LL-L "Games" 2004.09.17 (03) [E/S]

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From: Kevin Caldwell <kcaldwell31 at comcast.net>
Subject: LL-L "Games" 2004.09.16 (06) [E]

> From: john feather <johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: Games
>
> Sandy wrote:>I see the "pickies" chart painted on the playground tarmac in
> English
> schools<
>
> I think this is for the game of "hopscotch" which involves jumping and
> landing with the two feet on different combinations of numbers. I don't
> know
> the rules (they must be in Opie) and these days hanging around school
> playgrounds and watching the kids is rather frowned on.

Ah, hopscotch.  As I recall, it goes as follows: you toss a stone onto the
first space of the diagram.  You then hop over that space into the second
space.  Normally you hop on one foot, but the places where there are two
spaces side by side, you can land with one foot in each space.  When you
reach the end, you turn around and go back, and on your way back you pick up
the stone.  On your next turn, you toss the marker into the second space,
and that's the space you have to jump over in that turn.

See http://www.gameskidsplay.net/games/other_games/hopscotch.htm for a
fuller description.  Some sample diagrams can be found here (about a third
of the way down the page): http://cenocracy.topcities.com/cro8.html

Some pages I found in a Google search claim that a hopscotch diagram can be
seen scratched into the pavement of the Forum in Rome.

Kevin Caldwell

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Games" [E/S]

> From: john feather <johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: Games
>
> Sandy wrote:>I see the "pickies" chart painted on the playground tarmac in
> English
> schools<
>
> I think this is for the game of "hopscotch" which involves jumping and
> landing with the two feet on different combinations of numbers. I don't
know
> the rules (they must be in Opie) and these days hanging around school
> playgrounds and watching the kids is rather frowned on.

Yes - "pickies", "peevers" or some other names in Scots, but never
"hopscotch". I suppose this suggests it's a Scottish game after all.

We played it like this (for us, the "stane" was usually a shoe polish tin
full of dirt):

Tak a bit chalk or sandstane an merk the first plainstane "1", the twae
abuin it "2"  an "3", the ane abuin thame "4" an the like up tae "8" an "9".
Gin the'r nae plainstanes the lines'll hae tae be chalkit an aa.

For tae play, the ane that haes the first shot stauns ablo the "1" an dings
the stane doun on't. As lang's it lands aathegither inside o the square, she
lowps ower't sae's the carrie fit lands on the "2" an the richt fit on the
"3". Syne she haps an lowps, haps an lowps till she lands wi her feet on the
"8" an "9". At this, she lowps throu pi radians sae's her feet's on the "9"
an "8" respective. Syne she haps an lowps aa the road back doun till she's
on the "3" an "2", an lifts the stane, haps ontae the "1" an aff.

Syne, staunin ablo the "1", she dings the stane on the "2". She haps ontae
the "1", ontae the "3", ontae the "4" syne lowps ontae the "5" an "6" an on
up an back doun again like afore. Whan she gits tae the "3" she lifts the
stane (she'll be staunin on ae fit whan she daes this), syne pits her ither
fit doun on the "2" an feenishes.

This gaes on - castin the stane ontae the "3", "4", "5" an on up tae the
"9". Ony time the stane or a body's fit lands on a line, or the'r ony ither
mishanter like faain ower or pittin doun baith feet whaur juist the ane's
alloued, that lassie's shot's feenished an the nixt ane starts. Whan a
sowel's shot starts again, thay cast the stane ontae the number thay wis
ettlin at aforehaun.

Whanever a body feenishes the cast o "10" athooten mishanter, she's the
winner an the lave losses.

Glossary:

plainstane: paving stone
ane: one
abuin: above
gin: if, "given"
nae: no
an aa: as well
shot: turn
ablo: below
ding: throw down
aathegither: completely
lowp: jump
hap: hop
syne: then
ae: one
fit: foot
mishanter: mishap
faain ower: falling over
sowel, body: person
ettlin: aiming
aforehaun: before
whanever: as soon as
athooten: without
lave: rest
loss: lose

Numbers: ane twae three fower five six seeven aicht nine ten

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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