48 - Games - Staapu
10. Staapu or Hopscotch – A very simplistic game
where your body gets a full workout by jumping
and bending your back😊. You
just need a space where you can draw a diagram as shown below: -
The game is played by using a flat stone
(staapu). You stand at the bottom side of the drawing and throw the staapu at
the box number 1. You have to ensure
that the staapu falls just inside the box and not touch any of the lines of the
box. If it does, you are declared “out”
and the other player gets the chance.
Once the staapu is inside the box, you jump to box no 2 on one leg, use
the same leg to jump to box no 3. Since
4 and 5 are together in one row, you can put one leg in box no 4 and one leg in
box no 5, both legs on the ground at the same time. Then you jump to box no 6 on the same one
leg, and then with both legs to box nos 7 and 8. Your left leg will be in box no 7 and right
leg in box no 8. Once you reach here, you jump and do a 180 degree turn, so
that now your left leg is in box no 8 and right leg is in box no 7. Now jump to box no 6 on one leg, jump on box
nos 4 & 5 on both legs, jump to box no 3 on one leg, jump to box 2 on one
leg. Now bend and pick up the staapu from
box no 1 and then jump across the box no 1.
Now throw the staapu so that it falls on box no 2 and then jump on box
no 1 on one leg and then then on to box no 3 and so on. Keep continuing till you finish with throwing
the staapu inside box no 8 and completing the course. Now you are free to make one box your own as
a “house”😊. That
is, on that box you can jump in with both the legs, but the other players
cannot STEP on that box😊. If you
make the box no 2 as your “house”, then the other players need to jump from box
1 to 3 on one leg. Consider the
scenario, you have made box no 2 as your “house”, and the other player needs to
throw his staapu on box no 3. Now he has
to jump from box no 1 to box no 4 and 5 as he cannot step into your “house” and
the staapu is box no 3!! Consider
another scenario, if he has to put the stappu at box no 1, he has to jump
directly to box no 3 and on his return from box 8, he has to take the staapu
from box no 1, bending down from box no 3 on his one leg!! He cannot touch your “house” otherwise he
will lose his chance and has to put his staapu at box no 1 again when his turn
comes!!
Keep playing
the game till all the numbers have been converted into “houses”!! A player is declared “out” if his staapu does
not fall on the number he is aiming for, the staapu or the player touches any
line, the player changes his leg from right to left or left to right during his
hopping or keeps both legs in a box where only one leg is supposed to be
put. This game can be played with a
minimum of 2 players. A total time-pass
game without any usage of costly items!!
That’s all this time. More in the next blog!! Cheers!!
Today’s
Daffy Definition
Wife – The
woman who stands by her husband through all the trouble, he wouldn’t have had,
if he would have stayed single 😊😊!!
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