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FOUR SQUARE
A basic layout of a simple large square divided into four smaller squares provides for a game that is endless in variation depending on the skills of the participants playing the game.
Indicated by the name of the game, this game involves four players, one for each square. The purpose of this game is to displace the player who plays from square 1 or the "King" position. This player who plays from square 1 is the one who begins the game by serving the ball from the back corner of his or her own square. This player has the choice of serving the ball into any of the other 3 squares, choosing to allow it to bounce or not to bounce in any square before the opposing participant hits the ball into another of participants' squares.
The nature of the game allows for many people to be able to play the game within a short period of time due to "misses" that may occur. "Misses" can occur when a player does not successfully hit the ball into one of their opponents' squares, if they hit the ball out bounds, meaning out of the large square itself, or if they cause the ball to land on a line except on a serve. The person, who is responsible for the "miss", must exit the game and retreat back to the challenge line, thus allowing a player whom is waiting, into the game.
When this occurs, the players rotate around the square, leaving the newest player in square 4 and the person who was in square 2, is now playing from square 1, the "King" position and has become the opponent to eliminate.