Seven Up (game)

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Seven Up (sometimes called Heads Up Seven Up or Heads Up, Thumbs Up or even Heads Down, Thumbs Up) is a children's game that is played in primary schools, and to a lesser extent at parties. The goal is for selected participants to correctly guess the person who pressed their thumb. It takes a minimum of 14 children to play the game in its truest sense but if there is a smaller group to start with, fewer than seven can be picked at the start.

Gameplay

To start the game, seven children are selected and come to the front of the room. The team captain says, "Heads down, thumbs up!" The class that are not selected then puts their head down, closes their eyes, and puts one thumb up. The chosen seven circulate through the room, each of the children secretly pressing one thumb down and then returning to the front of the room. This takes about one minute. The captain then calls "Heads up, seven up!". All children raise their heads and the lucky seven whose thumbs were pressed stand up. Each in turn names the person they think pressed their thumb. If they are correct, the thumb-presser sits down and the winning child takes their place. The game then starts again.

Schoolage children frequently cheat at this game by peeking at the shoes of the child who presses their thumb down and matching it with the correct child later.

Seven-up is also a children's game similar to hangman.

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