Traditional games by Vanna Kosmatou

JKatsou (Lykeio Tragaias Naxou)

2016-11-13 23:25:14 UTC

STROGARIS
Strogaris is a traditional game from Naxos Greece.
If you want to play this game, you need to have a goats bun, which you use as a die and a woode stick. There have to be at least 4 players. The player who throws the bun from its' flat side, becomes the king. The player who throws the bun from the opposite, becomes the vizier, who executes the king's orders. The player who throws the bun from its' convex side becomes the donkey. The vizier punishes the donkey by the king's order. And the last side with the pothole is named well and whoever gets this side doesn't have any punisment.

Tzeni Tzika

2016-11-16 11:56:45 UTC

2nd General High school of Kozani
My favourite traditional game is kriptokouti (i can't translate it in English). It's some kind of hide and sheek but instead of counting to begin looking for the others you have to pick up the box that the others have already drop away.

eleni chaka 2nd general high school of kozani

2016-11-16 12:00:08 UTC

koukla

Yiannis Pispas, 1st Lyceum of Ilion, Athens

2016-11-17 19:55:51 UTC

One of the most loving traditional games that I remember playing as a young is Koutso (Hopscotch). All you need is a chalk so that you may draw a few squares on the ground. After that you put numbers on them and you start hopping on them only with one of your foot

Sophia M.,1st General Lyceum of Ilion,Athens.

2016-11-18 06:39:23 UTC

One of the most entertaining traditional games is hide and seek! You can play this game with 3+ people, as one of them must close his eyes and counting until reach 100. The others must find a good place to hide in order not to find them easily!

Spiros.Ts General Lyceum of Athens.

2016-11-18 06:46:25 UTC

My favourite traditional game is chase . You need at least 2 players .
One of them starts to count then he starts chasing the others , if he catch an other player then the one who was caughtstarts chase...

Aris S., 1st Lyceum of Ilion, Athens

64cosmvan — 2016-11-18 06:46:50 UTC

My favourite traditional game is hide and seek. We used to have so much fun as kids playing this game. We used to get out of the house every day to play this game!

Adriano S, 1st Lyceum of Ilion, Athens

64cosmvan — 2016-11-18 06:47:06 UTC

My favourite traditional game is hide and seek. When I was younger I used to play with my friends this game because we had fun

Dimitris R., 1st Lyceum of Ilion, Athens

2016-11-18 06:52:53 UTC

My favourite traditional game is hide and seek. It's a really fun game and when you are you with your friends and ou are bored, that game will definitely lift you up.

Anestis Rossidis 2nd General High School of Kozani

2016-11-18 14:12:28 UTC

My favourite traditional game is << The apples>>. Boys and girls try to catch the ball so they have << life >> if they burn.

Anastasis (1st Lyseum of Ilion, Athens)

2016-11-19 13:37:50 UTC

My favorite traditional game is "apples". Two players stand at opposit sites, trying to hit the players that are between them . If a player catch the ball earns one apple "life" ,and if a player got hit by the ball he loses an apple!!!

Christine R., 1st Lyseum of Ilion, Athens

2016-11-20 21:17:26 UTC

APPLES : In this game children are divided into two groups. Two players of one group stand opposite one another and the players of the other group gather between them. The two players throw a ball at each other trying to hit one of the children of the rival group. If the ball hits a player then they get "burned" and exit the game. However, if a player catches the ball, he wins an "apple". The goal is to get as many "apples" as possible. Each "apple" gives the player an extra "life"he can use i case he gets "burned"

Maria.p

2016-11-24 19:14:28 UTC

Meme(or pantomime) it's a kind of theatrical art.With your moves and gestures we try to express something without speaking at all.It's the art and play that translates perfectly our feelings thoughts or anything else.First the players choose themes(,animals,heroes,jobs,movies,books) and after that each team trys to find the most words....The team with the most points wins!!!!

Konstantinos P., 1st Lyceum of Ilion, Athens

2016-11-24 21:10:45 UTC

My favourite traditional game is "cops and robbers". Cops and robbers is an interesting variation of tag game. There are two teams of players - one team cops and one of robbers .The goal of the game is to put all robbers in jail which happens when a cop catches a robber and arrrst them .

Alexandra.chom( Lykeio Tragaias Naxou)

2016-11-26 16:16:46 UTC

One of the most famous traditional games is the << Blind man's buff>>.In this game the player who represents 'It' ( namely the Blind man's buff ) , is blindfolded. For this reason the game is played in a spacious area, such as outdoors or in a large room in order to avoid any injuries.
So, the one player, designated as "It", is blindfolded and gropes around attempting to touch the other players without being able to see them, while the other players scatter and try to avoid the person who is "it", hiding in plain sight and sometimes teasing them to make them change direction. The first player who will be touched by the << Blind man's buff>> becomes ''It'' and one new round of game starts.

Mer

2016-11-29 14:38:39 UTC

Melania, 18 anni-Bitonto-Italy

2016-11-29 14:38:40 UTC

My favourite traditional game is "The Bottle". It is a group game. Participants sit on the floor sitting in a circle and is at the center of a bottle. It pulls lots who will turn first to the bottle. Before you begin, the player must declare to all the stakes, or, generally: kiss, caress, slap, punch. I love this game. In free time I and my friends we play and have fun.

Alessia M. / I.T.E. Vitale Giordano

2016-11-29 17:02:16 UTC

My favorite traditional game is Nascondino: two or more people are hidden and a person must find the others after counting from 1 to 20. It's funny..I assure you!!

2016-11-29 18:12:56 UTC

my favorite is the traditional game Compana why I enjoyed so much

Velichka, Kresna

kathleeniwanow — 2016-12-01 13:06:16 UTC

We play the so called game Jumping Elastic.

Maria, Kresna

kathleeniwanow — 2016-12-01 13:09:52 UTC

I like plaing

Maria, Kresna

kathleeniwanow — 2016-12-01 13:12:01 UTC

I like playing with a rope, the Skipping rope game.

Eleni Chaka 2nd general high school/kozani(Greece

2016-12-05 23:45:17 UTC

Well, to tell you the truth traditional games are not my forte. I don't like a specific traditional game. I don't even know which games are considered traditional. I remember , when i was at the age of 8-9 we used to play ''apples'' or football. That's all. I know it sounds weird but such kinds of games were not to our liking.

Evgenia Tsakmaki

2016-12-06 12:41:46 UTC

My favourite traditional game is "Apples".Two kids stand facing each other, 15 to 20 meters away from each other, and in the space between all the other kids.
The two players facing each other are trying to hit any of the kids between them with the ball, and if any kid is hit they are automatically out of the game (or "burned down"), whereas if a kid manages to catch the ball in its hands it is given an apple. An apple is basically a lifeline, so if a ball hits that kid, they won't be burned down. The apple can also be handed over to a player that was previously removed to from the game allowing them to get back in the game.
When there is only one kid left, the "guards" (the two kids facing each other) have 10 attempts to burn down the last standing player. If all 10 attempts don't burn down the player, the game starts over with the same guards.

My favorite traditional game is hiding 😜

2016-12-06 16:33:08 UTC

Lazaros rousopoulos

2016-12-07 12:41:57 UTC

My favorite traditional game is kryfto or the hiding because you have to run all the time and you have to be very fast and i like to run so for this reason is my favorite traditionl game

John Charalampidis

2016-12-10 09:06:17 UTC

My favourite traditional game is "Abariza".The game is played by two groups. Each group draws on the ground an “abariza“, a 3-4 diameter circle and a square used as a “prison.” Between the two “abarizas“ there is a distance of 20-40 meters. A random player of the first team starts running between the two “abarizas“ and a player of the other team tries to catch him and put him in “prison.” The winner is the team that manages to imprison all the opponents.

Blind Man

2016-12-11 07:55:30 UTC

Regardless of distance, countries share a common heritage, as can be shown by the wide diffusion of certain games, hence they may contain the memory of a rite of some kind. A good example of this is one kind of Blind Man's Buff from villages in the Ankara and Mugla areas called Kör Çebiş, meaning Blind Goat or Kid; yet in Kırklareli it is called Kör Çapar. (Çapar has various meanings, but the most common is any animal such as a dog which has spots on its skin.) The villagers explain Blind Goat by saying that the blind man is like a goat with its hair falling over its eyes, but it must have a deeper significance since in Europe Blind Man's Buff is called Blind Bock in Sweden, Blinde-buk in Denmark, Blind Bock in some parts of southern Germany, all meaning' 'blind goat." In some parts of Germany it is called Blinde Kuh meaning Blind Cow. When the blindfolded "it" touches another player, he calls out, "He is burnt." We can easily conjecture that this is a survival of a rite in which a priest wearing animal skins seized upon a victim or scapegoat by chance, and the person touched was sacrificed by fire.

CEM MUTLU
Muratlı Anatolian High School

Dimitra Skoutela, 2nd General High school, Kozani

2016-12-19 14:08:52 UTC

My favourite traditional game is tiflomiga. This game requires at least 4 players. When the number of the participants is huge, the game has more fun! Firstly, the eyes of a random player are tied with a piece of clothing and the other players start running scattered all over the place teasing the player whose eyes are closed. Afterwards, the player who can't see anything search blindly for a player, in order to catch them and regnognise him only by touching them. Finally, if the caught player will be regognised, the piece of clothing passes in their eyes!

Vagelis Tzikas

2016-12-20 20:42:49 UTC

My favourite traditional game is hide and seek. Because i used to play this game as a child and brings up a lot of memories to me.

Anna Simitsii

2016-12-28 13:25:37 UTC

Thieves and policemen
It is a very exciting traditional game. Played with many players to a plateau. The children are divided into two groups. One, the smallest, is the police. The other guys are thieves. The game progresses as a common chase between the two groups. when they want to rest, to go to a specific point called home. There, the police can not catch them. But when the police catch the thief leads him to prison, usually located away from home. A prisoner is released when a player touches the hand of a partner and shouting «xele." If the prisoners are many, do the following trick: catch their hands in a row and are spread as outside can (one is "inside" the prison and others, holding hand in hand, go to the house). the free player, touching the hand of a prisoner, frees everyone involved in the chain. of course, strictly prohibited police to guard prisoners players, rule that whoever violates automatically eliminated from the game . The game ends when all the thieves jailed, and sometimes it never happens!

Nida Nur CAGLAYAN, Muratlı Anatolian High School, TURKEY

2017-01-01 12:29:44 UTC

“One, it’s one” Game / Long Donkey
This game is played by girls and boys. The children use a counting game to choose who is “it” — the uzun eşşek (long donkey). They then jump over the “donkey’s” back, saying words that mean roughly “It’s one, it’s two, three, fly; four, throw the handkerchief; five, take the handkerchief; six, gather the apples…” etc. On the fourth jump, a kerchief is placed on the neck of the “donkey,” and on the fifth jump, it’s taken off. Those who forget to say the necessary words, say the words or fail to jump over, becomes “it.”

Maria Tzellou

2017-01-02 17:37:20 UTC

My favourite game is 'Lepida' (I can't translate it in English). It's like hide and seek but in this game you have to divide into two teams and each child has to be in one team.Also,children are playing all around the village and not in a specific place. It's an active game and develops team spirit.

Leap frog

2017-01-04 21:00:10 UTC

One of the most common names in Turkey for Leapfrog is Uzun Ejek, meaning "long donkey." Not only in some parts of England is it Donkey, Jump the Long Horse, or Jump the Long Mare, but in other countries it has similar names too: in Germany Das lange Ross, in Italy II cavallo lungo, both meaning "long horse," in Belgium it is Le plus fort cheval, "the strongest horse.”

Another game which has many counterparts in Turkey is the one called in English, "Mother, the Cakes are Burning." The mother trusts her children to the charge of a maid, unaware of the danger that a kidnapper is scheming to abduct all the children, who are then transformed into edibles, or sometimes colored birds, and the mother has to identify them. In Germany this is known as De Brei kakt aver and Moder o Moder wo ist Kindken bliewen? and in Sicily Mamma caduta dal monte. There are many similar games in Turkey, one of them from Kütahya is called Dünür Dünür (dünür means an in-law, so the name of the game can be translated as "Mother-in-law, Mother-in-law").

In games where the players do not know whether they are runners or chasers, this is decided by spinning a flat token or stone, one side white and the other black. The side whose color comes uppermost chases the other team. Since the ancient Greeks this has been called Day and Night, in Germany Tag und Nacht and in Italy Giorno e notte, or Black and White as in Austria Schwarz-Weiss. Among other names in Turkey it is called Kırmızı-Beyaz, meaning "Red and White," in Kayseri and Istanbul.

Özgür öztürk
Muratlı Anatolian High School

Evaggelia Rousopoulou

2017-01-07 16:15:39 UTC

TO MANTILAKI
The number of the players raise from 6 to 10 children. In order to play this game you need a chalk and scarf. Then you draw a circle and in the middle two lines, one line on the right and on the left. The aim of this game is to take the scarf from the middle. Then the chlildren make two teams and give each other a number . When the game starts each player tries to take the scarf from the middle without being caught by the opponent. If the player be caught then the point belongs to the other team and if they manage to pass the line the point belongs to their team.

Tzouka Vivi

2017-01-08 14:05:35 UTC

"TIFLOMIGA"
In this game, children choose one of them to become the "tiflomiga". They tie up his eyes with a cloth and the other children around him tease him. The "tiflomiga"-kid tries to catch one of his teammates, and when he does he has to guess from his height, his clothes and general characteristics, who he is. Then, this child becomes the "tiflomiga" and the game contnues.

2017-01-19 18:31:59 UTC

2017-01-19 18:40:59 UTC

Chris Stamoulopoulos

2017-01-19 18:40:59 UTC

My favourite traditional game is seek and hide. I like it because you can paly it for hours with your friends especially in the summer. In this game someone tries to find other people who are hiding.

Vasiliki Spartakou

2017-01-19 19:18:35 UTC

My favourite traditional game is tzami ,because it is very exciting.Also I like to play team games.

Emmanouela Trompouki

2017-01-28 21:50:15 UTC

My favorite game is the traditional Makria Gaidoura. Every time we play this game in my neighborhood all children are watching while we laugh all the time . Mainly the boys is divided into two groups and one tries to tear down the other in any way

GIULIA LOGRIECO I.T.E VITALE GIORDANO

2017-01-31 12:32:56 UTC

My favourite traditional game is "nascondino". Children are hiding while one counts. the end then has to find the rest of the group

ROSANNA MALERBA ITE VITALE GIORDANO

2017-01-31 12:33:39 UTC

My favourite traditional game is ''nascondino'',because I enjoyed a lot with my friends in nascorderci then run without worries and laugh so much.

Stamou Fotini

2017-01-31 18:48:03 UTC

My favourite traditional game is ''broken Telephone''. At first you need to make a group of people and then you hand one person in the group a sentence, which he or she must then memorise and pass on to the next person, by whispering.The next person will pass the sentence down the line to the next and so on until it finally gets to the last person in the group. That person in the group will then have to stand up and say what the sentence is.

Athanasia Seferler

2017-02-01 06:39:46 UTC

My favorite traditional game is is ksilopodara, an entertaining game in which process puts height on the player.

Nicole

2017-03-14 19:28:32 UTC

I remember growing up playing a traditional game being called "Abariza". Children that I might have never met before would gather up and seperate to two teams .We used to have such a great time all together just by actually "running " all around!
The purpose of the game was to capture the opponent's team safe point while defending your team's one and gathering "prisoners'' of the other team.
It was a fascinating game that offered us an opportunity to come closer to each other !