There was 'Mother, May I?' 'Freeze tag', 'Blind Man's Bluff',  and 'Hide-and-go-seek'.  'A-tisket, a-tasket', 'Marco Polo', 'Crack the Whip', and 'Red Light'. With larger groups of kids, there might be a 'tug-of-war'. At school, sometimes we played 'Red Rover' outside. The class would be divided in half. Each half would hold hands and form a line facing the other side. There would be consultation among the kids in the team that was to call first. Who should they ask for? Once the decision was made, they sang out together, 'Red Rover, Red Rover, let Georgie come over!' The kids stepped away from Georgie as she planned her attack. This meant trying to gauge which kids on the other side had the least strong hold. Abruptly, she ran toward the other line. If she broke through, she got to return to her team. If the other side kept their grip locked, capturing her, she remained with them. The teams would take turns doing this, sometimes until there was only one person left on one of the sides as the winning team grew bigger and bigger.