How to Play Hide & Seek

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Step 1: Designate hiding spots
Designate the playing area, being sure to mention if certain rooms are out of bounds. If playing outdoors, limit designated areas to your property, and don't let small children hide near water or other potentially dangerous spots.

Step 2: Select someone to be "it"
Select someone to be "it." The person who is "it" has to find the people who are hiding.

Tip
When playing hide-and-seek with children, an adult is often a good person to be "it."

Step 3: Everyone moves to home base
Have everyone congregate in one place. This is known as home base.

Step 4: Start counting
The person designated as "it" covers their eyes and begins counting to 10 or 20, or whatever has been determined to be a fair amount of time for everyone else to hide.

Step 5: Start hiding
While the person who's "it" counts, everyone else finds a place to hide. Once you've found somewhere to hide, stay there – it's not fair to switch places!

Tip
When a young child is "it," don't hide too well, or the game can get frustrating for them.

Step 6: Start searching
Once the person who's "it" is done counting, they yell, "Ready or not, here I come!" and start looking for people hiding.

Step 7: Tag someone to get them out
After finding someone who has been hiding, the person who is "it" must tag the other person, to get them out. The first person to be tagged is "it" in the next game.

Step 8: Keep playing if you want
The game can be over when the first person is found. Or, you can keep playing until everyone is found. In this case the last person found is the winner.

Step 9: Everyone tries to get home
Another variation is to have people try to get back to home base. If they get home without being tagged, they're safe. If they get tagged, they're out.

Step 10: Finish the game and play again
Regardless of which version you're playing, once the game is over, declare a winner and the next person to be "it." And play again!

Did You Know?
The version of hide-and-seek where players try to run home is known as pom pom home in England.

[Rivka]

Thank god they made this video I wouldve never known how to play hide and seek...

[nolananderson]

Oh come on what is next, how to eat a banana?

[diamondemerald]

Um moving spots is a good tactic and it's way better then staying in the same place

[renatoalcici]

Great! This kind of video helps a lot when you're trying to learn English. Specially if you want to play games with kids.

[xandrewhimselfx]

THANKS! i didnt know how to play this!

[willoccasionallymakeanimat]

When you said have one person to be "it" I thought WAIT the clown.

[MaddieAM]

Wow! That's why it's called hide and seek! Thanks for clearing that up for me!

[EmilyRobinsonShotgunEm]

But you're supposed to change spots to the places they already checked so they won't find you easy....

[tonyantonio]

How to play EXTREME hide and seek:
1)Bring snacks and water
2)Hide as fast you can
3)Hide in spot for 2 weeks and you have won

[Janskleig]

I mean, every child learns how to play Hide-and-Seek before they can use internet.

[iHeartSantaFanta]

Next video: "How to sit on a chair"

[Osijj]

Give instructions on how to play hide and seek it appeared on my homework when I was in 4th grade so I searched up how to play hide and seek I knew how to play it but I didn’t give out good instructions so this helped a lot XD

[tommyofficial]

I studied the art of ninja, now I'm really silent and know the best paces to hide and become invisible

[fluffypluffy]

Hee At 1:14, the guy's eyebrows moved like an elevator. XD

[lucidkrunch]

Instructions unclear i still can't find my dad

[GeoffreyBronson]

@RandomBadgerRyan I also live in England and I assure you, it's hide and seek.

[asdzxcvbqwerty]

Are they running out of ideas? DUDE EVERYONE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK!!!

[YouMightNeedToHearThis]

...HELL no, you go into a second rate store, like dollar general and somebody counts at the door while everyone else hides

once they get ready to get you, you try to make it to the door and out the door, if everyone makes it out to the side of the door they run and leave

its HELLA fun, oh and dont forget to have somebody text/call the it guy so they dont get in trouble

bonus points, do it in the library

[troooooper]

My Hardcore rules:
>Continually change to places the person 'it' has checked out.
>Run outside of the house if playing inside, and vice versa. :D
>If get caught try to bribe the person who is 'it' to let you go in exchange you will tell others' position. While you hide somewhere else.
>If finally you are the person 'it', just leave the place and go eat ice cream. I mean do you really want to be stuck finding 17 other people while hardly any one of them is guaranteed to be playing by rules.

[anticringezone]

I guess we can say that dad is "it" or so called "pennywise" LOL my jokes are bad...