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How to Play Flashlight Tag

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.

Things You'll Need

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

Instructions

- 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.
- 2
  Mark out a jail area. Count to twenty if you are "it" in the jail while everyone else hides.
- 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.
- 4
  Call out the person's name that you find when you shine your flashlight on them from far away or close by.
- 5
  Send the person you have tagged with the flashlight to jail and continue looking for other players.
- 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.

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