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What should have been a shower thought but it's actually a just-before-going-to-sleep thought:
As far as I know, there's no historical recording about why is hide and seek a thing. Sure, we have our childhood memories, our parents sharing theirs, stories of children playing it from XVIII century to Middle Age, but never a reason for the game on itself. One could say it's for fun, but the rules are:
•If you seek: You wait for them to hide while standing on a certain spot, and you have to catch ALL of the players to win
•If you hide: You are not to be found, and you must reach a certain spot to win.
Now, what does it reminds you of?
Any particular event?
Or maybe a lot of events?
What I'm getting at is, as chess is a child-friendly recreation of wars during Feudalism, hide and seek might as well be a representation of the mythical Trojan war or the neverending conquerors-conquered territories dynamic.