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blindman's bluff, blindman's buff
a children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players
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cat and mouse, cat and rat
a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first
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cat's cradle
a game played with string looped over the fingers
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hide and go seek, hide-and-seek
a game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them
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hopscotch
a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
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jacks, jackstones, knucklebones
a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball
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jackstraws, spillikins
a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
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jump rope
a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope
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leapfrog
a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
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marbles
a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)
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mumble-the-peg, mumblety-peg
a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground
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going to Jerusalem, musical chairs
a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated
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bopeep, peekaboo
a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo!
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pillow fight
a child's game of fighting with pillows
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post office
a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters
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spin the bottle
a game in which a player spins a bottle and kisses the person that it points to when it stops spinning
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spin the plate, spin the platter
a game in which something round (as a plate) is spun on edge and the name of a player is called; the named player must catch the spinning object before it falls or pay a forfeit
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tag
a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
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tiddlywinks
a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
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double Dutch
the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners
