The game continues till they decide to stop. Afterwards it is that person's turn to run around. Ampe (a ghanaian childrens game) Watch on. Someone keeps score and the first person to reach a pre-determined number of points is the winner. If the feet are different, the opponent becomes the new leader. He/ she will hit lightly at the back of the fellow and all will laugh. If the leader has put the same foot forward as their opponent, the leader wins a point and moves to the next player. But if the seated fellow is that absent minded and does not realize that the cloth is behind him or her and the moderator goes round and comes back to meet that person still sitting. If he or she is able to catch the moderato before he or she sits down, the new to be moderator, has the right to give the cloth back to the fellow who dumped the cloth. The fast person should have a way of making sure that when the cloth is put behind him or her he/she will know and pick it and run after the moderator/person. In the process, the moderator or the one whose turn is to run around secretly and quietly dumps the cloth behind one of those seated and continues to sing as if nothing has happened. He/ She does so many revolutions and the rule of the game is that for those children sitting, no body should look back. The song is repeated as many times as one continues to run around. Then one of them is made to carry a cloth and run around them singing: How to Play: The children all sit in a circular fashion. An Akan folk game literally meaning "it was not put behind you" (similar to duck duck goose).
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