We're playing our way into 2026 with a little healthy competition! (It's basically a field day). 

Participation is Completely Voluntary!

Here's how it works:

1. Complete various activities or tasks to score points. 

2. Get 10 points and you'll win your very own jar of Apricot Habañero Jelly! 

3. Get the most points and be crowned the 2026 P&G Cup Champion!

Activities & Point Values

• 🍽️ Eat your peas and greens!
  (Sorry...no extra points for getting extra helpings 😝)
  1 point
  
  

• 🪪 Fill out and color/decorate your name sticker.
  1 point

• 🎨 Share your intentions
  Write/paint an intention that you're setting for 2026 on the intention board by the front door.
  1  point. (plus another point  if you include a drawing)
  Max points: 2

• 🀄️ Play a board game (or mah jong).
  Round up some old or new friends and play a game or two.  You can play two games for points. After that, it's just for fun. (That means two games total...changing games doesn't reset or override). If the gaming table is taken, feel free to take a game somewhere else to play!
  2 points per game.
  2 additional points if you win a game
  
  

• 🧜‍♀️ Play Mexican Lotería Bingo
  Minimum of 5 players per game.  Everyone takes a bingo card. Shuffle the deck. Take turns flipping cards in the deck over, one-by-one. Players use coins to mark their bingo cards. The winner gets 4 vertically/horizontally, or diagonally. You can play two games for points. After that, it's just for fun.
  1 point per game.
  If you win a game, you get 3 additional points

• 🔮 Read someone's tarot
  It's totally ok if you've never read tarot before. The guide book will tell you exactly what to do! You can read twice for points. After that, it's just for fun.
  1 point per reading. (2 points if you're reading the cards of a new friend).
  Max 4 points.

• 🚨Play Family Feud
  Gather up two teams of 4 players, plus a host. Instructions to the host, as well as a blazer and necktie, are provided. Hosts earn points for hosting up to two games. After that it's just for fun. Likewise, players can earn points for playing two games.
  Players earn 1 point for playing (two points if their team includes new friend)
  Host gets 2 points per game.
  Winning team's players earn two extra points each.

• 🎤 Sing Karaoke
  Use your smartphone to scan the QR code on the TV screen and pick out your song!
  1 point per song
  Max points: 3

• 🐍 Shed that baggage
  The year of the snake is drawing to a close. Just like a snake sheds its skin to grow, we too sometimes need to leave something behind in order to move forward. Take a piece of paper and write down something you want to leave behind in the new year. Then throw it in the fire.
  1 point.

• 🧑‍🎨 Make a collage
  Old magazines belonging to the late great Nelson Brackin have been provided for your collaging pleasure, as well as mod podge, scissors, and some fairly sturdy paper.
  3 points

• 🔴🟢 Play bocce
  Requires two teams of two players. Here's a step-by-step explainer of how to play. You can read twice for points. After that, it's just for fun.
  1 point per game. (2 points if your teammate is a new friend).
  1 additional point for every game that you win.

• 🫖 Take tea or coffee in the library with a new friend
  Find someone who has indicated on their name badge that they're willing to share stories about themself over tea.  Go to the library and have coffee or tea with them and talk for about 20 minutes. Your conversation will be recorded, but it will not be shared without your permission. What the two of your discuss is up to you, but there are some starter questions to get you rolling, if you want them.
  3 points to both interviewer and interviewee.
  (5 points if you're new friends and/or from different generations).
  No point limit (interview or be interviewed as much as you want).

•  🧘🏾 Relax in the respite room
  Parties can be a lot, so take a moment for yourself. Apply a restorative facemask, put in earplugs, lay some cool cucumber slices over your eyes, and relax on the bed. Or use the foot massager and play on your phone (volume down, of course).
  3 points

• 📫 Write someone a postcard.
  Take a seat at the antique desk in the board game room. Think of who you'd like to write. If you don't know their address, call/text them and ask!. Pick out a postcard, and write them a note. It can be a simple hello to an old friend, or it can be to express a political position to an elected representative. Your call! Stamp it and put in the mailbox on the porch!
  2 points

• 💰 Provide financial assistance to unhoused individuals in West End.
  Due to recent cuts to HUD funding and other services for the unhoused, among other reasons, there are more people in West End experiencing homelessness than before. Donate to Abundant Love Unitarian Universalist Congregation. If you choose to donate, make sure to indicate that the donation is for assisting unhoused residents in West End.
  5 points

FAQs

• What constitutes a "new friend"?
  A new friend is someone who you're meeting for the first time today.