High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe", which can be spelled a number of ways, is a children`s counting rhyme, used to select a person to be "it" for games (such as tag) and similar purposes such as counting out a child that has to be stood down from a group of children as part of a playground game. It is one of a large group of similar `Counting-out rhymes` where the child pointed-to by the chanter on the last syllable is `counted out`. The rhyme has existed in various forms since well before 1820, and is common in many languages with similar-sounding nonsense syllables.