In the process of winning the game the tally-sticks may therefore be taken back and forth before one side wins the entire twenty.
The victory shout is given only when a successful guess is made.

The singing stops at a victory shout and is resumed as soon as the disks are rolled back to the player who hides the disks.

He must be careful to keep all his dramatic actions and movements of hands, arms, body and head in rhythmic accord with the song.

The steps and movements of the messenger must also be in time with the song.
V I-OU'-TIN INTRODUCTORY NOTE .-- This game belongs to the class of guessing games.

The form here presented is adapted from the game as played by the Omaha, Otoe, Ponca and Pawnee tribes, among whom it is a favorite.
_Properties_ .-- A standard, or the camp flagstaff can be used; a blanket or rug; three official scarfs, one blue, one green, one white; two wands, one decorated with blue and the other with green; eight tally-rods, ornamented at one end with red tassels; two small balls of a light, soft material, hair or wool; a drum; six decorated drum-sticks; rosettes of blue and of green; strips of blue and green paper.
[Illustration] _Directions_ .-- A fairly level open space large enough for a circle of from twenty to thirty feet in diameter is marked upon the ground, in the center of which the standard is planted.