Blind man's buff

One individual is blind-folded in order to catch or touch one of the others who run around repeating, "The blind flies are hovering fast!

The game was played in the Tudor period, as there are references to its recreation by Henry VIII's courtiers.

The poet Robert Herrick mentions it, along with sundry related pastimes, in his 1624 poem "A New Yeares Gift Sent to Sir Simeon Steward":[8] That tells of Winters Tales and Mirth, That Milk-Maids make about the hearth, Of Christmas sports, the Wassell-boule, That tost up, after Fox-i' th' hole: Of Blind-man-buffe, and of the care That young men have to shooe the Mare It is also played in many areas in Asia including Afghanistan and all over Europe.

A children's game similar to blind man's buff is Marco Polo.

Marco Polo is usually played in a swimming pool; the player who is "it" (the tagger) shuts their eyes and calls out "Marco" to which the other players must reply "Polo", thus indicating their positions and making it easier for "it" to go in the right direction.