Prompt 6 of 7
Name a playground game
88 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Knucklebones— Jacks' ancestor, played with real sheep ankle bones in ancient Greece.
85 ptsDeep Cut29 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Cat's cradle
- Champ
- Conkers
- Crack the whip
- Down by the banks
- Down down baby
- Downball
- Egg and spoon race
- Elastics
- Five hundred
- Forty forty in
- Gilli danda
- Grandmother's footsteps
- Kabaddi
- Kerby
- Kho kho
- Kiss chase
- Lagori
- Langdi
- Miss Mary Mack
- Octopus
- Oranges and lemons
- Pickle
- Poison ball
- Red hands
- Skully
- Statues
- Steal the bacon
- Stuck in the mud
60 ptsRare25 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Blind man's bluff
- Butts up
- Cooties
- Four corners
- Freeze dance
- Gaga ball
- Ghost in the graveyard
- Grounders
- Hacky sack
- Hot potato
- Jacks
- Lava monster
- Leapfrog
- London Bridge
- Manhunt
- Relay race
- Ring around the rosie
- Sack race
- Sardines
- Spud
- Stickball
- Tetherball
- Three-legged race
- Thumb war
- What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf?
30 ptsSchooler27 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Capture the flag
- Cops and robbers
- Dodgeball
- Duck duck goose
- Freeze tag
- Handball
- Heads up, seven up
- HORSE
- Jump rope
- Keep away
- Kickball
- King of the hill
- Knockout
- Marbles
- Marco Polo
- Mother May I?
- Musical chairs
- Patty-cake
- Red light green light
- Red rover
- Rock paper scissors
- Sharks and minnows
- Simon says
- Telephone
- The floor is lava
- Tug of war
- Wall ball
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- British Bulldog— Repeatedly banned by British schools, which is half its legend.
- Kick the can— Hide-and-seek where kicking the can jailbreaks everyone caught.
10 ptsPlankton4 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Four square
- Hide and seek
- Hopscotch
- Tag