This game is played with a group of kids sitting in a circle of chairs with one trashcan (or something that is fairly deep). There is one less chair in the circle than there is kids playing. The extra kid is in the middle with a swim noodle or a foam sword or something that’s not going to hurt the kids. The object of the game is for the person in the middle with the noodle to hit one of the kids in the chair (lightly and not in the face) the person in the middle must then run back to the trashcan and toss the noodle in the can so that it stays in the can (if it bounces out then it doesn’t count. Nor does it count if they miss the can, if they miss then they must start again) then they must run back to the chair of the person they just hit. Simultaneously the person who got hit must run to the center and grab the noodle from the trashcan and hit the person who hit them before that person sits in their chair (so basically the person in the middle we’ll call him john hits one of the people sitting down we’ll call him bob at which point john runs to the trash can and puts the noodle in it before bob gets the noodle and hits him back.