Play

Despite the tepid response to games on In Progress, I still trust that our 'sense of play' is our signature trait. In that vein I must announce that China has apparently superseded Sardinia as the capital of Hide-and-Seek. Here are a couple of players who capture the spirit of the game.

This first boy was determined to squeeze into a great hiding place, but couldn't squeeze out.

His friends and passers-by attempted to release him but eventually, after the boy had been stuck for two hours, firefighters were called. In order to release the boy firefighters had to enter one of the buildings and break a hole in the wall near to where the youngster was trapped. He was eventually freed after three hours and was found to be uninjured. 

This boy found an even more challenging place to hide.

A seven-year-old boy is rescued by firefighters after playing hide and seek with friends on a roof in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China. Trying to find a good hiding place, the boy climbed over the edge of the seven-story building and balanced on a thin metal protuberance sticking out of the wall. However, he then found that he was unable to climb back up again and ended up stuck there for nearly an hour before being rescued by firefighters. In order to rescue the boy firefighters lowered themselves down from the roof to secure a rope around the boy. They then pulled him up to safety.

Despite their clever hiding places, both children, reportedly, did not make it to base in time and thus, sadly, were 'caught'.