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{{About|the party game|other uses|Hot potato (disambiguation){{!}}Hot Potato}}<br />
'''Hot potato''' is a [[party game]] that involves players gathering in a [[circle]] and tossing a small object such as a [[beanbag]] or even a real potato to each other while music plays.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wTuZMWvmUisC|title=Great Big Book of Children's Games|last=Wise|first=Derba|date=2003-11-10|publisher=McGraw Hill Professional|isbn=9780071422468|pages=266|language=en}}</ref> The player who is holding the object when the music stops is eliminated.<ref name="rules">{{cite book |last=Maguire |first=Jack |title=Hopscotch, Hangman, Hot Potato & Ha Ha Ha: A Rulebook of Children's Games |publisher=Simon and Schuster |location=New York |year=1990 |isbn=0671763326 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/hopscotchhangman00jack }}</ref><br />
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==Origins==<br />
The origins of the hot potato game are not clear. However, it may go back as far as 1888 when [[Sidney Oldall Addy]]'s ''[[Glossary of Sheffield Words]]'' describes a game in which a number of people sit in a row, or in chairs round a [[parlor]].<ref name="glossary">{{cite book |last=Addy |first=Sidney Oldall |author-link=Sidney Oldall Addy |date=1888 |title=A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, including a selection of local names, and some notices of folklore, games and customs |location=London |publisher=Trubner & Co. for the English Dialect Society |page=118 |url=https://archive.org/details/glossaryofwordsu00addyuoft/page/118/mode/2up |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}.</ref> In this game, a lit [[candle]] is handed to the first person, who says:<br />
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{{quote|<poem><br />
Jack's alive, and likely to live<br />
If he dies in your hand, you've a forfeit to give.<br />
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The one in whose hand the light expires has to pay the forfeit.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* {{annotated link|Bagholder}}<br />
* {{annotated link|Musical chairs}}<br />
* {{annotated link|Pass the parcel}}<br />
* {{annotated link|Passing the buck}}<br />
* {{annotated link|Snap-dragon (game)}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}{{Game-stub}}{{Party games}}<br />
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[[Category:Children's games]]<br />
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