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As an EFL teacher I often find myself looking at a fun writing game idea when I'm prepping for a speaking lesson, or vice versa. Bad Apples is my answer to that: one game presented in two different ways. One template is designed for using images (or single words / short numbers) to elicit spoken responses from students; the other is made to accommodate text-based questions or cues for students to read or write. The slide layouts for each style ended up being so different that I spun them off into separate files.
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This dynamically animated PPT game asks your students to find apples for a loveable bear by choosing an apple tree (by speaking the target language for the picture or other visual prompt you place above that tree / reading or answering the text prompt on the tree). Students can choose as many trees as they like and get more apples (points) along the way, with one big catch: the bear doesn't like worms, and if they find the one 'bad' apple on the screen they lose all of their 'good' red apples.
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But, to encourage more speaking (and serve as a consolation for frustrated students), special 'gold' apples remain safe no matter what. And, most importantly, a team can stop whenever they choose, keep the apples they have, and let the next team begin their turn on the next game slide.
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The only prep work required for the image version is to place your 5 images onto the 'signs' above the apple trees, after which you can copy and paste those 5 images onto the other slides (or, if you want to practice more concepts, add as many more images as you like). The text version doesn't require finding any images, but each text box can be edited to suit your lesson (which doesn't take as long as it may sound, since you'll only use all 15 slides if you have about 20 minutes to play the game).