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Great big book of children's games : over 450 indoor and outdoor games for kids / written by Debra Wise ; illustrations by Sandy Forrest.

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New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2003. ©2003.

0071422463 (paperback)

9780071422468 (paperback)

318 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

The pre-game show (Heads or tails -- Which hand? -- Rock, paper, scissors -- High card/high roller -- Odds and evens -- Counting off -- Drawing straws -- Eeny, meeny, miney, mo -- Pick a number -- Hand over hand -- Volley for the serve) -- Card Games (Go fish -- Author -- Slapjack -- Snap -- Animal noises -- War -- World war -- Pisha pasha -- Persian war -- Snip snap snorem -- jig -- Beggar your neighbor -- Chase the ace -- Old maid -- Le Vieux Garcon -- Le Poullieux -- Go boom -- Scoring go boom -- Donkey -- Pig -- concentration -- Stealing bundles -- Card dominoes -- Give away -- Comet -- Rolling stone -- Crazy eights -- Quango -- Catch the ten -- I doubt it -- Commerce -- Trade and barter -- Play or pay -- Muggins -- Spit -- Knockout whist -- Knaves -- Linger longer -- Blackout -- Hearts -- Rummy -- Knock Rummy.

Round-the-corner rummy -- Boathouse rummy -- Queen city -- Call rummy -- Discard rummy -- Casino -- Royal casino) -- Mind games (I spy -- Alphabet I spy -- Wrong! -- Up, Jenkins! -- Odd bean -- Numbers -- Orchestra -- Total recall -- Going on a picnic -- Categories' going on a picnic -- Grandmother's trunk -- Rigmarole -- Name six -- Associations -- Association chain -- Who am I? -- What's my thought like? -- Assassin -- Buzz -- Fizz -- Buzz-fizz -- Twenty questions -- Virginia Woolf -- Charades -- Team charades -- Dumb crambo -- Botticelli -- Proverbs) -- Word games (Tongue twisters -- Word lightning -- Crambo -- Coffeepot -- Teakettle -- Preacher's cat -- Hangman -- Grab on behind -- Spelling bee -- Greedy spelling bee -- Backward spelling bee -- Right or wrong spelling bee -- Initials -- Initial answers -- Traveler's alphabet -- Geography -- Ghost -- Double ghost -- Letter ladder -- Name game -- Synonyms -- Hidden words.

Anagrams -- Jumbled words -- Categories -- Exchange categories -- Guggenheim -- Acrostics -- Crosswords -- Sentences -- Telegrams -- Taboo -- Password -- Word to word -- Dictionary -- Adverbs -- Team adverbs) -- Pencil-and-paper games (Tic-tac-toe -- Magic square tic-tac-toe -- Expanded tic-tac-toe -- Go-moku -- Magic square -- Number tic-tac-toe -- Tip-tap-toe -- Boxes -- Drawing in the dark -- The snake -- Two-color snakes -- Sprouts -- Find the fort -- Pairing numbers -- Buried treasure -- Swiss Navy -- Aggression -- Team aggression -- Crystals) Tabletop games (Bingo -- Tiddlywinks -- Castle -- Tiddlywinks golf -- Tiddlywinks race -- Blow soccer -- Paper football -- Shovelboard -- Shove soccer -- Squails -- Pick-up sticks -- Nim -- Draw dominoes -- Block dominoes -- Doubles -- Bergen -- Fifty -- Chicago -- Round the clock -- Going to Boston -- Multiplication -- Beetle -- Hearts due -- Drop dead -- Pig -- Shut the box -- Centennial.

Dice baseball -- Checkers -- French checkers -- Giveaway checkers -- Italian checkers -- Spanish checkers -- German checkers -- Russian checkers -- Dama -- Diagonal checkers -- Fox and geese -- Wolf and goats -- Checkers go-moku -- Chinese checkers -- Halma -- Pyramid -- Reversi -- Seega -- Lasca -- Tangram) -- Sidewalk and blacktop games (Hopscotch -- Japanese hopscotch -- Window hopscotch -- Jump rope -- Counting rhymes -- Ice cream soda -- Visiting -- Teddy bear -- 'A' my name is ... -- Follow the leader -- Double dutch -- Marbles -- Pyramid -- Boss out -- Knuckle box -- Shooting gallery -- Holey bang -- Jacks -- Eggs in a basket -- Crack the eggs -- Flying Dutchman -- Sequences -- Skully -- Marble Boccie -- Hole in one -- Roll a goal -- Cover it -- Touching the mummy -- Brother Jonathan -- Wall Jonathan -- Crack loo -- Fivestones -- London -- Card flipping -- Flipping for distance -- Flicking for the bowl).

Hunt and hide-and-seek games (Hot and cold -- Bean hunt -- Card hunt -- Puzzle hunt -- Huckle, buckle -- Beanstalk -- Hunt the key -- Hunt the ring -- Treasure hunt -- Scavenger hunt -- Magazine scavenger hunt -- Personalized scavenger hunt -- Hide-and-seek -- I spy -- Sheep and wolf -- Cops and robbers -- Kick the can -- Ghost in the graveyard -- Sardines -- Ring-a-levio) -- Races and relays (Obstacle course -- Toesies -- Apple on a string -- Red light, green light -- Mother, may I? -- Classic relay -- Bunny hop relay -- Kangaroo relay -- Newspaper walk -- One-foot relay -- Mixed relay -- Three-legged race -- Leapfrog -- Crab relay -- Sack race -- Piggy back race -- Wheelbarrow race -- Dizzy izzy -- Pick and cup -- Ring-on-a-string relay -- Doughnut-on-a-string.

Double pass -- Peanut race -- Flying fish relay -- Pass the orange -- Dress me -- Tunnel relay -- Balloon tunnel relay -- Hurry, waiter! -- Firefighter's race -- Straws and beans race -- Clothespin relay -- Potato relay -- Suitcase relay -- Gossip relay -- Two-minute walk) -- Tag and chase games (Follow the leader -- Tag -- Stoop tag -- Reverse tag -- Tree tag -- Chain tag -- Flashlight tag -- Shadow tag -- Freeze tag -- Cross tag -- Carry tag -- Skip tag -- Floating tag -- Duck, duck, goose -- Drop the handkerchief -- Run for your supper -- Cat and mouse -- Sewing up the gap -- Fox and geese chase -- Octopus -- Pom pom pullaway -- Rabbit -- Steal the bacon -- Hopping bases -- Red lion -- Poison -- Streets and alleys -- Running up the alleys -- Capture the flag -- Blind man's bluff -- Squal, pig, squeal -- Colin Maillard -- Thieves) -- Ball games (Around ball -- Astride ball -- Call ball -- Center ball -- Monkey in the middle -- Keep away -- Spud -- Baby in the air -- Catch the ball -- Dodge ball -- Prison dodge ball.

Greek dodge ball -- Bombardment -- Crossover dodge ball -- Firing squad dodge ball -- Circle dodge ball -- Hunter and rabbits -- Battleball -- Bounce ball -- Big black bug -- Charlie Chaplin -- Oliver Twist -- O'Leary -- Four square -- Stoopball -- Five-ten stoopball -- Sidewalk tennis -- Handball -- Doubles handball -- Handball tennis -- Kickball -- Beat ball -- batter's choice -- Newcomb -- Indian kickball -- Punt and catch -- Errors -- One old cat -- Pickle -- Bat ball -- Punchball -- Stickball -- Speedball -- Playground rounders -- Around the World -- Steal and dribble -- Twenty-one -- Shootout -- Horse -- One-goal basketball -- One man out -- Flying saucer golf -- Ultimate -- Playground soccer -- Soccer keep away -- Dribble deep away -- Crab soccer -- Sweep hockey) -- Strength and wrestling games (Tug-of-war -- Children's tug-of-war -- Triangular tug-of-war -- Red rover -- Bull in the ring -- King of the hill -- Shove winter out -- Stork fight.

Cockfighting -- Hand wrestling -- One-legged wrestling -- Arm wrestling -- Thumb wrestling -- Indian wrestling) -- Party games (Farmer in the dell -- Mulberry bush -- Ring around the rosey -- London Bridge -- Musical chairs -- Musical bumps -- Ownership musical chairs -- Musical hodgepodge -- Musical islands -- Musical statues -- Statues -- Gods and goddesses -- Kitty wants a corner -- Pass the present -- Mystery parcel -- Spider web -- Telephone -- Taste test -- Limbo contest -- Simon says -- Do this, do that -- Pin the tail on the donkey -- Pin the airplane on the map -- Piñata -- Bubble blow -- Avenue goals -- Overhead goals -- Balloon volleyball -- Blow volleyball -- Balloon Basketball -- Bobbing for apples -- Hot potato -- Musical hot potato -- Beanbag toss -- Holey board game -- Egg toss -- Water balloon toss -- Bottle fishing).

Water games (How many ways to get there? -- Water follow the leader -- Still pond -- Sharks and minnows -- Fisherman -- Whale and herring -- White whale -- Marco Polo -- Underwater tag -- Water rope tag -- Tunner race -- Water relay race -- Umbrella race -- Hoop race -- Water balloon race -- Pebble carry -- Waterball carry -- Sweatshirt race -- Potato race -- Diving for distance -- Cannonball contest -- Treasure diving -- Water keep away -- Poison balls -- Water ball -- Water baseball -- Player at bat -- Water basketball -- Water volleyball -- Chicken fights -- Tube polo -- Pool polo) -- Road games (Alphabet objects -- Billboard Alphabet -- Travel scavenger hunt -- Automobile -- Motor bingo -- Ten pairs -- License plate spelling -- License place phrases -- One hundred points -- Find all 50 -- Bordering plate -- License plate poker -- Name that tune -- Car snap -- Color collection -- Name the car -- Time and distance -- How far have we gone?).

New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2003.

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