Biffer: The Official Rules

The Waseca County 4-H Ambassadors will be hosting a game of "Biffer" during Waseca County 4-H Week. Biffer is without question or doubt the greatest game in the world. It is filled with non-stop action, and constant high energy!

How the game is played:

• Besides participants playing the game, there will be three different groups: Stations, Medics, and Biffers.

Stations

1. There will be between 3 to 6 stations.
2. The stations go and hide through out the playing area and are given blue markers. They can hide themselves anywhere inside the boundaries of the game.
3. Each station will be numbered 1-6 and will be hidden accordingly to the level of difficulty (1 being easiest, six hardest).

Biffers...they are what makes the game

1. Biffers will have a sock that is filled with flour.
2. With these socks they run after the participants, and when a participant is hit with a sock filled with flour, they are then given a black slash, and are frozen.
3. The biffers must run them down, they are not allowed to throw the socks to create frozen participants.

Medics...the participants' best friends

1. Medics will be in proportion to the number of biffers there are.
2. The medics’ main job is to go to participants that are frozen, putting a red slash through the black slash making them free to run and continue the game.

Object of the Game

1. To win the game, and be crowned as the Biffer Champion of the world, you must get through all six stations in the allotted time slot (usually play for an hour). The catch is that you have to go to all the stations IN ORDER.
2. When you come upon what you think is a station, you are only allowed to ask them one yes or no question pertaining to what number they are. (For example, are you station one, are you station two, and so on.)
3. If that person if not station one then you must continue on their journey until station one is found.
4. When participants find the correct station, you then must perform whatever task the station asks you to do (example: say the alphabet backwards, put there socks in water, ring them out, and then keep on playing, etc.). The tasks will be safe, but a bit on the crazy side!
5. As you complete each station, you will have that station number marked on you with blue marker.
6. There can only be one person at a time that is completing a task at a given station. Anyone that is standing in line waiting is free game to be biffed.
7. If the participants are hit with a sock, they are instantly frozen, and must yell for a medic to let them free.

(Adapted from http://www.ironwoodsprings.com/bifferules.aspx)