Editing Hide-and-seek (section)

==Variants==
[[File:Hide from each other.jpg|thumb|Children playing hide-and-seek]]

Different versions of the game are played around the world, under a variety of names.<ref name=game>{{cite web|title=hide-and-seek|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/264947/hide-and-seek|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc|access-date=22 December 2012}}</ref>

One variant is called "sardines", in which only one person hides and the others must find them, hiding with them when they do so. The hiding places become progressively more cramped, like [[sardine]]s in a tin. The last person to find the hiding group is the loser, and becomes the hider for the next round. [[A. M. Burrage]] calls this version of the game "Smee" in his 1931 ghost story of the same name.<ref>''The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories'', OUP 1986.</ref>

[[File:Hiding_in_the_Haycocks_(1881)_by_William_Bliss_Baker.jpg|thumb|''Hide and Seek'' (painting 1881)]] In the ''[[Peanuts]]'' comic strip by [[Charles Schulz]], a variation of Sardines called "Ha Ha Herman" is played, in which the seekers call out "ha ha', and the person hiding has to respond by saying "Herman".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://schulzmuseum.org/press-room/games-children-play/ |title=Games Children Play }}</ref> In some versions of the game, after the first hider is caught or if no other players can be found over a period of time, the seeker calls out a previously-agreed phrase (such as "[[Olly olly oxen free]]", "Come out, come out wherever you are" or "All in, All in, Everybody out there all in free") to signal the other hiders to return to base for the next round.<ref>[http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-oll1.htm "Ollie Ollie oxen free"], World Wide Words, Michael Quinion</ref> The seeker must return to "home base" after finding the hiders, before the hiders get back. Conversely, the hiders must get back to "home base" before the seeker sees them and returns.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hide-and-seek {{!}} Definition, Rules, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/hide-and-seek-game|access-date=2021-01-03|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> The hiders hide until they are spotted by the seeker, who chants, "Forty, forty, I see you" (sometimes shortened to "Forty, forty, see you"). 

Once spotted, the hider must run to "home base" (where the seeker was counting while the other players hid) and touch it before they are "tipped" (tagged, or touched) by the seeker.  If tagged, that hider becomes the new seeker.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ctac.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/biogs/E000114b.htm|title=44 Home - Hiding Game|year=2011|website=Childhood, Tradition and Change|language=en-gb|publication-place=Australia|access-date=2017-07-03|vauthors=Darian-Smith K, Logan W, Seal G}}</ref> Forty forty has many regional names<ref>{{Cite web|title=Acky one two three I see children's dialect on TV|url=https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2013/06/acky-123-save-all.html|website=British Library: Sound and vision blog}}</ref> including 'block one two three' in North East England and Scotland, 'relievo one two three' in Wilmslow, 'forty forty' in South East England, 'mob' in Bristol and South Wales, 'pom pom' in Norwich, 'I-erkey' in Leicester, 'hicky one two three' in Chester, 'rally one two three' in Coventry, ' Ackey 123' in Birmingham and '44 Homes' in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|vauthors=Darian-Smith K, Logan W, Seal G |date=2011|title=44 Home - Hiding Game|url=http://ctac.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/biogs/E000114b.htm|access-date=2017-07-03|website=Childhood, Tradition and Change|language=en-gb|publication-place=Australia}}</ref>