Run Outs
For 5 or more players
One person, known as 'the guard', stands next to a lamp post called the 'home base'.
The rest of the group 'run out' while the guard closes their eyes and counts to 50.
The guard has to spot people and touch them before anyone can touch the home base.
Any person that is touched by the guard is out and cannot help others.
Anyone who makes it to Home Base can help the others by distracting the guard.
ORIGINS
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ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Forty Fourth
You had to catch people by touching 'base' and saying 'forty fourth see then the persons name'. the winners touched 'base' without being caught.
Posted by Steve Browne
Sticky Glue
We played a similar game called Sticky Glue, where once you were caught you had to stand still until someone who was still free could touch you and release you.
dub dub
dub dub in
Because this is what you had to shout when you reached the home base. Alternatively you could shout "God save all" which freed everyone caught before you. The first person to be caught that wasn't freed was the next catcher.
Posted by Tim
One person, known as 'the guard', stands next to a lamp post called the 'home base'.
The rest of the group 'run out' while the guard closes their eyes and counts to 50.
The guard has to spot people and touch them before anyone can touch the home base.
Any person that is touched by the guard is out and cannot help others.
Anyone who makes it to Home Base can help the others by distracting the guard.
ORIGINS
Do you know the origins of this game! If you have any ideas or suggestions then please post them using the Register a Game button on the right or the comments form below. Thank you.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Forty Fourth
You had to catch people by touching 'base' and saying 'forty fourth see then the persons name'. the winners touched 'base' without being caught.
Posted by Steve Browne
Sticky Glue
We played a similar game called Sticky Glue, where once you were caught you had to stand still until someone who was still free could touch you and release you.
dub dub
dub dub in
Because this is what you had to shout when you reached the home base. Alternatively you could shout "God save all" which freed everyone caught before you. The first person to be caught that wasn't freed was the next catcher.
Posted by Tim
COMMENTS
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| Something simular to the other comments. We called this "Forty Forty". Standing by a lamp post you hid your eyes and counted to forty while everyone hid. You then had to search for others and when you spotted someone you had to race back to the post and say "Firty Forty I see xxxxxx". They had to then stand by the lamp post. If you got to the lamp post before the searcher you would say "Forty Forty In" and was one of the winners. There was no way to "release" people though. |
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24 MAY 07:49:50 |
Adrian Rogers | |
| As kids, we used to play run outs. However, it wasn't played as above, it was played like Hide and Seek over a number of streets. So we defined the borders, and no one was to hide outside of those borders. Simply, when you were found you went back to Home Base. A game played like this with say, three streets as the borders, could take a couple of hours. Looking back on it, it was most enjoyable. |
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28 MAY 14:02:34 |
Jason | |
| We had a similar game to this called Kick the can. The rules were the same but if any of the fugatives could reach the can and kick it all the prisoners were released and the kicker was safe. |
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17 DEC 15:53:23 |
Tim | |
| We called this "dub dub" or "dub dub in". Because this is what you had to shout when you reached the home base. Alternatively you could shout "God save all" which freed everyone caught before you. The first person to be caught that wasn't freed was the next catcher. Great site by the way! |
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