GAME 18
On the eighteenth day of the campaign #WRITE A PAGE A DAY, RAJA RANI VILAIYAATU an interesting game which is played in the house holds of Tamil Nadu will be presented in detail.
At first basic requirements of the game:
Number of persons: Minimum 5
Preferred age group: Above the age of 10
Duration of the play: half an hour
Best time to play:
Any time of the day
Preferred surface: on the floor where five people can sit in a circle
Things required to play: paper, pen
How
to play: The play begins with the selection of the epic from which the names of
the characters are to be written on the papers. If Ramayana is selected, then the
characters like Rama, sita, laksmana, bharatha, shatrunga and hanuman are
written on the bits of papers and are equally and identically folded. Number of
characters selected should be equal to the number of players in the game.
If
the epic Mahabharataha is selected then the characters should be from that Epic
only. All papers should be shuffled well and placed on the floor. Then all the players
should pick up one paper each and should read the written character to only
themselves and should be a secret to others. The main character Rama should
raise his hand, and confirm the character found in the paper. He/she should
identify the character unanimously selected by all the other players. It can be
sita, Lakshmana, bharata, shatrunga or hanuman. If he/she identifies the player of the selected character correctly he /she will get a point or else he /she
is out. The winner is the player who
gets the maximum points. The same procedure is repeated for about 3 or 4 rounds
Reference to this game: The reference to this can be
found in texts books of children. This game aids to introduce children to the characters
of the epics. With this game children learn about the Epics and moral stories in it.
They can include any character from the epic.
(This blogpost is a part of Blog Chatter's #WriteAPageADay)
(Today's word count 340 #WriteAPageADay)
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