String figure

The weight loss game is a game thread ( a series of figures ) for two players.

In this famous in Europe form the yarn game it 's about evolving from a certain initial image, new figures by the cord is detached from the players and recorded on their own hands.

The weight loss game is known around the world under different names, for example in Hawaii under hot or on Easter Island under kai kai.

Origin

This figure probably comes from Japan, where it is documented in pictures since the Middle Ages. Presumably there were sailors who then brought them to Europe because they appear in paintings until after the Middle Ages.

Description

This requires about a 2 meter long cord.

Beginning

  • Winding the cord once around each wrist, with the long cords must remain parallel
  • You put the middle finger of one hand under the cord that runs in front of the palm of the other, and then pull the hands apart.
  • With the other hand, the procedure against the same ( unlike in the picture where the left index finger is shown instead of the middle finger )

The original play is probably the Japanese ( middle finger to take ). But there is also the way of playing with both index fingers, especially in Europe.

Mattress

Also called the ace of spades.

  • You put your thumb and index finger of both hands from the outside by the intersecting lines ( which must be the thumb on the one hand and the index finger on the other side )
  • Pulling the crossed cords outwardly under the parallel cords passing back up, which can be lifted off, and moves the hands apart
  • Now you should see a double, framed X

(from here still need descriptions and images are added)

Road

Also mirrors or track, or two candles called.

  • Reach with your thumb and forefinger into the two X. ( yes there are two X the X eingeramtes a result )
  • Pull the threads picked out and lead from below by parallel threads.
  • This results in 4 parallel threads.

Cradle

Also bath or cats cradle called. Basically, this is the inverted opening figure. In English-speaking countries the weight loss game is probably named after the figure, Cat's Cradle. The etymology of the English name is disputed, Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle chose as the title of a novel.

  • The mean threads that crosses over with the little fingers and pull outward.
  • Then the thumb and forefinger dive through the resulting triangle and pick up the parallel threads from below.
  • It does not let up the threads on the little fingers fall

Swept mattress

Looks just like the mattress, just show the finger down.

Pig on the circuit

Also, " The Sleeping Bear " ( The bear stretched out all four of itself. ) Or cancer called.

Crown / Braces

Depending on how you take off the pig on the ladder to get to the Crown or to the suspenders.

Others

Stories are retold on Easter Island using the weight loss game, which are probably as old as the moai. The stories are told only in Rapanui, not in today's island to Spanish.

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