# Let's ruin ALL kid's games!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-ruin-all-kids-games/333831>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 2, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-ruin-all-kids-games/333831 "2005-12-02T23:08:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-ruin-all-kids-games/333831/61 "2005-12-05T18:38:02Z")

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> [@featherlou](#):
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> Baseball - obvious solution is that no score is kept. Looking at it in more depth, each kid bats until he hits the ball.

:smack: They actually play it this way in rec leaugue baseball in the 6-7 year old age group, while they’re still learning the game. Each team’s coach pitches to his own players. Sometimes they’ll stand there, pitching for what seems like freaking foreeeeeeever, just so a kid can get a hit. I think \*that’s[i/] worse than striking out in three pitches.  
The other players are on base and warming up, waiting their turn, and there’s this one kid who just can’t get a hit, yet they just keep on pitching to the poor kid. It’s humiliating, IMO.

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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-ruin-all-kids-games/333831/62 "2005-12-05T21:41:53Z")

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> [@Rufus Xavier](#):
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> My idea for hide and seek was that it would take place in a 10 x 10 room containing only a couch and a chair. The “hider” would pick an Emotion card and then try to hide the emotion depicted on it. The “seeker”, using non-threatening communication techniques, would try to figure out what emotion the “hider” was suppressing. If, after 50 minutes, the “seeker” fails, they would reverse roles. If the “seeker” succeeds, the game is over and the “hider” pays the “seeker” $100.00.

You have just described my 2 years of psycho-therapy…down to the $100 fee!

:eek:

😃

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