Gathering your friends and shooting or tagging each other with paintball makers was huge fun for me in years past. In recent years I learned of Gel Tag or gellyball or whatever you want to call it. With Gel Tag you get the same excitement as a paintball styled game, but Gel Tag is safer, less messy, and much easier to enjoy for a wide range of ages than paintball was.
You can increase the fun by organizing the action with different styles of gel tag gameplay. All games are on the honor system just like paintball is. When you get hit, you raise your gel blaster gun over your head and walk to the back line on your side of the playing field. It doesn’t matter if the referee saw you get hit. Read here for more detailed game rules.
In this version of Gel Tag, the object is to move the flag in the middle of the field to your team’s home base. If you get hit with a water ball while carrying the flag, you drop the flag where you stand. You are then out of the game for 45 seconds. The flag is then is returned to the mid-field by the referee. Play until one team is successful at getting the flag back to their home base. From here teams switch sides and start again.
In this Gal Tag game each player goes one on one against another player. These two face off against each other, then winners play against other winners. The player who never looses is the winner. Keep in mind that this variation keeps other players out of the action during each round.
This version of Gel Tag has a time limit. Team will take turns searching for a lost item. As they search, the opposite team hides and tries to take the searchers out. The team that has the best time or has the most survivors left at the end of the game wins.
Simple idea. One person is unarmed and has to be escorted across the playing field without getting shot. The protective detail has to take out the would be assasins.
Last player or team standing wins. Like the video game Fortnite, gel blasters and ammo are scattered around the field. There is no respawning.
Players take turns shooting at targets while being timed. The team with the best time wins.
There is one starting line on each side. If you get hit anywhere on your body or your mask, you are out for 45 seconds. Walk to the back line of the playing field on your side. When the time limit for the game is reached, the team with the most players still in is the winner. When done, the Gel Tag teams switch sides and start over.
There are two starting points that are opposite of each other. If you get shot, call yourself out and with your gun up, walk to your starting point, touch it and restart! Keep doing that until you are out of ammo. The team with the most players still in once all ammo has been used is the winner.
Chicken Bomb
Our friends at
East Carolina Gellyball shared this version of Gel Tag that is similar to “Elimination.” The difference is that there is a rubber chicken involved. The chicken is a bomb. At the end of the time limit, whichever team has the chicken on their side of the playing field looses. The chicken is thrown back and forth across the field and players try to tag opponents out so they can’t throw the chicken back.
Paintball Similarity
The sport of Gel Tag has its roots in the popular spor to Paintball. However, Using the gel balls for ammunition fired at low velocity allows the fun to be accessible to a younger age group. And it’s done at a lower cost, with less mess, and it much safer. Besides, at Gel Tag Games, we bring the fun right to your backyard. Contact us today.
