counting-out game

Noun

 * 1)  A simple children's game using a rhyme (the counting rhyme) to select a person from a group, more or less at random. The selected person then takes a particular role in another game that follows.

Translations

 * Finnish: valintaloru
 * French:
 * Hungarian: kiszámoló(s) (mondóka/versike)
 * Swedish: