A
game of
tag played between two teams. One
team lines up along the
middle of the
length of a
rectangle, alternately facing one of the two
long sides of the rectangle, and the other
team lines up along the
side of the
rectangle form one of the corners. The
game begins by the
person furthest in the
rectangle from the
corner with the other
team chasing the
person closest to this
corner, attempting to
tag him/her. The
person escaping being tagged can
run anywhere in the
rectangle, but the tagger cannot
run through the
line formed by his/her
team. The tagger instead must tap the back of one of his/her
team members facing the other
side of the
rectangle, making that
person the tagger, and then take that persons place in the
line. Once the
person being chased is tagged, the next
person on his/her team comes on to be chased, and so on until everyone is tagged. The teams then swap sides and
play again.
The winning team is the team that gets the other team all out in the fastest time. The key to being successful at this game is teamwork. During my intermediate school years this was a popular game to play for the inter-class challenge shield.