NINE STONE

The midwife group lines up 9 stones neatly on top of each other and goes back ten steps.A line is drawn where you went back and both groups come to where the line is.People in the midwife group try to destroy the heel by throwing it on the stones in turn.But if none of the 3 members of the midwife group can knock down the stones,the other group is passed on.

Elif Alemdar, Mimar Sinan Secondary School,Trabzon Türkiye 

Semra Topcuoğlu,Mimar Sinan Ortaokulu, Trabzon, Türkiye

                                         ISTOP

"İstop" is a fun Turkish children's game played with at least three people and a soft ball. Players stand in a circle, and one starts by throwing the ball in the air while calling another player’s name. Everyone runs away except the named player, who must catch the ball quickly and shout “İstop!” to freeze everyone. Then, they take three big steps toward someone and try to hit them with the ball. If they hit, the frozen player gets one bad point. If they miss, the thrower gets the bad point. The game continues until someone reaches five bad points. The player with the fewest bad points wins.

Esra Şahin, Mimar Sinan Secondary School, Trabzon, Türkiye

1.This game is for 5 players.

2.Four players stand at the corners of a square.

3.One player stands in the middle.

4.The players at the corners try to change places.

5.They look at each other and run to another corner.

6.The player in the middle tries to take a free corner.

7.If the middle player takes a corner, the one without a corner goes to the middle.

8.The game continues with the new middle player.

    Important points

        Players must run fast and be careful.

    The game is fun and helps you move and think quickly.

Mehmet Sercan BAŞDAĞ/Mimar Sinan Secondary School/Trabzon/Türkiye

HOW  TO   PLAY  KÖŞE  KAPMACA 

Gabriela Covaciu, ”Mihai Eminescu” Middle School, Romania

 ”Telefonul fără fir” (The wireless telephone or The whispering game)

This is a Romanian game that you can play in the classroom, indoors, or in any quiet environment.

Here are the rules:

    Players sit or stand in a line or circle; one player (the starter) thinks of a short sentence (e.g. “The cat jumps on the table”); the starter whispers the sentence only once into the ear of the next player; that player then whispers what they heard to the next person, and so on;  no repeating is allowed — each player gets to hear the message only once; when the last player hears the message, they say it aloud; the original sentence is then revealed, and everyone laughs at how much it has changed!

The objective is to pass a message from one end of the line to the other by whispering — and laugh at how much it changes along the way!

Daniela Burlacu - ”Mihai Eminescu” Middle School, Romania

”Țară, țară, vrem ostași!” - "Country, country, we want soldiers!"