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Also called �touch�, or �tig� children's game in which, in its simplest form, one player (�it,� or �he�) chases the others and tries to touch one of them, making the person touched �it.� The game is known by many other names. In some games, it is pretended that the touch carries some form of contagion - e.g., plague (Italy), leprosy (Madagascar), fleas (Spain), or �lurgy fever� (Great Britain). In others, a method of achieving immunity