School: Cruachán
- Location:
- Croghan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Ó Cuinn
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- The games I play are, Spy, Tig, Cook, Nirds, Colours, Blackman's Tig, Blindman's Buff, Highgates, Wallflower, Dan Dan Thread the Needle, Leap Frog, Sally Sally Water Sprinkle in the Pan, Broken down House, Kitty Four Corners, Nuts in May, The Big Ship Sails Silly Allyo, Jack Stones, The Cat and the Mouse, Shipping The Ghost in the Garden. How to Play Blindman's Buff. Any number of girls can play Blindman's Buff. They way they play it is, they get in a ring. Then one of the girls is blindfolded and put in the middle of the ring. They go round in a ring saying.
"Blindman, Blindman listen to your song.
And if it appears too long,
Tap the ground with your stick.
And give it to another quick."
Then they all stand and the Blindman catches one of them. If he guesses who it is, he takes off the blind and puts it on the other person. If he guesses wrong the blind is left on himself.
