When I was a kid, I usually spent my free time reading books, playing paper dolls or creating houses from wood blocks. Those activities were my hobbies at home. And when I met my friends at school, we would have games that we often played together. There were two popular games for Thai girls that I still recalled till these days. (Normally, Thai boys had their own games which were different from girls.)
The first one was หมากเก็บ (Pronounce = Mark-Keb). The original component was 5 pieces of very small rocks which didn’t have the sharp edge because we would need to be able to hold them in one hand. We would spread those rocks on solid surface. We would choose one rock to toss up, pick the remaining one, and try to be ready to catch the falling rock. We had different levels to beat – Try to pick one rock, two, three, four and flip our hands for five rocks. The below video showed how to play it from the beginning. (I found it on youtube which they had the competition in their school so girls were cheering and shouting.)
Another one was กระโดดยาง (Pronounce = Kra-Doad-Yang). The main tool was the string of elastic bands as below picture.
image source: http://news.voicetv.co.th/viral/60279.html
It needed at least 3 person to play this game as two to hold the string and one to jump across it. There were around 8 high levels to compete starting from ankle-height, knee, lower bottom, waist, chest, ears, head and above head. We didn’t need to follow all of them. Anyway, the best person was the one who could pass the above-head height. Moreover, we needed to know the trick how to jump without showing underwear because we had to wear skirt for Thai girls’ student uniform.
The below video was quite good to display some techniques for this game although she couldn’t pass the last level (above head).
At first, I’m not sure whether kids these days play these games or not. However, I could find the above clips on Youtube so I believe that these Thai games still play the parts in Thai children despite of the era of computers, smart phones, tablets and the internet.
This post was an entry for GGG Challenge by Frizztext.
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yes, our girls play this game on their playgrounds too, thank you for remembering!
I’ve written about this game for my DDD-challenge:
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/ddd-challenge/
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I played the first game with my friends when I was growing up in Malaysia in Singapore! The first game we called “five stones”. We also played a game with skipping rope that we called just skipping or “jump rope”. We also played a lot of hopscotch. Brings back such memories – we played them under the hot, hot sun :)
At first I thought that those games were only played in Thailand. But when I searched for more information, I found that other countries also have the 1st game such as Korea.
We also have hopscotch too but I didn’t play much in my childhood. We call it Tang-Tae.
From your comments, it means that games are universal :) Thanks for sharing.