Lake Calhoun Games

Price: $0

Lake Calhoun has softball, sand volleyball, football, disc golf, and a bunch of other games played around the lake. Just stop over and join a game and meet some new people.

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Home-made Explosion

Price $3

You've probably seen someone do this before, but I'm reminding you. Plus, you could easily find new ways of using this in pranks, etc. Simple...go buy a 2-liter of Coke and a pack of Mentos. All you do is carefully & quickly drop the entire pack of mentos, unwrapped, in the bottle and place the cap back on the 2-liter. Do not screw it on more than just a tiny bit. The 2 items will react with each other and cause the 2 liter to basically explode upward. Of course, be sure to stand back.

PS...This will blow the mind of anyone under the age of 10.

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Boulder- (Large Scale Cops and Robbers)

Here's a game you can play when you're feeling active and think you can find another handful of active people. It's called boulder for no known reason, just live with it. All it will cost you is a few bucks in gasoline.

Basic game- It's cops and robbers, but a larger version. Group up into two teams. This game works best with 8-12 players, so two teams of 4-6. Simple goal, one team tries to get to the base with for points, while other team tries to capture the other team for points.

Rules- Drop Robbers off at location 1 to 2 miles away from a house or aparment that you will use for home base. They have a certain time period to make it back to the home base or else they lose their points.(30-45min) Use streets and large markings for boundaries. Robbers get 5 minutes after they are dropped off to escape the drop off point. After five minutes the cops are allowed to leave home base in pursuit of the robbers.

Here's the kicker: Cops get to use cars to hunt down the robbers.

2 cars

2 drivers

2-4 runners

Can't baby sit home base, so pick a limit on how close cops can sit to home base.

Cops drive around or stake out at a certain point to catch robbers. Must physically tag robber for him to be captured.

Points-

Points are given for each person that makes it back to the base under the allotted time limit.

Points are given for each person a cop catches.

Play two rounds and add up the points to see what team wins the battle of boulder!

Feel free to tinker with the game and draw up new rules. It's a good workout and a lot of fun, but you might get in trouble for running through peoples yards so be smart about it.

Really fun at night but once again, could be more dangerous. Just be smart and use your head, remember it's just a game.

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Free Movies

Price: 0$

Netflix offers a free one-month trial of its subscriptions with no penalty. Its pretty simple...go on Netflix.com and start the most expensive subscription they have (4 DVD at a time for $23.99/month). Then all you have to do is remember to cancel before the 2nd month goes into effect. Hey, if they are going to offer it, they have to expect free-loaders.

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Silent Library, Oh what a good game!

This game is one of my FAVORITES! It's not for the meek or timid, it's for those willing to be bold and throw their ambitions into the wind. It's truth or dare meet Russian roulette. And if you can find 6- 8 people to sit down and sack up you could have yourself a blast.

Here are the general rules(feel free to spice them up):

-Sit down and brainstorm a list of ideas, these ideas can be anything from running around the block naked to snorting salt. Here's a list of ideas that we used but feel free to come up with your own depending on your level of craziness.

List:

-snort salt

- 3 shots of hot sauce

-Shot of toilet water

-5 shots to the RUMP with an airsoft gun

-Ride in trunk of car for a mile

- hit golf ball into downtown

- call an ex girlfriend/boyfriend and tell them you love him/her

- Text "SEX..." to a girl/guy in phone

The list can go on......

The GAME:

-Make a list of dares and write them down in any order.

-Get a stack of straws and cut one down to be the odd ball out. (you could use anything that would make the drawing random. A deck of cards, marked paper, and etc...)

-Have each person select a straw, and the short straw must do the dare or pay the penalty.

We had a penalty of 5 dollars if they didn't want to do the dare. NOT MANY PAID THAT PENALTY.

This game gives you chills, shakes, laughs, cries and everything you can imagine. Try it out and spice it up if need be!

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Punishments

1 - All non-losers make a drum beat with whatever they can. Loser does their best African dance shirtless for everyone.

2 - Muzzle the loser with group's choice of someone's sock. Loser MUST take one deep breath.

3 - Snort a line of salt

4 - Bob for 3 apples in 3 bowls of beer. 1 Minute. Every apple you miss you drink the bowl of beer.

5 - Remember the game "baby if you love me will you please please smile?" Well, this is a game where someone has to go up to every person in the game and say this line and try to get them to smile. The loser does this & for every person that doesn't smile, the loser drinks 1/3 beer.

Free Food

Bunny's in St. Louis Park offers free tacos after 8 or 9. 25 cent wings weekdays 9-11 & Sundays 8-10.

Bunny's Bar & Grill

Price: $0-$6
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Summit Brewery Tour

It's a TOUR!!! A Brewery TOUR! Now this might not be a tour for everyone, but most people enjoy a free drink and why not learn a bit about the product we enjoy drinking by taking a free TOUR of their manufacturing warehouse. Summit Brewing Company offers TOURS Tuesday and Thursdays at 1:00PM and on Saturdays at 10:30AM and 1:00PM. TOURS need to be booked in advance, and for the TOURS taking place on Saturday, well they might need to be booked a couple months in advance. At the end of the tour you'll be allowed to sample some of the beer and for some of you light weights.... possible get a little buzz.

The location of the brewery is below and there are also other brewery TOURS around minnesota to check out if you enjoy this one!

910 Montreal curcle St. Paul, MN 55102

Phone (651) 265-7800

Web http://www.summitbrewing.com/

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