hunt the thimble
hide the thimble

A child's game of hunt the thimble doesn't feel creative.

Hunt the Thimble (or slipper, or other object)

Hunt the Thimble (also known as Hide the Thimble) is a party game in which all but one partygoer leaves the room.

Variations in which only one person leaves the room and everybody else hides the object include Singing Hunt the Thimble and Hot or Cold.

They challenge them to hunt the thimble - or rather the key to the exit door - beyond which the TARDIS is presumed to be.

Furnishing the house was like a game of hunt the thimble, for the days of the fine shops in Abu Dhabi's Hamdan Street or in Dubai were yet to come.

Miss Hoolie is playing a game of hunt the thimble with the children, which leads to Josie organising an unusual treasure hunt with a little help from PC Plum and a lobster fisherman.

The game has also been known as Hot Buttered Beans in the US since at least 1830 and as Hunt the Thimble, Hide the Thimble or Hide the Handkerchief in both the US and the UK.

All the children leave the room and you hide the thimble.

Hunt the Thimble (also known as Hide the Thimble) is a party game in which all but one partygoer leaves the room.

In the singing version, the people who hid the thimble sing louder when the searcher is close to the object and softer when they are farther away.

Ordinary mankind (gigantic and unconquerable in its power of joy) can get a great deal of pleasure out of a game called "hide the thimble," but that is only because it is really a game of "see the thimble."

The game has also been known as Hot Buttered Beans in the US since at least 1830 and as Hunt the Thimble, Hide the Thimble or Hide the Handkerchief in both the US and the UK.

Up Jenkins is referred to as a 'lesser known' alternative to 'Hide the Thimble' in chapter 10 of Sir Henry Howard Bashford's 1924 satirical novel, Augustus Carp Esq., by Himself - Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man.