Tears for peers

Barrrrf!!! Those pictures make me sick just looking at them so heres a quick post to erode the sickness.

This a post i was gonna put up last week, but a certain video game stopped my time, but it is updated to todays events too.

Today (last thursday) I think a game evolved that seems great now but could be my downfall.

Basically its a game that controls kids with penalty's and rewards. Their initials are put on the board along with the first mark of a 5-mark-gate, the prize is to play the piano.

rules:

- They sit on the table if their feet touch the floor, a mark gets wiped off.
(this is to control them drawing on the board or wrecking the room)

-They only speak if they are chosen in turn, if they speak out of turn, a mark gets wiped off.
(this is to stop the brainiacs (which are most of them) snatching all the points)

-If they act out of line, a mark gets wiped off.
(simple behavior control)

-Lastly if they get it wrong twice it moves to the next kid.
(keeps the game at a fast pace)

Basically the game is for them to answer the questions set by their teacher for the exercise or by me. It was discovered as a tool to get a certain kid (Carlotta) with A.D.D to concentrate and focus for the reward. It then evolved into a gmae in its own right where i would draw animals, fruit & veg, and objects on the board and they tell me in English what they are for 1 point, and the English spelling for another. At first it was based on senses so they would then tell me what sense relates to the drawing for example: a flower would have sight as 1, and smell as the other, but now its just spelling and the object.

If a tie breaker occurs then the kids have to play rock, paper, scissors, stone to determine the winner.

None of them can actually play the piano, but at the same time none of them would realistically get the chance to play a grand piano anyway.

The dilemma.

Whilst playing the game i completely underestimated a child's sense of competition, and when 1 child was running away with the answers, another child would start crying so i have to continually doctor the game to keep the aforementioned child happy.

*update

So far ive had 3 kids crying living tears, and had to change the game so that everyone plays but the winner gets 20 seconds, and the runners up receive less and less time.
Today one of the kids had to be consolidated for 10 minutes just to stop crying which ate heavily into the other kids time, he came second but because the last kid won the tie breaker he missed out.
Also now in class the kids are fighting each other to get to go in the class with me and there are tears in the class from the kids that dont get to go (Im sure the teacher is now wondering whats going on as this has never happened before) .

The kids are now hugging me, waving, sitting down when i tell them and continually going out of their way to say hello. I dont know if its a respect thing or some scheme so i can swing the game their way.

I think i need to revise the game more, or abandon it all together and leave it for once a week, because im extremely close to telling the kids any more crying results in no game, but then the teacher will ask why they're crying in the first place and the whole thing will have to be aborted.

pictures are of the classroom (minus kids for legal reasons) and xmas decs in the street.