hunt-the-slipper

Japanese: hunt-the-slipper(英語表記)hunttheslipper
hunt-the-slipper

...The games of "hiding zori" and "hiding geta," which were popular in the streets at dusk during the Edo period, are of the same type. The British games hunt-the-slipper and handy-dandy also belong to this type, in which the player must guess in whose hand or hands an object that moves while a song is being sung is being played. The tracking game type is the most complex of these games, originating from the customs of nomadic peoples such as North American Indians, who tracked enemies or animals by their tracks or by marks made by their advance party, and is now used in Boy Scout marching training.

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Japanese:

…江戸時代,日暮れの通りなどで盛んに行われた〈ぞうりかくし〉〈げたかくし〉も同種の遊びである。イギリスのハント・ザ・スリッパーhunt‐the‐slipper(スリッパさがし)やハンディ・ダンディhandy‐dandyもこのタイプに属し,歌などうたわれている間に移動する対象が,だれの手にかくされているか,どちらの手にかくされているかをあてる遊びである。 トラッキング・ゲーム(追跡遊び)のタイプは,同類の遊びのなかで最も複雑なもので,敵や動物をその通った跡や味方の先発隊のつけた目印によって追跡する北米インディアンなどの遊牧民の習俗に発し,いまではボーイ・スカウトの行進の訓練にも使用されている。…

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