Party Game Variant
A variation of the game, played by older children and young adults, does not make use of fruit names. Instead, the player in the centre calls out the description of a group of people (for example, "women", "people who have been to Kansas", etc.) and all people in that group are required to move. The only limit on this is that the person in the centre must be a member of the specified group (e.g., only a woman may call on "women" to move).
- Another variant, sometimes called "I Never", reverses this limit, requiring the centre to describe a group by something that the centre has never done, calling "I've never...".
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