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Blind Weight Guessing Game
Here's one to try together!
Can your hands feel the difference between a heavy shoe and a light apple with your eyes shut? Ollie bets the scale will surprise you!
Reviewed by our team.
Safety first
- Players with eyes closed could bump into things or drop objects, so sit down while playing
- A full water bottle or a book could be dropped on a foot
What you need
- Paper, 1 sheet or more
- Apple, 1
- Book, 1
- Spoon, 1
- Water bottle, 1 full
- Shoe, 1
- Rice, 1
- Kitchen or bathroom scale, 1
- Pencil, 1
How to do it
Grown-up prep: Gather six safe household objects of different weights and sizes, and set up a scale on a flat floor or table.
- Line up all six objects where everyone can see them.
- Sit down and close your eyes. A partner puts one object in each hand.
- Say which one feels heavier. Ask: Which one do you think is heavier, and how can you tell?
- Try more pairs until you have felt all six objects.
- Eyes still closed, put all six in order from lightest to heaviest.
- Guess how much each object weighs and write it down. Ask: Which object do you think will surprise us most on the scale?
- Weigh each object on the scale and write the real number.
- Compare the real order with your guessed order. Closest guess wins a point!
- Now swap places and test your family! Which six objects will fool them most? Ask: What would you change next time to trick our hands even more?
Play it again
- Trick round: pick objects that are big but light, and small but heavy, to fool your partner.
- Team guess: work together on one set of guesses and see if you can beat your own best score.
- Speed round: sort all six by feel in just one minute with eyes closed.
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