Courtsquare
GAMES
Created by: Craig Kemper
Ready for your day at court? Join royal families from around the world in a friendly game of “courtsquare?. Can you make your kingdom proud?
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Materials needed
- Chalk or tape
- Kickball
Where to play
- Any flat area where you can draw out a court with tape or chalk
Number of players
- At least 4
Set-Up
- The court is drawn up similar to a regular foursquare court, but there will be spaces between the squares over which the ball must travel to get to other players’ squares.
- Also, the squares are larger than usual
- Standard foursquare is made with four 5’x5’ squares. Giant foursquare will be made with 7’x7’ squares.
- There will also be spaces between each square
Gameplay
- Four players are in the game at a time
- A line may form behind the square to the right of the king
- The king starts the point by serving to the jack in the square diagonal to the king
- The Jack must hit the ball safely out of his/her square into another player’s square
- When the ball lands in a player’s square, that player must let it bounce once, and hit it into another player’s square
- Each player tries to avoid elimination
- Elimination results in going to the lowest square, or to the back of the line behind the lowest square if one exists.
- Elimination rules
- The ball can only be hit with the hands
- The ball cannot be hit twice in one turn
- Hitting the ball with the body results in elimination
- There should be no carrying or grabbing the ball when hitting it to another square
- Hitting the ball out of bounds results in elimination
- Hitting the ball out of turn results in elimination of the player who hit it when it was not his/her turn
- Everyone in a square behind the player who was eliminated rotates counterclockwise toward the King’s square
- Example: If Queen eliminated
- Another point is started by the King serving diagonally again and the game continues
- If the King is eliminated, the whole court rotates and so that there is a new king
