Duck, Duck, Goose
This game works best with larger groups. It can be played with small groups (eg minimum 5), but definitely works better the more players there are and great for children’s…
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AKA Night Tag Sent in by Marie Prichie “…the dark game. It was invented by me and a few froends (sic) from church.” – Marie Play at night, switch off…
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Fun game that’s also educational as a useful model of a chain reaction. Pick a large area for players to be able to run around in. Players pair up with…
Continue readingBlind Man’s Buff
Traditional A very traditional game, best played in a relatively enclosed space like a large room or small hall and ideally free of obstacles, at least ones that could be…
Continue readingAnti-Tig
Sent in by Andrew Watkins Works like stuck-in-the-mud but backwards. In ‘stuck-in-the-mud’ players have to stand still once tagged/caught with their legs apart and/or arms out waiting hopefully to be…
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AKA: ‘Manhunt’ (Cited by Andrew Armitage) Starts of with only one chaser, but the chaser always remains and chaser for that game or round and each person tagged also becomes…
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AKA: ‘It’, ‘Tick’, ‘Catch’, Come-on you must have played this at sometime… If there’s a culture where the children have never played this, it would be interesting to know. A…
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