When I was about 8 or 9 we played a game called kick the can. We had a great deal of fun with a used soda can. Has anyone played this game before? Is this game still being played? Is there anywhere I can find the official rules of the game? Thanks
I played it, but it was an old game som kids parent played and showed us. I think it called for a person to guard the can while attempting to tag people approaching. Sort of like hide and seek.
Kick The Can is like Hide 'n Seek and Tag mixed together.
The way I played, one person was “it” and counted by the can while everyone hid. When “it” found you, he had to get to the can and tap it on the ground while saying “Tap, tap, tap I see cooldude stuffed in the steamer trunk (or wherever you were hidden)” before the foundee could run to the can and kick it.
Lots of kicked fingers in this game.
Biggirl beat me to it, but with a slightly different version.
I had already written “it’s a combination of tag and hide and go seek” when I saw Biggirl’s post. The tin can is the base. Someone is “It”. Everyone runs and hides. It must seek out the other players but, at the same time guard the can. Anyone who can sneak in and kick the can is “home free”. If It tags someone they must go kick the can and then they become It while the previous It runs away and hides, planning his/her strategy to get home free. As I remember, being It was very stressful, because players would distract you and lure you away from the can to enable others to get home free. Basically, It gets run ragged until It can pass the burden if Ithood on to someone else. I can also recall a large gallery of home freers watching with hilarity as a poor fumbling It desperately tries to tag the last player who is blatantly trying to deke in and get home free, which would doom It to another full round of Ithood.
It’s also international. I played it a lot as a kid here in Ireland.
Woah…this is an actual game? I always thought “playing ‘kick-the-can’” meant walking down the street kicking a can as you went…you know, demonstrating that you were just lazing around. Kind of like walking down the street flipping a quarter.