Counting-out game
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title:
Counting-out game
text:
A counting-out game or counting-out rhyme is a simple method of 'randomly' selecting a person from a group, often used by children for the purpose of playing another game. It usually requires no materials, and is achieved with spoken words or hand gestures. The historian Henry Carrington Bolton suggested in his 1888 book Counting Out Rhymes of Children that the custom of counting out originated in the "superstitious practices of divination by lots." Many such methods involve one person pointing
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Children's method of selecting a person
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting-out_game
date created:
2001-06-10T04:00:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T01:23:15Z
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