Board Game details
🕹️ What's the Game Plan?
We've already mentioned this in passing, but here come the juicy details so our champs can show up ready to win and learn!
| Class | 🧩 Competition Game | 🎯 Board + Rules Grab tokens (from other games or even grains/dal will do 🤓) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Empty the Chest | View |
| 2 | Blast Off | View |
| 3 | Watermelon Chess | View |
| 4 | Watermelon Chess | View |
| 5 | 8x8 Checkers | View |
| 6 | 6 Men Morris | View |
| 7 | Alquerque | View |
| 8 | Ludus | View |
| 9 | Ludus | View |
| 10 | Ludus | View |
We have already given a game board to the students to take home and practice during summer break. So keep strategizing and competing. Keep those brain connections sharp. Do not carry your board on Electric Saturday.
👯 Team Up!
- Teams = 2 students 👬👭
- Same class = ✅ Different division/gender = ✅ No problem!
- No team? No stress! Come on the day and we'll help you find a partner.
📝 Registration
Registration is ON-THE-SPOT — show up, sign up and start competing!
🏆 Competition Format
- Coin toss decides who goes first
- Knockout rounds 💥
- Winners move on, others bow out
- No rematches, no replays. It's GAME ON!
🏫 What We're Giving
All the game material, boards, etc.
🧠 What You Bring
- Your "game brain" 🧠💡 (aka your secret strategies!)
- Optional and applicable only for Electric Saturday: Your cheer squad 📣 (parents/siblings/friends!) (Not applicable for inhouse/during school hours competition)
Note: Supporters stay just outside the arena, super close but not inside the play zone.
📏 Game Rules (in simple-speak)
- Play fair, play fast ⏱️
- Discussion with team member = ✔️
- Outside help (books, gadgets, mentors) ✅ during timeouts only. Not during play.
- Max 2 timeouts per team
- Game must end on time — whoever's ahead at the buzzer moves forward 🔔
🥇 How Winners Are Picked
- Top finishers declared as WINNERS
- RUNNERS-UP also awarded.
- Certificates will be awarded immediately after the finals. 🏅
"GYAAN" for Parents 📢
We know it's tempting to jump in when your kid struggles... but please don't! 😅 This is a golden chance for kids to:
- Take initiative 💪
- Make new friends 🤝
- Handle disagreements like champs 🧘
- Learn independence and decision-making 🧭
Let them explore. Let them mess up. Let them shine. Let them learn and grow.
You're still their safety net — just don't be a parachute 🪂
Share your own "tough decisions" stories and get them talking. Watch their brains light up!
🎉 Why Every Kid Should Participate
- It's FUN! 🤩
- Boosts logic, creativity, social skills 🧠💬
- Reduces stress and sharpens focus 🧘
- Builds teamwork and problem-solving power 💡
Outside your interests / comfort zone? All the more reason to do it!