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Playing the Dozens

A game played by Inner city youths where any number of
participants could play, but as the game progressed by
embarrassing the players with comments about their families the
players steadily decreased until only two were left and the winner
was decided by how bad the remaining players could make the crowd
laugh with comments again about the other player's family.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; RIVER ROUGE

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime

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