Signal the Message Game

This Game is meant for Scouts BSA.

Signal Flags
paper and pencil for each patrol

signalling flag experience.
can be done as an individual patrol exercise.

The patrol leaders from each patrol are given a slip of paper on which is written a number and a 5-8 letter word.
The patrol leaders take the signal flags and go off about 100 yards from the rest of the troop to a point where they can be easily seen.

Each patrol groups together 10 yards or more apart.
The patrol leader with #1 on the paper uses the signal flags to spell the word. Then, #2 goes, and so on.
Each patrol writes the numbers 1 through 10 on their paper. As each patrol leader signals, the patrol writes down the words being signaled next to #1, then #2, ...

When the patrol leaders return, scores are tallied.