The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) / With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. Papyras Classics

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Chapter 3

List of Games

  • Accroshay.
  • All-hid.
  • All a Row.
  • All in the Well.
  • All the Birds in the Air.
  • All the Boys in our Town.
  • All the Fishes in the Sea.
  • All the Soldiers in the Town.
  • Allicomgreenzie.
  • Alligoshee.
  • Almonds and Reasons.
  • Angel and Devil.
  • Auntieloomie.
  • Babbity Bowster.
  • Bad.
  • Baddin.
  • Badger the Bear.
  • Bag o’ Malt.
  • Ball.
  • Ball and Bonnets.
  • Ball in the Decker.
  • Ball of Primrose.
  • Baloon.
  • Bandy-ball.
  • Bandy-cad.
  • Bandy-hoshoe.
  • Bandy-wicket.
  • Banger.
  • Bar.
  • Barbarie, King of the.
  • Barley-break.
  • Barnes (Mr.).
  • Base-ball.
  • Basket.
  • Battledore and Shuttlecock.
  • Bedlams or Relievo.
  • Beds.
  • Bell-horses.
  • Bellie-mantie.
  • Belly-blind.
  • Bend-leather.
  • Betsy Bungay.
  • Bicky.
  • Biddy-base.
  • Biggly.
  • Billet.
  • Billy-base.
  • Bingo.
  • Bird-apprentice.
  • Birds, Beasts, and Fishes.
  • Bittle-battle.
  • Bitty-base.
  • Black Man’s Tig.
  • Black Thorn.
  • Blind Bell.
  • Blind Bucky Davy.
  • Blind Harie.
  • Blind Hob.
  • Blind Man’s Buff.
  • Blind Man’s Stan.
  • Blind Nerry Mopsy.
  • Blind Palmie.
  • Blind Sim.
  • Block, Hammer, and Nail.
  • Blow-point.
  • Bob Cherry.
  • Boggle about the Stacks.
  • Boggle-bush.
  • Bonnety.
  • Booman.
  • Boss-out.
  • Boss and Span.
  • Boys and Girls.
  • Branks.
  • Bridgeboard.
  • Broken-down Tradesmen.
  • Brother Ebenezer.
  • Bubble-hole.
  • Bubble-justice.
  • Buck, Buck.
  • Buck i’ t’ Neucks.
  • Buckerels.
  • Buckey-how.
  • Buff.
  • Buk-hid.
  • Bull in the Park.
  • Bulliheisle.
  • Bummers.
  • Bun-hole.
  • Bunch of Ivy.
  • Bung the Bucket.
  • Bunting.
  • Burly Whush.
  • Buttons.
  • Buzz and Bandy.
  • Cache-pole.
  • Caiche.
  • Call-the-Guse.
  • Camp.
  • Canlie.
  • Capie-Hole.
  • Carrick.
  • Carry my Lady to London.
  • Carrying the Queen a Letter.
  • Cashhornie.
  • Castles.
  • Cat and Dog.
  • Cat-Beds.
  • Cat’s Cradle.
  • Cat-gallows.
  • Cat i’ the Hole.
  • Cat after Mouse.
  • Catchers.
  • Chacke-Blyndman.
  • Chance Bone.
  • Change Seats.
  • Checkstone.
  • Cherry Odds.
  • Cherry-pit.
  • Chicamy.
  • Chickidy Hand.
  • Chinnup.
  • Chinny-mumps.
  • Chock or Chock-hole.
  • Chow.
  • Chuck-farthing.
  • Chuck-hole.
  • Chucks.
  • Church and Mice.
  • Click.
  • Click, Clock, Cluck.
  • Clowt-clowt.
  • Clubby.
  • Coal under Candlestick.
  • Cob.
  • Cobbin-match.
  • Cobble.
  • Cobbler’s Hornpipe.
  • Cob-nut.
  • Cock.
  • Cock-battler.
  • Cock-fight.
  • Cock-haw.
  • Cock-stride.
  • Cockertie-hooie.
  • Cockle-bread.
  • Cockly-jock.
  • Cock’s-headling.
  • Cock-steddling.
  • Codlings.
  • Cogger.
  • Cogs.
  • Common.
  • Conkers.
  • Conquerors or Conkers.
  • Contrary, Rules of.
  • Cop-halfpenny.
  • Corsicrown.
  • Cots and Twisses.
  • Course o’ Park.
  • Crab-sowl.
  • Crates.
  • Cricket.
  • Crooky.
  • Cross and Pile.
  • Cross-bars.
  • Cross-questions.
  • Cross Tig.
  • Cry Notchil.
  • Cuck-ball.
  • Cuckoo.
  • Cuddy and the Powks.
  • Cudgel.
  • Curcuddie.
  • Curly Locks.
  • Currants and Raisins.
  • Cushion Dance.
  • Cutch a Cutchoo.
  • Cutters and Trucklers.
  • Dab.
  • Dab-an-thricker.
  • Dab-at-the-hole.
  • Dalies.
  • Davie-drap.
  • Deadily.
  • Diamond Ring.
  • Dibbs.
  • Dinah.
  • Dip o’ the Kit.
  • Dish-a-loof.
  • Doddart.
  • Doncaster Cherries.
  • Dools.
  • Down in the Valley.
  • Drab and Norr.
  • Draw a Pail of Water.
  • Drawing Dun out of the Mire.
  • Drop Handkerchief.
  • Dropping the Letter.
  • Duck under the Water.
  • Duck at the Table.
  • Duck Dance.
  • Duck Friar.
  • Ducks and Drakes.
  • Duckstone.
  • Duffan Ring.
  • Dumb Crambo.
  • Dumb Motions.
  • Dump.
  • Dumps.
  • Dust-point.
  • Eller Tree.
  • Ezzeka.
  • Father’s Fiddle.
  • Feed the Dove.
  • Find the Ring.
  • Fippeny Morrell.
  • Fire, Air, and Water.
  • Fivestones.
  • Flowers.
  • Follow my Gable.
  • Follow my Leader.
  • Fool, Fool, come to School.
  • Foot and Over.
  • Football.
  • Forfeits.
  • Fox.
  • Fox and Goose (1).
  • Fox and Geese (2).
  • Fox in the Fold.
  • Fox in the Hole.
  • French Jackie.
  • French and English.
  • French Blindman’s Buff.
  • Friar-rush.
  • Frincy-francy.
  • Frog-lope.
  • Frog in the Middle.
  • Gap.
  • Garden Gate.
  • Gegg.
  • Genteel Lady.
  • Ghost at the Well.
  • Giants.
  • Giddy.
  • Gilty-galty.
  • Gipsy.
  • Gled-wylie.
  • Glim-glam.
  • Gobs.
  • Green Grass.
  • Green Gravel.
  • Green Grow the Leaves (1).
  • Green Grow the Leaves (2).
  • Gully.
  • Hairry my Bossie.
  • Half-Hammer.
  • Han’-and-Hail.
  • Hand in and Hand out.
  • Handy-Croopen.
  • Handy Dandy.
  • Hap the Beds.
  • Hard Buttons.
  • Hare and Hounds.
  • Harie Hutcheon.
  • Hark the Robbers.
  • Hats in Holes.
  • Hattie.
  • Hawkey.
  • Headicks and Pinticks.
  • Heads and Tails.
  • Hecklebirnie.
  • Hen and Chicken.
  • Here comes a Lusty Wooer.
  • Here comes One Virgin.
  • Here I sit on a Cold Green Bank.
  • Here stands a Young Man.
  • Here we go around, around.
  • Here’s a Soldier.
  • Hewley Puley.
  • Hey Wullie Wine.
  • Hickety, Bickety.
  • Hickety-hackety.
  • Hick, Step, and Jump.
  • Hide and Seek (1).
  • Hide and Seek (2).
  • Hinch-Pinch.
  • Hinmost o’ Three.
  • Hirtschin Hairy.
  • Hiry-hag.
  • Hiss and Clap.
  • Hitch, Jamie, Stride and Loup.
  • Hitchapagy.
  • Hitchy Cock Ho.
  • Hity Tity.
  • Hoatie, Hots.
  • Hob-in-the-Hall.
  • Hockerty Cokerty.
  • Hockey.
  • Hoges.
  • Ho-go.
  • Hoilakes.
  • Holy Bang.
  • Honey Pots.
  • Hood.
  • Hoodle-cum-blind.
  • Hoodman Blind.
  • Hooper’s Hide.
  • Hop-crease.
  • Hop-frog.
  • Hop-score.
  • Hop-scotch.
  • Hop, Step, and Jump.
  • Hornie.
  • Hornie Holes.
  • Horns.
  • Hot Cockles.
  • How many Miles to Babylon.
  • Howly.
  • Huckie-buckie down the Brae.
  • Huckle-bones.
  • Hummie.
  • Hundreds.
  • Hunt the Hare.
  • Hunt the Slipper.
  • Hunt the Staigie.
  • Hunting.
  • Hurling.
  • Hurly-burly.
  • Huss.
  • Hustle Cap.
  • Hynny-pynny.
  • Isabella.
  • Jack’s Alive.
  • Jack, Jack, the Bread’s a-burning.
  • Jack upon the Mopstick.
  • Jackysteauns.
  • Jauping Paste-eggs.
  • Jenny Jones.
  • Jenny Mac.
  • Jib-Job-Jeremiah.
  • Jiddy-cum-jiddy.
  • Jingle-the-bonnet.
  • Jingo-ring.
  • Jinkie.
  • Jock and Jock’s Man.
  • Jockie Blind-man.
  • Joggle along.
  • Johnny Rover.
  • Jolly Fishermen.
  • Jolly Hooper.
  • Jolly Miller.
  • Jolly Rover.
  • Jolly Sailors.
  • Jowls.
  • Jud.
  • Keeling the Pot.
  • Keppy Ball.
  • Kibel and Nerspel.
  • King by your leave.
  • King Cæsar.
  • King Come-a-lay.
  • King of Cantland.
  • King o’ the Castle.
  • King Plaster Palacey.
  • King William.
  • King’s Chair.
  • Kirk the Gussie.
  • Kiss in the Ring.
  • Kit-cat.
  • Kit-cat-cannio.
  • Kittlie-cout.
  • Knapsack.
  • Knights.
  • Knocked at the Rapper.
  • Knor and Spell.
  • Lab.
  • Lady of the Land.
  • Lady on the Mountain.
  • Lady on Yonder Hill.
  • Lag.
  • Lammas.
  • Lamploo.
  • Lang Larence.
  • Leap Candle.
  • Leap-frog.
  • Leap the Bullock.
  • Leaves are Green.
  • Lend me your Key.
  • Letting the Buck out.
  • Level-coil.
  • Libbety-lat.
  • Limpy Coley.
  • Little Dog, I call you.
  • Lobber.
  • Loggats.
  • London.
  • London Bridge.
  • Long-duck.
  • Long Tag.
  • Long Tawl.
  • Long Terrace.
  • Loup the Bullocks.
  • Lubin.
  • Lug and a Bite.
  • Luggie.
  • Luking.
  • Mag.
  • Magic Whistle.
  • Magical Music.
  • Malaga Raisins.
  • Marbles.
  • Mary Brown.
  • Mary mixed a Pudding up.
  • Merrils.
  • Merritot.
  • Merry-ma-tansa.
  • Milking Pails.
  • Mineral, Animal, and Vegetable.
  • Minister’s Cat.
  • Mollish’s Land.
  • Monday, Tuesday.
  • Moolie Pudding.
  • More Sacks to the Mill.
  • Mother, may I go out to Play?
  • Mother Mop.
  • Mother, Mother, the Pot boils over.
  • Mount the Tin.
  • Mouse and the Cobbler.
  • Muffin Man.
  • Mulberry Bush.
  • Munshets.
  • Musical Chairs.
  • Nacks.
  • Namers and Guessers.
  • Neighbour.
  • Neivie-nick-nack.
  • Nettles.
  • New Squat.
  • Nine Holes.
  • Nine Men’s Morris.
  • Nip-srat-and-bite.
  • Nitch, Notch, No-Notch.
  • Not.
  • Noughts and Crosses.
  • Nur and Spel.
  • Nuts in May.