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the chain, he joins the other team. However, if the player successfully breaks the chain, this player may select either of the two “links” broken by the successful run and take him to join his original team. When only one player is left on a team, he also must try to break through a link. If he does not succeed, the opposing team wins. Otherwise, they are able to get a player back for their team.
ringolevio is a running game in one version of which one team goes off and hides. The other team counts to a predetermined number and then proceeds to search for the first team. (As we played it, each team had its own territory, where they were safe, and their own “jail,” usually a defensible turf outlined on grass by the use of a kitchen cleanser, and both teams were both pursuers and pursued.) Whichever team could capture all of the other team’s members and put them in the jail won. Anyone on the pursuing side could catch anyone on the pursued side by grabbing hold of them and holding them long enough to say, “One, two, three, Ringolevio,” or some variant thereof. If the pursued person broke free at any point during this brief recitation, he would still be consid- ered “in.” Any member of a team could free all captured team members by running into the jail without being caught, tagging the captives, and shouting, “Olee, olee, en free,” or something like that. In one variation, the players in jail could extend out of the jail by holding hands, making it easier to be freed by a teammate. “Electricity,” which the prisoners would have to yell, conducted the tag of the savior to the last player tied to the jail through the chain of held hands. The game would end when one team had caught all of the members of the opposing team. (In the game where only one team hid, the teams would change roles after all of the members of one team were captured.)
salugi was a game usually played with a Spaldeen (but any item would do) that occurred spontaneously when one boy of a group would get hold of another boy’s ball (or other important object) and yell, “Salugi,” after which he would run away from the victim and, when approached to the point at which the victim might be able to wrest possession of the
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