Hot potato
Hot potato is a
beanbag or even a real potato to each other while music plays.[1] The player who is holding the object when the music stops is eliminated.[2]
Origins
The origins of the hot potato game are not clear. However, it may go back as far as 1888 when
is handed to the first person, who says:Jack's alive, and likely to live
If he dies in your hand, you've a forfeit to give.
The one in whose hand the light expires has to pay the forfeit.
See also
- Bagholder – Slang for shareholder left holding worthless stocks
- Musical chairs – Elimination genre party game
- Pass the parcel – British party game
- Passing the buck– English-language idiom
- Snap-dragon (game) – Game involving grabbing fruit out of burning brandy
References
- ISBN 9780071422468.
- ISBN 0671763326.
- ^ "Addy, Sidney Oldall (1888). "The Geographical or Ethnological Position of Sheffield", A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield." London: Trubner & Co. for the English Dialect Society.
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