Main Games
Asia section
Da cau
Continent : Asia.country: Vietnam. Category: Hit game. Number of
players: 2 - > Props: feather
Description
Two children kick the feather with their feet to each other. It
may not touch the ground but it is allowed to catch it on your breast
or on your knee and then kick it again with your foot. Normally
this game is played with the point of your shoe. A single player
can also play this game; the feather is then repeatedly kicked up
in the air and caught on breast, knee or foot.
Cuop co
Continent : Asia.country: Vietnam. Category: Tag game. Number of
players: 6-> Props: A little flag or piece of cloth.
Description
Two parties play this game. The playground is divided into two parts,
on which two parties are standing. The flag is put right in the
middle of the field in a small circle. By calling a number, only
two children of both parties run to the small circle. (Every child
gets a number) Every player must try to pick up the flag without
being tagged by the other player and then run back to their own
party on the side of the playground. If he (or she) succeeds to
bring home the flag safely without being tagged by the other player,
then that party gets a point. This game can also be played more
children at the same time: then the person, who calls the numbers,
is then calling two or three numbers at a time. The game ends when
one of the parties has reached the number of points as agreed before
the game.
Chi chi chanh chanh
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Counting game. Number
of players: 4 Props: 0
Description
Four children play this game. One child holds his hand open in the
circle and the other three must touch this palm of the hand with
one finger. At the end of the text they all say, the boy with the
open palmhand must try to catch one of the fingers of the other
three children. The trick is to pull out your finger at the end
of the text immediately, so you won’t be caught. If he catches your
finger, then it’s your turn to catch the other fingers in the next
round.
Rong ran len may
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Tag game. Number of
players: 5-> Props: none
Description
A group of children stand in a row. Opposite to the row stands a
child (the catcher) and the first child in the row asks: ‘is the
doctor there?’ When the answer is ‘no’, the row will form a circle
around the catcher. When the answer is ‘yes’, all children will
form a row and then the catcher has to try to catch the last child
in the row. The children in the row must keep their hands tightened
at the back of their neighbour. The children in front of the row
must try to hinder the ‘catcher’ in touching/catching the last child
in the row.
Nu na nu nong
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Leap-/ jump game. Number
of players: 1-5 Props: none
Description
A group of five children sit in a row. One of the children says
a verse and is touching the legs of the other children at the same
time. When she is at the end of the verse, she touches one leg and
that specific leg must be pulled up and is out. Then she continues
in touching the remaining legs until a last leg is left, that will
be the winner.
Tho nhuong hang
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Tag game. Number of
players: 10> Props: none
Description
All children form groups of three. These three children form a circle,
in which another child sits on his heels. Apart from all these groups
there are two children, one is the ‘hunter’ and the other is the
‘rabbit’. The hunter must try to catch the rabbit. The rabbit has
an escape by going into the little groups of three children, and
the child who was sitting on his kneels in that particular circle
must get out and becomes automatically the hunter. The child who
was the hunter will now be the rabbit and she/he tries to escape
from the new hunter by also getting quickly into a group of three.
Lat bong sap ngua
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Manipulation game.
Number of players: 2 Props: Little cards, every card must have one
blank white side, the other side is coloured or printed.
Description
Two children play this game. Both children put their card on the
ground with the printed side on top. The intention of this game
is that one card has to lay down with the printed side under and
the other card has to be on top with the blank side facing up. (The
cards only need to lay over each other for a very small piece) This
all happens by holding another card in their hands, by which they,
in turns, hop/turn/move the card on the ground. One has to play
very tactical, always one step ahead. A player, who has placed the
cards correctly according the game, is the winner and gets both
cards, after which the game starts all over.
Nhay giay
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Leap-/ jump game. Number
of players: 3-> Props: An elastic rope (rubber band)
Description
Two girls stand opposite eachother with a rubber band around their
legs. The jumping girl starts with the rubber band at a low position.
She jumps while all the girls are saying a verse (text). If she
jumps not correctly, she is out and must stand in the rubber band
while another girl jumps. Every time when the jumping girl makes
her jumps correctly, the rubber band will be put higher on the legs.
Trong nu trong hoa
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Leap-/ jump game. Number
of players: 5-> Props: no Props
Description
High jumping: two children sit face to face on the ground with their
feet against eachother. The other children must jump over their
legs. Every round the feet will be higher by putting one foot on
top of the other, until there are four feet in the air. (Four feet
high) The jumping children are not allowed to touch the feet while
jumping.
Nhay cuu
Continent:Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Leap-/ jump game. Number
of players: - > Props: none
Description
One child bends down with her hands on the ground or her feet. The
other children jump over the back of this child by only using their
hands. If they touch the child (who is bending down) with their
feet on her head or bottom, then that child is out and must replace
the bending girl.
Da kau
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Goal game. Number of
players: 2 - > Props: Little feather between round pieces of
rubber
Description
Boys mostly play this game. Here they play the game with seven boys
(it can be played with less or more children) They stand in a circle
and one boy starts the game by kicking the feather in the air towards
another child. They try to keep the feather in the air as long as
possible. For that you need a lot of skill and practice!
Chay choi
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Moving game. Number
of players: 10 - > Props: Two balls
Description
Two groups of children (equally numbered) stand in a row and these
groups will be split into two and are standing opposite eachother
.The children standing in front of both parties have a ball. At
a signal these children run with the ball to the other side, where
the other part of their group stands waiting for getting the ball.
The child who gives the ball is joining at the back of the row,
while the child who just has received the ball, runs to the other
side. This continues until every child has had his turn. The team
of which all children has got the ball and is at the end standing
in the original position, has won. This is quite a competitive game!
Ai nhanh ai tchu
Continent:Asia.country: Vietnam. Category: Moving game. Number of
players: 10 - > Props: Two balls
Description
Two groups of children (equally numbered) stand in a row and these
groups will be split into two and stand opposite eachother. The
children standing in front of both parties have a ball. At a signal
the children must pass the ball on through their legs to the back
of the row. The last child of the row gets the ball and must jump
forward to the front of the row with the ball between his legs.
Then he passes the ball on through his legs to his back neighbour,
until the ball is again at the back of the row. The team of which
all children has got the ball and is at the end standing in the
original position, has won.
Chim so long
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Tag game. Number of
players: 10-> Props: none
Description
Children make groups of two and they hold their hands tied as ‘gates’,
in which other children can hide. In every gate sits a child and
all ‘gates’ stand in a circle. In the middle of the circle are two
children, who are the ‘hunters’, and they must try to get into a
‘gate’ before any other child who is changing between the ‘gates’.
So the game is to run as fast as you can to an empty ‘gate’ before
any other child. If a child is first in a ‘gate’ and you are just
too late, then you can still look around if there is another ‘gate’
empty to where you can run. If all ‘gates’ are occupied, then it
is your turn to be the ‘hunter’. This game can also be played with
one ‘hunter’
Meo bat chuot
Continent : Asia. Country: Vietnam. Category: Leap-/ jump game.
Number of players: 2 Props: Little stones
Description
On the ground a circuit is drawn, being made up of some plots left
and right. Two children (one left and one at the right) throw a
little stone. The first time you throw on plot one and after every
round they throw the stones one plot further. While hopscotching
they arrive at the plot where the stone lays and then they have
to move this stone with one foot to the other plot and further.
If you start at the left side you must hopscotch your way back along
the right side. (Or the other way around)
O lang danh soi
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Manipulation game.
Number of players: 2 Props: Some stones
Description
Two children sit on the pavement aside the road and have drawn an
oval in which they put stones in twelve compartments. These stones
have to be put according a system.
Bay Chim
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Tag game. Number of
players: 10 - > Props: none
Description
Children are divided into two groups: one group in a circle makes
pairs and with their hands they make ‘gates’, the other children
have to run through the ‘gates’. At a signal one group runs through
the ‘gate’ and at the next signal the ‘gates’ close. A child who
is caught in a ‘gate’ has to stand in the middle of the circle.
The game continues until all children are caught in the ‘gates’.
Blind man’s buff
Continent : Asia.Country: Vietnam. Category: Guessing game. Number
of players: 10 - > Props: Piece of cloth or scarf
Description
The children form a circle and two children are being blindfolded.
One of this two children gets a whistle in the mouth, to let the
other child hear where her/his position is in the circle. This whistle
makes it somehow easier to locate her/his position, otherwise it
might take too long to find the other blindfolded child. The children,
who are standing in the circle, will direct the two children by
calling and eventually pushing back into the circle, when it might
occur that they walk out of the circle. If the two blindfolded children
have found eachother by touching, then two other children will be
blindfolded and the game starts all over.
Snake
Continent : Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Tag game. Number of
players: 10-> Props: none
Description
Two children form a ‘gate’ and all other children must walk through
it while they hold fast their front neighbour with their hands.
This line of children is called ‘snake’. The ‘gate’ closes when
the last child of the ‘snake’ comes through. If the ‘gate’ catches
that last child, he is out and must stand aside.
I khay I khong
Continent: Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Tag game. Number of
players: 10-> Props: no Props
Description
Two groups of children (boys and girls) are standing behind their
own line. The party who has to catch the other party is saying some
lines, on the end of which they run forward trying to catch the
other party. When they have caught them, the game starts all over.
(Parties then may change of position)
Mak-Khoom
Continent: Asia.country: Thailand Category: Manipulation game. Number
of players: 2 Props: Little stones
Description
Some children sit in a circle and two girls are playing the game.
Some holes are digged in the sand: five compartments on sides of
the players and two compartments on both left as well as the right
side of them. The outside compartments are used by the players to
keep their winning stones in. The other ten holes are for playing.
In every hole are five stones. The game starts by bringing their
hands in front of them, having a certain finger formation. The finger
formations they present now have significance: the clenched fist
represents ‘stone’, the flat hand ‘paper’, and the two extended
fingers ‘scissors’. If both players chance to produce the same sign
it is a ‘wash out’, and they try again. But if they produce different
signs one of them inevitably wins since it is held that ‘stone’
blunts and thus beats ‘scissors’; ‘scissors’ cut and thus conquer
‘paper’; and ‘paper’ wraps round and thus triumphs over ‘stone’.
This form of elimination often goes under the name of the sounds
with which they synchronise their movements. (like: ‘Ding, Dang,
Dong’) The player who wins, starts the game. She may start with
any hole she likes to start with. She then take all stones out of
that particular compartment and puts -clockwise- one by one the
stones in the other compartments. If she has no more stones left
in her hand, then she takes the stones of the very first compartment
and continues in putting those stones also in the compartments.
When the last stone in her hand is put in a compartment with stones
and the very next compartment is empty, then she may take the stones
out of the compartment next to the empty-one. She puts these stones
in her ‘safety compartment’ at her right/left, depending where she
sits. Each player has one safety compartment to keep her winning
stones. When all stones are out of all ten ‘play compartments’,
then they count how many stones they have in their ‘safety compartment’
and the winner is who has most of the stones.
Tuey
Continent : Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Tag game. Number of
players: 10-> Props: No Props
Description
The playground is divided into three parts. Two groups of four children
play this game. One group has to tag the other but is not allowed
to tag the children of the other group without losing hold of the
lines on which they are standing: they must always hold their feet/arm/leg
on a line. The other group has to try to reach the other side of
the playground without being tagged. If you are tagged, you have
to leave the playground. If you have safely reached the other side
of the playground without being tagged, then you may go back to
your starting position and try again.
Lan mai
Continent : Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Leap-/ jump game. Number
of players: 2 - > Props: Some coins or stones
Description
First a hopscotch figure is drawn. Then you throw the coin in the
first compartment. The compartment where the coin lays, must be
left out while jumping. At the end of the hopscotch figure you turn
and jump back. On the way back the coin must be picked up from the
ground while standing on one leg. You continue until all compartments
have been passed. Then you go to the opposite side and stand with
your back to the hopscotch figure and you throw the coin over your
shoulder backwards. The coin must be inside the hopscotch figure,
if not you are out and change with another couple. Every game has
its own rules, so before playing the game, rules are agreed and
played upon.
Maah Kip
Continent : Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Manipulation game.
Number of players: 2 Props: 5 stones
Description
Women normally play this game. The five stones are thrown on the
floor, and the player has to pick up the stones one by one, while
simultaneously she is throwing one stone in the air. (So actually
four stones to play the game, one stone to throw in the air) Next
step is to throw the stones on the floor and pick them up two by
two, three by three and at last four by four. Then the stones are
thrown on the back of the palm, to catch them all at once. From
the back of the palm position, again back in your hand. If some
stone falls off your hand on the floor, the other stones are put
aside and with one stone the play continues. Then one stone being
thrown in the air, caught at he back of your hand while the other
stones are being placed in a position near eachother so that they
are easily being taken in one move at the next throw. A lot of variations
in this game.
Mon chon pa
Continent : Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Tag game. Number of
players: 10 - > Props: Handkerchief
Description
A group of children sit in a circle. One child has the handkerchief
and walks, during the singing of a song by all other children, outside
the circle. Then, at a certain moment, she drops the handkerchief
behind a child and she has to pick up the handkerchief as quick
as possible and runs after the child who dropped it and must try
to touch her. But the child who dropped the handkerchief runs also
as fast as she can , trying not to be touched and going to sit on
the place where the other girl, who runs after her, just sat. As
soon as you sit down, you are safe. But if you are touched before
you sit down, then the game starts all over and you must do it once
again.
Thob pae
Continent : Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Hand-clapping game.
Number of players: 2 Props: none
Description
Two children stand opposite eachother and they say a verse/text.
While saying this, they clap theirs hands and make different movements.
The clapping must be done synchronic and there are many variations
of movements in this clapping game.
Pa-ra-tii
Continent : Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Sing-and-dance game.
Number of players: 2-> Props: none
Description
Ole
number : 29 Continent : Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Leap-/
jump game. Number of players: 8-> Props: No Props
Description
Children stand in a circle and everybody gets a number. They stand
close to eachother and they move their hands in the middle and by
calling ‘Ole’ everybody jump backwards. Then number one must try
to tag number two by jumping in his direction by calling ‘Ole’ at
the same time. If you are tagged, you are out; the game is over
when only one player is left.
Tee wada tsjou tsjou
Continent : Asia.Country: Thailand Category: Sing-and-dance game.
Number of players: 2-> Props: none
Description
Dingklik oglan aglik
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Leap-/ jump game.
Number of players: 4 Props: No Props
Description
Four children stand in a circle. Two of them move forward with their
hands still tightened underneath the hands of the other two boys.
They put one leg over the leg of their neighbour, so that they are
all standing on one leg. Some girls aside as well as the boys at
play say loudly some lines, while clapping in their hands. When
they do so, they quicken one’s pace until they get too tired and
fall on the ground. Then they start again.
Cublak cublak suweng
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Guessing game. Number
of players: 5 Props: Little stone
Description
Four girls sit on their knees in a small circle; another girl is
positioned in the middle while bending forwards. The four girls
put their hands on the back of the girl in the middle and one girl
who has the stone starts telling some lines, while touching the
other hands one by one. On the last word of the text she puts the
stone in the hand of one of the girls, then they continue in saying
the text for another line. Then the girl in the middle rises her
body and has to guess who will have the stone in her hand. If she
finds the correct girl, then the girl with the stone in her hand
changes position with the girl in the middle and starts the game
from the beginning. If she fails to find the right girl with the
stone in her hand, the game starts all over with everybody in the
same position.
Roda kelapa
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Moving game. Number
of players: 2 - > Props: A coconut and a stick
Description
You make a hole in an empty coconut. A long stick, with at the bottom
a small side branch, this you put into the coconut and then you
roll it: off you go!
Mul Mulan
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Board game. Number
of players: 2 Props: Some leaves and some cards
Description
On the floor you draw the playfield, consisting of 3 rectangles,
each one of them a little bigger than the other. Then you connect
these rectangles by lines on the corners and in the middle of all
rectangles. One by one the children lay a card/leave on one of the
lines and/or corners, the boy,
who has first three cards/leaves in a row, wins.
Keplekan
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Miscellaneous Number
of players: 2 Props: Two pigeons
Description
Two boys play with two pigeons, a male and a female. The boys stand
some 50 metres apart from eachother. The boy at the back has the
male pigeon; the other boy at the front has the female pigeon in
his hand. He lets the female pigeon make some flying moves, which
attracts the attention of the male pigeon and he flies to the female
pigeon. The trick is to get the male pigeon flying to the female
pigeon. This is not a real game; it is a play with pigeons.
Tapuk daun
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Pastime (no game)
Number of players: 1-> Props: Tree leaves
Description
Two boys walk in their neighbourhood, and while passing some bushes,
they play with the leaves of it. They pick the leaves and hold them
in a special way in their hand: the leave is put between the thumb
and pink in one hand and then they hit this hand with the leave
against the other hand, which then makes a little ‘crack’. This
can be done continuously
Kubuk
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Aim game. Number of
players: 2 Props: none
Description
The children play this game with 20 stones. To start the game: one
child takes the stones and put them under two hands. The other child
has to guess under which hand are most stones. If she guesses right,
then she may start; if not right, the child with the stones under
her hands starts. She throws all the stones on the floor and starts
with her finger to make a line between two stones. That means she
has to play wit these two stones first before she continues with
other stones. So always you make a line first between two stones
as indication with which stones you play. Then she must hit one
stone with the other, and then continues with another pair of stones.
If you miss, then the other girl takes all stones, which are left
on the floor. She throws the stones and continues the game. The
winner is she, who has most stones after every round
Kubuk manuk
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Manipulation game.
Number of players: 2 Props: Some seeds or beans
Description
A child has a handful of beans and throws them on the floor. She
(most girls play this game) folds her hands and keeps her forefingers
against eachother. Every time she picks up a bean with her two forefingers,
then pulls them backward with the bean to the hollow of her hand
and drops it there. Se repeats the same action until she has all
beans in her hand. If you let fall a bean, then the other girl is
on.
Lepetan
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Sing-and-dance game.
Number of players: 4 - > Props: none
Description
A group of children stand hand in hand in line. The child nearest
the tree holds her hand on to the tree, which is then a little ‘gate’.
The children sing ‘Lepetan, lepetan, angudari, anguculi, danu kuning
maningseti’. While singing the children walk through the ‘gate’
(the last child first) and must hold the hands tight. If all children
have passed the gate, they are supposed to stand with their arms
crossed. Then they go back through the ‘gate’ until they are again
in their starting position. This game ends when the children want
to stop.
Jamuran (Jamur Parut,
Jamur Bok)
Continent : Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Manipulation game.
Number of players: 4 - > Props: none
Description
Some children make a circle, one girl stands in the middle. The
children in the circle walk around her while saying a text. The
circle stops walking and the girl in the middle has to say what
kind of action she is planning to do. According to her will, all
children obey and do as they are told. The first part (Jamur Parut)
means that the children must sit down and the girl, who was in the
middle in the circle, is going to tickle under the feet of the other
girls. When she is tickling the girls, they are not allowed to laugh
and even not to smile. The girl who laughs or smiles is on and she
must be the girl into the next circle. There she decides to do ‘Jamur
Bok’, what means that the girls has to stand like in the game ‘Leapfrog’
(to stand on all fours, with their backs bent), while the girl in
the circle creeps under the girls. This time the girls, who are
standing on all fours, are now also not allowed to laugh or smile.
This game might continue for a long time, it all depends of the
creativity of the girls, who must invent different ways of playing
the game.
Pong pong bolong
Continent: Asia.Country: Indonesia Category: Manipulation game.
Number of players: 4- > Props: none
Description
A group of children sit in a circle on the ground. They put their
hands –one by one- on top of eachother by making a fist with the
thumb up. Every next hand will take the thumb and is put on top
of the hand before. This is done until all hands are a small ‘tower’.
The last child keeps one hand free and she rotates her forefinger
on the top-hand of the tower, while saying the text ’Pong Pong Bolong’.
Every time at the end of this text, the lowest hand of the ‘tower’
will be put flat. This continues until all hands of the ‘tower’
are flat on the ground in front of them. Then another girl says
a different text, while touching all the hands in a circle on the
ground. At the end of each text the last hand will be lifted and
put crosswise on the shoulder. This continues until all girls have
theirs hands lifted and crossed on their shoulders. That’s the game!
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