28 INTERESTING GAMES TO PLAY AT HOME-GAME-11

 GAME 11

On the Eleventh Day of the campaign #WriteAPageADay, Nool Mudichu a simple game of children will be presented in detail. It is a game played and enjoyed only by few enthusiastic children as it requires acute concentration and techniques to play instead of running and jumping.

At first basic requirements of the game:

Number of persons:  2 or more

Preferred age group: Above the age of 10 

Duration of the play: Minimum half an hour

Best time to play: Any time

Place to play: where the players can sit and play

Things required to play:  1.25mts of a string looped and tied together at the ends

How to play:  one person should put the string on the hands of the other, then he should loop it over his palm. Using his middle finger he hooks the string that runs across each opposing.  The base for the game “Nool Mudichu” is formed.

There will be one chance for each person to make his base without any tangle. Then there are many different forms to choose to play. Children mostly love to do:

*string in a ring

*hand trap

Seniors in this game will play a bit more intricate ones like:

*hand cuffs

*thumb trap

 *Cup &saucer

*The saw

*double diamond

*butterfly

Players usually practice once before they start the play. If any one step goes wrong, they lose the game. Practice is highly recommended for this game.  When one is successful in creating either “thumb trap, finger trap, or hand trap” he/ she should be able to release the same also. Then he/she is declared a winner.

Reference to this game: This game can be found playing in many house- holds of Tamil Nadu both by children and elders (especially grandparents amuse their grandchildren by performing or displaying their skills in “Nool Mudichu”)

Many elders suggests that those who learn to play this game at younger age will be able to make scouting knots easily in their Teens.  Moreover villagers encourage the children to learn this game as the same technique is believed to be effective in tying cattle in their sheds.

The reference to this game can be found in a Sanskrit Drama “Madhyama Vyaayoga” of Bhasa, where Ghatotkacha wins Bheema in wrestling and ties him up (body trap) with a magical rope.

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