# Hide & Seek vs. Hide & Go Seek
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 28, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794 "2014-11-28T00:43:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/1 "2014-11-28T00:43:10Z")
What do you call this children’s game?
I grew up calling it “Hide &Seek”, but, even as a child, I encountered the occasional aberrant who inserted an extraneous “go” into the name of the game.
What say you?
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/2 "2014-11-28T01:22:45Z")
I thought putting the “go” in it was an American thing. I have never heard it in Britain.
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### Author:  [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/3 "2014-11-28T01:33:07Z")
> [@njtt](#):
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> I thought putting the “go” in it was an American thing. I have never heard it in Britain.
Same for Australia.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/4 "2014-11-28T01:36:50Z")
Well, for what it’s worth, I’m an American. And think the “go” is unnecessary.
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### Author:  [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/5 "2014-11-28T02:23:15Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> What do you call this children’s game?
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> I grew up calling it “Hide &Seek”, but, even as a child, I encountered the occasional aberrant who inserted an extraneous “go” into the name of the game.
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> What say you?
I had the same experience as a kid. The vast majority of kids said “hide and seek”, but sometimes someone would say “hide and go seek.”
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/6 "2014-11-28T02:39:43Z")
We were all very much “go” – since the seeker had to actively hunt us. We had rules against hanging near to base and just trying to “spot”.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/7 "2014-11-28T03:01:16Z")
I voted for “go”. Ohioan born in 1979.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/8 "2014-11-28T05:45:57Z")
Mostly we all called it “Hide and Seek,” but even as a child I was aware that some called it “Hide and Go Seek.”
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/9 "2014-11-28T05:54:32Z")
Back in West Texas, it was just “Hide & Seek.” No “Go.”
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/10 "2014-11-28T06:00:12Z")
> [@kopek](#):
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> We were all very much “go” – since the seeker had to actively hunt us. We had rules against hanging near to base and just trying to “spot”.
But that’s inherent in “seek.” I’m pretty sure “go” was only added for the rhythm. It’s more sing-songy, and thus more childlike.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/11 "2014-11-28T16:08:02Z")
I called it “Hide and Go Seek” as a kid, but “Hide and Seek” now.
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### Author:  [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/12 "2014-11-28T16:48:33Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> I called it “Hide and Go Seek” as a kid, but “Hide and Seek” now.
This is also true for me. I grew up in the Cleveland, OH, area in the 50s 60s.
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/13 "2014-11-28T19:54:18Z")
Both to some extent. I think less “go” but sort of confused after already seeing them both in the subject and them both feeling right.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/14 "2014-11-28T19:59:12Z")
> [@OldGuy](#):
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> This is also true for me. I grew up in the Cleveland, OH, area in the 50s 60s.
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> I voted for “go”. Ohioan born in 1979.
“Go” also. Ohioan from Cleveland born in 1959. The kids in my neighborhood, at least, used the “go”; I was aware that the wider world didn’t say it with “go” and that we were speaking a regionalism. Once aware of that, I preferred the regionalism, just because.
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### Author:  [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/15 "2014-11-28T20:16:41Z")
“Go.” Upstate NY (Great Lakes region) in the 80s/90s.
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### Author:  [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/16 "2014-11-28T21:17:03Z")
It seems like we used to blur “hide and go” into one word, so it was
Hidengo Seek (I have no idea of the spelling)
Apparently no one else here did that?
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### Author:  [@susanlinda823](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susanlinda823)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/17 "2014-11-28T21:49:10Z")
Hide and seek! I was to busy playing games to stop and say another word! Haha
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/18 "2014-11-28T22:46:02Z")
My recollection is that we called it “hide and seek.” Chicago, in the 80s.
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### Author:  [@Dioptre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dioptre)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/19 "2014-11-28T23:04:19Z")
My recollection (Brisbane, Australia) was Hidie-go-seek.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hide-seek-vs-hide-go-seek/705794/20 "2014-11-28T23:59:29Z")
> [@OldGuy](#):
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> This is also true for me. I grew up in the Cleveland, OH, area in the 50s 60s.
I’m from the same area, same time, and it was always “Hide and Seek.”
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