The name of a schoolyard game, played apparently only in Royal Park Middle School in NW Leeds. It involved any number of participants from about ten upwards.

At the start of the game all players stand in a circle with their feet touching the persons toes on either side, but leaving a small gap between their heels. A tennis ball is then bounced in the middle of the circle to the rhyme 'Hot rice, bounce twice, once twice, hot rice' then the ball is left to run free. Using their feet like pinball flippers the players attempt to knock it through the legs of another player. Once this happens that person is 'on'.

All other players would then scatter. The person who is 'on' would then try and catch the other players by either striking them below the knee with the ball or tagging them with the ball. Any person caught becomes part of the 'on' team. Players not 'on' can pick up the ball but only with their fingertips, it must not touch the palms of their hands or they become 'on'.

Once all players have been caught, the game starts again. The person who was first caught in the preceding game becomes 'queenie' in the next game. This unenviable position means that if the ball passes out of the circle between two players rather than the legs of one player it is 'one bad egg for queenie', then 'two bad eggs for queenie', a third 'bad egg' means that person is 'on'.