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Skipping rhymes need not always have to be rhymes, however. They can be games, such as a game called, "School." In "Kindergarten" (the first round), all skippers must run through rope without skipping. In "First Grade", all skippers must skip in, skip once, and skip out without getting caught in the rope, and so on.
Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, [1] [2] into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. [3]
The first track on Seanan McGuire's album Wicked Girls, also titled "Counting Crows", features a modified version of the rhyme. [ 14 ] The artist S. J. Tucker 's song, "Ravens in the Library," from her album Mischief , utilises the modern version of the rhyme as a chorus, and the rest of the verses relate to the rhyme in various ways.
Each participant gets three throws and the stone must bounce/skip at least twice to count (i.e. 3 water touches minimum). [13] The event featured in the 2019 BBC Scotland documentary Sink or Skim. [14] The WSSC for 2020-2022 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic before resuming competition in September 2023.
More concretely, skeptic Penn Jillette has said, "Million-to-one odds happen eight times a day in New York" (population about 8,000,000). [4] In another illustrative class of cases—which also involve combinatorics—lottery drawing numbers have been duplicated in close or even immediate succession. [5] [6] [7]
Concert-goers listen to Animal Collective at City Plaza in Raleigh during the third day of the Hopscotch Music Festival Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. Hopscotch Tickets
Headliners include Japanese Breakfast, Soccer Mommy, Denzel Curry and Pavements. Over 100 bands will play in Raleigh.
In his The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children (1888), the American collector of folklore, Henry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903), quoted an old lady who remembered a longer version of this rhyme as being used in Wrentham, Massachusetts as early as 1780. Beyond the first four lines, it proceeded: Nine, ten, kill a fat hen;