Game of skill
Under skill game is meant games that require the player a special ability to react and / or a well -developed fine motor skills.
Overview
There are games of skill, which are common regardless of the cultures throughout the world. Are mainly used in games of skill, the balance assets, the sense of rhythm (as in the rubber twist), the tactile sensitivity and the distance estimate claimed. This includes, for example, the game (not the same Cut and Fold ) is in our culture as hopscotch or under the name Heaven and Hell known. But even the so-called cat's cradle or Abhebespiel belongs to this category. So also with the so-called English football, where the distance and speed of exercise play a major role. Skill Games are almost always for entertainment only and the promotion of the above properties. This includes games like Mikado and darts.
Some games of skill are also precision sports. Individual Skill Games were or are partly still or again encountered in commercial form at fairs and festivals; to such transactions skill of showmen include the can throwing ( " throw Bude " ) and the nail bar ( "Funny Nagelei ").
Legal use of the term
In legal texts, the term is broader and refers to a game that is determined by the skill of the player according to the respective legal opinion more than of random elements - as opposed to gambling. According to this view as chess is a game of skill. The Austrian Ministry of Finance considered as well as Bridge, Rummy or Tarot as skill games (poker, however, as gambling ).
Some games of skill (selection)
- Bausack
- Billiards
- Petanque ( bowls / Bowls / Pétanque)
- Carrom
- Darts
- Can throwing
- Eierlaufen
- English football
- Catch ( game )
- Hopscotch
- House of cards
- Knee, ear, nose
- Mikado ( game )
- Kubb
- Mölkky
- Game of marbles
- Nail bar (also nail Bank, Betting nailing or Funny Nagelei )
- Journey to Jerusalem
- Skill Gaming
- Snooker
- Sport Stacking
- Skipping stones
With the proliferation of computer games very much software was this genre. Originally, the particular so-called Jump ' n' Run games, the long range, however, has greatly expanded and now includes many games with a larger strategic stake one, for example a variety of Tetris variants. Here, however, is in contrast to the non-virtual game of skill, which usually involves the entire body, mainly demanded the eye -hand coordination. Promoting responsiveness and imagination of the players is controversial. Nevertheless will find various online games of skill and platforming Adventures also a place in the child psychotherapeutic work.