Buck buck

[1][failed verification] One version of the game is played when "one player hops onto another's back" and the climber guesses "the number of certain objects out of sight".

[4][5] Folklorists Iona and Peter Opie claim that the game goes back to the time of Nero in the first century.

[citation needed] In the United Kingdom, the game is sometimes called High Cockalorum, but has a large number of different names in various local dialects.

These include: "Polly on the Mopstick" in Birmingham, "Strong Horses, Weak Donkeys" in Monmouthshire, "Hunch, Cuddy, Hunch" in west Scotland, "Mont-a-Kitty" in Middlesbrough, "Husky Fusky Finger or Thumb" in Nottinghamshire, "High Jimmy Knacker" in east London, "Jump the Knacker 1-2-3" in Watford, "Wall-e-Acker" or "Warny Echo" in north West London, "Stagger Loney" in Cardiff, "Pomperino" in St Ives, Cornwall and "Trust" in Lancashire.

[8] In the Chile, the game is called Caballito de Bronce (Little Brass Horse) [9] In Australia a similar game is called "stacks-on" the goal being to jump onto the player declared by yelling "stacks-on ".

A similar game malttukbakgi (말뚝박기) is played in South Korea,[10][11] by children up until high school.