The international name seems to be “Tag”, but I’ve heard it called “Tips” or “It” in various parts of Australia.

What’s it called in the UK?

I have some games to add.

The first is untitled and very simple. On a sunny day, find something metal in the sun (e.g. a metal plate in the ground). Stand on it until you can’t bear the pain. Whoever lasts the longest wins. This “game”, well… I guess it’s a boy thing

The other is called “fly”. The game begins by laying out a bunch of sticks so that, from above, they look like rungs on a ladder. Then people take turns jumping between the sticks. You are only allowed one foot to touch the ground between each pair of sticks and you can’t touch any stick.

The trick is, one stick is moved each time a person successfully makes it to the end. The first stick is moved to wherever the person’s foot landed after the last jump. So in a typical game, the rungs would get progressively further apart until it became more of a full out run instead of a series of hops.

There’s plenty of room for strategy – for example, you can try to arrange a very small gap immediately after several large gaps, in which case momentum makes it difficult to not overstep the small gap.

Maybe you can tell, I really liked that game And for good reason – it’s totally awesome. I have to try to convince some adults to play it…