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We used it for counting-out too, but it was also a multiplayer jumprope game played like so:

"It" stands in the center, starts the chant and twirls the jumprope around his/her head by one end. (This is better with a double or longer rope rather than a one-person rope.) Everyone else stands in a circle around It. When It reaches the line about the "'copter came down", the rope is lowered to waist level and It starts spinning in place. When the blood color is named, It bends or squats to bring the rope down to ankle level.

Now each player steps into the radius of the rope in turn, naming one letter of the color as they do and jumping over the rope (feet together) as it comes around. Once the color is spelled out completely, the next player names another color and the spelling begins again. The first player to either misspell the color or miss their jump becomes It.