Shenanigame (noun) – a competitive activity involving a minimal amount of skill, mostly chance and zero percent endurance on the part of all of your fellow Shenanarchists.

Wacky Wall Walkers

Instructions

1. Find a large glass wall or window in your office space. If you don’t have either, it means shenanigans day has infiltrated the deepest levels of the CIA! (which is exciting)
2. Take a dry erase marker (permanent is a bad choice, trust us) and draw one line towards the top of the glass wall / window and one closer to the bottom, leaving about a foot of space between the ceiling and your top line and the floor and your bottom line with lots of space between the lines.
3. Create a bracket with groups of 2 – 4 players (just make sure the groups are a consistent size)
4. Grab the first group and get them ready to play! (We’re not above sports visualization tactics …)
5. Count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Wacky Wall Walker above the top line.
6. The Wacky Wall Walker will crawl its way from the top line to the bottom line. The wall walker that stays on the wall and passes the bottom line first wins!
7. Grab another next group of players and repeat steps 4 and 5 until you’ve gone through your whole bracket.

Winner gets an octopus!

Coin Toss

Instructions

1. Gather all of your probability minded friends in a circle and distribute coins to each person. Then gather the folks who aren’t probability minded, because the bigger the group, the better.
2. Put down your calculators …
3. Gently toss the coin and make sure to catch it!
4. Divvy-up your comrades-in-arms by heads and tails – statistically speaking, there is an equal probability of an even split between heads and tails as there are having your group toss all heads, or all tails, in the event this happens, no one wins, so start the game over.
5. The group with the majority of people is out!
6. If you dropped your coin, you’re out too.
7. Repeat steps 2 and 5!
8. Keep going until there is one person left. This person is the winner! And gets an octopus and gets to keep the nickels – don’t spend it all in one place.

Extreme Rock Paper Scissors

Instructions

For rock paper scissors, the motions are as follows:

Rock: fetal position on the floor.
Paper: Jumping jack pose
Scissors: You’re the Y of the YMCA

Paper covers rock, rock breaks scissors, scissors cuts paper.

Count is Rock, Paper, Scissors, SHOOT! None of this 1, 2, 3, nonsense or even worse, 1, 2, Shoot. Let’s play by the rules here people.

Here’s the catch – (besides the fact that this is full body Rock, Paper, Scissors) – if you lose, you’re now on the “cheering squad” of the person who won your match. Follow them around as they find another person to play and cheer loudly. No halfhearted cheering on Shenanigans day.

If you won, first, Yay! – find someone else to play. If you lose, you and your cheering squad are now on the new winner’s squad. Keep playing until there are only two people left with two massive cheering squads … If one group decides to paint their faces blue and starts yelling “Freedom” we won’t judge. Just make sure to send us a picture. Last one standing gets an octopus!