Da Ga

Number of Players
12 to 20 children


Recommended ages
8-12 years old


Origin
This game is from Ghana. Da Ga means "boa constrictor" which is found rarely in the United States.


How to Play

1. Make an area about 10 feet square on the ground. This is called the " Home of the Snake".
2. Choose one player to stand inside the "Home of the Snake." All the other players should surround this person.
3. The first player reaches out and tries to touch any of the players. If touched, that player joins the player on the inside. The two hold hands and and then reach out (using only the free hand) to try and touch the other players.
4. The remaining players must stay close to the outside of the home of the snake. While they are on the outside, they can sing, dance, or skip to avoid the players in the circle.
5. The last player left begins to form a new snake in the next game.

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Tripp Trapp Trull

In many countries, children play this game which is similar to Tic Tac Toe. In England it is called Noughts and Crosses. In the Philippines it is called Tapatan. Just like Tic Tac Toe you want three in a row.

Number of PlayersYou need 2 to 8 players. I you have any more than 2 players use teams. Equipment You will need a diagram that looks like the one to the right. 18 Player pieces (you can use pennies).

How to Play Look at the diagram and draw your board just like it. The game is played on the 9 points where the lines meet. Players take turns putting their pieces on an empty point. This continues until all three pieces of each player are placed on the game board. Player one moves one piece along a line to the next empty point. The pieces can be moved up or down or diagonally. Jumping over the pieces is not allowed. Player two then does the same.

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Potsy

Potsy has been played in Brooklyn for decades, it may have even been played by your own
grandmothers.

Number of Players 2-10 players needed Equipment a potsy - made out of three safety pins clipped together an ordinary hopscotch mat How to Play Toss potsy into box one. Hop into box two. Hop into box three, then into box four, and then five. Hop into box six, then into box seven, then eight. Jump while turning around, and then landing in eight. Hop all the way back to box two, and then pick up the potsy from box one. Then, hop out of the pattern. Throw the potsy into the next box. If you complete the whole pattern, you may choose a box and put your initials inside it. None of the other players may hop into that box.

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Alaskan Hopscotch

Alaskan Hopscotch

Number of players 2-10 players needed Equipment hopscotch mat puck - pebble How to play Decide if you will want to use a side pocket (see picture at right). The side pocket is used to jump from when you start. The squares are NOT named or numbered. The puck is called the "man." Decide which foot you will use to hop on. You can not hop on a line or a box with a puck (man) in it. The first player puts the puck into the first box, NOT the side pocket. That player will have to jump from inside the side pocket diagonally to box 2. Then, that person goes to the rest of the boxes and comes back to box 2. When the player gets to box 2, they pick up the puck, hop out of the pattern, and give it to the next player. Then the next player tosses the puck into box 2 and repeats the pattern. If you toss the puck and it does not land into a box, or line, you lose. You keep repeating that until one person wins.

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Escargot (Snail)

 

Number of Players2 or more EquipmentChalk - to make the hopscotch. (No puck is used for this version of the hopscotch game.)

How to Play Decide which is your hopping foot and who goes first. Whichever foot you choose is the foot you will hop on both to go to the center and to go back out. Hop through the snail to the center. Start with square 1. Hop only once in each square. Do not hop on any lines or you will lose your turn. You may rest when you reach the center. Turn and hop back to the beginning. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for a second time. If you have hopped in and out successfully you may choose a square as your "house". Put your initials in the square. You can use this space to rest and other players must skip over the square. The game is over when it becomes impossible for anyone to hop to the center. The player with the most squares at the end is the winner.

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La Thunkuna

This version of hopscotch in Bolivia is the "Old World" version. Today children play the game the same way only they number the squares rather than naming them.

Number of Players  2 or more players Equipment a puck - can be a stone but an orange peel can also make an effective puck chalk - to draw the hopscotch mat How to Play Throw the puck into the first box (Lunes - Monday) and hop over this box into the second box (Martes - Tuesday). Kick the puck out the first box (Lunes) and back behind the starting point. After you kick the puck out you hop back out of the pattern. Players may decide whether to use their hopping foot to kick out the puck or whether they can stand on their hopping foot and use their other foot to kick the puck out of the box. Throw the puck into the box martes (Tuesday). Jump in box lunes (Monday), then in boxmiercoles (Wednesday). Kick the puck out of the pattern, then hop out of the entire pattern. Repeat the same pattern for miercoles (Wednesday), and then for jueves (Thursday). When you throw the puck into jueves (Thursday), hop in box miercoles (Wednesday), and then jump into box viernes (Friday), and sabado (Saturday), with one foot in each box. Then jump on one foot into box domingo (Sunday), and kick the puck back behind the main baseline. Don't throw the puck in boxes viernes (Friday), or sabado (Saturday). Continue throwing the puck into box domingo (Sunday). Always hop over the space where the puck lands. If the puck lands into the wrong space on any toss or kick, you lose your turn.

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Down,Down,Down

Number of players
2 players

How to Play

1. The two players throw a ball back and forth.
2. When 1 of the players drops the ball, both, say down, down, down.
3. After that, the player who dropped the ball gets down on 1 knee, elbow,or chin, etc.
4. The game continues on like this until one of the players cannot go "down" anymore.

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Marble Game

Number of Players
3 or more players


Equipment
Marbles


How to Play

1. Dig a hole in the ground, then draw a line about ten feet away.
2. Players attempt to throw their marble into the hole.
3. If your marble gets into the hole, you become a tiger.
4. A tiger has the advantage of being able to get people out if their marble touches another one.

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Petak Umpet ( Hide and Seek )

Hide and seek games were playing  through out the archipelago. It's the most legendary game. Although with different names - different and slightly modified but essentially the more you play the more you will have fun. 

Another name of Petak Umpet ( hide and seek ) are : dhelikan, jethungan, jilumpet,  jepungan, Ta 'seek and turns in Papua also exists with the name yango yango.

first of all collect more than three people to follow in this game.Because one person would be 'the case', namely the need to findthat on the hide. So look for lots of people are lurking just a little Kalo's not fun, I'll finish the game cepet. Before playing, the wholeplayers usually do Hompipa to determine who is looking for and who is hiding. . And that hiding will hide as far as possible. If you find other players he would run in areas where she had her last count and the player's name were found earlier.

The most exciting is when the guard will look for other players.Normally he would leave his watch. And friends who would hide out and touch the place earlier, and then say jipung ........ So the guard's quest to repeat again. When all players have found it to be a guardian is the person who first discovered. Another way in whichthe election held by the guard is facing towards the guard and then that had been captured or found by a guard standing behind him, then the guard said the serial number that stood in belakanganya,for which elected then he should keep. The games continues.............. increasingly tense ............ getting tired .............until time is running out and every kids must return to their home.....

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