Games through Generations - Polyglots

Also every child has played ducks and drakes. It is so easy to understand the rules. You need to find yourself a small stone and throw it on the water surface to make it jump. Your opponent also does this and if you throw it further, you win.&nbsp; It is important to play it on the calm sea or pond. Waves tend to handicap stone’s jumping. Find yourself a peaceful place and play! The most common and easy game to play out of our list is “rock, paper, scissors”. It is also meaningful - losing this game helps to choose one person out of a group (usually consisting of 3 people) or make a decision. You can play it with your friends when you hesitate and you cannot make up your mind. All you need is your own hands. To make a “stone”, clench your hand into a fist. To make “scissors”, make the Victoria sign and put it horizontally. To make “paper ”, just open your hand. You count up to 3 and then show your choice.&nbsp; Scissors beat paper, paper beats rock, and rock beats scissors. The person whose choice wasn’t beaten, wins.&nbsp;

THE EASIEST GAMES TO PLAY

HIDE'N SEEK

The easiest game to play is definitely “hide and seek”.&nbsp; Everybody must have played it at some point in their lives and knows the rules of it. To play it you don’t need any special equipment. All you need are friends and a place to hide.&nbsp; The rules are banal. Each player hides. Except for one person who was chosen to seek for others.&nbsp; The chosen player covers eyes and counts to 30 while others look for the best place to hide. The chosen one is looking for the players. When finding someone she or he needs to chase the person. When the player is caught she or he is out of the competition. The winner is the player who wasn't found and caught by the seeker.&nbsp;

the most unusual game We were looking for the most unusual game and we stumbled upon the game of circling. This game consisted of an iron hoop and a stick. You just rolled the hoop with the stick and if there were more people, you would have a race. This game was described by a person from Istanbul. &nbsp;It's unpopular but it should be because its very entertaining. &nbsp;

The least popular game we found was “Japonka”. The rules were quite easy to understand but you should have an agility and be fast enough to be good at playing it. Two groups of players stand in a circle, in a semi-sitting position with hands supported on the ground. Players must bounce the ball between one another with their legs. If the player couldn’t pass it further then that person loses. In such a way as to direct it to the material of the mattress, is usually used as a goal. 

DUCK AND DRAKES

Every child has played ducks and drakes. It is so easy to understand the rules. You need to find yourself a small stone and throw it on the water surface to make it jump. Your opponent also does this and if you throw it further, you win.&nbsp; It is important to play it on the calm sea or pond. Waves tend to handicap stone’s jumping. Find yourself a peaceful place and play!

In a group of polyglots the most popular games played by grandparents were football and stick-ball. To play stick-ball we need two teams, small ball and bat. The game is about throwing the ball and hitting it by one of the teams. The second team is trying to catch a ball. The first team must run as many stations as possible. For every lap we get a point.

The most unusual game

In the group of polyglots, the most popular games are football, baseball-like games and card games. Mostly grandparents and fathers played football. The most popular card games were "Wojna", “Poker” and "Tysiąc". 

A few moms and aunts played French skipping. French skipping involves jumping over an elastic band. In the first two rounds, children stood inside the loop to stretch it tightly around their ankles, while a third person performed a series of hops and jumps, chanting appropriate rhymes.

As you can see, in the old days there were many ways to spend time through games. Some of these games have fallen into oblivion, and many of them, especially group games, still fill children's time.

Team of polyglots said that their parents’ and grandparents’ the least popular game were&nbsp; “Monopoly”. This is game about buying cities or places. At start you have some cash (how much it depends on version). This game can continue even for a few hours. If you want to win, you must know how to manage money. When you enter on your opponent’s property, you pay&nbsp; him money. If he has placed buildings there, you must pay more and more. Now this game is popular around the world. New versions of this game are being created all the time. The first version was designed by Elizabeth J.Magie Phillips from America 88 years ago. It’s good for everyone.

The most popular games among dads and uncles! Team of polyglots said that their dads and uncles played ,,Deluxe Ski Jump” and&nbsp; ,,Mario Bros”. They had to jump as far as possible and fight with bosses to save princess. Their dads told them that they were good at it. Outdoors, the most popular game was football and badminton. They were good at kicking the ball and hitting the shuttlecock with a racket.

In the group of polyglots, games among mothers and aunts did not differ from those played by fathers and uncles. Their moms and aunts played ball, cards, Mario Bros, hide and seek, and many more.

Among mothers and aunts, outdoor games were the most popular, such as football, baseball, and badminton. Women were better at these games than men. Moms and aunts also enjoyed playing card games like “Tysiąc” or “Poker”. 

THE EASIEST GAMES TO PLAY&nbsp;&nbsp; In our childhood we used to play a lot of games and we probably don’t even remember all of them. Which ones were easy to play? Which took us little time to play? Which gave us the most fun? The easiest game to play is definitely “hide and seek”.&nbsp; Everybody must have played it at some point in their lives and knows the rules of it. To play it you don’t need any special equipment. All you need are friends and a place to hide.&nbsp; The rules are banal. Each player hides. Except for one person who was chosen to seek for others.&nbsp; The chosen player covers eyes and counts to 30 while others look for the best place to hide. The chosen one is looking for the players. When finding someone she or he needs to chase the person. When the player is caught she or he is out of the competition. The winner is the player who wasn't found and caught by the seeker.

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Table football was as unpopular game too. It was expensive and most of teenagers coudn't afford to play or buy for them one. It's a game of physical skill. You win when you score ten goals. To win you must learn some special tactics and technics to beat the opponent. The first table footbal was created by Alejandro Finisterre in 1937 but the inventor of this idea was&nbsp;Luciena Rosengarta. The first tables stood in Germany and Switzerland. Now table football is popular around the world and everyone knows how to play it. It's good for people in every age. 

They spent a lot of time outdoors, they rarely stayed at home. They enjoyed playing chess, cards, dominos.

They were playing many card games but their favourite one was the ,,Tysiac” where the winner was the person who got first at least 1000 points. That game is for 2-4 people.

This is how the rules worked: A single checker can move forward diagonally one space per turn. To capture an opponent's checker, a player may jump over a diagonally adjacent opponent's checker. The space on the other side of the opponent's checker must be open. Multiple checkers can be captured if jumped consecutively with the same checker. Chess is a bit more complicated, and those are the rules: Each type of chess piece has its own method of movement. A piece moves to a vacant square except when capturing an opponent's piece. Except for any move of the knight and castling, pieces cannot jump over other pieces. A piece is captured (or taken) when an attacking enemy piece replaces it on its square.

In such a discipline, very difficult, labor-intensive, combative, the easiest way to direct the ball onto the mattress is a flip, except that you can damage one or many other players by the way. The speed of movement of the players around the playing field is quite impressive. Because not only legs, but also hands work. This game requires all body work. I'm sure you're going to have fun playing this game.

In this group, the most unusual games are "Deluxe ski jumping" and "Mario bros". In the first game, the player must jump their character as far as possible. The second game is about fighting bosses to save the princess. These games are computer games, so maybe that's why they weren't very popular back then.

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