counting-out game

Additionally, children's counting-out games can be defined as behavioral folklore.

The site includes a good deal of how-to information: recipes, finger puppets, counting-out games and other activities.

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

A variant of counting-out game, known as Josephus problem, represents a famous theoretical problem in mathematics and computer science.

After a few more games, Peter plays a counting-out game between the family members and shoots Georgie while Paul makes sandwiches in the kitchen.

In computer science and mathematics, the Josephus Problem (or Josephus permutation) is a theoretical problem related to a certain counting-out game.

One day, they were playing a counting-out game in a meadow by a pool, and their stepmother turned the boy into a fish and the girl into a lamb.

They suggest also calling its defining sieve, "the sieve of Josephus Flavius" because of its similarity with the counting-out game in the Josephus problem.

Ip dip is a rhythmic counting-out game with many variations, the purpose of which is to select an individual from a group, for instance to choose the starting player of a game.