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Hunt the thimble

Hunt the thimble (also known as hide the thimble or hide the handkerchief in both the US and the UK) is a party game in which one person hides a thimble, or other small object, somewhere in the room, while all other players wait outside. (In some versions of the game, it must be hidden in plain sight.) When everyone comes back in, they race to locate the hidden object. The first to find it is the winner, and hides it for the next game.Huckle buckle beanstalk (or Huckleberry bean stalk) is a similar childhood game which can be played with two or more players, one being the hider, or the person who is "it," and the other person or persons being seekers. The game has also been known as hot buttered beans in the US since at least 1830, and other names for it include hide the object and hide the key. William Wells Newell described a version called thimble in sight in his 1883 Games and Songs of American Children. The game is known in various European countries. It is called cache-tampon in France. In Germany the game of Topfschlagen involves a blindfolded player trying to find a pot guided, by calls of hot or cold, and similar versions (without the blindfold) are played in Poland (Ciepło-zimno) and in Russia (Kholodno-goryacho, both meaning "hot and cold"). The game is played under names such as La candelita (The Little Fire) in Spanish speaking countries.