This is a very good game, and to play it properly there must be in the centre of the playground a small hill or hillock.
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HOW? WHERE? AND WHEN? GAME – Indoor Games for Kids
One of the players is sent out of the room, while the others fix upon a subject, which may be anything to which the three questions, “How do you like it?” “Where do you like it?” and “When do you like it?” will apply.
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NINE-HOLES GAME – Outdoor Games for Kids
Dig near a wall nine holes, of about six inches in diameter, and three deep. Let each player have one of these, according to his number, which must be determined by lot.
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RAILROAD TRAIN – Playground Games for Kids
10 to 100 players.
Parlor; schoolroom; out of doors.
SIMON SAYS GAME – Outdoor Games for Kids
This, if well managed, is a very comical game. The players are arranged as in Fugleman, the player who enacts Simon standing in front.
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HUNT THE SLIPPER GAME – Indoor Games for Kids
This old-fashioned pastime is so generally known that it is scarcely necessary to describe it;
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NORTHERN SPELL GAME – Outdoor Games for Kids
This game is played with a trap and ball, which is struck with a bat or bludgeon at the pleasure of the players; but the latter is most commonly used.
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RINGMASTER – Playground Games for Kids
10 to 60 players.
Playground; gymnasium; parlor.
Outdoor Games for Kids – HOP, STEP AND JUMP GAME
Make a mark on the ground at a place called the “starting point.” At ten yards’ distance from this make another, called the “spring.”
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THREAD THE NEEDLE GAME – Outdoor Games for Kids
This game can be played by any number of boys, who must all join hands; the game is begun by the outside players at each end of the line holding the following dialogue:
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HUNT THE WHISTLE GAME – Indoor Games for Kids
A boy who has never seen the game played is elected hunter; the others seat themselves on the ground, as in Hunt the Slipper.
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ROUNDERS GAME – Outdoor Games for Kids
This is a most excellent game, and very popular in some counties. It is played with a moderate-sized ball and a hand-bat, i. e. a bat that can be held in one hand, and which is about two feet in length, smooth, and round.
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ROUND AND ROUND WENT THE GALLANT SHIP – Playground Games for Kids
4 to 30 or more players.
Indoors; out of doors.
Outdoor Games for Kids – HOPPING ON THE BOTTLE GAME
Various games are in vogue among boys, in which hopping on one foot is the principal object.
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WANT A DAY’S WORK? – Outdoor Games for Kids
This is a capital game when well played, and the antics and grimaces of boys who are mimics cause great merriment.
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MAGIC MUSIC GAME – Indoor Games for Kids
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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STOOL-BALL GAME – Outdoor Games for Kids
This is an old English sport, mentioned by Gower and Chaucer, and was at one period common to women as well as men. In the northern parts of England, particularly in Yorkshire, it is practised in the following manner:
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Outdoor Games for Kids – HOP-SCOTCH GAME
This is a game played by hopping on one foot and kicking an oyster-shell or piece of tile from one compartment to the other, without halting the lifted foot, except in one case, to the ground, and without suffering the shell or tile to rest on any of the lines.
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DROPPING THE HANDKERCHIEF GAME – Outdoor Games for Kids
A tolerably large ring should be formed by several boys standing in a circle and joining hands;
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POST GAME – Indoor Games for Kids
This exciting game may be played by an unlimited number, and is particularly adapted for a large party.
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