Capture the Flag

1. Mark a pitch 20 metres wide and 30 metres long, split at halfway. In one back corner of each half put a base, a 4 metre square with four balls in it, and in the other corner a jail of the same size.
2. Two teams of four to eight, each starting in its own half. Raid the other half, take a ball from the opponents' base, dribble it back over halfway and put it in your own base. You are safe in your own half and inside the opponents' base.
3. In the other half, a player without a ball is caught by a touch of the hand; a player with a ball is stopped only if a defender wins the ball with their feet. Caught players go to jail, and a ball that is won back goes back to its base.
4. A teammate frees a prisoner by reaching the jail and slapping their hand; both walk back to their own half and cannot be caught on the way. Nobody stays in jail longer than 30 seconds.
5. Play rounds of 4 minutes. The team with more balls in its base at the end wins, or wins at once by taking all of them.

Every player keeps choosing between three jobs: raid, defend or rescue. A raider waits for the moment the defenders are drawn to one side and picks a route through the gap; on the way home with the ball, it is beat the defender or go round. Defenders decide whom to mark and whether to guard the base or the jail. And when a teammate sits in jail, someone has to decide: go for a ball, or free them first.