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maybe!!!

ratchet screwdriver is a game that was repeatedly banned at quaker youth events in my childhood (and thus went under many different names, ratchet screwdriver and kiss the quaker are just the two i'm personally familiar with)

the rules are as follows:

you need a big open space of some kind. one person (this has enough similarities to tag, let's call them It) sits at one end of the space, facing everyone else, who sit at the other end in two rows - in pairs, with one person behind the other.

the person who is It calls out some sort of criterion, a la "the sun shines on": something like "people with brown hair" or "people who slept in today".

if the criterion applies to them, then the person at the front of each pair has to race to reach It and kiss them on the cheek. the person behind them tries to use any method of stopping them, which usually means wrestling and grabbing their clothes. when someone kisses It on the cheek, that person becomes It and the game starts again.

also if It calls "ratchet screwdriver" then everyone has to go.

so.

idk if these options are wide enough but i looked up a few different places for ideas and i guess people who are the Outliers will probably trip over themselves to tell me in the tags anyway

tralee, in co. kerry, ireland, has sunrise about 40 minutes later than where i live in the east of england. sunset is also about 40 minutes later. so, the fact that it's so much further west (about nine and a half degrees further west, if i'm reading my longitudes correctly) has just shifted the whole day by 40 minutes, but since it's at almost exactly the same latitude, the day is the same length

aberdeen, in scotland, has sunrise about 25 minutes earlier, but sunset is a whole 42 minutes later. so the whole day is over an hour longer. aberdeen is about five degrees further north and two degrees further west

even on a small scale, we can see that the north-south difference (latitude) makes a bigger difference to the length of day, even over relatively small distances, but the east-west one (longitude) has a more significant effect on when they start (both of which makes total sense)

all of us, reaching for the stars.