Talk:Hide-and-seek

Correct german phrases of the game

The german phrase written here "Alles, Alles auch so ein frei!" is grammatical nonsense and I (a german) have never heard it! However, from the phonetics of "Ollie Ollie oxen free" it may have once have been "Alle, alle auch seien frei", meaning "All, all shall be free too" with "seien" as the plural whishing form of to be. Now, the phrase I grew up with is: "Alle, alle rauskommen!", which means "All, all come out!" There is also a standard phrase at the end of the counting during the hiding stage in german that runs: "...98, 99, 100 - Eckstein, Eckstein, alles muss versteckt sein! Neben mir und hinter mir da zählt es nicht!" This one makes a rhime in german and can be translated as: "Cornerstone, cornerstone, everything has to be hidden. Next to me and behind me doesnt count!" One can argue, whether the "Eckstein" is only there to make the rhime or whether it relates to the boundaries of the (rectangular?) playing field, as if there was a long version defining the valid area by its diagonal like "From cornerstone to cornerstone everything has to be hidden..." signed : pizzazz, 2nd June 2013 (UTC)

Merging?

Cocky Olly, barring the name and cry, sounds extremely akin to the form of hide-and-seek I played when I was very young. Forty-forty also sounds like a hide-and-go-seek game. It seems to me that they should be merged with this hide-and-seek article, but that's up to you. I also remember that growing up, we distinguished between hide-and-go-seek and hide-and-go-seek tag. That was literally what we called them. This was about a decade ago. (Now no kids I meet even realise there was such a thing as a no-tag hide-and-seek). Should there be a mention of this distinction? Hey, is "A, B, C, base on me!" mentioned anywhere?

Counting for "Ghost in the Graveyard"

Growing up, when we played "ghost in the graveyard", there was a specific rhyme for counting to give the hider(s) enough time. Did anyone else say this, or is it just a regional variant?

One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock rock (two pounds or stomps) Four o'clock, five o'clock, six o'clock rock (pound pound) Seven o'clock, eight o'clock, nine o'clock rock (pound pound) Ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, midnight!

sometimes, we would say it twice, and the first "twelve o'clock" position would be "lunchtime!", and the second one would be "midnight"

if others are familiar with this, I could add it in (especially since there is the mention of "one-Mississippi")

≈== Origin? ==

Ohio??

I am so baffled by this sentence that I don't even feel confident about changing or removing it: 'In Ohio, a hider must yell "free" when he touches base or he can still be tagged out.' I definitely grew up playing this version (though not exclusively) in New England. Is there any reason to think this variant is specific to Ohio? It looks like this sentence has been in the article since at least 2017 so maybe I'm the weird one for questioning it? Thanks, hide-and-seekers! Pontmercy (talk) 02:05, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Shouldn’t there be a section “in popular culture”, or something similar?

If you click the link for “Hide and Seek (disambiguation)” there are many movies, books, television shows, and music based on this game. Although it is a bit confusing because some of them have the name “hide and seek”, but are not actually based on the game. And what made me think of this is the movie called “Ready or Not (2019 film)”, which is definitely based on the game, even though it has a different name.

Subs99 (talk) 05:41, 23 April 2022 (UTC)