28 INTERESTING GAMES TO PLAY AT HOME-GAME- 4

                                        

GAME –4

 

On the Day four of the campaign #WRITE A PAGE A DAY, Kallanga a game initially the favourite of the girls and later well enjoyed by the boy’s too. It is a traditional game still well played in villages of Tamil Nadu.

At first basic requirements of the game:

Number of persons: Minimum 2 and Maximum- no limit

Preferred age group: Above the age of 10

Duration of the play: Minimum half an hour.

Best time to play:  Any time. Usually afternoons

Preferred surface: on the floor

Things required to play:   5 small stones (small ones are easy to hold in the hands)

How to play: The play begins with a chance for youngest to start the game. Totally 5 rounds are played and if the first player misses a round, the stones should be passed on to the second player and so on. The one who completes all the 5 rounds is a winner.

The stones should be thrown on the floor holding one in the hand,  then throw the stone in your hand  upwards in the air, pick up the one on the ground and catch the thrown stone. The same is done with all the other 3 stones. Then the round one gets complete.

In second round also throw the stones on the floor holding the one in the hand, then throw the stone in your hand upwards in the air, pick two stones together from the ground and catch the thrown stone. Repeat the same with rest of the two stones. With this second round completes.

In the third round too throw the stones on the floor holding one in the hand, then throw the stone in your hand upwards in the air and pick up three stones together and catch the thrown stone and the remaining one followed by it.

 In the fourth round place all the four stones together on the floor and throw the one in your hand in the air and pick up all the four stones as a group and catch the thrown stone.

In the fifth round hold all the 5 stones in your palm and throw up and try to catch it in the outer side of the palm. The other player will touch a stone and you can let other stones down except that stone. Then throw that stone upwards in the air and pick up other stones on the floor and catch the thrown stone. With this the game ends.

 Reference to this game: Many films picturise this game being played by the girls in a village in the thinnai. (a raised floor or verandah, usually built in the front of houses, where people gather around and chitchat in their free times.) 

(This blog post is a part of  BLOG CHATTER’S #WRITE A PAGE A DAY)

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