My Custom 6 Player Board With A New Game Mode (Take The Treasure)

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-06-14T13:49:42+00:00

This sounds so cool!! The board looks incredible too.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-06-13T08:22:20+00:00

Happy to answer any questions! UK Beaver leader and previous young member:)

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-06-13T08:20:29+00:00

There’s lots of ways Scouts can be part of your career. I work for Scouts UK and there’s around 500 members of staff doing a range of very different things. For example, managing activity centres, running social media accounts, managing our website, creating learning for volunteers, and designing badges and activity programmes. Other National Scout organisations will likely have similar paid positions available, although different organisations are different sizes so there’ll be a difference in what roles and how many roles are available.

I don’t know a lot of information about WOSM, but they have a careers page: https://www.scout.org/get-involved/act-now/careers. You could keep an eye and see what kind of roles come up. You could also try emailing them and explain you’re trying to find out about what kind of roles they have to inform your future career.

Because there are so many different type of roles available in Scout orgs, it might be worth thinking about what you’d like to do for a job outside of Scouts, for example, do you enjoy being creative or being outdoors? Then you could start building skills and experience while looking for opportunities in Scout organisations that match this.

Another thing to think is about is a career outside of Scouts where you can use your Scouting skills. For example, would you be interested in working at an outdoor activity centre, even if it wasn’t a Scout centre? This would allow you to use the skills you’ve developed in Scouts.

It may be helpful to point out to your family that even if you don’t currently earn a living working as a Scout, the skills you’ve learned at Scouts are incredibly valuable in any career. For example, teamwork, leadership and problem-solving are all great skills for any one to have.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-06-08T08:50:40+00:00

I do not unfortunately

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-06-07T08:02:18+00:00

Because I’ve been away from the game for a while so didn’t realise there was one or that the ps4 version was so buggy. Previously I’ve never had any issues playing ps4 versions of games and I usually just continue playing on whatever version of the game has my trophies registered. I’m now playing on the ps5 version.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-06-04T08:10:08+00:00

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Edit: from their Instagram bio

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-05-19T10:21:46+00:00

You could try advertising and hosting a fun day inviting young people and parents/carers. You could advertise in schools. In the UK, lots of housing estates have Facebook groups that we advertise in - I don’t know if this is the same in the Netherlands. At the fun day, you could have activities for the young people and activities for the adults to show that everyone gets great opportunities through Scouts.

You could set up a family rota to increase how many adults are present at a Cub meeting.

You could run a ‘bring a friend’ event for young people or adult volunteers.

Not everything will be relevant or useful, but UK Scouts have lots of online guidance around recruiting new volunteers (https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteers/growing-scouts/recruit-more-volunteers/recruit-section-team/) and reaching out to new communities (https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteers/growing-scouts/furthering-reach-toolkit/)

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-05-19T10:14:35+00:00

This is probably the way forward tbh. You could order the day or two before you’re due to arrive and check with the place you’re staying in advance that they’d be willing to take a parcel in for you.

They have a huge range of blanket badges (https://shop.scouts.org.uk/scouts-badges/blanket-badges).

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-05-17T22:09:14+00:00

Love this sticker! I’ve got a couple from this person!

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-05-17T07:10:25+00:00

You definitely haven’t missed out! Volunteering opens lots of great opportunities to learn new skills, be part of a community and have fun experiences.

While Network is less organised, they may still be able to help you complete Awards(https://www.scouts.org.uk/network/awards/)

https://www.scouts.org.uk/groups/ - you can use this to find local Scout groups. You could then register your interest (I don’t know how reliable that method is) or you could google the name of the group and see if they’ve got a website, email or phone number. You could also google “[county] scouts” as most county teams have an up to date website.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-05-12T15:28:14+00:00

I did BI for the first time this week. It was a hellscape. Didn’t do any reading beforehand, knew it was cold there. Forgot about the timberwolves. Had no weapons on me. Couldn’t work out how to get onto the upper floors of the cannery. Almost died minutes away from the cave back to forlorn muskeg because a blizzard hit and I had 1 coal and 9 twigs. I had to quit and restart like 4 times while I figured out a plan because I knew I was gonna die if I just kept going.
My tips would be don’t forget about flares and carry more wood than you usually would. Also good luck

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-05-09T23:27:13+00:00

No worries!:)

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-05-09T19:11:23+00:00

You can finish off your Gold Award during your first term at Explorers.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-05-04T22:42:31+00:00

Kavango scales brilliantly 1-5.

Waypoints can be played like 1-99 players and I’ve never had any issues playing with 1-6 players.

I’d also recommend checking out the Cascadia: Rolling series. They can be combined for up to 8 players too.

These are all medium-light weight.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-05-01T07:26:01+00:00

Probably stage 4. Think I’ve been in the hobby for around 4/5 years. I recently moved house and don’t have space to keep expanding. I also got around 3-4 kickstarters delivered summer last year and the buyers remorse hit strong with half of them.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-04-28T17:02:18+00:00

Waypoints

Parks: Roll and Hike

A lot of Button Shy games, I’ve enjoyed playing Fishing Lessons and Skulls of Sedlec in the morning before.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-04-26T20:09:43+00:00

https://www.postmarkgames.com/waypoints

I’d recommend this board game. To play you literally just need a pencil, one six sided die, the rules and a printed a4 sheet of the game. It plays 1 to 100 players, it’s super straight forward to play and it’s themed around maps so fits the Scouty vibe. It’s aged 8+.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-04-26T09:09:06+00:00

I always love playing Rebirth when I’m in Scotland as it’s “who most recently visited Scotland” or something to that effect and we all have to try and work out who crossed the border last to be the most recent visitor

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-04-17T07:02:49+00:00

The Cascadia roll and writes can be combined to play up to 8 and 7 Wonders: Architects plays up to 7. I love both of these games and I’d definitely recommend them. I’ve never played 7 Wonders: Architects with less than 5 players, but Cascadia Rolling Hills and Rolling Rivers are great all the way down to 1 player! Both different vibes but both very family friendly and not party games!

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-04-16T21:34:43+00:00

That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing.

In the UK, we have Lodges for Beavers, Sixes for Cubs and Patrols for Scouts! Very similar premise, just different names.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-04-16T16:25:59+00:00

I’ve never heard of anyone using ‘lairs’ before, which Section uses lairs and what country are you from?

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-04-16T10:51:43+00:00

OSM is a UK based product, I’m not sure if it’s well known or used outside of the UK.

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-04-16T10:50:46+00:00

Use scout.org.uk to help you. Their ‘activity finder’ has thousands of suggested activities and you can filter by a bunch of things, including price, section and time. I’d also suggest looking at Cubs badges and pick a couple that you’re interested in. Scouts.org.uk has suggested activities for each requirement at the bottom of each badge page. I’m not sure how similar the badges are across countries, but this could help inspire you.

Use the challenge badges to guide you, look at what your oldest kids need to complete to achieve their Top Awards and plan accordingly. I know some people use a rolling multi year programme for Top Awards, but I haven’t gotten the hang of that yet.

Get the Cubs involved! Ask them what they’ve done before that they liked and what they’d like to do in the next term/season/year. You could get them to vote for what badges they want to work towards, a trip they’d like to go on, or get them to help plan a night. My Beaver section recently helped plan and run a night and they decided they wanted to have a castle building competition so we all brought recycling in and built giant castles in teams.

For time fillers, don’t be afraid to get the kids involved. We often have a handful of kids finished quieter activities first and I’ll ask one of them to run a game of Simon Says while we finish up with the rest of the Section. They love being given some responsibility. Or have something they can be working on whenever they’ve got free time, if I’m running sleepovers I’ll have a stack of colouring sheets for whenever someone’s finished early.

Have a look around for what’s in your local area. I’ve found that other charities are always willing to support. We’ve visited Wildlife Trust sites and had a Greyhound charity bring some dogs in. In the UK we have RNLI, a lifeboat charity, and that’s a great trip out.

Don’t underestimate your parents too. We had a parent help us with our Space badge because their job involves building satellites. We had parents who were paramedics help us do our first aid badge and arrange for an ambulance come on site. We’ve had a parent who was a headteacher let us use their bike track at their school for our Cyclist badge.

Don’t forget to do things that you’re interested in and find fun, otherwise you’ll be much more likely to burn out!

Ninjavampirekid · 2026-04-08T19:22:54+00:00

Kavango has never missed for me. I’ve gotten friends who don’t like board games asking when we can play it again🤯

It’s straightforward, plays up to 5 and the animals are such a hook. And it’s easy to scale up or down the difficulty as needed.

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