TURKEY-Castle Dodgeball

TURKEY-KALELİ YAKAN TOP

Esra AYDOĞAN-Petro-Kimya Secondary School

Game Name: Three Stones

Country: Türkiye

Type: Traditional Intelligence Game

Brief Information About the Game: "Three Stones" is a traditional Turkish game that requires intelligence and strategy. It is known to date back to at least the Ottoman period. It is played by two players and the aim is to prevent the opponent's stones from forming a triplet and create your own triplet.

 How to Play?

The game is played on a triangular board with 9 intersections.

Each player has 3 pieces. The game starts by placing the pieces in order.

After all the pieces are placed, players take turns placing one piece on the empty space.

The player who manages to line up three pieces side by side on the same line wins the game.

TURKEY YAĞ SATARIM BAL SATARIM 

TURKEY- I SELL OIL, I SELL HONEY

Fatma Bütünay-Nahit Menteşe Secondary School 

Players: 5 or More children 

Place: Open area or large indoor space

How to play:

1- Sit in a circle

2-Choose öne player to be " it"

3-Walk and sing the traditional rhyme( yağ satarım bal satarım, ustam ölmüş ben satarım )

4-While singing and walking" it" drop the cloth behind öne of the sitting player

5- İf the sitting player notices the cloth behind hım/her, grab it and Chase the seller , the seller must run around the circle and try to sit in the empty spot before being caught.

6- İf it sits down before being tagged , the chaser becomes the New seller.

Turkey- Above the Ground Game 

(Yerden Yüksek)

Game Name: Above the Ground
Number of Players: Minimum 5 players
Age Group: From preschool and up
Skills Developed: Attention, concentration, balance, following rules

How to Play? 

The play area boundaries are determined together with the group members. A volunteer is chosen from the group to be “it” (the tagger).

The tagger tries to tag players who are on the same level (height) as themselves. Players who are on a higher level than the tagger cannot be tagged.

To keep the game dynamic and fun, players frequently change their positions. If a player is tagged while moving to a new spot, they become the new tagger. The game continues in this way.

    TURKEY - SEK SEK (HOPSCOTCH)

Game Name: HOPSCOTCH
Number of Players: Minimum 2 players
Age Group: From preschool and up
Skills Developed: Attention, concentration, balance, following rules

Huriye GÖÇMEN BULUT- MİLLİ EGEMENLİK SECONDARY SCHOOL

Turkish hopscotch, known as “sek sek”, is a traditional children's game played similarly to hopscotch in other countries but with local variations. Here's how to play it:

One of the most common Turkish versions has 8 or 10 sections, laid out like this:

Each square is numbered starting from 1 at the bottom to 8 or 10 at the top.

Albania - Top Djegesi

Albania- Burning Ball

Teams:

• There should be 2 teams, with at least 4 players on each team.

• Each team should have one "goalkeeper" and three players on the field.

• When the first player gets hit by the other team, he becomes the new "goalkeeper," and the original "goalkeeper" can rejoin the team.

How to play:

*Each player should try to hit an opposing player with the ball.

*If a player is hit by the opposing team, he or she is out of the game and becomes a "goalkeeper."

*The "goalkeeper(s)" can pass the ball to their

 teammates or try to hit an opposing player.

*The team that loses all its players loses the game.

Playing area:

*The game is played on a field divided into two equal parts, with each team staying on its own side.

Edisona Isaj- "Kristaq Rama" School

Albania - Gjej kush e ka?

Albanian - Who has it?

How to play:

• There must be at least 4 players.

• One player stands up as the leader, holding a small object — in this case, a chalk.

• The other players sit with their heads down.

• The leader walks past each player, pretending 

to give the chalk to everyone, but actually gives it to only one.

• When the leader finishes, the players lift their heads and each one guesses who has the chalk.

• The first player to guess correctly becomes

 the new leader and the game starts again

Edisona Isaj- "Kristaq Rama" School