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MARCO POLO
THIS GAME IS PLAYED IN A SWIMMING POOL. ONE PERSON
IS IT. HE CLOSES HIS EYES AND COUNTS TO TEN WHILE EVERYONE SCATTERS IN
THE POOL. HE THEN TURNS AROUND, WITH HIS EYES STILL CLOSED, AND YELLS
MARCO. EVERYONE ANSWERS BACK POLO. AND HE TRIES TO FIND A PERSON BY
LISTENING TO WHERE THE POLO COMES FROM. OR HE CAN LISTEN TO THE WATER
MOVING WHEN A PERSON SWIMS AWAY. HE CAN SAY MARCO AS MANY TIMES AS HE
WANTS AND EVERYONE MUST ANSWER. NO ONE CAN GET OUTSIDE OF THE POOL.
THE FIRST PERSON HE TOUCHES IS IT, AND THE GAME STARTS ALL OVER
AGAIN.
Where learned: CALIFORNIA ; PLACENTIA
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Water Ice Snow |
Date learned: 00-00-1966
"RELEASE"
TO PLAY RELEASE, TWO TEAMS OF AT LEAST THREE APIECE (BUT MORE
IF POSSIBLE) ARE FORMED. A SMALL AREA--SUCH AS A PORCH OR A STRIP
OF LAWN IS USED AS A JAIL. ONE MEMBER FROM TEAM II ACTS AS JAILGUARD,
WHILE THE REST GO HUNTING FOR MEMBERS OF TEAM I. WHEN A HIDER IS
CAUGHT, HE IS BROUGHT TO THE JAIL. IF ONE OF HIS TEAM-MEMBERS IS
ABLE TO TAP HIM WHILE HE IS IN JAIL, THEN HE IS "RELEASED;" BUT IF
THE GUARD TAGS THE PERSON ATTEMPTING TO FREE HIS TEAM-MATE, THEN THAT
PERSON MUST GO IN JAIL, ALSO. WHEN ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE TEAM ARE
CAUGHT, SIDES ARE TRADED, AND TEAM II DOES THE HIDING. (IN MY WORDS)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
Date learned: 11-00-1973
RELIGIOUS CUSTOM
THE HEAD OF A JEWISH HOUSEHOLD HIDES A PIECE OF MATZOH
THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF PASSOVER.
Submitter comment: WHOEVER FINDS THE MATZOH RECEIVES A GIFT.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; SCRANTON
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting |
Date learned: 00-00-1950
HALLOWEEN TRADITION
IT IS TRADITIONAL TO HAVE SCAVENGER HUNTS AROUND HALLOWEEN TIME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- September 23 equinox to December 20 Also used for Advent. |
Date learned: 11-00-1969
HIDE AND SEEK GAME
LAST NIGHT, NIGHT BEFORE,
TWENTY-FIVE ROBBERS AT MY DOOR.
I GOT UP LET THEM IN,
HIT 'EM IN THE HEAD WITH A ROLLING PIN;
TWO BOXES OF WASHING POWDER, TWO BARS OF SOAP,
ALL NOT READY CALL BILLY GOAT.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; MERIDIAN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: 09-00-1960
BLOODY MURDER
ONE PLAYER WAS "IT". HE WOULD LEAN AGAINST A TREE, AND
COUNT TO 500 BY 5'S.
EVERYONE ELSE WOULD HIDE. WHEN THE COUNTING WAS DONE "IT" WOULD
SHOUT "READY OR NOT HERE I COME" AND WANDER AWAY FROM THE
TREE (WHICH WAS GOAL- THE SAFETY ZONE)
THE HIDING PLAYERS WOULD WAIT FOR A GOOD CHANCE TO RUN TO GOAL
WITHOUT BEING TAGGED BY "IT".
WHEN A PLAYER RAN FOR THE TREE OR "IT" SPOTTED SOMEONE HIDING,
THEY WOULD YELL "BLOODY MURDER", AND EVERYONE WOULD RUN FOR GOAL.
"IT" TAGGED SOMEONE ELSE WHO BECAME "IT" FOR THE NEXT ROUND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; AUDUBON AVENUE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: 00001960S
COUNTING OUT RHYME
5,10,15,20,
25, 30, 35, 40,
45,50,55,60,
65,70,75,80,
85,90,95,100
READY OR NOT HERE I COME. NO FIRST ONE TAKES THE LAST ONE'S PLACE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
HIDING GAME
FLASH LIGHT TAG- PLAYED AT NIGHT WITH THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD.
ONE PERSON WAS "IT" COUNTING TO A HUNDRED, AT THE TAG TREE.
ALL OTHER PLAYERS HID. WHEN "IT" REACHED A HUNDRED HE YELLED OUT,
READY OR NOT HERE I COME
WITH THE USE OF THE FLASHLIGHT HE SEARCHED FOR THE HIDING PLAYERS.
THE FIRST ONE SPOTTED AND IDENTIFIED BEFORE REACHING THE TAG TREE
WAS CONSIDERED "IT" FOR THE NEXT GAME. IF "IT"
IDENTIFIED SOMEONE INCORRECTLY THAT PLAYER WAS CONSIDERED SAFE
AND ALLOWED TO GO TO THE TAG TREE. A PLAYER WAS CONSIDERED SAFE
SIMPLY BY REACHING THE TAG TREE UNDETECTED BY THE PERSON "IT"
AND YELLING OUT LOUD "SAFE."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: CA00001968
SNIPE HUNTING
SNIPE HUNTING: A CHILDREN'S GANE OF CHASING A SMALL FURRY ANIMAL
THAT ONLY EXISTS IN THEIR MINDS, BUT
THEY CAN SPEND HOURS LOOKING FOR ONE
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIVONIA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: CA02001980
A FORM OF HIDE AND SEEK. EACH PERSON HIDES AND MUST STAY HIDDEN
UNTIL THE PERSON WHO IS IT CALLS OUT A COLOR THEY HAVE ON. ONCE YOU
HEAR A COLOR CALLED OUT THAT YOU HAVE ON YOU RUN TO THE GOAL BEFORE
YOU ARE CAUGHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FARMINGTON
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: CA00001965
TIN CAN COPPER
FOR THIS GAME YOU WILL NEED A BIG EMPTY CAN. THE PERSON THAT IS IT
IS THE TIN CAN COPPER. HE GUARDS THE TIN CAN. THE OBJECT OF THE
GAME IS FOR THE COPPER TO ARREST ALL OF THE PLAYERS AS THEY TRY TO
KICK THE CAN. THE TIN CAN COPPER STAYS IN THE AREA OF THE TIN CAN
PROTECTING IT FROM THE OTHERS. THE OTHER CHILDREN TRY TO SUCCEED IN
KICKING THE CAN AWAY FROM THE COPPER. BEFORE THE COPPER CAN CHASE
THE CHILD HE MUST FIRST RETURN THE CAN TO THE SAME SPOT. ONCE THE
CAN HAS BEEN REPLACED THE COPPER CAN TRY TO CATCH THE OTHERS. IF A
CHILD IS CAUGHT BEFORE THE CAN IS KICKED AGAIN THAT PERSON IS CAUGHT
FOR THE REST OF THE GAME.
Submitter comment:
THE WORD COPPER IN THIS GAME MUST HAVE ORIGINATED FROM THAT TIME
BECAUSE I HAVE HEARD IT IN OLD MOVIES. THERE IS A VARIATION OF
THIS GAME I USED TO PLAY. WE CALLED IT KICK THE CAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 00001930S
FREEZE
THIS GAME, A VERSION OF TAG AND HIDE AND SEEK, INVOLVED AS MANY
PLAYERS AS ONE WANTED. IN IT SOMEONE WAS CHOSEN TO COUNT TO TEN
WHILE SUPPOSEDLY CLOSING HIS EYES. DURING THIS TIME, CHILDREN
HID. THE OBJECT OF THIS GAME WAS FOR THE PLAYERS TO REACH A HOME
BASE, WHICH IN THIS CASE WAS A LAUNDRY POLE, BEFORE THE ONE PERSON
COULD TAG SOMEONE.
Submitter comment:
THIS WASN'T A BAD GAME ACCORDING TO MY FATHER, BUT IT JUST LOST ITS
APPEAL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C531 |
Date learned: 00-00-1930
HIDE AND GO SEEK
1 2 3 . . . READY OR NOT HERE I COME.
Where learned: GROSSE POINTE ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: 04-26-1942
HIDE THE MATZAH
MATZAH IS UNLEAVENED BREAD
THE MATZAH IS PUT IN A LITTLE POUCH AND HID SOMEWHERE IN THE HOUSE.
ALL THE CHILDREN IN THE HOUSE MUST LOOK FOR IT. THE ONE WHO FINDS IT
GETS TO EAT THE MATZAH AND RECEIVES A PRIZE
Submitter comment: LEARNED IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
Where learned: NEW YORK ; BROOKLYN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 00-00-1960
THIS GAME COMBINES HIDE-AND-SEEK WITH KICK-THE-CAN. THERE
WOULD BE A CAN WHICH IS "HOME", AND WHEN THE PERSON WHO WAS
"IT" WOULD FIND SOMEONE, IT WOULD BE A RACE BACK TO THE
CAN TO SEE WHO COULD KICK IT FIRST. IF THE ONE WHO IS "IT"
KICKS IT FIRST, THEN THE HIDER IS OUT, AND IF THE HIDER KICKS
IT FIRST, THEN THE SEEKER IS OUT AND THE HIDER BECOMES THE SEEKER.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 10-00-1982
RUNNING GAME
WHEN I WAS YOUNG MY PARENTS SAT ON THE PORCH
IN THE EVENING AND THE KIDS OF THE BLOCK WOULD TAKE OVER
BEFORE THEY CAME OUT. ALL THE KIDS WOULD GATHER ON THE
PORCH AND ONE PERSON WOULD STAND IN FRONT OF THE GANG.
THE PERSON "IT" WOULD SAY "HANDS DROP FEET NO MOVE" AND
THEN COUNT TO TEN. THE REST WOULD DASH OFF MADLY AND HIDE
BEHIND TREES AND IN BUSHES. THE HANDS DROPPER WOULD GIVE
AN EXTRA WARNING THAT HE WAS AFTER THEM BY SAYING "WIPE
YOURSELF." I GUESS THAT WAS A LAST WARNING TO GET OFF THE
STEPS, AND TO GIVE THE LITTLER KIDS AND THE HEAVIER ONES
AN EXTRA CHANCE. THE PERSON "IT" WOULD FIND AND CATCH
EACH PERSON, AND THEN AS THEY WERE CAUGHT THEY WOULD HELP
HIM FIND THE OTHERS. THE FIRST ONE CAUGHT WAS THE NEXT
HANDS DROPPER SO THE FAST ONES WERE NEVER "IT". THE GAME
WAS OVER WHEN THE MOSQUITOS BEGAN TO STICK TO OUR PERSPIRING
BODIES. THE ULTIMATE SIGNAL FOR THE END WAS OF COURSE
THE STREET LIGHTS GOING ON AND THE PARENTS FINDING THEIR
DESIGNATED PLACES ON THE PORCH FOR AN EVENING OF GABBING.
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
"COVER-THE-EYE-AND-HIDE" OR "HIDE-AND-SEEK"
"THIS IS A GAME PLAYED IN THAILAND. THE PERSON WHO IS 'IT' MUST
COUNT AND THEN LOOK FOR THOSE WHO ARE HIDING. WHEN THAT ONE SEES
SOMEONE, HE OR SHE WILL CALL OUT THEIR NAME AND THEY'RE 'IT'
UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE CALLS OUT THE NAME OF THE PERSON WHO WAS
ORIGINALLY 'IT.' THE ONE WHO CALLED OUT THEN RUNS AND TOUCHES
THAT PERSON AND HE OR SHE IS 'IT' AGAIN."
Submitter comment:
THE THAI LANGUAGE FOR THIS GAME IS "PID-AB" WHICH MEANS "COVER
THE EYES AND HIDE."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: 01-00-1984
"PID-AB" (THAI HIDE-AND-SEEK)
"'PID-AB' IS NOT PLAYED AT NIGHT FOR FEAR OF GHOSTS GETTING THOSE
PERSONS WHO ARE HIDING. THE THAIS BELIEVE THAT IF THE GHOSTS
FIND YOU, YOU'LL NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN."
Submitter comment: SEE "PID-AB" (THAI HIDE-AND-SEEK)
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 02-00-1984
RED FOX BLOODY MURDER!
"A GAME SIMILAR TO HIDE-AND-SEEK IS 'RED FOX BLOODY MURDER!' IN
THIS GAME, THE PERSON WHO IS 'IT' HIDES INSTEAD OF THE PLAYERS
WHO COUNT WHILE HE IS HIDING AND GO SEEK HIM OUT. WHENEVER
ONE OF THE PLAYERS SEES THAT PERSON, THE PLAYER WILL SHOUT,
'RED FOX BLOODY MURDER!' AND WILL RUN FOR 'GOOL.' THE GAME
CONTINUES UNTIL SOMEONE IS CAUGHT OR ALL HAVE REACHED 'GOOL'
SAFELY."
Submitter comment:
'GOOL' REFERS TO THE SPOT THAT IS 'FREE.'
BEFORE RUNNING TO 'GOOL', EACH PLAYER MUST SHOUT "RED FOX
BLOODY MURDER!" AND THE PERSON HIDING HAS TO BE SEEN BY EACH
PLAYER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR
James Callow Keyword(s): GOAL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: 04-00-1984
GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD (HIDE-AND-SEEK VARIATION)
"ANOTHER GAME SIMILAR TO HIDE-AND-SEEK IS 'GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD.'
LIKE HIDE-AND-SEEK EVERYONE EXCEPT THE PERSON WHO IS IT WILL HIDE
AND THE ONE WHO IS 'IT' WILL SEARCH FOR THEM. IF HE/SHE CATCHES
SOMEONE, THAT PERSON IS THE 'GHOST'S' HELPER AND HELPS HIM/HER
TRY TO CATCH THE REST. AFTER EVERYONE HAS BEEN CAUGHT OR EVERY-
ONE HAS REACHED 'GOOL' (FREE SPOT), THE FIRST ONE WHO WAS
CAUGHT IS 'IT.'"
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS DOWN IN OHIO A FEW YEARS AGO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: 04-00-1984