Prison Dodge is another form of Dodge Ball. This game can require a pretty good arm and can be fiercely competitive. But it can also be fiercely fun, even for those who aren’t budding type-A personalities.

The Rules: There is a rectangle about the size of a tennis court, but with no net. One team is on one side, one on the other. Usually there are several balls. Those pink all purpose balls they have in school are perfect.

Each team starts beaning the other. If you’re hit you have to go to prison which is in back of the other team. There are two ways you can get out. Your team throws the ball over the heads of the other team and you catch it on the fly. (easy for adults, but not so easy for grammar school kids.) Or an errant ball can get past the team in front of you; you can pick it up, and hit one of the other team’s players, sending that kid to prison and getting you out.

The team that has all it’s players in prison loses.

Prison Dodge - Prison Dodge Ball

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