
Set up 10 x 10 grid as shown with a square of 9 cones. two teams stand at start with a 2 piles of 6 cones(two different colours). First player from each team runs out picks up one of their coloured cones and places it over one of the 9 cones and runs back to their team and tags their next player who repeats their action. To win a team must have a row of three of their colour cones, either horizontal, vertical of diagonal. Only one cone to be picked at a time. Only one player from each team at a time, they must wait to be tagged by the previous player.
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