Childhood Games

Once upon today, I came across something I used to play in class when teachers are away for meeting or elsewhere or before examination just to pass time. I was just sitting in for my colleague today for one of the classes and the kids were noisy but not random chatter. Busy with their own games. The first game I came across was :

B-I-N-G-O , nope...not the song about the dog and the farmer. Look at the picture above. We draw a box with 5 columns and rows. Fill it up with number from 1-25, randomly. This game is played by 2 or more people. Each person will take turns to call out the number and then the number will be strike out. Once any rows diagonally, up or down which has 5 numbers being circled they can cross out the whole row and one letter from the word BINGO. Whoever who finish crossing out the word BINGO first is the winner.


Then, I started to walk off to another table to see what the bunch of students is doing. They were doing a mini hand prediction game. First, they outline a friend's palm on the paper. Each finger is being separated into a few section. The thumb is where you list your favourite number, the index finger you write the 3 character that you like in your husband/wife. The middle finger, you write 3 type of cars that you like. The ring finger is where you write 3 types of house you would like to owe and the pinky finger you write three colours that you write. In the middle of the palm is the type of life that you will live. P/M/R (Poor, Middle, Rich).

Then, the facilitator of the game will keep drawing strokes like this |||||||||||||....until the player says STOP! whenever he/she likes. The number of strokes being drawn will be used to count. For instance, if there are ten strokes being drawn then they will countdown each section, the letter at number ten will be cross out. Once a finger has only 1 more letter left, it will be abandoned for the it is being predicted. The last section to count is the PMR, which is counted by its own. It is a bit confusing but it would be easier to show you how to play it. Hahah :).Would sound like a ridiculous game for an adult but rather enjoyable as a kid, just like those random psychology quizzes we take.

And the champion of games in the class is CHESS! Yes, ordinary board game indeed. But the special part about this two boys are, the chess board is hand drawn due to lack of resources. Very Impressive :)
The ponds were originally drawn as picture images, then it was reverted to fonts because they were confused with their own drawings.

Later on, they had another argument on where the Black King and White King is suppose to be placed in the initial position. Well, White King on white box and Black King on black box after I helped them to search on the Internet. However, it was nobody's fault, it was the board that they drew. They used it the wrong side or the boxes are drawn wrongly somehow. Anyway, I am still very impress with the chess set, a hand drawn one :) The con is, you will get cheeky friends who come to your table and Huff puff, blows all the pond away and the game is disrupted.