Simon says: “Set a Guinness World Record.’’
Simon also says to try doing it by getting thousands of 3-year-olds to play an organized game for 10 minutes while keeping it from devolving into giggling chaos.
While it may take a few weeks to make it official, nearly 400 Goddard Schools nationwide may have done just that on Friday when they attempted to break the Guinness World Record for most people simultaneously playing the kids’ copycat game.
Children ages 1-5, along with parents and teachers at the schools for early childhood development, all played a game of “Simon Says’’ starting at 1 p.m. Eastern time Friday. It was all part of a learning initiative — but it may also put the Goddard School in the record books.
The current record for the largest “Simon Says’’ session is 12,215 people, and Goddard Systems, Inc. CEO Joseph Schumacher told TODAY.com late Friday that “our general sense is that we’ve beaten the record’’ as reports came in from Goddard’s 375 locations nationwide. Schumacher and the rest of the members in the Goddard School’s corporate office even participated in a “Simon Says’’ game at a location close to their headquarters in King of Prussia, Pa. With roughly 50 to 100 participants (a minimum of 25) at each location, there is a strong chance that the Goddard School zoomed past the old record.