Antoakyire
Also known as Anto-a-kyire
A drop-the-handkerchief circle game where the runner secretly leaves a knotted cloth behind a seated player.
How to play
Up to 20 players sit in a circle, no one may look behind them.
One player (the runner) walks or jogs around the outside singing a call-and-response song; everyone joins in.
Quietly, the runner drops a knotted cloth behind one seated player and keeps circling.
If that player feels or notices the cloth, they grab it, leap up, and chase the runner.
The runner must reach and sit in the empty spot before being caught.
If they escape, the chaser becomes the new runner.
If the seated player does NOT notice before the runner completes the full circle and taps them, the seated player must run to a previously agreed 'safe' spot; if they fail to reach it before the group can lightly tap them, they become the new runner.
Keep it fair
Before the game, agree on exactly where the safe refuge spot is so there is no argument about whether someone reached it in time.
