M Puzzle: That Mixer

by the Acme Party Committee

"That Mixer" is, of course, an anagram for "The Matrix".

The party consists 5 activity stations, one behind a curtain/screen.

The activities are as follows:

1. Stacking oreos
• Teams get two minutes to stack oreos. Team with the highest tower wins.
2. Boggle
• Three minute Boggle game. Team with the highest score wins.
3. Backwards spelling bee
• Standard spelling bee format. First person to miss and have opponent spell that word correctly (plus one additional word) wins.
4. "Big Dumb Five"
• Play with at least three other people representing at least 2 teams.
• Each player gets 5 poker chips and can wager any amount of them on each hand. The person showing the highest number of chips that is not duplicated by another player takes all chips.
• First person to 20 wins victory for his/her team.
5. Memory Game
• This is the real puzzle. Teams are not eligible to play unless they have prizes from all 4 other games. They can accomplish this by winning all 4 games or by partnering with other teams.
• 5 x 5 grid of "memory" picture cards. Only 1 team plays at a time. Play continues until all cards are matched up except the red-and-yellow slice of pizza, which is the answer for the round. Teams get a parting "prize" of a card bearing the pizza icon.

REQUIRED PROPS:
Ruler
Several stopwatches
Oreos
National Spelling Bee word list
Memory Game or homemade facsimile
Boggle Game
Poker chips
Folding screen
"prizes" -
60 cards  representing Boggle, Oreos, Spelling, Big Dumb Five
30 cards with pizza slices on them