You jest, but... (Off-Topic)

by Funkmon , Monday, January 29, 2018, 13:13 (2277 days ago) @ ManKitten

Every kick the can is so different!

When it was just us boys playing, we used a tackling system for the guard with football rules of being down. If you got properly tackled, you were out and sat in jail. The winner was either the first guy to kick the can or the guard, then the game ended and we played rock paper scissors or shot for it or whatever for the next warden.

If we had girls or younger kids, we did a standard tag system, and if you got tagged you went to jail. If it was a kid or girl who was It, then kicking the can just released a player from jail. The guard of the can lost if he let at least the number of people playing the game out of jail, or he won if he tagged out enough people.

I have not heard of this line of sight variation.

That said, it sounds like our standard hide and seek. You call the kid's name and where he is hiding, and he is out.

Then there was hide and seek tag, where you have to tag the guy.

Then there was hide and seek home base where you call them out, have to tag them, but if they can reach the tree in the center of the playing field, they are safe.

So it seems like a natural variation.

One time me and my friend invented cricket independently.