COMENIUS NEWSPAPER
SECOND EDITION, JUNE 2009
PEEK-A-BOO (hide-and-seek) is a popular kid’s game, best to be played in a wood or at large areas full of various things in which (or behind which) kids can hide their bodies. Thus also a bigger house can be a suitable locality. Purpose of this game is to hide oneself so that the seeking person does not find the hidden person and, reversely, so that the hidden one gets to the place (“Home Base”) where at the beginning the seeking one counted out, with his eyes closed, a number agreed in advance; the rest of participants must, during such counting out, hide themselves and the seeking one as soon as he completes counting (...ending with: “Ready or not, here I come”) goes to look for the hidden ones. The hidden ones are trying to get unwatched to “Home Base” so that the seeking one does not see them. If the seeking one sees a hidden one, he runs to “Home Base” and must get there sooner than the hidden one (he usually calls: “Ten, twenty and name of the hidden
Hunting game (tag). Group of players usually move in a delimited area. One hunts all the others and tries to “tag” someone. If hunter flaps a competitor by his palm, he gives him his role by touching. “No tag -backs” - new hunter cannot “tag” the person who has just “tagged” him. Squirrel tag. We mark circles for squirrel tag. Players then run from circle to circle, from stone to stone as squirrels run from tree to tree. The hunting one represents a marten, an archenemy of squirrels. If marten catches a squirrel at esplanade, both players change their roles.
child”). Dodgeball is a kid' ball game where players try to hit competitor by ball and to get him out of the game this way. Team game Usually two teams are playing against each other; each of the teams occupies one half of the playing court. Each team has its captain who stands out the field behind the competitor's half. At the beginning of the game it is decided by a lot who has ball. Ball must be loaded, it means that a player must first catch ball thrown by another player, than he can try to hit any of competitors by ball. The player who is hit is out of the game and goes out the playing field behind the competitor's half. There he can participate in game (set balls, hit). Hit from the ground or from the wall does not apply. A player can also save himself if he catches ball. Steps with ball are not allowed. When all players are out of the playing field, the captain goes into game as the last one. The winning team is the team that hits all competitors, eventually hits more competitors in time limit. There is also variation all against everyone where each player plays for himself. Players can freely move on whole playing area, they try to get the ball and hit the others by the ball. Who is hit, is out of the game. When only several players stay in game, the playing field is usually made smaller so that the remaining players can more easily hit themselves. It is played until the last 18