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counting-out game

rhyme used when children appoint position in a game
Class type of: children's game, rhyme Q336822

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
game genre, literary genre[4]
Subclass of
children's game, rhyme
Part of
small genre of folklore, childlore[5][6]
Facet of
nursery rhyme[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en counting-out game en counting-out rhyme en counting rhyme en number rhyme ar قرعة ar لعبة إقصائية cs Rozpočítadlo cs Rozpočitadlo de Fingerreim de Auszählreim de Abzählvers de Abzählreim de Auszählvers el Λαχνίσματα el Κληρωσιά el Λαγχανίσματα el Λαχανίσματα es Formulas de echar a suertes es Fórmulas de echar a suertes es rimas de conteo
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85033453
GND ID
4141210-2
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
art/counting-out-rhyme
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
comptine, formulettes
Freebase ID
/m/01r19
Harper's tag
counting-out-rhymes
J9U entity ID
987007567871805171
Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID
sj96005276
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID
gf2014026273
National Library of Latvia ID
000156236, 000314633
Topic's main category
Category:Counting-out rhymes
Yale LUX ID
concept/6c8be0b4-5ccf-4fa6-af11-60d7b854fec7

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🔗 Connections
Subclass of 2
rhyme, children's game
Examples 1
He loves me... he loves me not
Facet of 1
nursery rhyme
Instance of 1
literary genre
Part of 1
childlore
Topic's main category 1
Category:Counting-out rhymes
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Counting-out rhymes
← Genre 1
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
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Summary

counting-out game is a game genre[1]. It is a type of children's game[2] and rhyme[3].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · Pi bot bot · 2026-11-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed the item: Moving commons category sitelink to category item (Category:Counting-out rhymes)"
  2. 9d ago · Lensbirdie · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Counting-out games
    "Created claim: Commons category: Counting-out games"
  3. 9d ago · Lensbirdie · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Added [no] label: elling"
  4. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → counting-out-rhymes
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: counting-out-rhymes, Matched to counting out rhymes (#289917644) in…"
  5. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → children's game, rhyme
    Part of → small genre of folklore, childlore
    Topic's main category → Category:Counting-out rhymes
    Instance of → game genre, literary genre
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007567871805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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