tools needed: “SPEED CUP” board game 
Publisher: 999 Games
Language: –
Links: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/158100/speed-cups

Short description/ Goal of the game:
A fast-paced and competitive dexterity game. Players have sets of colored cups, and the goal is to stack and arrange them in specific patterns as quickly as possible to match a given card’s configuration. It’s a race against time and opponents, as players try to complete the cup arrangements correctly before their opponents do.
“Speed Cups” tests your agility, visual perception, and speed, making it a fun and exciting game for players of all ages.

Educational value/ Learning Objectives:

  • Improves quick reactions, mental focus, eye-hand coordination
  • Helps to deal with stress, frustration

Recommendations for use:

  • Ice-breaker, energiser
  • In intercultural, multilingual groups
  • From the age 6
  • Use the cards to make order of different groups, group of people

Tips and Tricks for Facilitators

How to adapt game for different groups, topics, occasions/needs

  • use scarfs for physically impaired people instead of cups
  • use only one hand to balance the different level of the participants

Feedback questions

  • What skills have you improved?
  • What have you learned about yourself?
  • What were the key elements in the game in order to succeed?
  • What other skills can you improve while playing this game?
  • What made the game challenging?

Further discussion topics

  • In what fields can you use these improved reflexes?
  • What other fields would you like to improve your skills? How would it be possible for you