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Melody Play ⓘ "Mary Mack" ("Miss Mary Mack") is a clapping game of unknown origin. It is first attested in the book The Counting Out Rhymes of Children by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888), whose version was collected in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
A clapping game (or hand game) is a type of usually cooperative (i.e., non-competitive) game which is generally played by two players and involves clapping as a rhythmic accompaniment to a singing game or reciting of a rhyme, often nursery rhymes. Clapping games are found throughout the world and similar games may be known throughout large ...
"Stella Ella Ola" (Stella Stella Ola), also known as "Quack Dilly Oso", is a clapping game where players stand or sit in a circle placing one hand over their neighbour's closer hand and sing the song. On every beat, a person claps their higher hand onto the touching person's palm.
Down Down Baby" (also known as "Roller Coaster" [1] [2]) is a clapping game played by children in English-speaking countries. In the game, two or more children stand in a circle, and clap hands in tune to a rhyming song. It has been used in various songs and media productions since the mid 20th century. [3]
Red hands is a game from , [1] also known as hot hands, [2] [3] slapsies, [4] [5] slap jack, red tomato, Pope slap, tennis, slaps, chicken, slappy-patties, or simply the hand slap game, [6] is a children's game which can be played by two players. One player extends their hands forward, roughly at arm's length, with the palms down.
A game with a rollover amount of 1 is the trivial game, because all hands start dead. A game with a rollover amount of 2 is degenerate, because splitting is impossible, and the rollover and cutoff variations result in the same game. Hands are either alive and dead, with no middle state, and attacking a hand kills the hand.
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The cup game is a children's clapping game that involves tapping and hitting a cup using a defined rhythm. The game can be played by many players seated around a table and is often played in large groups. Each player possesses a cup and in unison the players tap out the defined rhythm using their cups.