Jingle

Take a bunch of people and throw them into an open spec, like an eric. Take away their steel and take off any big hats. Pick one to be blindfolded. Then take ribbon which you have previously sewn bells onto and tie them on all of the non-blindfolded peoples ankles. (Or hold them in your hand) Then let them go! If a "jingler" gets tagged, they trade their jingles for the blindfold. The bells are cheap, ribbon is cheaper, blindfolds are easy to make or dig up, and the whole thing has been documented. Second choice: Tirce. I haven't actually played this one but my sister researched it and I would LOVE to try it. (The documentation is a letter from a bishop to a higher up complaining about the women in the town not getting their work done because they were out in the streets playing tirce.) You need people in threes plus two more. The threes (hence the name "tirce") stand in a circle pinwheel style. If that image doesn't help, think of wheel spokes. Still with me? Okay, the two "extras" are named hare and hound or some other chaser and prey. So they start to chase, dodging in and out between tirces, through the middle and all over the place. If a tag is made, they switch roles. But what to the spokes do? Glad you asked. If the prey stands inside the circle at the front of a tirce, thus making a fourth the person at the outside of the tirce/fourth then becomes the prey. The trick of the whole thing is that the tirce does NOT shuffle outwards after the switch. Yes, the spokes creep inward, leaving less and less space to dodge and chase through. Try it, you might like it. I would hazard to guess that 14 would be a BARE minimum, and 20 or more would be better. Good luck!