Submissions by ianmoh tagged playground-games-for-children

'You'll.. Look.. Here!' is a non-contact game, designed to appeal to children and requires only two people, with no additional resources! A playground-style game where players rely on coordination, self-awareness, and the tit-for-tat ability to anticipate your opponent's move.

I imagine this could be a fun game to be used by teachers in a classroom setting to teach the basic concepts of rules, fair-play, hand-eye coordination, and the development of basic motor skills.

Rules:
- Two people facing each other stand a few meters apart. One player starts as the Pointer, with the other plays the Looker.
- The Pointer, beginning with both arms extended, hands clasped, points their arms straight toward the Looker.
- The Looker, with hands to their side, faces the Pointer, and signals they are ready to begin.
- Speaking in a loud, coherent tone, the Pointer calls out "1, 2, 3. You'll, Look, Here!", with "Here", being the signal for the Pointer to move their arms either to the left or right.
- The Looker at the same time, turns only their head to face either to the left or right.
- The rule is that when "Here!" is called, both players must move, the direction must only be to the left or right, and the Pointer must speak in a coherent, audible, and easy to follow pace. Failure to do so, concedes the victory to your opponent.

The goal for the Looker is to face in the opposite direction that the Pointer has chosen.
The goal of the Pointer naturally is to get the Looker to face the same direction they are pointing.

If the Looker successfully avoids the Pointer's chosen direction, the Looker wins, and assumes the role of Pointer.
Following this, the overall purpose then is to beat your opponent to take the role of Pointer, and remain in that position for as long as possible!

The game mechanics incorporate elements requiring the ability to comprehend your surroundings - self-awareness, while observing your opponent in order to read 'tells', so you can react in time to come out the winner.

An ability to anticipate, deceive, and subvert your opponents move is key to coming out on top of this game. The variety of play in each game naturally varies with different people, and one naturally becomes better as it is played more. This increases the replay-ability factor. Furthermore, as required motor skills naturally improve, a motivation to keep playing more frequently with different opponents is naturally created.