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played, and these games were more fun! I think our dads and moms, big uncles and aunties can testify to this. Because of how interesting these games are to children, they kept to time and finished all chores assigned to them by their parents in other to join the other kids on the playground.
These games brought children together and encouraged
interactions between them. I believe there were no shy kids then as everyone
was actively involved in all social activities, unlike today where kids remain
indoors glued to the television watching cartoons or playing video games.
WHAT ARE THESE GAMES?TINKO TINKO: This game is about clapping and interchanging of hands between the players. To start, hands are raised halfway up, they clap each other’s hands while interchanging and adding styles to it while singing the tinko tinko.
TEN TEN: This game is about clapping of hands and
changing of legs. The goal is that your opponent doesn’t change the same leg
with you. That is if the leader raises her right leg and her opponent raises
her left, then the leader scores a point but if the opponent also raises her
right, the leader looses and the opponent takes over from her.
PEBBLE GAME: This game is usually played by girls. A
large rectangle is drawn on the sand, then six horizontal lines are drawn inside
the rectangle. Each of these lines are well spaced to give enough room for the
players to jump and land. The first player picks a pebble and drops it on the
first line, she jumps the line with pebble and lands on the second line, she
goes through all the lines, she turns back and returns to the the second line,
picks up the pebble in the first line and still avoid stepping on the first
line. (all the jumps are done with a foot). If she goes through the entire six
lines without throwing her pebble in a line she has thrown before, she buys a
house. That is she after she has completed the entire lines, she steps out of
the rectangle and backing the rectangle she throws her pebble over her shoulder
and whichever line the pebble falls on becomes her house, she marks it and no
other person is allowed to step on it except the owner. This really makes the
game difficult and interesting.
FIRE ON THE
MOUNTAIN: Children form a circle, the number can range from five and above. The
leader sings.
Leader: There is fire on the mountain.
Children: Run, run, run
Leader: A big, big fire
Children: Run, run, run
Leader: And the fire is off.
When she begins to sing the children leave their
positions and run singing along with the leader until the leader says the fire
is off. At this point every child is expected to return to his original
position and the last to return to his position is out of the game. The game
starts all over again.
ONYE GA ABU EZE: This is another game kids back then
played, though was dangerous at some point but it was still considered fun. It
is normally played with peppery food. To determine who is the king, you are
expected to eat the peppery food without drinking water until you have
cleared the plate, whoever survives this without drinking water wins and he
remains the king till the next meal.
I think kids back then had more fun than our 21st
century kids, we noticed that all the games played then was never played alone,
they played as a group and I believed that is why our daddies, mummies, uncles
and aunties seems to know almost everyone when we travel to the village unlike
us of the present day who remain indoors watching our movies, cartoons, or
playing our video games. We only talk with our school friends or friends we met
at the church, we hardly make friends in any social gathering because we didn't
cultivate the habit.
Am really enjoying these games and I think I will like
to play them with friends and see how fun it was for them, you too should try
it out.
Local Nigerian Games
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