Traumatological games

Traumatology is a very traumatic subject as the name implies. We should learn orthopedics too but not this semester.

However the cycle itself isn't that traumatic at all. Apart from watching video about traumatic amputations during the Soviet-Afghan war, some interesting actually happened during our first day there. The teacher left us on the first day for a surgery. Since most of us didn't bring surgical scrubs, so we were left in the class watching the freakin' video.

The video alone was 2 hours long, so we decided to watch it later. We were so boring and one of us suggested to play a game to kill the boredom.


There's no more game except for BINGO which was actually easy to play and no instrument was required. The only thing we needed was pieces of papers.

So what's BINGO?

Most of us knew what it is. But for those who had not played it before, here's how it works.

1) Take out a piece of paper with boxes.

2) Make a 5 x 5 box for 25 numbers (1-25).

3) Randomly write the 25 numbers to any small boxes in the 5 x 5 box.

4) Players take turns to call a number and then all players should cancel the number out from the box.

5) Players who have 5 numbers cancelled out in a row (vertically or diagonally) get a "B", the next cancellation of 5 numbers in a row - an "I" is obtained, and so on and so forth until you have all B.I.N.G.O.

6) The first player to have all 5 rows of numbers cancelled out, call BINGO immediately!
* There may be some other players who have BINGO! at the same time, so you need to shout it out loud as soon as you have BINGO the game.*





So now you know how BINGO works.

After a few rounds of BINGO, we decided to change to another game called "Warship". Intrigued????

Here's how it works :

1) Labelled vertical row and horizontal row with coordinates (depends on how big your battlefield is). For example, vertical row with A-J, horizontal row with 1-10.

2) Now you must have 1 aircraft carrier, 2 cruisers and 4 crusaders (or more as you wish).

3)Designate how many boxes do you want for aircraft (large), cruisers (medium), crusaders (small). Say 10 boxes for aircraft, 7 boxes for cruisers and so on.
*you can draw your forces in rectangle/square/pyramid/L/7 etc as you wish*


4) Now 2 teams have to attack the opponent's forces by calling the coordinates like A-10, J-4, C-2 etc.
*you can attack your own coordinates where your ships lay.*

5) If one ship had been destroyed, teams should say "aircraft/cruiser/crusader down!"

6) The team whose ships have not ALL been destroyed, wins the game.






The games would have gone on and on if the MMC delegates didn't come. They were the world biggest super mega ultra buzzkillers to our class. It was intense and we didn't enjoy much of our first day in Traumatological department, despite playing games for the whole day.



Kochi~