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Buck buck (children's game) (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One version of the game is played when "one player hops onto another's back" and the climber guesses "the number of certain objects out of sight".

Another version of the game is played with "one group of players jumping onto the backs of a second group in order to build as large a pile as possible or to cause the supporting players to collapse."

As someone who has never heard of this before the article does a terrible job of explaining what it is or how it works

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

The description of the Turkish variant helped me clarify a bit:

In Turkey, a similar game is uzun eşek ("long donkey"). The person standing up is the referee and is called the "pillow". One team bends over, then the other team one by one jumps on the "donkey". If the Donkey can stand the pressure, the first person to go in the jumping team puts up one or two with his fingers. If the donkey can guess the number right, they are permitted to jump. If the jumpers fall to the ground, it is the donkey's turn to jump. If the donkey falls, the jumpers jump again.