Counting-out game

"[1] Many such methods involve one person pointing at each participant in a circle of players while reciting a rhyme.

Several simple games can be played to select one person from a group, either as a straightforward winner, or as someone who is eliminated.

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Odd or Even and Blue Shoe require no materials and are played using hand gestures, although with the former it is possible for a player to win or lose through skill rather than luck.

A scene in the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup plays on the fact that counting-out games are not really random.

"[6] The relevant scene includes a discussion between the characters of Jerry and George if the person who is "it" is the "winner" or the "loser":