Games

TRADITIONAL GAMES

OUTDOOR GAMES

SEPAK RAGA RATUS (MALAYSIA)

Sepak Raga Ratus is a game playing with rattan ball and mostly played by men. The game is all about to kick up the ball without fall onto ground as many as possible. Basically, it will be played in group of 5 people in round shape.

GALAH PANJANG (MALAYSIA)

Galah Panjang is traditional game and can be play by all type of people including men, women, children and adult. This game is all about playing to run and not to be touch by opponent, where opponents need to guard from passing through but they just can move on the limited place according to the line.

TEROMPAH GERGASI (MALAYSIA)

Terompah Gergasi is game of wearing a terompah that have been arrange on two wooden stick, one on right and another on left. This game needs around 4 or 5 people to wear that terompah and walk in a line from a starting line to finish line. It needs cooperativeness of all the people to walk together and step out at same time.

BALING SELIPAR (MALAYSIA)

Baling Selipar is a game played with only slippers. The attacking team will try to eliminate the opposing team by hitting the opponents’ body with slippers while standing on one spot. The attacking team cannot run with the slipper and can only pass it to another teammate.

KONDA KONDI (INDIA)

This is a favorite outdoor game of Malaysian children and 2 teams usually play the game in competition with each other. It can be played using two sticks ½” to ¾” in diameter, one with a length of 6” and the other 1.5 feet long. A hole of 2” diameter is dug 2” into the ground.

KSR EXPLORE

KSR Explore consists of 3 special games. The names of all 3 games are Cross the Strategy, Circle for Life, and Mind Your Steps. For Cross the Strategy game, we needs around 4 or 5 people to complete the game by crossing box until you reach the last box. For Circle for Life, the game needs at least 3 people to complete the task by change the body to the other side by holding your friend’s hand. For the last game, all the players inside the triangle need to move to the other side by using bricks.

KABBADI (INDIA)

Two teams compete with each other for higher scores, by touching or capturing the players of the opponent team. Each team consists of 12 players, of which seven are on court at a time, and five in reserve. The two teams fight for higher scores, alternating defense and offense. The court is as large as that for a dodge ball game. The game consists of two 20 minute halves, with a break of five minutes for change of sides.

TUJU GULI (MALAYSIA)

Tuju Guli is one of the most popular traditional games that play by the children. Usually, this game mostly play by 3 or 4 people by throwing marbles out of certain area that has been selected. The winner will decide by how much he or she can throw and slightly move the marbles outside the area.

TUJU TIN (MALAYSIA)

Tuju Tin is one of the challenging game that can be play by all type of people especially children. This game needs the accuracy of the players to make sure all cans will fall off the place that has been selected with a certain distance. Players who can make all the cans fall down will announce as the winner.

KHO KHO (INDIA)

            Kho-kho is a traditional Indian game played across generations. It involves

9 players each team. Eight chasers will kneel along a line while facing alternate directions. The dodgers, three at a time will try and evade the ninth chaser which is the active chaser. The chaser can tag himself out and is only limited to the area which the chaser is facing.

INDOOR GAMES

MANCANA (EGYPT) - CONGKAK

Game of playing with a board with has several holes and its balls. Usually its balls is a marble and it is played by two person oppose each other. They will move the marble into the next holes and keep moving until lost turn.

CHINESE CHESS (CHINA)

Chinese Chess is one of the indoor games that popular among the Chinese. It is an Oriental cousin of the more familiar European or International Chess. Like International Chess, Chinese Chess has two opposing armies with different kinds of pieces.

CARROM (MALAYSIA)

One of the most popular indoor game nowadays is carrom. Two or four people can play carrom. If two, the players sit opposite each other, while with four, the opposite two are partners. As an exception, though, you can play with three players against each other for points.

DAM (MALAYSIA)

Dam only can play by 2 players. It is slightly difference with chess because of the way of moving its pieces by the players. This game usually uses the top of the bottle as the pieces. The only way to win the game is by taking out the pieces and the players who can finish up the pieces of their opponent will announce as the winner.

AADU PULI ATTAM (INDIA)

            Aadu Pali Attam is a game of tigers and goats. It is played on a special

board in which the tiger must capture all the goats while the goats must

evade the tigers.

CHINESE DOMINOES (CHINA)

In Chinese domino games, players draw tiles from a row of stacked tiles piled on top of each other to a set height which differs depending on the game.  The tiles also have no central dividing line separating the spots on either end, but will instead have the two spotted values separated either by distance or clustered in groups or colored differently.   The total number of spots on a tile is most important in the majority of Chinese domino games, where as in the majority of Western domino games the spotted suit value on either end is most important.

GO – WEIQI (CHINA)

Go is a game where the ultimate goal is to capture as many opposition pieces as possible. It is played on a board and is highly tactical.

SEEGA (ARAB)

The objective of the game sandwich the opponent’s pieces using ours so that there is no possible movement can be made by the opposition. It is played on a board with fifteen squares.