Counting-out game

A counting-out game is a simple game intended to select a person to be "it," often for the purpose of playing another game. Some counting-out games are

• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Coin flipping
• Drawing straws - player with the shortest straw loses.
• Buzz

Many such games involve counting round a circle of players to a rhyme. The player the last word lands on is out. Common rhymes are:

• Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,

Catch a tiger by his toe

If he hollers, let him go

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.