How Many 5-year-olds...?

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The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?

The specifics:

- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.
* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.

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I asked Josh this same question a few weeks ago...

I asked how many in one on one combat with one after another, and I also asked how many at the same time.

I put the numbers at around 8/45 (though I asked 9 yr olds, not 5)

5 Year olds? Infinite? Pick one up and start beating the others with him.

Start breaking pinkies, this lasts two minutes before the zombie kids call it quits.

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Originally Posted by icarusfall

- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.

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That makes it hard to come up with a number, since this is a pretty unrealistic scenario.
I mean 5-yo kids don't have any attention span -- how would you be able to spend a whole day trying to teach them team tactics?

With that said, I think I could probably do around 200 before I break both my hands on their faces.

I think i'd die of starvation before any number of 5 year olds took me down.

I mean, at some point their corpses would pile so high they would create a wall that no 5 year old could get over.

I have a 5 year old brother, and I have to say, depending on how many jump you at the same time with specific intent to harm you, you might be lucky to break 100 if you're standard height and weight, even if you're really trying to hurt them. These little bastards have so much energy it's almost frightening, I'm trying to imagine fighting 100 copies of my little brother.

This is a really weird question. Yet everyone seems to have thought about it at one point in their life or another.

True. I've found myself on many an afternoon at the playground, watching the children playing with my daughter and thinking "I could take every one of these bastards."

You'd make a great father. But in all seriousness, lol.