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





_8 to 16 players._

_Out of doors._

This game is especially adapted to surroundings where a very devious
chase may be given, with many opportunities for the runners to go out
of sight, double back on their course, etc., as in a village.

The players are divided into two parties. One of these parties, each
member having a piece of chalk, starts out on a run over any route
chosen by their leader. Every ten feet the runners must chalk a small
arrow somewhere along their path, the object of the hunting party
being to overtake these runners, discovering their course by the
arrows. No attempt is made to get back to a goal, as in many other
games of chase.

The hunting party at the starting place counts two thousand to give
the runners a full start, and then pursues them. The runners will use
all possible finesse in making it difficult to find their arrows,
although it is a rule of the game that the arrow must be in plain
sight, though not necessarily from the point of view of the course
taken. It may be marked on the farther side of a post, stone, etc., or
at a considerable height, or near the ground, but never under a ledge
or where it might not be seen plainly by any one standing in front of
it.

The runners will naturally take a course that will eventually bring
them back to the starting point, the chasers, however, trying to
overtake them before they can accomplish this.




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