Hand-in-Hand-Out

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Game	Hand-in-Hand-Out
Game Family	Hook-em-snivy Hook-em-snivy
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Description	per McLean. McLean notes that hand-in and hand-out was among the games banned by King Edward IV in 1477. She identifies it as “probably a kind of trick catch.” The 1477 ban spelled the game name as “handyn and handout.”
Sources	Teresa McLean, The English at Play in the Middle Ages (Kensal Press, 1985), page 80.
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