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Some children's games include:
- Apple core
- Aki 123
- Bad Egg
- Ball Tag
- Blind Man's Bluff
- British Bulldog
- Bullrush game
- Butts Up
- Capture the Flag
- Cat's cradle
- Chain tag
- Chinese jump rope
- Chinese whispers
- Chopsticks
- Cocky Olly
- Conkers
- Cops and robbers
- Dodge ball
- Duck Duck Goose aka Duck, Duck, Gray Duck
- Flashlight tag
- Follow the Leader
- Foot hockey
- Four square
- Forty Forty
- Forty-Four Home
- Funnel ball
- Gite (Indian)
- Heads Up, Seven Up
- Hide and seek
- Hopscotch
- Hot Lava
- House
- I spy
- Jackpot
- Jump rope
- Jumpsies
- Kickball
- Keep Away
- Kick the Can
- Kingey
- Kiss chase
- Leapfrog
- Liptoss (Leap the horse)
- Mary Mack
- Mother May I?
- Musical chairs
- Musical statues
- Paper football
- Postman's Knock
- Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?
- Radio (game)
- Red Hands
- Red light, green light
- Red Rover
- Ringolevio
- Rock paper scissors
- Sardines
- Silent ball
- Simon Says
- Skipping stones aka Ducks and Drakes
- Sleeping lions
- Stuck in the Mud
- Tag
- Telephone
- Thumb war
- Two balls and a wall
- What's the time, Mr Wolf?
- Witch's Casket
- Witch's Pies
- Zip and bong
These are informal games, most often played by children without adult organisation, sometimes even despite the disapproval of adults. They are part of children's street culture. There is a list of children's party games in the article on party games.
See also
External links
- America's Story from America's Library: Singing Games
- GameSecretary.Com A large database of games for youth.
- PlaygroundGames.org A project to record playground games with the culture/history/language that is intertwined in them.
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