counting out
Selecting by enumeration
Counting out is a way of eliminating players or assigning roles in children's games, using a rhyme recited while pointing to each person in turn.
Whoever the final word lands on is "it" or eliminated.
Classic counting-out rhymes include "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" and "one potato, two potato." Separately, counting out can mean excluding someone from consideration: Don't count me out just yet.
- turnRotational movement
- eeny meenyRandom selection chant
- bubble gumChewy candy for blowing
- handGrasping body part
- fair and squareHonestly and legitimately
children's folklore · traditional chants · folk games · game · nursery rhymes · playground games · point · choose · oral tradition · dipping · circle games · ring around · rhyme · pat-a-cake · chant · jump rope · Mother Goose · elimination
counting outdrawing lots
Random selection method
lottery · drawing straws · random selection · coin flip · coin toss
counting outcounting in
Adding to a tally
including · bringing in · letting in · incorporating · admitting
counting outcounting on
Trusting to come through
depending on · expecting · banking on · trusting · believing in
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