A game, normally played by a group of children. One is chosen, by whichever method is currently in favour (normally a selection rhyme - one potato, two potato etc.), to be the executioner. The rest of the players then line up and the game begins. It playes like a gruesome version of Blockbusters, the executioner starts by asking one of the players how they would like to die. The player tells the executioner,


"I would like a crossbow bolt to the stomach, please Bob"

or,

"A hand grenade please Bob"


or whichever way they choose to be despatched. The player then acts out that particular method of execution, and the executioner moves to the next poor soul. After a complete round, when every body has had a shot, or should that be been shot, the executioner decides who's performance was the best. The winner then becomes the executioner.

As good as this game was, for eight year olds, it was soon deemed a bit tame. So some bright spark decided that the players should stand on the top of a small rise, so as to provide more 'stage' for their performance. Once this was the norm, they upped the ante, a steeper slope now formed the stage, allowing the slumped corpse to roll down the hill neatly. After this the choice was obvious, a small wall. So somebodies garden becomes a mass grave for a day, using a small wall around a border. As kids are kids it eventually became a larger wall, until, by the time we had grown out of it, we were dying off a wall over a metre high. As I have not heard of anyone actually dying from playing this game, I imagine that each new generation of players starts at the beginning, on level ground. If people still play it, if it wasn't just us that played it to begin with.