Hunt the Thimble

Hunt the Thimble (also known as Hide the Thimble) is a party game in which all but one partygoer leaves the room. The person remaining in the room hides a thimble, or other small object, somewhere in the room. When everyone comes back in, they must locate the hidden object.

Variations in which only one person leaves the room and everybody else hides the object include Singing Hunt the Thimble and Hot or Cold. In the singing version, the people who hid the thimble sing louder when the searcher is close to the object and softer when they are farther away. In Hot or Cold, the hiders tell the searcher what temperature they are based on proximity to the hidden object—the closer they get, the hotter they are. In one variation, the thimble must be 'hidden' in plain sight from almost every part of the room.

Similar games exist in Germany (Topfschlagen, in which a blindfolded player must find a pot guided by calls of hot or cold ); in Poland (Ciepło-zimno) and in Russia (Kholodno-goryacho, both meaning Hot&Cold). In the Polish and Russian version a player is guided to find a hidden object by calls of cold, colder, warm, hot, boiling; blindfold is not used. The game exists also in Spanish speaking countries

Hot and Cold

Hot and Cold may refer to:

Songs

Hot and Cold (film)

Hot and Cold is a short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions, and is the eleventh of the thirteen Pooch the Pup cartoons.

Plot

Pooch is walking in the Arctic carrying a stick with a sack attached to it. He then comes across his sweetheart, the girl coonhound, who wears a thick fur coat, and is playing fetch with her pet great dane. The great dane, after doing a few catches, accidentally falls into a hole in the ice. The great dane is pulled out of the hole but is trapped in an ice block. Pooch, using a payphone in the vicinity, then calls a king. The king he called lives in a local shack with switches that control the weather. And upon hearing Pooch's request for warm weather, the king turns off the cold wind, and activates the sun. Some of the snow in the area starts to melt as a result, and the great dane is defrosted. A lot of the other animals around seem to enjoy the suddenly warm climate.

But not everybody is pleased with the weather change. A disturbed polar bear, who's not accustomed to warm temperature, enters the king's shack. The polar bear tangles the king in a net, and moves some of the switches, thus replacing the sun with a blizzard. Pooch comes to the scene moments later. Pooch attempts to approach the switches, only to be thrown outside by the polar bear.