I Hate Rules! (7 page)
Authors: Nancy Krulik
George is the king of Four Square. Suzanne loves to play Statue Tag. Jeremy’s favorite game is soccer, but he’s always ready to play Poison. Now you and your friends can play these games too. Here’s how.
Four Square
(a game for four players)
(a game for four players)
You will need: Chalk, a kickball
You can draw a four square court on any playground. Draw a large square, sixteen feet wide by sixteen feet long. Now divide it into four smaller squares of equal size. The smaller squares should be four feet wide by four feet long. (You can get a grown-up to help you with this part.)
One player stands in each square. One square is called the king. The other squares are called the queen, the prince, and the princess. The king is the highest-ranking square. The princess is the lowest-ranking square.
To start the game, the king serves the ball by bouncing it in his square and then hitting it to any of the other players. That player has to let the ball bounce, and then hit it to any other player. Then that player has to hit the ball to another player.
Keep going until one of these things happens:
*A player hits the ball before it bounces in her square.
*A player does not hit the ball.
*A player hits the ball out of bounds. (The ball has to land in someone’s square.)
If anything like that happens, the player who made the mistake has to move to the princess square. The other players move up to fill the empty squares.
At the end of recess, the player in the king’s box is the winner.
Statue Tag
(a game for ten or more players)
(a game for ten or more players)
You will need: chalk Use the chalk to make a starting line. Then choose one player to be
it
.
It
must stand about fifty feet away from the line with her back to the other players.
it
.
It
must stand about fifty feet away from the line with her back to the other players.
It
counts to ten. While she’s counting, the other players run or walk toward her. As soon as it reaches ten, she turns around.
counts to ten. While she’s counting, the other players run or walk toward her. As soon as it reaches ten, she turns around.
That’s when all the other players stand still like statues. Anyone caught moving (even a little, teensy bit) has to go back to the starting line.
Then
it
turns around and begins to count to ten again.
it
turns around and begins to count to ten again.
As soon as any player is close enough to tag
it
, he should. Just be sure her back is turned, because if she sees you moving, you have to go back to the starting line.
it
, he should. Just be sure her back is turned, because if she sees you moving, you have to go back to the starting line.
The first player to tag
it
, becomes the new
it
.
it
, becomes the new
it
.
Poison
(a game for five or more players)
(a game for five or more players)
You will need: a pot
The players all join hands, making a circle around the pot. One player is chosen to be the leader. He tries to push or pull the other players so that one of them knocks a foot against the pot.
As soon as any player touches the pot, he becomes poison. All the other players have to run away from him. The player who is poison has to try and catch one of the other players. That person becomes the new leader, and the game begins again.
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