Hand game

Mushi-ken, a Japanese hand game (1809)

Hand games are games played using only the hands of the players. Examples include Rock-Paper-Scissors, Odds and evens, Thumb wrestling, and Mercy.

List of hand games

• Bloody Knuckles
• Chopsticks (sticks)
• Hand cricket
• Mercy
• Odds and evens
• Pat-a-cake
• Red Hands (or Hand-slap game)
• Rock-paper-scissors
• Spellbinder (game)
• Squid (game)
• String figures (string games, e.g. Cat's cradle)
• Thumb war (or Thumb wrestling)
• "Where are your keys?"

See also

• Clapping games
• Hand jive

Children's games Clapping games "Down Down Baby" "Mary Mack" "Miss Susie" "Pease Porridge Hot" Guessing games Button, button, who's got the button? Hangman I spy Seven Up Twenty Questions Hand games Bloody knuckles Cat's cradle Hand-slap game Knucklebones Mercy Rock-paper-scissors String figures list Thumb war Hide-and-seek and tag Ante Over Capture the flag Four corners Kick the can Marco Polo Kho kho Baby games Fingerplays "Itsy Bitsy Spider" "Little Robin Redbreast" "This Little Piggy" Peekaboo Party games Hot potato Musical chairs Pin the tail on the donkey Simon Says Telephone/Chinese whispers Classroom and playground games British bulldogs Chinese jump rope Dodgeball Follow the leader Four square Hopscotch Hot lava Leapfrog Mother May I? Red Rover Skipping rope Double Dutch Statues Singing games and playground songs "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" Counting-out games Duck, duck, goose "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" "Tinker, Tailor" "Did You Ever See a Lassie?" "The Farmer in the Dell" "Here Comes an Old Soldier" "London Bridge" "The Muffin Man" "Mulberry Bush" "Pop Goes the Weasel" "Ring a Ring o' Roses" "See Saw Margery Daw" "Sea Lion Woman" Skipping-rope rhymes "Eeper Weeper" "Skip to My Lou" "The Song That Never Ends" Other Children's culture List of playground songs Street games Nursery rhymes (list) Video games