I introduce three children's games in Japan.
Irooni: First, the children choose an oni(target). When the oni says a color, the other children must keep touching the color before the oni catches them. If someone is caught by the oni before touching the color, the child will become an oni.
Darumasangakoronda: First, the children choose an oni. The oni stands facing a wall. The other children stand to the right a little away from the oni. The oni says "Darumasangakoronda" and turns to face the other children after finishing saying it. The other children must head off toward the oni while the oni says it and stop when the oni turns to face them. If they can't stop, the children who can't stop are out but if a child touches the oni, the oni loses.
Keidoro: The children make two groups, one is a police team and another is a thief team. The police team draw a circle on the ground and it becomes a jail. The members of the thief team run away and the members of the police team chase them. The members of the thief team who are caught by the police team are cast into the jail but when the other member of the thief team touch the child, the child can run away from the jail. When all the member of the thief team are caught by the police team, it is over.
Can you teach me about children's games in your country?
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To Mary Thank you for your comment. It looks like there are children's games like Darumasangakoronda in some countries. Darumasangakoronda means Mr.Daruma sliped. This is Daruma.
Well, there are many games but right now it comes to my mind a similar game to that one you explain called "Darumasangakoronda" (what a word, btw!). It's the game called "Statues", but it has many other names because it's very popular. In my country, for instance, we call it literally "the English Hide-and-Seek", I dunno why tho :D
Cute and interesting blog, thanks for sharing tam! :)
To Risty Aven Thank you for your comment. Yes, oni is similar to devil. Bakemoro is like Keidoro which is a children's game in Japan. Chirdren's games may be similar in every country.
Hello there Tam! Oni means devil, is that right? Because I watched an anime before that the monk turned into Oni, that means turned into a horrible devil. :D
In the Philippines, we have "bakemoro", sounds funny, I know right! hahaha! Well, how to play this? This is not an individual game, we need a lot of children to play this, they will divide into two groups and settled to opposing place, as if they are looking face to face but in a great distance. Then both group members will start to move, run and run to tease the other group's members, the basic rules are you have to touch any of opponent's member, once you touched them, they will become a prisoner in your station, the only way to make them free is when their allies had a chance to touch them also. But, that is very difficult to do, because you cannot just come close to opponent's station, or you'll be the next prisoner. The more prisoner you get, the better chances of winning the game. Haha! Sounds like a raffle. :D
to Diah Thank you for your comment. I want children to play outside vigorously.
It's a little bit similar with the children's games in Indonesia, Here we have so many kind of traditional children's games. But I don't know that nowadays most children play with their gadgets rather than go out of the house and play with their mates. But in a case of children who lived in a small city, i think they still play those kind of games.