SIMON SAYS

You must choose one player as the leader. He must stand on a box, chair or table so that everyone can see and hear him. The other players stand in a line facing the leader. The leader begins by saying: “Simon says, ‘Hands out in front of you.’ Then each player must stretch out his hands. The players obey orders obey orders only if the leader first says “Simon says”. If the leader just says: “walk backwards”, then everyone must stand still because the leader did not say: “Simon says, ‘Walk backwards’.” If a player obeys an order, which he must not obey, he drops out of the game, too. The last player left in the game is the winner. The leader may not obey his own orders. He may even do some thing different. For example, he may say, “Simon says, ‘Put your hands on your hips’.” And he himself puts his hands on his shoulders. Also the leader may give orders like this: “Simon says, ’Take one step forward… Now one step to your right’.” In this case the players must only take one step forward and not the step to the right, because the leader did not say “Simon says” before the leader did not say “Simon says” before he gave the second order.