The players are each provided with a card or slip of paper and a pencil and are seated. One leaf is handed to the first player who passes it on to the next and so on until it has made the round of the group. Each player in turn if he can identify the leaf writes the name of it on a card. Each leaf is thus passed.

The host or hostess then reads a correct list naming the leaves in the order in which they were passed. The player wins who has the largest number correct.

This is an especially pleasing game for nature students.

1. B and one letter meaning to exist.–Be.
2. B and two letters forming a sack.–Bag.
3. B and three letters forming a storehouse.–Barn.
4. B and three letters side of a stream.–Bank.
5. B and three letters a young creature.–Baby.
6. B and three letters a bag of goods.–Bale.
7. B and three letters without hair.–Bald.
8. B and three letters a surety.–Bond.
9. B and three letters timber.–Beam.
10. B and three letters a vegetable.–Beet.–Bean.
11. B and three letters a poet.–Bard.
12. B and three letters a drink.–Beer.
13. B and three letters a globule.–Bead.
14. B and three letters part of a bird.–Beak.
15. B and three letters a vessel.–Boat.
16. B and four letters an appendage.–Beard.
17. B and four letters a tree.–Beech.
18. B and four letters to commence.–Begin.
19. B and four letters a strand.–Beach.
20. B and four letters a receptacle.–Basin.
21. B and four letters a kind of meat.–Bacon.
22. B and five letters a combat.–Battle.
23. B and five letters a hound.–Beagle.
24. B and five letters a signal.–Beacon.
25. B and five letters a cup.–Beaker.
26. B and eight letters a demon.–Beelzebub.

The player wins who answers correctly the largest number. This game may be devised for any initial letter.

“Tip tap toe here we go
Three jolly sailor boys all in a row.”

At the close of the verse the player places the point of the pencil on the diagram still with his eyes closed. He then opens his eyes and should the pencil have touched one of the numbered spaces he marks down to his score the number written in that space and crosses out that figure on the diagram. Thereafter that space does not count in playing. Should the pencil touch a dividing line or the line forming the circumference of the circle or fall outside of the circle or fall in a space in which the number has been crossed out the player scores nothing and loses his turn the next one taking up the play.

When all of the spaces have been crossed out the player wins who has the largest score but should any player at any time touch his pencil to the center of the circle he wins the game.

OUT OF DOORS.–This game may be played out of doors by drawing the diagram on the earth with a sharpened stick which is used afterwards as a pointer as a pencil is used on the paper diagram. If on hard earth the figures may be marked in the spaces as on a paper diagram but the diagram should be drawn considerably larger than when on paper.

This is an admirable game for playing on the hard sand of the seashore. In that case little pebbles or shells are placed in the different spaces instead of numerals one in the first space two in the second three in the third etc. When a player places his stick or pointer in a space he removes the pebbles from that place to a little pile and the score is counted at the end by counting this pile of pebbles. Any space from which the pebbles have been removed is thereafter out of the game as when the figures are crossed out on the paper diagram.

This game is supposed to have originated in early methods of allotting land.

A 9×9 grid is marked with specific animals. On a nature walk mark the items off as they are found. First player to get a horizontal vertical or diagonal line wins.