Not if you remember it from primary school. It is always the same person who points. After somebody has been pointed to and called not it, the person to their left is the next to be pointed to. There were various rhymes used, including Eeny meeny miney mo … andJunilu Lacar wrote:The instructions are ambiguous and open to at least two interpretations. . . .
…where the moves to the next person are shown by Capital Letters. By the age of seven, I had come to suspect that the dipping rhymes were actually deterministic and not, as everybody else thought, random, and they would always pick the person standing in a particular position, but didn't destroy centuries' worth of playground games by voicing that suspicion.Ip Dip,
My llittle Ship,
Sails on the Water Like a Saucer
You—Are—Not—It.
That rhyme had four lines each with four moves in, so you point from the first person to the sixteenth in one round of that rhyme. Since I don't have Opie as a middle name, shall we stick to the original intent of the question with four words at a time.A few minutes ago, I wrote:. . . Eeny meeny miney mo … . . . .
Campbell Ritchie wrote:
Not if you remember it from primary school. It is always the same person who points. After somebody has been pointed to and called not it, the person to their left is the next to be pointed to.Junilu Lacar wrote:The instructions are ambiguous and open to at least two interpretations. . . .
Zach Stonne wrote:
- create a loop which will do the following:
- decrement an int which is equal to (n of friends) stated in the beginning
- replace every "1" with a zero, jumping through the array in the (n of words in the rhyme) stated in the start
-stops when the value being decremented is no longer grater than 1 there for only one array entry is equal to one, thats the last one standing.
Zach Stonne wrote:ITS NOT OPEN TO ANY OTHER INTERPRETATION, I MEAN THEY EVEN GAVE AN EXAMPLE TO EXPLAIN WHAT THEY MENT.
Yes, They continue chanting the rhyme until only one person is left. You end up with whoever is chanting pointing across at two people, going back and forth until only one person is not eliminated.Junilu Lacar wrote:And even when you say "it's always the same person who points" you don't say if that person is in the circle or not. If they're in the circle, what happens when they are out? Do they still keep doing the pointing? . . . .
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