How to Play Flashlight Tag

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Flashlight tag is a fun game that mixes hide and seek with tag and needs to be played at night. The game is played by tagging players with the beam of a flashlight instead of your hand and putting them into jail. Follow these steps to play this challenging game of tag.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Darkness
4 or more players
A safe place to play the game

Step 1

Decide who will be "it" in this game by playing eenie-meanie-miney-moe or one potato two potato. Another way is to have each kid guess a number between one and one hundred and whoever comes closest is it.
Step 2

Mark out a jail area. Count to twenty if you are "it" in the jail while everyone else hides.
Step 3

Search for everyone with the flashlight if you are it. The flashlight must remain on at all times in this game and cannot be turned off or the beams hidden.
Step 4

Call out the person's name that you find when you shine your flashlight on them from far away or close by.
Step 5

Send the person you have tagged with the flashlight to jail and continue looking for other players.
Step 6

End the game when all players are sitting in the jail. The first person that was tagged becomes it and the game starts over.

Tips & Warnings

In another variation of this game, other players can sneak to the jail and free a caught person by touching them. If they are caught however, they will join their teammate in the jail.
If you have a lot of kids playing this game, you can have more than one "it." Preferably, there should be no more than two people who are it.