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92. Sharks and Minnows (LeonhartFour)


This game has many different names: Sharks and minnows, British Bulldog (not to be confused with Davey Boy Smith), spiders and flies, octopus, etc. There are many variations in how to play, too, but the gist of it if you're not familiar with it (or you call it by yet another name I haven't listed) is: There's some people in the middle, and everyone else is on one side of the playing field. The goal is to get from one side to the other without getting tagged, and you keep going back and forth until only one (or no one) is left. Depending on the version, sometimes the people who get tagged then become the taggers, and sometimes they're just eliminated. It's essentially a tag spinoff.

Anyway, that's enough of a summary. This is a really fun game to play, and you can play it anywhere, even in a swimming pool. The kids at my church here love to play this game. We play it pretty frequently, and they never get sick of it. It's a good way to expend energy if children are worked up, too, because it's a lot of running around (you can tell I'm talking from the perspective of someone who has to watch/entertain children here). Since we play the game in a gym, we add a new rule where the taggers can only move horizontally along the midcourt line, so it makes the game progressively more difficult as it gets closer to the end. It can get pretty intense trying to find those tiny gaps to squeeze through. You've really earned the victory if you manage to be the last person standing.

Bonus Question: What's your favorite version/variant of tag?
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