BLINDMAN'S BUFF • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Blindman's buff

... acquainted; for boys, whether the sons of monarchs or of peasants, all like play, and are pleased with one another's society. What games they diverted themselves with, I cannot tell. Perhaps they played at ball—perhaps at blindman's buff—perhaps at leap-frog—perhaps at prison-bars. Such games have been in use for hundreds of years; and princes as well as poor children have spent some of their happiest hours in playing ...

— True Stories from History and Biography • Nathaniel Hawthorne