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All answers to “Name a playground or party game”
133 accepted answers, from “Balloon pop” to “Yo-yo”. The level of each one is hidden: play to see how deep it sinks.
B
- Balloon popalso Balloon stomp
- Bar-the-dooralso Barley
- Bear huntalso Going on a bear hunt
- Blind man's buffalso Blind man's bluff
- Bobbing for applesalso Apple bobbing
- British bulldogalso Bulldog
- Bullrushalso Bull rush, Bullrushes
C
- Capture the flag
- Cat and mouse
- Cat's cradle
- Charades
- Chicken fightalso Chicken
- Chinese whispersalso Telephone, Broken telephone
- Chocolate gamealso Chocolate dice game
- Conkers
- Consequences
- Cops and robbers
- Cornersalso Four corners
- Cup and ballalso Bilboquet, Kendama
D
- Diabolo
- Doctor doctor
- Dodgeball
- Doggy doggy where's your bonealso Doggie doggie where's your bone
- Dragon's tailalso Catch the dragon's tail
- Drop the handkerchiefalso Drop the hanky
- Duck duck goosealso Duck, duck, goose, Duck duck grey duck
E
- Egg and spoon race
- Elasticsalso French skipping, Chinese jump rope
- Escargotalso Snail hopscotch
F
- Five stones
- Follow the leader
- Forfeits
- Fortune telleralso Cootie catcher, Chatterbox
- Four squarealso Foursquare
- Fox and geese
- Freeze tagalso Stuck in the mud
G
- Ghost in the graveyard
- Gilli-dandaalso Gilli danda, Tip-cat, Tipcat
- Grandmother's footstepsalso Grandma's footsteps
H
- Hacky sackalso Footbag
- Hangman
- Heads down thumbs upalso Heads up seven up, Heads up, seven up
- Here we go round the mulberry bushalso Mulberry bush
- Hide and seekalso Hide-and-seek
- Hide the thimblealso Hunt the thimble
- Hokey cokeyalso Hokey pokey
- Hoop rollingalso Hoop and stick
- Hopscotch
- Hot and cold
- Hot potato
- Hula hoopalso Hula hooping
I
- I spy
J
- Jacksalso Knucklebones
- Jianzialso Shuttlecock kicking
- Jump ropealso Skipping, Skipping rope
K
- Kabaddi
- Kerbyalso Curby
- Kerplunkalso Kerplunk!
- Kho kho
- Kick the can
- Kingyalso King ball
- Kiss chase
- Knock down gingeralso Ding dong ditch, Knock knock ginger
L
- Lagorialso Seven stones, Pittu
- Leapfrog
- Limbo
- London Bridge is falling downalso London Bridge
- Looby Loo
M
- Marbles
- Marco Polo
- Mother may Ialso Mother may I?
- Musical bumps
- Musical chairs
- Musical cushions
- Musical statues
N
- Never have I ever
- Noughts and crossesalso Tic-tac-toe, Tic tac toe
- Nuts in May
O
- Off-ground tagalso Off ground touch
- Oonch neechalso High and low
- Oranges and lemons
P
- Pass the orange
- Pass the parcel
- Pass the slipperalso Hunt the slipper
- Pat-a-cakealso Patty cake, Clapping games
- Pick-up sticksalso Spillikins, Jackstraws, Mikado
- Piggy in the middlealso Monkey in the middle, Keep away
- Pin the tail on the donkey
- Piñataalso Pinata
- Poohsticksalso Pooh sticks
- Postman's knock
- Prisoner's base
Q
- Queeniealso Queenie-I-O
R
- Red light green lightalso Red light, green light
- Red rover
- Ring a ring o' rosesalso Ring around the rosie, Ring a ring a roses
- Ring taw
- Ringolevio
- Rock paper scissorsalso Rock, paper, scissors
- Run sheep run
S
- Sack race
- Sardines
- Seven minutes in heaven
- Sevensalso Ball sevens
- Shadow tag
- Sharks and minnowsalso Fishes and sharks
- Simon says
- Sleeping lions
- Snapdragon
- Spin the bottle
- Spinning topalso Top
- Splat
- Spud
- Squeak piggy squeak
- Statues
- Stingers
T
- Tagalso Tig, It, Tick, Chase, Tiggy
- Tetherball
- The farmer's in his denalso Farmer in the dell
- Three-legged race
- Tiggy-touchwoodalso Touchwood
- Treasure huntalso Scavenger hunt
- Truth or dare
- Tug of waralso Tug-of-war
- Twenty questionsalso 20 questions
- Twister
- Two truths and a lie
W
- Wall ballalso Butts up
- What's the time, Mr Wolf?also What's the time Mr Wolf, Mr Wolf
- Wheelbarrow race
- Wink murderalso Murder in the dark, Mafia, Werewolf
- Would you rather
Y
- Yo-yoalso Yoyo
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