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00:00 Gaga Ball vs 9-Square
00:26 Pros & Cons of Gaga Ball in Youth Ministry
02:53 Pros & Cons of 9-Square
05:43 Making Your Decision

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00:00:00:00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Two legendary youth ministry games. One epic showdown. Will Gaga Ball’s chaos reign supreme? Or will the high-flying strategy of 9 Square take the crown? Stick around as we settle the score once and for all — and help YOU pick the ultimate youth group game

00:00:26:28 - 00:00:52:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Hey, everyone, welcome to the Hybrid Ministry show. Today we are going to be exploring Gaga ball versus nine square. And let's just imagine that you only have a limited number of budget. And you're making a decision between either Gaga Ball or nine square. What do you choose and why? And I got links listed down below for both of them so that you can make your purchase based on and after this video.

00:00:52:08 - 00:01:22:19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So let's hop in. Gaga ball. What are the pros and the cons of Gaga Ball? I would say Gaga Ball is super fun. It's fast paced, it's upbeat. It's a good time for everyone who's involved. And one of the other pros in that is it's almost an unlimited capacity. I've seen it before in different youth ministry settings of run or like even camps where there's been what seems to be almost 50 kids all kind of flooded into the Gaga ball, center.

00:01:22:19 - 00:01:44:13
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
They're like, you can get so many kids now. The game does kind of take forever, but you can facilitate a game with a high number of students. And so those are just a couple of the pros of Gaga ball. I would say a couple of the cons would be, it does take up quite a bit of like floor space, like the footprint of a Gaga ball pit is pretty massive.

00:01:44:13 - 00:02:06:27
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so you have to commit a pretty large section of your space, a pretty large section of your floor to gaga ball in unless you get a, portable one. It's pretty permanent, and there's really nothing else you can do in that space. The other thing I'll say about Gaga Ball is, in my experience, it does tend to lean a little bit more middle school.

00:02:06:27 - 00:02:36:12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It can get a little bit rowdy. And if kids aren't taking the game seriously or they're not getting out when they should, it can get a little bit chaotic kicking. It can get a little bit rowdy, and that's just something that you have to be aware of and something that you have to manage. If you look at the link that I posted down below though, however, I actually recommend an inflatable and deflate a bull Gaga ball pit because depending upon your space, especially if you have to tear it down, you can put it up every week with like just a blower.

00:02:36:13 - 00:02:54:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Think like, you know, moon bounce type style blower blows up and then it comes right back down. And what that also does is it gives you the flexibility to have it up when you want it, when you need it. But then you can also take it down when you don't want it or you don't need it there anymore.

00:02:54:13 - 00:03:22:12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Let's talk about nine Square. What are the pros? The pros. Same thing is gaga ball. It's a super fun game. Like, it really is. But the thing that I think, makes nine squares slightly different than Gaga Ball is, there is a little bit more. Not a ton, but a little bit more strategy involved. I think it's, it requires a little bit more, strategy, a little bit more thought, than Gaga ball, which can be a little like once you get down to the end and Gaga ball, there's some strategy.

00:03:22:12 - 00:03:40:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But at first it's just kind of like, just get people out. But yeah, nine square, I think does have a little bit more strategy. Not to mention it's not as space consuming on your footprint as Gaga ball. Now it still is. Like, don't get me wrong. Like they both take up a fair bit of space. But they're both great.

00:03:40:14 - 00:04:02:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Like free time. Get to get the games out ahead of time before youth ministry starts. Style of games. The cons to Gaga ball or I'm sorry, the cons to nine square are that you can only play with nine people at a time. Now, you know, in our context right now, like, nine square is more popular than Gaga ball.

00:04:02:02 - 00:04:21:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so, that line into the nine square, like arena, like it's always moving and that that doesn't seem to be much of a problem. And people will wait like several like, you know, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten people deep, to get in back into the game. But that is a con. Is that an Gaga ball?

00:04:21:04 - 00:04:40:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Like up to like, 50 people, depending on the size of your pet. Can start in a game. Nine square. It's only nine at a time. The con, though, on the flip side, is that if you don't have nine to fill it on a regular basis, then it's also not quite the same. You're playing like four, you're playing like six, like, it's just it's not quite the same.

00:04:40:22 - 00:05:00:10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Like having the full nine, in my opinion, is really like the best way, to play nine square. And so if you're youth ministry was maybe struggle to fill nine on a regular basis or, you know, like there's just not nine kids on a constant basis on any given, you know, Wednesday night or Sunday that are actually going to happen in play, maybe it's not worth it for you.

00:05:00:10 - 00:05:24:23
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Maybe guy eyeballs more, you know, the way to go or something like that. Again, link down below for my nine square recommendation. And this is called Castle Squares. And the reason I like castle squares is just like the Gaga ball pit. It is portable and take down a ball as well. In our space we have a castle squares, and we have like a full nine square, like arena and the full nine square arena.

00:05:24:23 - 00:05:49:21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
It's great. But we don't ever take it down. It's just it's too much of a pain to do that. But the castle squares instead of having, like, all the individual poles down, it only has the four on the corners. And then just up at the top, it uses straps to create your nine spaces. And so you know, I used to work at a church that I would set up the Gaga ball pit in the nine square pit every single week, set them up and then tear them down.

00:05:49:21 - 00:06:06:15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And I would I would set them up like middle of the day. We met on Wednesday nights, on Wednesdays, and then I would have our volunteers tear them down when it was over and put them back for me, at the end of the night. And so if you have the space and you have the budget, I would recommend, getting both of these there.

00:06:06:16 - 00:06:24:19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
They're both fantastic. And they're also both very, like, nimble and portable. You're not going to be committing this corner of your room for the rest of your life to either be nine square, either be the Gaga ball corner. You can take it, then you can move it. You can share space with the rest of the congregation.

00:06:24:21 - 00:06:42:00
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then if it just comes down to like, you only have budget for one or the other, every context is a little bit different. The current context that I'm in right now, they would vote nine square, but the context that came from, back in Chicago, they would vote Gaga ball. So you kind of got to know your students.

00:06:42:00 - 00:07:01:04
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
You kind of got to know your audience. I would say if you have maybe more high school audience, or a more strategy based audience nine square. If you have a little bit rowdier audience, a little bit more chaotic of an audience, maybe lean Gaga ball, and just make the decision kind of based on your context and based on your students.

00:07:01:04 - 00:07:19:10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
But like I said, links to both of these down below. If you're on the fence, if you're thinking about it, these are both two products that I have used that I recommend, and that really are good for both setting up and being able to tear down and leaving your space flexible for other things throughout the week. Hey man, I hope that this episode was helpful.

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9 HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR TOILET?
This hilarious game was my very first game in my DYM journey.
I was in a Jimmy John's bathroom and noticed a sign with funny toilet facts on the wall. I took a photo, immediately went back to the office, and created this game. It's not my best designed resource, in fact DYM did some graphical upgrades after I submitted it, but it's on this list because it was one of my first ones.

https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/toilet-trivia-game/games-738.html

8 MYSTERY SEARCH
This is a super fun game, where you're tasked to find the hidden item in a busy photo. Think "Where's Waldo" meets "Youth Ministry."

It's a tough contestant based game, I think, because it's fairly difficult, but there's also a social media version which I think is perfect to play on your church's social media

https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/mystery-search/games/sports-6938.html

7 VISUAL VARIANCE VOYAGE
A Simple Spot the Difference Game! Social and Widescreen versions available!

https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/visual-variance-voyage%3A-fall-edition/holiday-or-seasonal/fall-9043.html

6 FRIENDSGIVING
This game is a fun take on "This or That" Thanksgiving Food and Activities Edition.
One fun way is to play with "celebrities" like your senior pastor.
"Does your senior pastor prefer Ham or Turkey?"

https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/friendsgiving/thanksgiving/thanksgiving-games-8387.html

5 BACK TO SCHOOL BINGO
One of my favorite interactive games, where students play bingo based on how they spent their summer. There are categories such as

Church Summer Activities
Vacation
Miscellaneous
https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/back2school-bingo/fall/back-to-school-8921.html

4 GIF FLASHBACK
Tests the memory of your students. Watch the GIF, then immediately answer a question related to it.
The questions get HARD!

https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/gif-flashback/games-6794.html

3 BRING ME
My All-Time-Go-To game in any moment, you don't need a screen, but we have one for this game.
The first student to "Bring Me ___" wins
That's it!!

https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/bring-me-10-game-bundle/games-bringmebundle.html

2 EMOJI PHRASEOLOGY
My best selling game series of all time, we have one for just about every holiday and instance in which you can possibly imagine. Guess the emoji phrase. Widescreen & Social versions included!

https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/p/emoji-phraseology/social-media/instagram-6801.html

1 DUCK DUCK TRIVIA
Duck, Duck Trivia is the first of it's kind. A game inside a game. My favorite Hybrid Game we've ever played!

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⌚TIMECODES
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01:33 Free Game #9
03:18 Free Game #8
05:22 Free Game #7
06:51 Free Game #6
08:35 Free Game #5
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Welcome my fellow cat herders.

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Welcome my fellow i.t. Specialists. Welcome my fellow pets. Math

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gurus. Welcome. He's past you. In this video, I'm going to share with you

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
nine of my favorite games that I have played and created

00:00:24:16 - 00:00:34:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
and have now published on the download Youth ministry.com website. You can go by any of them. There will be link down below and I would love a review

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on any of them.

00:00:35:21 - 00:00:40:08
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But why go visit me on the website when I'm

00:00:40:08 - 00:00:54:06
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just going to give you a link to download all nine of them for completely free? That's right, you've heard it completely correctly. So in this episode, not only am I going to share with you my nine favorite free games,

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but

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it is

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your ultimate

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in a pinch. Oh crap, I forgot about the game moment.

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Don't worry, my friend, I got you. Go grab that link. It will take you to drop

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can get all nine of them for free. But you know would be awesome if as payment

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That sounds like a deal. Okay, awesome. Let's go. I'm going to be counting down top ten style from episode or from episode? From game idea. Number nine. And so this first one

00:01:29:20 - 00:01:32:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
that I'm going to show you, if you're watching here on screen,

00:01:32:14 - 00:01:46:10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
you'll see it is called how well do you know your toilet? Now this game, the reason it's even on this list is because it was the very first game that I ever submitted.

00:01:46:10 - 00:02:10:06
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
If you're looking at it, you can probably tell I think this game was probably submitted somewhere in the realm of like eight years ago. And at that time, I thought that the submission guidelines required all the fonts to be used as Calibri. I don't think I've ever even told anybody this, but in hindsight, the font requirement for Calibri was teaching or document based resources.

00:02:10:06 - 00:02:37:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so this game has the world's worst font for it. But the content is still great, and I even a year ago, Nick, when I had use these fonts. But here's how this here's how this game came into its inception. I was at a Jimmy John's eating lunch and I was in the bathroom washing my hands before I was heading back to work, and I found this, little like placard, this little infographic about toilets.

00:02:37:14 - 00:02:54:17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And I took a picture of it and I said, these are so funny. I'm going to go home and I'm going to make a game. And so here we go. You can grab this game for free, but it's some it's things like this. Most toilets are a public B flushing the key of flat C use one third of your house is water or D are green.

00:02:54:20 - 00:03:01:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
What do you think it is coming? Your answer below. Of course the answer is B flush in the key of E

00:03:01:05 - 00:03:14:18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
flat. There's ten other questions like this. And you know what? I've even put these, into like a video editing software and put a countdown timer on it and I've used this for bathroom break, slide, like a video or something.

00:03:14:18 - 00:03:30:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So that's something fun to do. The eighth game that I love in this game is actually incredibly hybrid, and I, think you guys might like some of this on this channel called Mystery Search. All right. And here's how Mystery Search works. It is, this one in particular is

00:03:30:05 - 00:03:36:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
mystery search Easter egg hunt addition. So what you do is you put a graphic on a screen, right.

00:03:36:22 - 00:03:54:10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Here's an instruction slide. If you're watching, this egg right here, you have to find this egg on every slide. So here's the first, you know, the first slide. Where's the egg? Do you find it? Can you see it? Boom. There it is. And it's like this on every single slide. It gets harder, it gets more difficult.

00:03:54:14 - 00:03:58:04
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
There's video. So that's the still version. There's video

00:03:58:04 - 00:04:13:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
versions. And so if you want to try and find out where this is with this guy here, he's, you know, looking at it, it's got music leading to, as you could hear just a second ago. But then you have, like, a contestant on stage, like, where's the, where's the, where is it?

00:04:13:10 - 00:04:23:09
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then boom, well, egg transition comes in and then this little magnifying glass moves around until it zooms in on where the egg is and boom, sound.

00:04:23:09 - 00:04:33:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Okay, now that is also an available option in, phone base graphic or phone based video. So what

00:04:33:22 - 00:04:34:09
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
you could do

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
is you could post this on your Instagram story or on your TikTok and say, find the egg and then post the second one here or link it together and video and then the magnifying glass reducing, and it'll move to the spot where the egg is located.

00:04:48:01 - 00:04:58:09
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then someone will say, I found it. And if you want to make it interactive, you can poll, you know, poll options. Hey, did you find it? Yes or no beyond this sort of thing.

00:04:58:09 - 00:05:06:23
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So this is one of my favorite games. Like I said, for free. There is an Instagram or at least a social version in in the room version and

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
a countdown version.

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
If you just want to play

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
this with a five minute countdown clock overlaid on top of it and let people as the countdown is on, you see right here up top corner

00:05:16:09 - 00:05:30:04
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
as the countdown is on, let people go ahead and, play that game as it's going, game number seven, which is again for completely free, is my game called the Visual Variance Voyage.

00:05:30:04 - 00:05:39:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And this is the full edition. So this one, similarly to the last one, also has a social media option. And this one, the way that you play

00:05:39:08 - 00:05:54:11
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
is very simply before this ten minute timer runs out, you need to identify the difference between the two photos. We've all done this in dentist's office. We've all done this in doctor's office, but now it is available to us in youth ministry.

00:05:54:11 - 00:06:12:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So here's an example. Here's question number one. 10s is on the screen. Can you tell and can you spot the difference between these two photos I don't know. It's difficult. There's also a countdown option for this one as well, which is a really fun thing to have on have it looping. So at the end of question ten, can you figure it out I don't know.

00:06:12:02 - 00:06:16:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Here's the answer side. Boom right there. Those leaves are different I'm telling

00:06:16:22 - 00:06:21:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
you it's not super easy. And just like the last one, there's also

00:06:21:02 - 00:06:31:17
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
a social version as well. So here's what the social version looks like. You got these two catch fall edition. Can you tell the difference between these two photos? These are not broken up into different size.

00:06:31:18 - 00:06:44:05
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
These are actually the same slides. And so when the ten minute countdown is over all of a sudden boom it's away. And then it will circle and reveal the difference in the differences in the photo. And then the texture on screen changes to

00:06:44:05 - 00:06:52:18
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did you get it in time. So that is option number seven. This is option number six is called Friends Giving.

00:06:52:18 - 00:07:09:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And you know, truth be told I actually had some other iterations of this. Now I've changed the branding behind it a little bit is called pickle. So you can go to the download Youth Mystery Store and search for a couple of games called Pick Them. But this one in particular, this one is meant to be a Thanksgiving theme.

00:07:09:05 - 00:07:29:23
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So this is Friendsgiving. And so the instructions are very simple. You have to try and guess what the other person is going to do. So the question here at hand is is the friend we just call all of our contestants in this game friends. Is the friend going to stay at their house or going to travel elsewhere? Now I'm everything like, who's the friend?

00:07:30:01 - 00:07:50:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
That's where you can have like an opportunity to kind of implement your creativity. It could be your senior pastor and you go to his office to answer these ten Thanksgiving based questions ahead of time. Are you staying home this year or are you traveling? Are you you know, this next question here is, are you going to do a Turkey trot or are you just going to get fat and put on your stretchy pants?

00:07:50:16 - 00:08:06:12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Question number three is, you know, are you going to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade or are you going to watch NFL football? Spoiler alert you can actually do both, but we're just going to put them against each other. And so you can kind of go through that. If you don't want to use your senior pastor, you can bring contestants up on stage.

00:08:06:12 - 00:08:10:04
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
If you don't want to bring contestants up on stage, you can do volunteer leaders or

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something like that. But I also have, like a worksheet here and so they can keep track of their answers. You can print this out and give it to everybody, and they can keep track of their answers. Did they get it? Did they not?

00:08:20:10 - 00:08:28:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Like I said, there's this version, but and this is like a Thanksgiving version, you can play it like a Friendsgiving or something like that, or there's a pick

00:08:28:08 - 00:08:33:04
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on version. You can go grab one of those over, on download using this website.

00:08:33:04 - 00:08:39:12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
The game option number five is called Back to School bingo. And I love this game because

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Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
every single player gets a bingo card that looks just like this.

00:08:43:12 - 00:09:02:15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so instead of meeting a variety of bingo cards, there's all different numbers and all different letters. You can get the same static bingo card. And the goal is be the first one to fill three in your category or the first person to get a blackout. And so you know the categories you see here at church and youth group, school and extracurricular summer.

00:09:02:17 - 00:09:05:18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then there's just rotating slides. So I have in ten church

00:09:05:18 - 00:09:21:17
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sizes. So for example it's going to rotate through and it's random even though you know it's you know going to be question number one in the church category. Did you go to churches. Our church is youth camp this past summer. So remember this is a back to school timeline event.

00:09:21:17 - 00:09:39:18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So it's kind of looking back over the summer. That was as it pertains to church and youth. So did you go to youth camp last summer? And if they did, then they put, a checkmark or whatever on the little bingo spot in the church kind of category. Did you go on a summer missions trip this past summer?

00:09:39:20 - 00:09:45:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So on and so forth. And so you put these in sort of a random order and like, these are obviously all in the church

00:09:45:14 - 00:09:49:19
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category. But if you look here at the where the folders are set up, here's the school category.

00:09:49:19 - 00:09:59:12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so this one's going to land on one of the school options here. And so, you know, it's did you already buy your school supplies for the upcoming school year.

00:09:59:15 - 00:10:18:19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Yes or no. And so it's a way to kind of do a, a recap kind of back to school kind of bingo style vibes sort of thing. So, there's these different rotating slides and if you don't want to use that, you can put it into something like a sidekick and using like people picker and just kind of copy and paste these different clues into that.

00:10:18:21 - 00:10:34:20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Moving on to number four, this may be my favorite one on this entire list. I know I have it at four, but I'm I wrote this list a while ago. It's called GIF flashback, and it does have an Instagram version. And what it is is you simply have to watch

00:10:35:07 - 00:10:43:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
a classic GIF. So here's the Homer Simpson backs into the back of a bush, and then the multiple choice question pops up on the screen.

00:10:43:14 - 00:10:55:03
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
How many strands of hair on Homer's head did you get it? Let me know down in the comments if you did. The correct answer, of course, is here as it stops one two boom said to you got

00:10:55:03 - 00:10:58:03
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it right? And so in the same way you can play that on Instagram Stories.

00:10:58:03 - 00:11:06:18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Play the gif here. You let them watch it a little bit of time and then you post like the little poll question sticker right here.

00:11:06:18 - 00:11:27:15
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Okay. Instead of it having the multiple choice option listed on screen, you you post it either right here or you can post it here on the second one, right in this moment where they can answer it. Then after they answer it, they wait for this second in POV receipts 123456. Like keep going seven eight even more 910 different people in that gif.

00:11:27:15 - 00:11:29:10
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Did you get it right when

00:11:29:10 - 00:11:48:23
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you said if there are ten people in GIF flashback, that's all it is. It just shows people and how bad their memory is on something that they just did. Also, we have a very classic game called Bring Me and Bring me, a volume one, volume two, and volume three. And so what did I say?

00:11:48:23 - 00:11:49:19
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I said you were going

00:11:49:19 - 00:12:07:10
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
to get nine games, but actually you're getting nine, ten, 11 games. And in this game you very simply have to bring and be the first person to bring this item to the person on stage. So bring me a piece of gum. Bonus points if it's straight out of your mouth, bring me some Tic Tacs.

00:12:07:10 - 00:12:22:14
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Bonus points for this exact flavor of Tic Tacs. Bring me some keys, glasses, a church bulletin, hand sanitizer, a hat. Bonus points if the hat looks just like this a pen, a ping pong ball, a cell phone, and bonus points for the oldest model

00:12:22:14 - 00:12:28:02
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
cell phone that you get. Three of those, again, is a one of my all time favorite resources.

00:12:28:02 - 00:12:32:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So quick, so simple. Just go ahead and use them. Another one of my

00:12:32:08 - 00:12:50:18
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
favorites may be my top selling category of games is emoji phraseology. And this one is, volume one. But I have all different hobbies that you can possibly think or imagine. I have a countdown version in this as well. I've Instagram version of this as well, but very simply,

00:12:50:18 - 00:12:53:12
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
you look at the emoji phrase and you try and guess what it is.

00:12:53:12 - 00:13:07:20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
What's this looking at here on the screen? What do you think it is? X rocket Scientist of course it's not rocket science. Or this right here a clock and an airplane and a person celebrating is it? Time flies when you're having fun? Of course it is. You know

00:13:07:20 - 00:13:27:04
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
that you can do that on Instagram. You can do that on TikTok, or you can walk around even do men on the street style videos, where you ask people if they know them and try and roast them for how bad they do, but the number one favorite game, Drum Roll please, is actually kind of detailed and explained in my 100th episode.

00:13:27:04 - 00:13:42:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
I'll have that link right here if you want to go back and watch that from when me and the team I was at, at the church I was at during Covid did a full live, in-person YouTube show. But then we moved back to the campus and we were doing this sort of hybrid model, hence the name Hybrid Ministry show.

00:13:42:10 - 00:14:00:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And, we were creating a duck, duck, goose style game that they could watch, video on the screen, but also play an interactive version of duck, duck, goose. While it was happening on the screen. And so I took that same kind of idea and that same kind of concept. And so how it works is you play a game of

00:14:00:22 - 00:14:02:22
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
rubber duck trivia, okay.

00:14:03:00 - 00:14:09:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And then here's just like the questions in the Rubber Duck trivia. And you can play just rubber duck trivia if that's what you want

00:14:09:08 - 00:14:17:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
to do. But what really makes this fun is this is a like for just version video. You just play. You see, here's

00:14:17:08 - 00:14:29:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
five minutes and 32 seconds long. What happens is someone starts ducking and whenever they hear a quack on screen, they.

00:14:29:10 - 00:14:48:21
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Go there it is. When they hear the quack boom. That's when you hear, you know, duck. That's when you hit goose, okay? And then you start running and you start playing. You start going all the while as that's happening. All right. Here in just a minute. If you're watching here on screen, a trivia game is happening and the trivia game stops for no people.

00:14:48:21 - 00:15:08:09
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And so the question right here on screen is, rubber ducks were originally true, true toys. Is that true or false? The people who are playing duck, duck, goose right now, they are having to try and answer this question while playing duck, duck, goose. This is the most middle school game. This is the most like high energy. Just crazy insane.

00:15:08:09 - 00:15:14:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Get people up, get people moving. So put your people round tables, put them in rows or whatever the case might be,

00:15:14:08 - 00:15:33:08
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
and send them going. There's a seven question version, there's a ten question version, and there is a countdown version. So you can go ahead and play this with your students in your next youth ministry or something like that is one of the funnest ways, I think, to kind of interact with the screen and what's happening live in the room.

00:15:33:08 - 00:15:53:13
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
So there you have it. Those are my nine most favorite games that I've created and put on download. Yes, master. But because you are loyal listener to the Hybrid Master show, you get these for free. If you're listening and you're not a youth pastor, grab the link and share it with your youth pastor friend. Give it to them.

00:15:53:13 - 00:16:13:20
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
Gift it to them because the next time they're in a pinch for games, boom! These are nine of my favorite. Actually, living, as we said, would bring me of my favorite screen time. Screen based games. And so excited to have you check those out. And you know what? Link right here on screen is actually going to be the start of our next little playlist series.

00:16:13:20 - 00:16:32:09
Nick Clason | Hybrid Ministry
And we are going to be talking about communicating in a noisy world. And next episode is going to be the reasons why your youth ministry and church announcements don't really work. We're going to dive into that. So I hope you tap onto that video. But don't forget my friends and as always, to stay hybrid.

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01:50-06:25 #2 DYM Membership
06:25-07:23 #3 Clumps
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00;00;00;05 - 00;00;21;15
Nick Clason
Games and youth ministry. They go together like Bert and Ernie, Batman and Robin, the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Do you even get that reference? Because I barely dude from an old worship song. But what happens when you are running low on time and you don't have time to pull a game together and you have barely any prep ready?

00;00;21;20 - 00;00;48;31
Nick Clason
Well, here are my five best go to ideas in a low prep, no prep situation. Let's check it out. Idea number one is one of my all time favorite games. I like to call it Bring me In. It's simply, Hey, you're standing on stage and you say, bring me a penny, Bring me a shoelace, bring me your leader's left sock, bring me a gum wrapper, bring me a couch cushion, bring me a hat, bring me a cell phone charger.

00;00;48;43 - 00;01;13;14
Nick Clason
Bring me a Stanley, bring me a sweatshirt, Bring me your cell phone case. But your cell phone can't be in if you if you head over to a hybridministry.xyz/082, which is this episode, you are out. I actually have nine of my favorite doing games that I've ever submitted and put on Doom's website on there completely for free.

00;01;13;18 - 00;01;26;37
Nick Clason
Bring me is one of them. But you don't even need a screen for this. You can just screenshot all the ones I just said, put them down on a list and then just get up there and say when you don't know what to do, when you don't have time, when you don't have prep, bring me is a great game.

00;01;26;37 - 00;01;49;41
Nick Clason
It incites a lot of chaos and panic. Students are running up and back and forth to the stage to try and win, be the first one up there, especially if you make it something difficult. Like I like to do a shoelace, but it can't be in the shoe anymore. So I have to like on threat it, stuff like that that makes it take a little bit more time, but then still creates a lot of moments of just excitement and running and all those absurd things.

00;01;49;41 - 00;02;14;41
Nick Clason
Super fun. Idea number two is get a dude gym membership. Now if you have not checked out, download Youth Ministries. DuHaime For sure. I mean, they have absolutely changed the game when it comes to youth ministry and youth ministry games. In fact, at the top of this video, I have a detailed an outline of the entire history of why we even do games in youth ministry.

00;02;14;41 - 00;02;37;12
Nick Clason
So check that out for something you're interested in. But for the rest of us you need to check out dkim. And there member pricing is so cheap they just upped it. And so they have one now called platinum, but they have a starter for just 1199 a month. Gold for 24, 74 month gold plus for 30 a month and then platinum for 74, 92 a month and platinum we just upgraded to platinum.

00;02;37;12 - 00;02;58;14
Nick Clason
It has everything. It's like 800 a month. You get your curriculum, you get access to sidekick and phone voting. You get like store credit per month, you get all the member downloads. So I remember my brother, he just upgraded to the download Youth Ministry membership and I remember telling him I was like every single month you get new stuff.

00;02;58;14 - 00;03;24;44
Nick Clason
And then I was like, And then the credit reloads every single month. And he literally said to me on the phone, Dude, this is a game changer. And so if you have not checked out sidekick, which has live polling, one of my favorite hybrid like advancements in youth ministry that we have today, they have the spinning wheel they have name picker but the phone voting, the live voting, they used to be a service you had to pay for poor everywhere.

00;03;24;44 - 00;03;44;57
Nick Clason
Now it just rolled into the do I am memberships. If you're not a DUI I member, it may sound pricey to you with a little bit of sticker shock, but once you get any start using some of their products, you realize just how cheap it really is. And when you're in a pinch, DuHaime is a must. It is a go to you can jump online, you can grab a game that looks done.

00;03;45;02 - 00;04;10;29
Nick Clason
Pro-level or pro ready, you drop it into your pro presenter, you drop into sidekick and boom, you are off to the races and no one's none the wiser that you just pulled that together in 5 minutes. Having a DUI membership is an absolute game changer and one of my actually favorite hacks for DUI games is taking one of those games and turning it into a social media moment.

00;04;10;29 - 00;04;35;50
Nick Clason
And so I have a lot of games in my nine best DuHaime blog posts, which if you scroll all the way to the bottom, have a link on there though. Actually just give it to you completely for free so you don't have to pay for them, any of them. You can check it out. You can test those are all Nick Leeson games, but I would take some of those games and yes, I have vertical based videos, vertical based graphics for some, so you can just post the graphic on your social media feed and that that's one way to do it.

00;04;35;50 - 00;04;51;39
Nick Clason
But a next level way that I like to use it is to hand the graphic to a student on a phone and then have them walk around, kind of like Mr. Beast style. All throughout my building on a Wednesday night or on a Sunday morning and ask other students or ask other leaders to try and play the game, to try and guess the thing.

00;04;51;39 - 00;05;09;21
Nick Clason
So we do that a lot with one of my games I've created called Emoji Phraseology. And so they'll take the the social media graphic and they'll walk around and they'll be like, Hey, what is this emoji phrase? Was this camp emoji phrase? What is this New Year's emoji phrase? What is this Christmas emoji face? Was this back to school emoji phrase?

00;05;09;26 - 00;05;27;56
Nick Clason
And then we get to watch other people kind of deal with it. One of the recent adaptations we did, I would usually do that for like one question at a time. So one student gets one question and we just film them and see how they respond. One of the most recent adaptations I did was I brought five students into my office and then I asked all of them all ten questions.

00;05;27;56 - 00;05;45;10
Nick Clason
And then I went back through each of the ten questions and I spliced up the best moments from those. And so every question had five students, and we would cut to them thinking and and wrestling with it and giving answers, whether they're right or wrong. And then, you know, when they gave the right answer a little ding would pop up on screen.

00;05;45;10 - 00;06;03;22
Nick Clason
So all kinds of different ways to adapt that. You know what? I actually have all that type of stuff detailed for you in my completely free e-book, which wants to help you crush social media. It's actually got a month's worth of social media resources, but it's not what you think. It's not just a bunch of graphics that you can scheduled to your feed.

00;06;03;27 - 00;06;31;14
Nick Clason
It actually helps you take and adapt a real true next Gen. Gen Z Gen Alpha friendly Hybrid Ministry, Digital Ministry Integration of strategy to your ministry where you film your messages ahead of time. That's the bedrock of all that you do. And then you post short form, vertical based videos on your feed throughout the month and you and your your youth ministry, your volunteers and your students, they are the faces of the youth ministry.

00;06;31;19 - 00;06;53;23
Nick Clason
You're not just a social media with a bunch of graphics. You are a social media with humans, entertainment based, fun based and also spiritual content. My e-book outlines details all of that 100% completely for you. Moving on to idea number three, when you are in a pinch for games, it is one of my favorite elimination style games. It's called clumps.

00;06;53;34 - 00;07;08;08
Nick Clason
You don't need a screen for it. You can use a screen for it. Do you? AIM has a version of it. You can check it out. Link in the show notes where ever you are listening on a podcast catch or if you're watching here news you read down below, but you can essentially just say, Hey, in groups of four.

00;07;08;08 - 00;07;38;47
Nick Clason
And then if you get groups of four and then anyone who's not in a group of four, whether they are the slowest or they just are less standing, they are eliminated and you start to whittle your group down to you have a last group or last team standing. It's super fun game. Check it out. It's a it's a go to in a pinch idea number four for going to in a pinch is steal the bacon If you've never played it before you get two lines of people on each side and you number everybody one through however many you have, make sure it's a even number on each side and then you put something in the

00;07;38;47 - 00;07;54;07
Nick Clason
middle. And this is the no prep part. You can literally put a hat in the middle, you can put a sweatshirt in the middle, you can put a couch cushion from your youth room in the middle, and then you call out numbers. And so when you say number one, each person's number one runs in. They have to grab it and then have to bring it back to their side.

00;07;54;12 - 00;08;12;43
Nick Clason
That's it. You can get creative. You can start calling multiple numbers. You can call number one and number seven. And then they both come running and trying to grab the pillow and then run back. It is a no prep low prep game. It is fun, it is active. It gets people moving, it gives people sweaty. So if you've never played steal the bacon before, go ahead and try.

00;08;12;43 - 00;08;33;58
Nick Clason
If you do, please tag us. Let us know on social media so that we can repost you. That would be super fun to know. And then idea number five if you are running low on time and Prep is perhaps enlist a volunteer. Enlisting a volunteer is a great way to get the stress of games off of your plate and then you can put them in charge of choosing the game.

00;08;33;58 - 00;08;52;10
Nick Clason
You can put them in charge of hosting the game and you can even help put them in charge of creating a student hosting team. I remember when I was in middle school there was a volunteer. Your name was Bruce Craig, and Bruce Craig, wasn't you? He wasn't your quintessential volunteer leader that you think of, right? He wasn't like young hip tows like he was a dad.

00;08;52;10 - 00;09;14;55
Nick Clason
I think he had a high school kid, but he ran games for our middle school ministry every single week in the gym, on the microphone, and he was making it happen. And here's the thing. Adult volunteers are truly the lifeblood of everything that we do in student ministry, which is why I saved adults for the very end of this 2024 Youth Ministry on Demand playlist.

00;09;14;55 - 00;09;28;35
Nick Clason
It's the seventh and final video link right here on the screen. Click it and we will take you to that and we will talk to you next time. Don't forget, we are making digital discipleship easy inaccessible. So as always, stay.