Counting-out game

A counting-out game is a simple game intended to select a person to be "it," often for the purpose of playing another game. Some counting-out games are

• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Coin flipping
• Drawing straws - player with the shortest straw loses.
• Buzz

Many such games involve counting round a circle of players to a rhyme. The player the last word lands on is out. Common rhymes are:

• Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,

Catch a tiger by his toe

If he hollers, let him go

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

• One potato, two potato - players may start with both fists (to resemble potatoes) in, so have to be got twice to be out.

One potato, two potato

Three potato, four,

Five potato, six potato,

Seven potato, more,

One big bad spud.

• Ip dip

Ip dip, dog shit,

You are not it.