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Minesweepers is the modern name for a game which used to be known as Battle of the Atlantic. There is nothing to beat the thrill of imagining yourself as the Admiral of a fleet crossing the Atlantic, dodging mines and Nazi U-boats.

A largish, clear space is needed for the best game. In this space, scatter as many tennis balls as possible—the game works well if the floor has a good covering of them. Players are then paired up and one member of the team is blindfolded. The seeing player must then navigate their partner (‘ship’) from one side of the room to the other, through the barrage of tennis balls (‘mines’) but can only direct them by shouting. If a ship touches a mine the watching players shout ‘BANG’, and the team have a time penalty added. If the ship touches five mines, it is sunk. Players that get from one end of the room to the other in the fastest time, win.

To make the game more authentic, you can allow only nautical directions such as, ‘full steam ahead’, ‘avast’, ‘port’, and ‘starboard’ to be given to the blindfolded player.