The Struggle of Two Parties
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Section titled “Translated text”Participants are divided into two parties, whose members do not know each other’s affiliation and recognize one another only by means of an agreed sign, such as grasping the bottom button of a jacket or taking a handkerchief from a pocket, while uttering a certain word. The response is given through another agreed secret sign (as a last resort, a regular password and verbal countersign may be used).
The division into opposing parties is carried out secretly by the instructor, who hands out slips of paper to individual participants, designating their party (e.g., Julius’s Party) and its agreed signs.
Both parties exchange a letter. They must pass it to their own people, scattered in a forest within a defined area (both parties operate in the same area). The game consists of: cleverly obtaining the opposing party’s sign, exercising mutual caution toward encountered individuals who know nothing of each other but wish to identify a fellow member.
If an opponent is discovered, they are “killed” by tearing off the ribbon each participant wears on their arm. The “killed” player remains at the meeting spot and may no longer take part in the game. Key tactics include: surprising from concealment or eavesdropping on two others. These methods determine the recognition and observation of the opposing party’s signs or passwords. The game ends upon a specified signal.
The party wins which: captures the enemy’s letter, kills more opponents, or delivers its own letter to a greater number of its members (each member who possessed the party’s letter marks it with their own sign). For killing one of their own members, two negative points are awarded (it may happen that someone attempts to communicate with any encountered sign of the opposing party, but instead encounters a member of their own party, who—seeing and recognizing the opponents’ sign—kills the first by tearing off their ribbon).
Source scan: Polona / National Library, marked “Public Domain”. View scan — image 104.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Jan Jasiński, Gry i ćwiczenia terenowe (Harce terenowe) (1938)
- Printed pages: 96–97
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 96
- Read the source text: gct-027