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A and B
A.B.C.D.F.G. etc
Across the row
Adam and Ell
A house to let etc.
Alley gobs
All hands on deck
All in the rope
All in together etc.
All over the world
All sorts
All the boys etc.
All the way to London
All the winkles
Along the row
American jump
Anchor-crown-head
Animal blind man's buff
A pin to look at the poppy-show
Apple-tree pear-tree etc.
Arm's length
As I was going etc.
As I was walking etc.
Babble
Babes in bed
Babes in the well
Baby
Back scalings
Backy-o
Back you
Bagatelle
Ball in cap
Bangings (bang-out)
Banker (bank)
Base
Basket-ball
Baskets
Battlements
Battle of Waterloo
Beast bird fish flower
Beat your neighbour out of
doors
Bedlam
Big Ben strikes one
Bill Baily
Black and blue
Black in topper
Blind donkey
Blind Sam
Blowings (blows or blowums)
Blue boy
Boat race
Boats
Body-building
Bogie man
Books
Boot in the tub
Boots shoes tips or nails
Borrow a light
Bounce-ball
Bounce-eye
Bowling in the hole
Box nuts
Boys' names
Brag
Brass band
Brave news is come etc.
Bread and butter
Bridge-board
Bridges
British workman
Broken bottle
Buck and four
Buck buck etc.
Bull-dog race
Bulls eye
Bumpers (bumpums)
B—touch
Bung
Bung in the barrel
Bunny rabbit
Bushel basket
Bus horses
Buttons
Buttons in the ring
Buzz
Callings in etc.
Cannon balls
Cap it
Cap telling
Carlow
Caroline Brown etc.
Caroline Pink etc.
Carriages
Carrying crocodiles' food
Carrying the old woman's
washing
Carts and horses
Castles
Cat and dog
Cat and mouse
Catch
Catchers
Catching stones
Catching the falling wand
Catch in the long rope
Catch-in-the-rope
Catch the rider
Cat on hot bricks
Cat o' nine tails
Centre ball
Chalk-chase
Changes
Charge of the light brigade
Charlie Arlie etc.
Charlie likes whisky
Cherry games
Chimney-pots
Chinese orders
Chinese Yum-Yum
Ching Chang Chinaman
Chipping out of the ring
Chipstone
Chivy chase
Choose the one etc.
Chuck-farden
Chucking
Cinderella-umberella
Circle stride ball
Coaler
Coat
Cobbler
Cobbler cobbler etc.
Cook and hen fight
Cook robin is dead
Cook-shies
Cock-shy
Cold meat mutton pies
Cold pies
Colours
Come in my garden
Come on Amy
Come to see poor Mary
Con-stant-i-no-ple
Convicts and warders
Corner catch ball
Country
Cowboys-Indians
Cricket
Cross-ball
Crossing the waters etc.
Cross touch
Crownings
Crow's nest
Cunjer
Cut-a-lump (cutter)
Daddy red-cap (green-cap)
Daggles
Dan Dan thread your needle
Dancing Dolly
Darts
Date-hogs
Day and night
Days of the year
Dead man's rise (dark scenery)
Dead soldiers
Deaf and dumb Moses
Deliver up the golden jewels
Deliver your luggage
Dicings
Difficulty
Dob 'em
Doing each other's dags
Doll
Dolly dear etc.
Donkey
Dot-boxes (dots)
Double Dutch
Double say-go
Double touch
Down by the river etc.
Down in the valley etc.
Do you like silver etc.
Drag-lag
Drop them (drops)
Drums
Duck
Ducking mummy
Dumb motions
Dumping (dumpling)
Dunce dunce double D.
Dustholes
Duty four
Eaper Weaper
Early in the morning
Eating fish and potatoes
Ee
Egg and spoon relay
Egg in a duck's belly
Egg-in-cap (egget)
Egg in the spoon
Eggs
Eggs and bacon
Eggs in the bush
Eight o'clock bells etc.
Eights
Elbow touch
Elephants' trunks and tails
Emperor ball
Ener Dena etc.
Evie Ivy over
Fag-out
Fairy chase
Farmer left his hat behind
Father give me a ha'penny
Fetching home
Fiddle-de-dee
Fie SaUy cry Sally
Fight for the flag
Filling the gap
Finger in the bird's nest
Finger on the block
Fire
Fire engines
Fish away Jack
Fishing
Fishing for oysters
Five hundred monkeys up
Fivers
Fives six times
Five-stones
Five-ten
Five ten fifteen twenty
Flag race
Flies round the jam-pot
Flower-pots
Fly dobs
Fly Dutchman
Flying angels
Flying the garter
Follow on
Follow the leader
Follow your mother to market
Fool fool etc.
Foot and lee
Football-cricket
Foot it
Forty
Four corners
Four holes
Four little chickens etc.
Fours
Four ways to London
Fox and hounds
Fox come out of your den
Fox-hunting
French blind man's buff
French cricket
French foot
French hop-scotch
French packet
French touch
Fried eggs and a rasher
Frog in field (in middle in
water)
Frogs .
Fuel for the fire
Pull-stop
Full-stop and comma
Gammon rasher
Germans-English
Getting in the ring
Getting on
Girls' names
Give a join
Gladys Gladys etc.
Glasgow
Glory
Goodbye May etc.
Goose-gander
Go-gulley
Going up
Golden goose
Go your way
Grandmother Gray
Granny witch
Green gravel etc.
Green man rise-o
Grottoes
Grudges
Grulley
Guarding the stake
Guessing with three (six) cards
Guessing words
Gulley games
Gutter marbles
Haberdasher isher etc.
Had you last
Half a pint of porter etc.
Half a pound of bacon
Hammers on
Hand ball
Hands off
Handy-pandy etc.
Hare and hounds
Harem skirt
Hark the robbers etc.
Hatching eggs
Hat under the moon
Hawk and dove
Haystack
He
Head and shoulders
Head game
Help touch
Here comes a little bird etc.
Here comes my ship full sail
Here comes our jolly sailors
Here come three dukes etc.
Here we come gathering nuts
Here we go loobeloo etc.
Here we go round the mulberry
bush
Here we go up the mulberry tree
Hesling
Hide and seek
Hiding hats etc.
Hiding steps
Higher and higher
High treason
High water
Hit it have it (leave it)
Hits and spans
Hitting the mummy
Hitting the sun
Hoky poky etc.
Home four
Home it
Honey pots
Hook and cap
Hook and eye
Hoop and skip
Hoopla for choklitts
Hoops
Hop and charge
Hop o' my thumb
Hopping all the way to church
Hopping Jinny
Hopping round Big Ben
Hopping to London
Hop-scotch
Hop step and jump
Hop there and back again
Hop touch
Horse soldiers
Hospitals
Hot boiled beans etc.
Hot cockles and hot mustard
Hot pies
Hot rice
Hot rolls
Hot soup
How far can you run
How when and where
Hully-gully
Humble-bumble
Hundred wing
Hush-a-larly etc.
I am a little beggar girl
I am a little shadow
I bought a donkey (a penny doll)
I can do the tango
Ickamy-ickamy-co
I fell into a box of eggs
I had a black man etc.
I had a bloke etc.
I had a dolly etc.
I know a doctor etc.
I know a girl etc.
I know a washerwoman etc.
I'll tell ma etc.
I'll tell mother etc.
In and out the windows
Inch it up
Indian club relay
Inner and outer
Inners and outers
I-N spells in
In the hat
In the ring
In the ring farthest
In the square
I sent a letter etc.
I spy etc.
I spy eggs and bacon
I spy—spit in your eye
I spy with one eye
I was in the garden
I went down Piccadilly
I went down the lane etc.
I went to the animal show
I will apprentice my son etc.
Jack
Jack around
Jack Horner
Jacob and Rachel
Jenny pluck peas
Jocky whack
John Brown's knapsack
Jumbo had a baby
Jumping the brook
Jupiter
Kick-can policeman
Kicks
Killing
King
King Caesar
King John says so
King of the Barbary
King's dinner
Knock 'em down
Knock him down donkey
Knock him down have him
Knocking Dolly out o' bed
Knocking down (out o' bed)
Ginger
Knocking three's
Knocking up three catchers
Knucks
Lady lady etc.
Ladysmith
Lamp away
Lamp-post
Last across
Last man standing
Last one home
Laugh and cry
Lay the cloth etc.
Leading the blind horse etc.
Learn your A. B. C.
Leave the rope
Leg-along
Let go must go
Lig-a-log
Light mother's copper fire
Light the fire etc.
Little Mary Anne etc.
Little Sally Sanders
Live o's
Lobster
London
London Bridge
London Bridge is broken down
Long hop-scotch
Long run
Looking for mother's thimble
Looking glass
Looking through the keyhole
Look upon the mantel-piece
Lost letter
L. S. D.
Mabel Mabel etc.
Mackintosh
Mademoiselle went to the well
Magic writing
Maps
Marble-board
Marbles
Mary had bread etc.
Mary Mary
Ma she said etc.
Match
Merry month of May
Messengers (messages)
Miller's sack
Mischief
Missings out
Moggies on the wall
Monday night etc.
Monday-Tuesday
Monkey in the wood
Mop cherry-stones
Moscow
Mother buy me etc.
Mother got the hooping cough
Mother I'm over the water
Mother made a seedy cake
Mother may I go out
Mother mother etc.
Mothers and fathers
Mouse in the copper
Mouse in the trap
Mousetrap
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Brown went to town
Mud-carts
Mud-pies
Mussentouehet
My birdie whistles
My father had an old shoe
My mother said etc.
My mother sent me etc.
My name is sweet Jennie etc.
My sister Jane
My son John etc.
My young man etc.
Nails
Nap
Naughty girl
Nearest the line takes
Nearest the wall (spins up
takes)
Nebuchadnezzar
Nelson
Never leave the rope empty
Newspapers
Nibby-cap
Nibs
Nick naok tolly whack
Nicko midnight
Nip
Nixie
Nixy's in the hole etc.
Nocks
No man standing
Non-stop touch
North south etc.
Noughts and crosses
Now I'm off etc.
Now we' re on the battlefield
Numbers
Nurses
Nuts in cap
Oats and beans etc.
Odd man spins
O dear me etc.
Off-ground touch
Old aunt Sally
Old daddy witches
Old devil in fire
Old mother Mason etc.
Old mother roundabout
Old Roger is dead etc.
One and out
One fair maid a-dancing
One in the middle
One more no more
One stand up ones'es
One-two
One two buckle my shoe
One two three
One-two-three-and-a-lairy
On the carpet etc.
On the mountain
On the stick
Oranges and lemons
Oranges oranges etc.
O tonight is Saturday night
Our boots are made etc.
Outings
Out of bounds
Overs keeps
Overlappings
Over the garden wall
Over the line
Over the moon
Over the wall etc.
Oxen-crosses
Oxford boys
Palm over
Paper-chase
Papers
Paper truncheons
Parson's cat
Parvy
Passing round
Pass over
Pease cods
Peep
Peeping behind the curtain
Pegging
Peg in the ring
Penny in the water etc.
Penny three halfpence etc.
Penny-tuppence
Pet post
Picking leaves
Picking numbers
Picking the bloater
Picking the plums
Pickle cabbage
Pickses
Picture or blank
Pictures
Pieman
Pigeon-hole
Piggy backs
Piggy on the railway etc.
Pig in the pot
Piling the donkey
Pin button or marble
P...e
Pitch and toss
Pitching
Pitching in the block; pitching
under
Pitching in (on) the hat; up
the wall
Pitching up the line
Pitch out
Placing
Plates and dishes
Please we 've come etc.
Please will you lend etc.
Point
Poke in the hole
Policeman
Policeman policeman etc.
Polish banker
Polly goes to bed
Polly put the kettle on
Polly tell me the time
Polly what's the time
Polly witch
Pontoon
Poor Jennie is a-weeping
Poor Polly can't see
Pork and greens
Porky
Porter collecting tickets
Postman
Postman relay
Postman's knock
Potato-shooters
Potty
Pounds shillings and pence
Pretty and ugly
Pretty statues
Pudding
Pudding and beef
Pull for the shore sailor
Pulling bones etc.; pulling legs
Pulling out father's rhubarb.
Punch-ball
Punctured tyre
Pushy back
Puss
Puss in the corner
Pussy cat
Putting the Kaiser's whiskers
Queen Anne etc.
Queenie
Queen king etc.
Queen Mab (Anne)
Quoits
Rabbit in the hutch
Race to Berlin
Race for a leaf
Racing to London
Railway line
Railway race
Railway stations
Raps on the bugle
Rat a tat etc.
Red rover
Red white and blue
Rein horses
Release
Relievo
Ring-a-ring o' roses
Ringing the stone
Ringums
Robbers and coppers
Robin snatch
Rock the cradle
Rolling pin
Roman candles
Rosy apples lemon etc.
Rotten (cracked) egg
Rounders
Round the block
Row marbles
Rugby scrum
Run a mile for a halfpenny
Run and skip
Running in and out the blue-bells
Running too fast
Runs
R. White's gingerbeer etc.
Sailor
Sailor boy
Saint George and his merry men
Sally go round the moon
Sally round the jam-pot
Sally Sally Water
Salmon fishing
Sam Sam etc.
Sausage
Saving baby's life
Savoy (saveloy)
Scaling up the ring
Schoolboys
Schools
Scissors
Scoring
Scotch and English
Scouts
Scrapings
See you across
Seizing sticks
Send a letter etc.
Sending letter to Canada
Sending messages
Serving your country etc.
Sets
Sevens
Shadow-he
Sheep sheep come home
Shoeing the wild horse
Shooting the moon
Shooting the stars
Shops
Shove ha'penny
Showing no ivory
Shows-up
Show three faces: go
Shrimps
Shuffing the money
Shuffles
Shunting engines
Shuttlecock shuttlecock etc.
Shying over the moon
Sift the grapes
Singles
Single say-go
Sisters
Sitting on the star Mary
Size of your boot
Skate them
Skating
Skinning a rabbit
Skipping
Skittles
Skittles knock 'em down
Slap-dap
Sleighs
Slow skip what you like
Sly fox
Smashing your grandma's windows
Snail
Snakes
Snap
Snowfalls
Snow-white
Soldiers
Soldier soldier etc.
Solomon silent reading
Some one's under the bed
Some or none
Soppy soldier
Spans (spanners)
Spick and span
Spin up the penny
Spur the donk
Squares
Stags
Standses
Stand up Jack
Statues
Stays
Stepping-stones
Steps
Steps across
Sticking-bricks
Stick in the mud (stickums)
Stickjaw
Stick-touch (stick-he)
Stiff-legged copper (stiff bloater)
Stitch away tailor
Stockings red etc.
Stolen necklace
Stone chase
Stone hop-scotch
Storky
Strike up knock down
String-he
Sugar and milk
Sugar canes
Sunday-Monday
Sweet sweet Caroline
Swimming in blue water
Swings; swing-swong
Swolo
Tag
Tailor
Tailor said
Take a little bird etc.
Taking the castle
Tap
Teachers
Teaser
Tellings
Telling your dream
Ten o'clock police
The big ship sails etc.
The black man said etc.
The farmer 's in his den etc.
The house is empty etc.
There come six Jews etc.
There stands a lady etc.
There was a jolly miller etc.
There was an old lady etc.
There was once a king etc.
The woods are dark etc.
Thief prince king etc.
This house to let etc.
Three and all on
Three and on
Three between
Three catches out
Three golden balls
Three holes
Three in three out
Three little children etc.
Through the moon
Throwings out
Throwing the bean-bags
Throwing the nicker
Throwing up girls
Throw over
Throw the farthest
Thumbs
Thumbs up
Tibby-cat
Ticket-punching
Ticklers
Tiddledewink
Time
Time guessing
Tin-can games
Ting ting the spider
Tin on the line
Tip
Tipperary
Tipping in the hole
Tippit
Tip-tap
Tip-top is a sweets store
To Beckles to Beckles
Tommy all round
Tom Tiddler
Top-football
Tops
Touch-cap
Touch-card
Touch games
Touching the king's sceptre
Touch it run
Touch tail
Tracing
Tracking the convicts
Treacle pudding
Tree-he
Trump
Tug of war
Tunnels
Tuppence you head it
Turning mother's wringer
Turn your back etc.
Twinkle twinkle little star
Twisters and claps
Two and three holes
Two foot fly
Two in the rope etc.
Two in two out
Two little people went out etc.
Two's and three's
Ugly statues
Under the garter
Under the hat
Under the row
Up in the north etc.
Upsetting mother's gravy
Upsetting the apple-cart
Upsetting the chimney
Up sides down middle
Up the alley
Up the'gutter-spout
Up the ladder etc.
Up the wall
Up to the ring
Up you go feathery toy
Victoria
Vote vote etc.
Walking round the village
Walking-sticks
Wall-bouncing
Wallie
Wallie wallie wall-flowers
Wall to wall
Wand balance race
War
Warnie I'm a-coming
Waterfalls
Water-he
Waterman
Weak horses
We are British soldiers
We are Romans
We are washing linen etc.
Week days
Wells
We lost our cat etc.
We three kings
Whack cap
What is it
What O she bumps
What's the time
Wheelbarrows
When I was a schoolgirl
Where's this little hat to go
Whirligig
Whirly-whirly
White mice
White shirt
Whitewash
Who knows
Who's afraid of black Peter
Who's in the well
Who's that walking etc.
Who will take the pig etc.
Widdy
Wiggly-woggly
Willie had a letter etc.
Willie Willie etc.
Will you give us bread etc.
Will you 'list
Will you surrender
Winkle-shells
Woggles
Wooden leg
Wriggly-worm
Writing letter to Punch
Yank him over
You have all you get
You naughty flea etc.
Zig-zag