Cricket

It's said that cricket is one of the easy games to explain to the layman. I dug up this zany explanation a long time ago, possibly in the 1970s. However, its origin is lost in the mists of time but I do remember posting this to a newsgroup some time in the late 1990s. Could be, it was in celebration of the Cricket World Cup 1996 in India or the Cricket World Cup 1999 in England. I really can't tell but here it is again:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

There are two men called umpires who stay all out the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been given out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!