Archive for the ‘guessing’ Category

What am I Doing?

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Child On A Swing

The players seat themselves in a row and the leader of the game takes his place behind them, beginning at the up of the row. He makes some absurd gesture and then asks the person behind whom he is standing “What am I doing?” If the player replies incorrectly, and he generally does, he is doomed to stand up and imitate in silence the gesture he could not guess, until he has leave to sit down.

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Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain

This and That

Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Kids Pointing to this and that

A confederate is necessary for this trick. The one performing the trick goes out of the room and the confederate agrees with the audience to touch a certain article. The person outside is recalled and his confederate begins to question him. “Did I touch this music book?” “No.” “Did I touch this table?” “No.” “Did I touch this knife?” “No.” “Did I touch that fork?” “Yes.” The secret consists in saying the word “that” before the article touched instead of “this.”

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Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain

Think of a Number

Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Kids Numbers

In this game the leader tells one of the players to think of any number he likes, but not to say it aloud.

He next tells him to double it; this done, the player is told to add eight to the result, and then halve it. After doing this he must halve the whole, and from what is left take away the number first thought of. If correctly worked out the answer will he four, which is just half the number which the leader told the player to add after the original number was doubled.

For instance, we will suppose the number thought of to have been twenty. When doubled, the result will be forty. The player then adds eight, which gives him a total of forty eight. He halves this, and has twenty-four left. When he has taken away the number first thought of (twenty) he has a total of four-which is half the number the leader told him to add in the beginning at the game.

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Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain

Hiss and Clap

Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Kid’s Party Games

Filed under: “How to permanently scar your child.” Hiss and Clap is a random game, that punishes participants for making the wrong decision. It reminds me of the opening scene of Ghost Busters, where Bill Murray is doing paranormal + psychic on testing college students and administering electric shocks as negative re-enforcement.
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Button, Button

Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Children Playing Games

All the children except the one who passes the button sit in a circle with hands placed palm to palm in their laps.

The child passing the button holds it between her palms and goes to each one, in turn, slipping her hands between the palms of the children. As she goes around the circle she drops the button into some child’s hands, but continues going around as long after as she pleases, so the rest will not know who has it.

Then she stads in the middle of the circle and says: “Button, button, who has the button?” All the children guess who has it, the one calling out the correct name first is out and it is his turn to go around with the button.

Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain

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