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  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
    • Faith Immersion Study results
    • FAQ >
      • FAQ-Church
      • Grafted In
      • Jewish Roots of Christianity
      • What is Zionism
      • Third Temple
    • Meet the Board
    • Ruth as an allegory
  • Trips
    • Feb 2023 Cobb Vineyard
    • March2023CVV
    • Canyon View Options
    • April 23 Unhurried Pilgrimage
    • Oct 2023 Micro group
    • Nov 2023 Mentor Training
    • April 2024 Mentor Training
    • Past Trip Reviews
  • B-4 you GO
    • The Israel Game
    • Israel Entry
    • packing suggestions
    • Reading Prep
    • Walking prep
    • Food In Israel
    • Prayer team Building
    • Team Meetings
    • Phone options
    • Pastors benefits to an Israel trip
  • Resources
    • Brandi's book reviews
    • Kims Youtube interviews
    • books to prepare for your journey
  • Apply for a Trip

The Israel Game

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A point earning game for all the following things you do, see, engage with during our trip. Daily there are things to engage in as we travel together. But you’ll want to read all the point earning opportunities below, so you don’t miss anything.
The person with the most points each day is declared the daily winner at dinner and will receive a pin to display on his or her nametag lanyard. The Grand Prize winner is the one with the total highest points for the whole trip will receive a Prize and be featured on our website in a picture and a mini-interview with quotes describing your winning strategy. You’ll turn in your sheets on the bus to go back to the hotel before dinner on our last day. The winner will be announced at our finale dinner right before we head to the airport when we announce your scores.
Earning Points:
+1 category
Fishbowl—each round winner
Alphabet game winner
Each new food you try from the buffet (must be at least two bites swallowed to count). Running count on back of sheet.
Record the highest altitude we visited in Israel. _______
Record the lowest point’s altitude _________.
Share with the group a unique fact about a site that the guide didn’t mention. (Multiple point earner in this question)
Learning and using a new Hebrew word (one point for each word, but only one point per word). List words on back as you use them.
Name Bible-mentioned animals that you see AND provide a verse reference for each one. 1 point each (use back).
 
+2 category
Fishbowl—overall winner of whole game
Alef-bet game winner (Hebrew)
Find a new food you like? Ask someone from the kitchen how it is prepared.
Asking the guide a thoughtful question.
Answering the guide’s questions when he asks.
Short skits: Participating in acting out a story on site for the group.
 
Big Chunks of Points Category:
+ 5 points: Toilet flushing game. The person who can tell me (& name) the most different ways you saw to flush the toilet at the end of the trip. (no pictures please!! LOL).
 
+10 points: Map Orienteering: Drop a pin on your GPS app and label the site. Must have at least 20 sites labeled, can be more.

+ 15/ +10/ +7 points (for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place): Complete the Cypher Riddles Game (below).
 
+ 20 points: Selfies Game. For each person who completes all 20 selfies, eligible only as a full 20 points for all 20 selfies.


The Cypher Riddles Discovery Hunt:
Turn in to the score keeper when you’ve completed all the answers.
1. Freedom in the City of Brotherly Love cracked me up and I was duplicated into a new home. What am I and where is the duplicate located in Israel? _________________________, _____________________
2. Find me wearing my silk pajamas AND a hat. __________________(date) __________________ (place)
3. Taste the answer to Sampson’s riddle, what am I and where/when did you eat it in Israel? ______________________,  _________________________________
4. Pressed down shaken together and running over? What am I and where did you see me? ________________ , _________________________________
5. I only run track! What am I?  and what year did I first move to Jerusalem?  ______________   _________
6. I look like I could take off for another galaxy far, far away at any moment. What am I and in which town am I located?  ____________________,  _____________________
7. I am a multiple-stone bee that has an attitude. What am I and where am I located? _______________________, _____________________.
8. Who is a prophet wielding a sword? And what is his view? ________________  ____________________
9. Neither are suitable for swimming, but at which site are these two Biblical pools located:
Pool of Siloam _________________, Pool of Bethesda_____________________.
10. The name of a Jewish “pulpit”? and where did you see one where Jesus likely stood and preached?__________________   where? ______________________________
11. Wearing a fancy dress, I proudly spit on top of the famous olive mountain. What am I and where do I work? _____________,  _____________________________.
12. Once a thriving Christian community, I got frozen in time. What is the name of this town ____________________ and what froze me? ______________________
13. What is green and turquoise and fertile and refreshing? _____________________
14. What goes two directions and two more directions and but also goes all the way around?  _________________________________________________
15. Who forged a snake path with no snakes? _________________________ and where does it lead? __________________________ 
 
Game of 20 Selfies.
To earn these 20 points each participant must take a selfie at or with each of the following items/people/places. (Place a date in the lines below so you can find the selfie more easily in your picture rolls).

  1. Selfie with a stronghold  _____________
  2. Selfie playing dead under an Olive tree_____________
  3. Selfie with a soldier_____________
  4. Selfie of foot in the Mediterranean Sea_____________
  5. Selfie of foot in the Sea of Galilee_____________
  6. Selfie of foot in the Jordan River_____________
  7. Selfie of foot in the Dead Sea_____________
  8. Selfie of foot in the Gihon Spring_____________
  9. Selfie of foot in Gan HaSlosha _______
  10. Selfie with a cave_____________
  11. Selfie with a tree you planted_____________
  12. Selfie with your favorite view behind you_____________
  13. Selfie with a sunset_____________
  14. Selfie with an Israel flag_____________
  15. Selfie with your family group in some ancient ruins_____________
  16. Selfie with a wall more than 1000 years old_____________
  17. Selfie with the green walking man_____________
  18. Selfie with a street musician/band_____________
  19. Selfie inside a gate_____________
  20. Selfie with a golden dome_____________
 
 
 

Downloadable version to print for your trip. You need the score card whether you print the game from the file or the website.
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