Word game crocodile. Artistic imagination games

1. Draw without an object

Invite the children, using their imagination, to do the following in public: 1. Thread a needle. 2. Sew on a button. 3. Toss and catch the ball (we remind you - without the ball). 4. Throw the ball with a friend. 5. Chop the wood. 6. Plan the board with a plane. 7. Sharpen your pencil. 8. Trim your nails with scissors. 9. Move an object from one place to another. 10. Flip through a book with thin pages and an album with thick pages. 11. Unfold and fold the newspaper. 12. Pour water from one glass to another several times. 13. Throw water at someone from a glass and manage to avoid being splashed. 14. Lift weights of 1,2,3,4,5 and 10 kilograms. 15. Take a very cold, warm, and hot object in your hands alternately. 16. Feel velvet, silk, wool. 17. Place several plates one inside the other without making the slightest noise. 18. Smell an apple, orange, rose, clove, onion, ammonia. 19. Cut a watermelon into slices and eat one piece...

2. Poetry competition

Participants in the competition select poems of different genres at their discretion (sonnet, elegy, ballad, epigram, epitaph) and read them to everyone present. Viewers of the competition determine the genre of the work and write answers on pieces of paper, sign their names and immediately hand them over to the jury. At the end of the competition, the correct answers are determined, pseudonyms are revealed (if someone signed with them instead of a last name), and the winners (both readers and spectators) are awarded.

3. Competition of "anonymous" poets

Participants in the competition select several poems by famous poets, read these poems and invite everyone else to identify the authors.

4. Competition of poetic feelings

Participants in the competition are given the task of finding poems in which certain feelings are clearly expressed. Which ones are determined by the organizers of the competition, for example: pride, joy, hatred, sadness. The competition participants read the corresponding poems. The jury identifies and evaluates the works that best meet the task.

5. "Sign language translation"

Some schoolchildren tell a story, read poetry, sing songs. Others “translate”, being nearby, like special television announcers, depicting the content of literary texts with their hands and facial expressions. It is clear that this is pure improvisation, but what scope for invention is hidden in it!

6. Theater directors

Invite schoolchildren to compose and stage a play in 15-30 minutes, the text of which consists of only four lines. For example: One day in the cold winter season I came out of the forest. It was bitterly cold. I see a horse slowly ascending the mountain, carrying a cart of brushwood. Our Tanya is crying loudly and dropped a ball into the river. Hush, Tanechka, don’t cry, the ball won’t drown in the river. A Christmas tree was born in the forest, and it grew in the forest. In winter and summer it was slender and green. (You can take any other well-known quatrains.) An improvisation performance by a creative group (troupe) should be staged by lot in the genres of opera, operetta, circus, horror film, musical, drama, melo-drama, comedy, detective story, documentary film, variety and etc. It could turn out to be an interesting and funny performance.

7. Cinematographers

In a very short time, together with the children, “stage” or “film” a small story according to the laws of silent cinema. We remind you: the actors in such a film do not utter words, but portray their roles through facial expressions, gestures, and poses. As a plot for a silent film, you can take fairy tales: “Ryaba Hen”, “Kolobok”, “Three Bears”, “Little Red Riding Hood”. You can play Krylov's fables: "The Wolf and the Lamb", "Quartet", "The Crow and the Fox", "Dragonfly and the Ant", etc. You can "make" silent films based on the plots of famous cartoons: "Prostokvashino", "Well, the Hare , wait a minute!”, “Mowgli”, “The Adventures of a Little Beaver”.

8. Musicians

Noise orchestra was a favorite genre for kids in the 20s and 30s. You can play in such an orchestra on any “instruments” that sound: bottles, combs, kitchen utensils, toys, logs, metal objects, whistles, pipes, even educational objects from the physics or chemistry classroom. We advise you to include in the orchestra one of the participants who will play either the button accordion, or the piano, or the balalaika, violin or guitar, i.e., lead the musical theme. But! The orchestra must have its own personality, distinguished by: the theme of the performed 2 -3 musical works; costumes; direction and... composition of musical instruments. We offer "genres" of noise orchestras: "funny cooks", "toy store", "fire department", "Bremen Town Musicians", "Scheherazade", "market" , “poultry yard”, “restaurant”, “lumberjacks”, “school”, “garden plot”, etc. Come up with your “genre”, your “personality”, your “tools”. metal, glass, brick, stone, polymers, etc.

9. Mime artists

Organize your own pantomime theater. Let the mimansa artists, with or without music, depict: 1) a coffee grinder, a door lock, a jackhammer, a dovecote, a cuckoo clock, a striking clock, a tractor in a field, a motorcycle, a military siren, etc. You, of course, noticed that all “objects” have sound, which means that in addition to pantomime, “sound” is also needed;

2) you can depict objects without sound, for example, a burning candle, a flashing light bulb, dull scissors, a hot iron, glasses falling off your nose, a broken TV, a non-working lighter, a bicycle with a figure eight. Come up with your own expressive objects. Mimamsa artists on stage and in the hall can risk portraying:

3) a conductor who leads and manages an orchestra of folk instruments, a symphony orchestra, a pop group, a military orchestra and other imaginary orchestras that perform corresponding songs and musical plays. By the way, the audience should guess what is being performed: a waltz, a military march, a symphony, a folk or pop song;

4) a hairdresser who shaves the client, trims a large beard, does a complex woman’s hairstyle, perm, etc. By the way, hairstyles can be done for real, but in a given style: “Mustang tail”, “square nest”, “Russian” field", "Pippi Longstocking", "Elbrus", etc.

5) a situation from life: “The cook is making dinner”, “The surgeon is performing an operation”, “The dentist is pulling out a tooth”, “The housewife is cleaning the perch”, “The driver is repairing the car while lying under it”, etc.;

6) The object for the image is an angry cat, a hungry pig, a lazy penguin, a parrot, a proud rooster, an angry dog, a cowardly rabbit, an arrogant turkey, a night owl, a handsome peacock, an ostrich, etc. The main thing here is to convey " character" of an animal or bird. Depict his/her gait, voice, behavior. All this must be done cheerfully, with invention;

7) Other objects for facial expressions are pedestrians leisurely walking along the street, or people in a hurry to get somewhere. They have different gaits, different facial expressions. You can depict an old woman with a dog on a leash; a policeman whose boots are pinching; a lover who has a toothache; a man who carelessly kicked a cardboard box containing a brick; a girl in a miniskirt holding an umbrella and the wind is strong; a mother of many children with a bunch of scattering children;

8) By the way, you can ask the guys to show the “gait” of a chicken, duck, turkey, goose, penguin. They are very individual. You need to “grab” them and try to repeat them. Animals jump in a very unique way. Let the guys jump like jerboas, frogs, kangaroos, hares, cats, dogs. Or you can invite children to show how a snake or crocodile crawls on the ground, how a bear, panther and monkey climb a tree. How does an angry rooster behave? cat meeting dog; a fox sitting in ambush; a hare hiding under a bush; a crow taking a piece of bread from a sparrow, etc.

10. “Tell” with gestures

Two (three) groups are given small plot texts (story, fairy tale), they need to read this text and<пересказать" его жестами, мимикой. Соперникам надо быстро догадаться, о чем идет речь, перевести жесты на язык слов.

11. Who runs, walks, jumps how?

In this competition, any participant must show his powers of observation and demonstrate, for example, how geese, camels, wagtails, peacocks, ducks, cats, elephants, seals, giraffes walk; frogs, grasshoppers, hares, kangaroos, panthers jump; horses, hippos, dogs, turkeys are running; Crayfish, snakes, crocodiles crawl.

12. Choral ensembles

The guys can perform one or two verses of a famous song, for example: “Blue Car”, “Fisherman”, “Black Cat”, “A Grasshopper Was Sitting in the Grass”, as this song would be performed by: the Pyatnitsky Choir, the Georgian ensemble “Orero” , a vocal group of a kindergarten, a choir of stage veterans, a military song and dance ensemble, the African tribe “Lumbu-Mumbu”, a dog breeders club, etc. Other “creative” groups can also be depicted.

13. Orchestras

Groups of children depict with movements and sounds an orchestra of sacred music, a military orchestra, an orchestra of folk instruments, a symphony orchestra, a violin ensemble, a pop orchestra, jazz, and a brass band. The main thing is to remember the composition of the instruments and show how they are played. Next, it remains to portray the orchestra as truthfully, interestingly and cheerfully as possible.

14. Dancers

All children love to dance. We propose to hold a dance concert with objects. To the famous melodies “Yablochko”, “Cossack”, “Kalinka” and other favorite rhythms and melodies, let the children dance: with an apple (ball, ball, small pillow) between their foreheads; riding on brooms; with chairs or stools; with watering cans and mops; with backpacks on their shoulders. Come up with other "dance" items.

15. Theater artists

Invite children to imagine that they are actors in the theater of Ancient Greece, or theater from the time of Shakespeare, or Japanese theater<Кабуки", или дореволюционного провинциального театра времен знаменитого э Волкова, или театра авангардного искусства, или показать, что они - артисты МХАТа. А играть ребятам надле-жит спектакль по мотивам сказки "Красная Шапочка". Текст может быть симпровизирован. Роли, костюмы, реквизит необходимо быстро придумать и сделать.

16. Circus performers

Tell the students that they are trainers. Let them come up with and show an act with elephants, tigers, panthers, sea lions, dogs, monkeys, parrots, cats, mice, kangaroos. Naturally, they themselves will portray these animals. And you will be the tamer. If you don't chicken out. Children are like jugglers. They will work with pebbles, balls, plastic plates, rings and even potatoes. Naturally, the number must be invented and staged. You can balance with a gymnastic stick, a mop, a broom, or a billiard cue. Tell the children that they are parody clowns. While performing in the arena, they need to make the audience laugh by portraying a magician, illusionist, gymnast, trainer, juggler, power acrobat, equestrian, etc. Or just fool around. Maybe come up with a funny number?

17. Tap dancers

Probably all the guys watched the film "Winter Evening in Gagra", where popular film artists Evstigneev and Pankratov-Cherny played the roles of tap dancers and rhythm dancers. The tap dancer perfectly feels the rhythm of the melody and taps it with his feet, usually very quickly. Let the schoolchildren try themselves in this role and tap the soles of their boots, shoes “Picking”, “Drobotushki”, “Lezginka”, “Topotushki” and just any rhythmic melody. But cheerfully, with invention.

18. Small choirs

Participants in such choirs can only be children who have brown or, say, blue eyes; brunettes or redheads; snub-nosed or those with Greek noses, those who were born either in winter, or spring, or summer, or autumn, who were born under one or another zodiac sign. You can include choleric or sanguine people, melancholic or phlegmatic people into one choir. You can combine guys with straight or curly hair, short, medium and tall into one “chapel”. Finally, friends and comrades will sing together in one small choir. But what will they sing? Obviously, something unusual and in an unusual way.

Offer children the following options:

1. Complete the alphabet without missing a single letter. Sing the alphabet - a, b, c, d, d, etc. - a song, other well-known melodies. Probably, you can insert conjunctions “and”, “a”, “but”, although it would be better to do without them.

2. Take a famous poem. For example, Pushkin’s “Song of the Prophetic Oleg”. Participants must take the risk of singing this poem to the tune of different songs: “Louder, music, play victory”, “Varyag”. Offer other options.

3. Choirs can compete in singing one verse or even a line of songs that mention women's names, or the word "love", or Russian berries, or Russian cities, or the sea (river), birds, trees, insects. In a word, this is a kind of small festival of songs about dogs or unhappy love, fairy-tale characters or roads.

19. A song that has an answer to any question

The authors included one question or another in the lyrics of many songs. Just remember the popular song, where the question sounds demanding: “What, what, what are our boys made of?” So, the answer must be found in another song, but it must somehow correspond to the question. A song with a question can be performed by the host or the “opponent” team. The other team, one of the participants in such a competition, or any of the guys in the hall must sing their answer. It's clear? Then let the guys look for answers to the questions of such famous lines from songs: - Why did I recognize you, my dear, Why did you answer my love? - Where are you, fellow soldiers?.. - What are you dreaming about, cruiser Aurora?.. - Where does 1-one begin? . -Where, where did you go?..

20. Shadow Theater

Shadow theater has existed since ancient times. It has its own genres: figures cut out of paper or cardboard; finger theater; theater of three-dimensional toy objects; household tools; theater of the acting actor. With the palms of their hands and fingers, let the children depict on the screen (wall, canvas): a barking dog, a hare, an elephant, a deer, a hedgehog, a cat, a bird, a horse. These must be “live”, moving animals and birds. Definitely funny and cheerful. Remember, shadow theater requires a bright light source (lamp, lantern, candle), a screen and darkness in the room. And you also really need imagination and invention. With the help of cut out figures you can show a fairy tale, fable or a funny story about friends.

21. Fashion Theater

It is often shown on television - these are fashion competitions that take place in cities and villages. Create your own "fashion theater". Let fashion designers, “models” and authors of new clothes show new school uniforms, beach suits, ball gowns, clothes for young housewives, sports uniforms, clothes for tourists or fishermen, taxi drivers or police officers. Any “cry of fashion”, the bold fantasy of fashion designers, is possible.

22. Acting out poems

All good poems for children are, as a rule, small figurative, situational plays. They can be played. Remember the names of the most dramatic children's poets: K. Chukovsky, B. Zakhoder, S. Oster, A. Barto, G. Sabdir, B. Okudzhava and, of course, S. Marshak. Especially his English cycle of translations of R. Burns. “The Princess and the Ogre” by G. Sabdir, “The King is Going on a Campaign” by B. Okudzhava, “Bad Advice” by S. Oster are played immediately, from sight, by role. And the parables of K. Chukovsky, known to everyone since childhood, “The Tsokotukha Fly,” “Aibolit,” and “Moidodyr” are entire dramas and tragedies with dozens of roles: people, animals and “humanized” objects! Such famous poems as “The Lady Checked Her Luggage”, “Three Gifts”, “The House That Jack Built”, “I’m Making My Way Along the Gate”, “You Whistle, I Won’t Keep You Waiting”, “The Ballad of the Royal Sandwich”, “Once Upon a Time” an absent-minded person,” “What are boys made of?” - interesting material for theatrical impromptu. By the way, children's rhymes are also small, exciting, funny plays. We propose to hold a theater competition. Two or three groups of children, voluntarily or by lot, take the poems that we mentioned, or other favorite poems, say, S. Mikhalkov, A. Barto, distribute roles, come up with costumes, props and either play them spontaneously, or a little are rehearsing. Try this with children and you will experience the joy of theatrical, impromptu creativity.

23. Sculptures, pyramids, living pictures

All children are dreamers. With them you can come up with the most incredible situations. For example, open a “wax museum” or “sculpture gallery” or create a “vernissage of living paintings”. In this “genre” the guys will be simultaneously pantomime, theater, circus and even ice ballet artists. This means that they will be a little bit of sculptors, artists, athletes and directors at the same time. What can you “build” with the help of simple props, costume details and imagination? Here's what:

1. Moscow University, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Ostankino television tower, the Kremlin, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Egyptian pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, the Montreal springboard, the American Statue of Liberty and even the Great Wall of China. It will be something like a living pyramid, the main thing is that it looks like the mentioned architectural structures. A living pyramid competition can be part of a sports event.

2. Famous sculptural monuments, monuments, compositions: “The Thinker” by Rodin, “Laocoon”, “Apollo Belvedere” by unknown authors, “David” by Michelangelo, “Discobolus” by Miran, “Mephistopheles” by Antokolsky, “Worker and Collective Farm Woman” by Mukhina, fountains of Peterhof , horses on Klodt's Anichkov Bridge, monuments to Peter I, Catherine, Suvorov in St. Petersburg. You can “create” sculptural images of athletes: a girl with a paddle, a weightlifter, a gymnast, a football player, a skier, a speed skater, etc. 3. Let the children come up with and show their friends their “monument,” which can be dedicated to weed control; school cafeteria; quiet time at summer camp; teachers' council; border guards on patrol; school break; school line, etc. These will be frozen moments of school life, fun and instructive.

4. You can create a monument reflecting well-known proverbs and sayings: “What falls from the cart is lost”; “Don’t say hop until you jump over”; “Where there is a needle, there is a thread”; "What's in the forehead, what's in the forehead"; “Don’t sit in your own sleigh”; “A bad head gives no rest to your feet”; “The law is not written for fools”, etc.

5- Remember the final scene of N.V. Gogol’s comedy “The Inspector General,” when the heroes of the play freeze upon learning about the arrival of the real inspector? This is the so-called mimic scene. Try, together with the children, to find the corresponding places in familiar plays, fairy tales, cartoons, stories, illustrate them with mimic siennas. For example, from the works of A. Gaidar “Chuk and Gek”, “Timur and his team”. Or from your favorite cartoons “Well, wait a minute!”, “Prostokvashino”, about a boa constrictor, a parrot and a monkey, etc.

6. Children love to depict scenes from famous paintings: “Barge Haulers on the Volga”, “Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan” by Repin, “Three Heroes”, “Knight at the Crossroads” by Vasnetsov, “Hunters at a Rest”, “Troika” by Perov, etc. . Hold a “Riddle” opening day and let the children show their “pictures” to the audience. Viewers must guess: what kind of picture is this and who painted it?

24. Television

He is loved and known by everyone who considers himself a TV viewer. We give two options for playing “TV”. First: in such well-known programs as “Morning Star”, “Addresses of the Young”, “Rural Hour”, “Stadium for Everyone”, “Music Kiosk”, “Time”, “News”, “Health”, “Kinopanorama”, "According to reports from the Ministry of Internal Affairs", "Before and after midnight", "Good night, kids!" and others, children must invest their school maintenance. Preparation should be short-term, impromptu. Second: invite the children to compose their own “Wick”, “Jumble”, their own program “Come, Fairy Tale”, “Morning”, “Teleconference”, etc. You will probably need a TV screen, hand-drawn screensavers, presenters, musical screensavers, so that everything it was like on real television. Invite them to portray Gennady Khazanov, Valery Leontyev, Alla Pugacheva, Muslim Magomayev, Vyacheslav Druzhinin, Evgeny Leonov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Valentina Tolkunova, Joseph Kobzon, Vladimir Vinokur, Alexander Malinin and other artists with their characteristic performance manners and roles. .

25. Storytellers

Lovers of domestic or foreign fairy tales can take part in competitions between storytellers, narrators, and authors - performers of their own versions of famous or simply favorite fairy tales. They can be performed to music. Fairy tales can be illustrated with drawings shown through an epidiascope, slides, and filmstrips. Storytellers, of course, must be dressed in Russian folk costumes. Fairy tales can be dramatized, that is, performed as a play.

26. Acrobatic gymnasts

There is probably no adult who did not like to tumble, do splits, bridges, etc. as a child. Spend an evening with your schoolchildren, a matinee, where they will perform like gymnasts or acrobats. For this you need: sportswear or training suits, mats and... imagination. Such impromptu exercises are based on sports pyramids. To get your children's imagination going, tell them simple plots: depict (with a pyramid) a single-engine or two-engine plane, a haunted house, a border guards' post with dogs, a humpbacked bridge, a "devil's bridge", etc. You can come up with and quickly make real pyramids. You just shouldn’t “build” complex compositions without training. Let us remember that this is still a game of gymnasts and acrobats.

27. Sitting on chairs

You can also dance or dance while sitting on chairs. Without getting up! You can do this one at a time, or together. The melodies, naturally, should be different: lambada, waltz, tango, Russian dance, Lezginka, etc. You can offer to dance some kind of dance with tied legs. They need to be tied with something soft, for example, a scarf, belt, or towel.

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Crocodile is a pantomime game. And you probably can’t imagine a better game than this game during interesting gatherings with friends. Sometimes not a single holiday with friends can do without this game. It perfectly lifts the mood of everyone around, and also develops imagination and fantasy, and is great for a large company of adults and children. If you don’t know how to play the crocodile game, now we will tell you its rules, and also recommend some interesting words for it.

What are the rules of the game of crocodile?

The rules of the crocodile game are quite simple. All participants are divided into two teams. Sometimes it happens that teams are divided separately into girls and boys, which results in quite interesting gameplay. Then one team must think of a difficult word and tell it to one person from the opposing team. He, in turn, must, with the help of gestures and facial expressions, depict the word that was given to him for his team. It is prohibited to speak or give hints to your team during the image! The team must guess the word themselves by asking questions or making their own guesses. The person depicting can only answer by shaking his head “yes” or “no” whether his team guessed the hidden word or not. If the word is guessed, then the teams change places, and a new person is always put up for the image.

There is another option, how to play the crocodile game, in case there are few players to split into two teams. Then there are the following rules. Only one team participates. One person thinks of a word and tells it to the second player. At the same time, no one else knows the hidden word. Then the person depicting must also depict this word, and those players who do not know it must guess. The one who guesses the word takes the place of the one depicting, and the one who depicted in front of him must tell him the new word.

Interesting words for the game crocodile

The more difficult a word you come up with for your opponent, the funnier and more interesting the game will be. Imagine what your opponent will do if you think of words such as: egg cutter, colorblind, vampire, or even worse if you think of whole phrases, for example: “excited female praying mantis.” There are a great many such interesting words, and if it’s difficult for you to come up with them yourself, then there are sites on the Internet with a ready-made list of words for the game crocodile http://wordparty.ru/. You can use simple words to warm up and then move on to more complex ones. You can guess not only individual words, but also entire sentences, phrases from songs, sayings or proverbs, and so on..

Games are something that will always be in fashion. Both adults and children love them. When you get together with a group, there is always time for fun and board games. Now it has become especially popular. Hundreds of different tabletops are sold in online stores.

But what to do if there is no board game at hand? A list of popular puzzles that don’t require anything will come to your aid. If you search, you can find a huge number of games for the whole company. But “Crocodile” remains the most popular. Let's look at how to play this game below.

Universal

Probably everyone knows how to play Crocodile. This is a universal game. She doesn't even need a big company. If there are already three of you, you can cheer each other up by developing non-verbal thinking.

Psychology

The popularity of games such as Crocodile is largely due to our psychology. Even in kindergarten, we often played in groups, with friends, tried to copy someone and invent non-existent events. Even then, such games helped us develop thinking, improve speech, and improve memory.

If you think back, we often became teachers, doctors, firefighters and accountants. In addition to these role-playing games, we played “Broken Phone”, “Ring”, “Words”. We grew up, but our love for games remained. Of course, playing “Broken Phone” is already less interesting.

Similar entertainments were replaced by: “Mafia”, “Earthquake”, “Castwrecked”. But these games often require a leader. He must monitor the entire process, compliance with the rules, and the movements of the players. At any moment, the host intervenes in the gameplay and prevents conflicts.

But it is not always possible to find a person to play the role of presenter. Perhaps there are not enough people in the company for one person to become a guardian. Therefore, we have to choose games in which such a person is not needed. And, if you know how to play the Crocodile game, then you understand that there is no leader there.

"Crocodile" also refers to psychological games. But this is the most harmless option. Of course, there are group therapies in which the trainer presents such a game as an identification of the participants' problems.

But if we are talking about companies, then “Crocodile” rather helps to have fun and unite all participants.

This is a pantomime game. The winner is easily the one who knows how to control his body and facial expressions, and also pays close attention to details. Many people underestimate this game. She helps adults express emotions and feelings through gestures. Therefore, “Crocodile” can be played not only by children and teenagers, but also by mature people.

Rules

Not everyone knows how to play Crocodile. There are several types of it. If we talk about the game as an associative puzzle, then the rules are more than clear.

Participants can be divided into two teams. The first one thinks of a word, passes it to a participant from the other team, and he, in turn, shows this word to his friends. He can use gestures, facial expressions to help his team, he can nod his head.

If the company is small, you can play against each other. In this case, the first player comes up with the words himself; when one of the players guesses right, he takes the place of the pantomime. He, in turn, thinks of a word for him. This can go on for a long time. You can play for points. It happens that out of 4 people only two actively participate in the game. The rest simply cannot guess the words.

Beginners

Some people immediately understand how to play Crocodile, but for others this game is very difficult. For beginners, you can use basic words. You can start with the simplest associations. For example, if you see a glass on the table, try to show it.

Then you can use abstractions. For example, show your friends the word set. If a company plays the same computer game, you can show characters or artifacts from it. This is also always very fun and funny.

If an experienced team has gathered, you can take not only words and phrases, but also entire sentences. For example, words from songs or films.

In words

Trying to figure out how to play Crocodile with a friend, you may come across one of the varieties of this game. Interpretation can be based not on facial expressions and gestures, but on words.

The point of this game is to guess what your opponent is up to. But this is done a little differently. The person who comes up with a word divides it into several syllables and comes up with words for each that begin with these syllables. These nouns are called "tails".

Each of these words is shown through gestures and facial expressions. Players guess each “tail”, and then try to form the main word from it.

Varieties

Due to its popularity, this game has taken many forms. In addition to the classic one, which is used in companies, there is a desktop version. In such games, special cards are used and there is an hourglass.

“Crocodile” got onto our computer and phone. There are many apps that can help even two friends have fun. Plus, you will always have new words at hand.

For little ones

Many parents believe that playing Swampy the Crocodile is the same as playing a classic association puzzle. It's not like that at all. For young children, the classic “Crocodile” will be very difficult. This is due to the fact that they do not have such a large vocabulary. Of course, you can play this game with them, but it is important to choose very simple words that they know and that they encounter every day.

But playing the game “Crocodile Swampy” is a lot of fun. This is a small browser game that already has several versions. She tells a story about a cute crocodile Swampy, who loves to swim. But he doesn’t always succeed in this. The fact is that Swampy is the only crocodile in the sewer who loves cleanliness. The rest of his relatives can only misbehave and cause harm. Therefore, you will need to help the green tidy take a swim.

Game "Crocodile": rules

The game "Crocodile" has been known for a relatively long time, but, unfortunately, its authors are not known. It is called differently in different companies. Some people are used to calling this game “Associations” (or “Association Game”), some call it “Pantomime”, and a number of players call it “Charades”. Recently, thanks to broadcasts on TV, the name “Crocodile” has become more and more firmly attached to the game. There are many names, but the principles inherent in the game are the same.

This is intended not only as a means of entertainment. It allows you to develop a number of qualities and skills: associative thinking, working in public, acting, increases the clarity of non-verbal communication, etc. In addition, it allows you to have a lot of fun with friends, the game promotes closer mutual understanding and helps you quickly meet new people people if you play competitively or in clubs. The game "Crocodile" is intellectual: it expands your vocabulary and makes you remember words (words for the game "Crocodile" may be rarely used), the existence of which you no longer remember.

For a long time, “Crocodile” was a game only in groups - outdoors, at holidays. Recently, people have begun to gather more often specifically to play it (at home in the evening, in special clubs). With the development of the Internet, playing Crocodile online no longer sounds like something supernatural. The online game “Crocodile” and its variations are gradually appearing. But real-time gaming remains more popular and more entertaining. Internet technologies came to the rescue in the Crocodile game. The rules must be accepted by the organizer.

The game "Crocodile" and its rules are slightly different, so you need to read the current rules and take them into account so that there are no disputes during the game.

1. The player shows the word using only facial expressions, gestures, and movements.

2. It is forbidden to pronounce words (any words, even “yes”, “no”, etc.) and sounds, especially those by which it is easy to guess the word (for example: by “mu” you can easily guess that the word is a cow).

4. It is advisable (at the discretion of the players) not to point to objects around you that influence the hidden word.

5. A certain time is allotted for displaying a word or group of words (depending on the competition). If the correct answer is not given before the end of this period, then the word is considered not guessed.

6. Attention! A word is considered solved when the team pronounces this word exactly as it was guessed (with the same prefixes, suffixes, etc.)

7. It is forbidden to show the hidden word letter by letter, i.e., show the words the first letters that will form the hidden word!

8. Depending on the competition and your success in the game, your score will be formed. At the end of the game, the team with the most points wins.

9. During the display of the word (using JollyGame as an organizer), the role of the judge is played by any player from the opposing team, who sits next to the computer and as soon as he hears the correct answer, he immediately clicks on the hidden word, which is perceived as a correctly guessed word. It also informs you about the amount of time remaining.

10. Each competition has small nuances in the scoring method and the structure of displaying words. They will be described before each competition.

“Crocodile” (team version rules) provides for various competitions.

"Warm-up"

This competition has the simplest and most standard structure. The player tries to show the word given to him within the allotted time. He is then replaced by a player from the opposing team. This way, all players will try their hand. Depending on how many people you have on your team, it is possible that some players will show multiple words. Despite the warm-up status, the team score is already replenished with points for guessed words

Great entertainment for any holiday or get-together at home - interesting games with family and friends. For example, play your favorite "Crocodile"!

Cards for the game "Crocodile"

1. We present to your attention cards for playing Crocodile on New Year's winter theme. These cards are suitable for playing with the whole family.

Crocodile for all occasions.

These cards are suitable for playing with the whole family.

Main rules.

By showing a word you can:

- move any part of your body - even your ears;
- take any pose - even standing on your head;
-answer questions from guessers with gestures;
-draw with gestures on a wall or other flat surface;
- point to your clothes, jewelry and other things that were with you when you went to show the word;
-show the phrase in several steps, breaking it into separate words.

When showing a word, you cannot:

- talk, intentionally make any sounds (except for expressing emotions);
- point to any objects other than those you have with you, pick them up, use them;
-pronounce words silently, with just your lips;
-show individual letters;
-draw (even if you had a pen or pencil with you) and generally leave visible marks on any surface;
-show the word in parts or syllables.

Every man for himself

Choose the player who will go show the word first. He draws the top card from the deck, selects one of the words indicated on it and begins to show it to the other players using facial expressions, gestures and other body movements.
While you show the word, other players guess it by saying their versions out loud. As soon as the correct version is spoken (matching the word you chose from the drawn card), your turn ends. You return to the other players and will now guess together with them, and the player who guessed your word draws a new card from the deck, selects one of the words and begins to show it.

Team game

Individual play is good for the first acquaintance with Crocodile, but this game truly reveals itself in teams. By playing team against team, you will not only develop team spirit and learn to understand your comrades in one move.
If you have more than six people on your team, we highly recommend breaking up into two, three, or even four equal teams.
Team play principle:
-teams take turns, each time sending a new participant to show the word;
-the team’s turn lasts exactly 1 minute, and the more words are guessed during this time, the more points the team will earn;
- only members of the team whose team player is showing the word can guess;
-the game lasts exactly 12 rounds, after which the teams count the points they earn and determine the winner.