How Many Walkers?
Then, again, blindfold one boy and put him in the middle of the room. The others then walk past him, one at a time-or two, or more-on one side of him or the other, an umpire keeping tally of how many walk each side. Afterwards the blind one must report how many fellows passed him on each side. Vary this by starting the walkers from both ends of the room, the ” blind ” fellow afterwards reporting full details of numbers and direction. Find The Patrol Leader Out of doors, let each PL have a whistle of a different note from the others, and send him off a hundred yards or so from his Patrol, all of whom (except the PL) are blindfolded. Then the PLs blow their whistles, and their Scouts must find them by the sound, and line up in front of their own PL It is as well not to place the PLs opposite their own Patrols, but to place each PL facing someone else’s Patrol. This game may also be played using the Patrol Call instead of a whistle. Ships in a Fog Then there is that popular game sometimes