This is a very similar game to Hot Boiled Beans. One player having been sent out of the room, the others arrange some simple task for him to perform on his return.
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This is a very similar game to Hot Boiled Beans. One player having been sent out of the room, the others arrange some simple task for him to perform on his return.
Read moreThis exciting game may be played by an unlimited number, and is particularly adapted for a large party.
Read moreConsists in one person having a handkerchief bound over his eyes, so as to completely blind him, and thus blindfolded trying to chase the other players, either by the sound of their footsteps,
Read moreOne player leaves the room, and while he is absent the rest fix upon some proverb. The words are then distributed among them, and each player, in reply to a question asked by the guesser, has to introduce his particular word.
Read moreIn this game one of the players enters the room, armed with a poker, with which he taps on the floor.
Read moreThe players sit round in a circle, each taking a colour. Thus one is red-cap, another black-cap, and so on. One of them, who takes the place of master, and has no colour, taking up a cap says:
Read moreA noisier game than this could scarcely be desired by the most boisterous of our young friends.
Read moreShadow Buff differs very materially from Blind Man’s Buff, but it is equally amusing. A large piece of white linen should be fastened neatly up at one end of room, so that it hangs quite smooth;
Read moreThe first player writes an adjective on the upper part of a slip of paper, and then folds the slip so that the written word cannot be seen by the next player,
Read moreBirds, Beasts, and Fishes.—“Now, Tom,” said Harry, “get your slate and pencil, and I’ll show you such a jolly game.
Read moreThis game will be best described by a short dialogue.
Harry.—I am going to put a question in a whisper to Tom, who is seated on my right hand, to which he will reply in the same tone.
Every player, except one who holds the office of reader, selects a trade or profession, which he must retain throughout the game.
Read moreThe players form sides, and decide who shall be masters and who men. The principal aim of the men is to keep working as long as possible, and to prevent the masters taking their places.
Read moreTwo boys having seated themselves on the floor, are trussed by their playmates; that is to say, each boy has his wrists tied together with a handkerchief, and his legs secured just above the ancles with another;
Read moreThe chief player in this amusing game must possess the faculty of inventing a long story, as well as a tolerably good memory.
Read moreThis game, although only two persons are engaged in it at a time, furnishes much amusement, from the contradictory nature of its words and actions.
Read moreThe party being seated in a circle, the player who has been chosen to commence the game takes a knotted handkerchief, and throws it suddenly into another’s lap, calling out at the same time either “Earth!” “Water!” “Air!” or “Fire!”
Read moreThe leader of the game commences it by asking each of his companions in turn, “What is my thought like?”
Read moreThe game of Hand is of great antiquity, and is common to almost every nation, whether savage or civilized.
Read moreOne player takes an oblong piece of paper, and having divided it into three equal parts by folding, he sketches a comic head, either with pen or pencil, in the upper space;
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