Filthyweasel
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Recently a friend of mine mentioned that in college he had a couple friends who lived in a building with lots of ducts, passages, maintenance tunnels, etc. and they all used it to play a game called Manhunt. Like a cross between hide and seek and tag, with 2 teams.
Now I remember playing the same thing as a kid at school back home in Scotland. We called it Blue Murder for some odd reason. I looked up Manhunt on Wikipedia and it mentioned a Scottish variation which was the exact game we played.
I'm getting to my point. This is how we did it. The hiding team would make up a word with the same amount of letters as there were team members, and each member was assigned a letter. The seekers, when capturing one of the hiders, would take the captive back to base as usual, then attempt to extract the information. When they guessed the full word after getting enough letters from captives, they won. It was the only game that the boys and girls bothered braving the cooties to play together at that age, but always did separate boy/girl teams. And I remember rather vividly getting the shit tickled out of me by multiple girls whenever I was caught.
When my friend mentioned that they played this in college (the boring US version), it showed me that it's not just the wee kiddies that play this. With enough space and players, it would make a fun thing to do at a gathering for some grown adults. Tickle Manhunt. Just a passing thought.
Now I remember playing the same thing as a kid at school back home in Scotland. We called it Blue Murder for some odd reason. I looked up Manhunt on Wikipedia and it mentioned a Scottish variation which was the exact game we played.
I'm getting to my point. This is how we did it. The hiding team would make up a word with the same amount of letters as there were team members, and each member was assigned a letter. The seekers, when capturing one of the hiders, would take the captive back to base as usual, then attempt to extract the information. When they guessed the full word after getting enough letters from captives, they won. It was the only game that the boys and girls bothered braving the cooties to play together at that age, but always did separate boy/girl teams. And I remember rather vividly getting the shit tickled out of me by multiple girls whenever I was caught.
When my friend mentioned that they played this in college (the boring US version), it showed me that it's not just the wee kiddies that play this. With enough space and players, it would make a fun thing to do at a gathering for some grown adults. Tickle Manhunt. Just a passing thought.
