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Source: Games For The Playground, Home, School And Gymnasium
Category: MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVE GAMES





(Fox and Geese; Half Bushel)


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_3 to 30 or more players._

_Out of doors; indoors; snow._

This form of Fox Trail, like the Single Rim game, is
distinctively a snow game, but may be used anywhere that a
large diagram may be marked on the ground or floor. This game
differs from the Single Rim in the size and complexity of the
diagram, there being two rims to the wheel instead of one. It
also differs in the fact that there is one more player than the
number of dens for the foxes, and in the methods by which the
foxes may run or be chased.

A large diagram is drawn on the ground, resembling a wheel with two
rims. In the snow this is trampled with the feet like a path; on bare
ground or damp sand it may be drawn with the foot or a stick; in the
gymnasium or on a pavement it may be drawn with chalk. The outer rim
should measure from thirty to forty feet in radius; the inner rim
should be ten feet from this. Across the circles are drawn straight
lines resembling the spokes of a wheel, the number being governed by
the number of players. Where these spokes touch the outer rim, a den
or goal is marked for the foxes, there being one goal less than the
number of foxes.



One player, who is chosen as hunter, stands at his goal in the center
or hub of the wheel. The balance of the players, who are foxes, take
each a place in a den on the outer rim, with the exception of the odd
fox, who stands elsewhere on the rim, trying to get a den whenever he
can. The object of the game is for the foxes to run from den to den
without being caught by the hunter. The method of running, however, is
restricted. Both foxes and hunter are obliged to keep to the trails,
running only on the lines of the diagram.

It is considered poor play to run from den to den around the outer
rim, as there is practically no risk in this. The foxes may run in any
direction on any trail, on the spokes of the wheel, or on either of
the rims. They may turn off on the intersecting trail at any point,
not being obliged to run entirely across to the opposite side of the
rim, as in the simpler diagram given for the other game of this name.
No fox, however, may turn back on a trail; having once started, he
must keep on to the next intersecting point. Whenever the hunter
succeeds in tagging a fox, the two players change places, the fox
becoming hunter and the hunter fox.



This game is excellent sport, and is one of the most
interesting and popular of the chasing games. It is one of the
very few distinctive snow games.




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