Ambulance

Designate an area as a 'hospital'. Indoors, you can use a couple of chairs or a bench; outdoors, you can use jackets, branches, or other visible equipment.

Choose one participant as the 'plague' and one as the 'doctor'. The plague's goal is to infect as many as possible. Anyone who gets infected becomes acutely ill and squats down.

The other participants should both try to avoid getting infected and help the sick. The moment you touch someone who is sick, you become a nurse and can no longer be infected. When two nurses hold a sick person at the same time, they become an 'ambulance' and must carry the sick person to the hospital.

When they arrive at the hospital, the ambulance players become regular participants again and can be infected anew. The doctor receives the sick person. The sick person becomes well by swapping roles with the doctor: the original doctor goes back into the game as a regular participant, while the person who was sick takes over as the new doctor. This is how the roles rotate throughout the game.

Variation

• Increase the number of 'plagues'. This will infect more people, leading to more carrying and higher game intensity.