Talk:Tag (game)

gool
" The term "gool" was first recorded in print in Massachusetts in the 1870s, and is common in the northern states of the US. " This needs verification, especially the claim that it is common in northern states (maybe it means NE states?). I don't recall it from my childhood in northern states nor have I heard it as an adult seeing kids play in northern states.Kdammers (talk) 03:04, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Reply: I remember using "gool" playing tag in the 1960's (in 3rd or 4th grade / Chicago). Gool was a "safe place" where you could not be tagged, usually by running to it and placing your hand upon it. Gool was a pole or other such structure within the playing area. I don't recall if there was a time limit using gool before rejoining the game or if somebody could just maintain contact not to be tagged "it". We played a variation of tag eventually when someone defecated in their pants, calling it "contaminated". Same rules as tag, however, by calling out what I remember sounding like "2-10 Out" and touching the bottom of your shoe, this proclaimed that you could not be tagged it. Either this was making yourself a gool or announcing to others that your participation in playing tag ended. Has anyone heard the likes of "2-10 Out" before? 7/13/2020 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darn Time And Gravity (talk • contribs) 22:16, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Chinese tag
What about Chinese tag? dictionary.reference.com/browse/Chinese+tag, 	 www.childbook.com/Chinese-Tag-s/84.htm Kdammers (talk) 03:06, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Safe
A sentence talking about being safe on a base (in the sentence called goal or ghoul?) has been removed. This is an important part of many tag games, so we need a reference to this so we can put it back in. Does some-one have a book, e.g., childcraft, about kids' games?Kdammers (talk) 01:41, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

DDG
In the duck, duck goose section, one can read "The goose then rises and runs around the circle in the opposite direction as the picker". This is not what the animation shows, neither does the dedicated article. It is absurd & I never played it this way. 82.227.17.30 (talk) 13:05, 12 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing this out. It's fixed now. SQGibbon (talk) 14:53, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 July 2018
Edit: Add in '(Touch and Go)' after the initial 'TAG' to explain the acronym. 2A00:23C4:2796:A400:6DCF:298E:7F90:B367 (talk) 21:45, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Danski454 (talk) 21:47, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

History
Any word on the history of the game? How far can it be traced back? Any indication from early high cultures of similar games? 2003:D1:A72B:6400:3D54:626F:D697:70FA (talk) 18:34, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Names mentioned not the only ones.
I just want to make a couple of observations that could potentially be incorporated into the article if references could be found one day - but these are from personal memory of the game, which I trust - but I have no references which would support them being included in the article, and am not sure how I would find any references.

One concerns the name of the game itself. I got to know about it as a boy in Adelaide and Melbourne, Australia, and I always knew the game as "Chasey", which was not mentioned in the article (only "Chase"). If a reference could be found, this could be added to the list of names already in the article.

The other point concerns the name of the taggd person who chases others. The article speaks as if this is always "It", which was not the case when I was a boy. This person was known as "He" in the circles I played the game in or observed it being played. I went to boys-only schools, so only boys were involved in play, so that would account for the use of the name "He", and I can't say what girls would have been called. (Actually, I think I did play it occasionally with neighbouring kids, two boys and a girl - but I don't remember whether the girl was also called "He" in this situation.) "He" was not treated as a pronoun in this situation, and so the form of the name in the objective and possessive cases remained "He", and didn't turn to "Him" or "His".

It may not be important ever to find references to support including these suggestions into the article, and may not be important to have them added to the article. But I think it would add something, and it's this:

The article gives names (of the game or of the tagged person) and links them with certain countries, and I suspect it may not be as cut and dried as this, that the names might be mixed up more than that suggests, and adding more names (if they can be referenced) would bring the description closer to the reality, namely that most countries probably have many more names for the game and tagged player than are mentioned here, and also the same names may be found in many different countries. But I think this sort of thing would be very difficult to research, because it seems to be largely an orally-transmitted topic with not much material existing about it in writing. M.J.E. (talk) 16:46, 7 June 2024 (UTC)