Counting-out Game

A counting-out game is a simple game intended to select a person to be "it," often for the purpose of playing another game. Some counting-out games are
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • Odds or Evens
  • Coin flipping
  • Drawing straws - player with the shortest straw loses.
  • Buzz
Many such games involve counting round a circle of players to a rhyme. The player the last word lands on is out. Common rhymes are:
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
Catch a tiger by his toe
If he hollers, let him go
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
(Variations can include "catch a monkey", "catch a tinker", "catch a turkey", depending on where you're from.)
  • One potato, two potato - players may start with both fists (to resemble potatoes) in, so have to be got twice to be out.
One potato, two potato
Three potato, four,
Five potato, six potato,
Seven potato, more,
One big bad spud.
  • Ink-a-bink (Last two lines added if the chooser happens to like the person singled out by the "stink")
Ink-a-bink
A bottle of ink
Cork fell out and you stink
My mother told me to pick the very best one and
You are not it
Tinker, Tailor,
Soldier, Sailor,
Rich man, Poor man,
Beggar Man, Thief.
Another way goes:
Rich man, poor man,
Beggar man, thief.
Doctor, lawyer,
Indian chief!

 

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