One popular game with hard boiled eggs around the world is egg rolling. Egg rolling has been a fixture of the season in Washington, D.C., since before the Civil War. The original object of the game was to roll the egg down the hill without breaking it. This would appear to be a derivative of egg-pecking, or knocking, still played by children and adults in many churches. Two people knock their eggs together, saying "Christ is risen!" The purpose actually is to break open the symbolic tomb, so the "winner" is the person whose egg breaks other eggs. The owner of the egg that cracks all of the others open is considered to be specially blessed.