Hopscotch

Hopscotch or hopscotch, also paradise game, hopscotch, hopscotch, travel to the moon, Hinke box, Bounce, Huppe or Hüppekästchen or simply hopscotch and Hickeln ( dialect also Hickelsches, Hickerles, Hinke Pink or Hinkeln ) called, is a simple children's game with any number of participants, but can also be played alone. Together with the Gummitwist it is a common Hüpfspiel in schoolyards.

Dissemination

One finds this game almost anywhere in a large number of variants in the world. Games researchers found that children in Burma on a similar diagram skipped like children in the United States. Alone in Germany and Holland was found in studies in the 20 different Hickelkastenmuster. In some countries, children in a stooping posture hop ( used in Southeast Asia), elsewhere with his hands on his hips (Africa).

The origin of the game is unsecured. On the floor of the ancient forum in Rome was one of the oldest surviving Hickel diagrams, well carved with a stone. With their road network that stretched from Asia Minor to northern Europe, the Romans created ideal substrates for the hopscotch. Perhaps this has contributed to its widespread use. Since archaeologists can not find any centuries ago drawn in earth lines remain history of the global distribution and age of the game in the dark.

Regulate

The rules of this game are children as varied as the patterns usually scratched into the earth, but also in cities with chalk or a pillar in the asphalt or concrete road scheme. All variants have in common is the previously selected by each participant 's throw stone. The choice usually falls on a flat, after the throw not too much kullernden stone. Instead of the stone also parts of chains and bracelets are used.

Simple version

In a simple, widely used variant of the stone must be thrown from each box 1 to box 9. If you hit the field, so you start loszuhüpfen ( to hickeln ), that is, to hop on one leg. The field with the stone throwing but skips. Field 4 and 5 is entered with both feet, to then land again on only one leg in box 6. Boxes 7 and 8 are again both legs to complete, just like the last field 9 (often called the sky). Then it performs a half-turn, ends up again with both legs at 9 and now reaches hickelnd back to the beginning. In the field before throwing stone that still needs to be collected. Depending on the variant, the game is divided into rounds, that is, at the beginning of the next round of the stone must be thrown further a field than in the previous round. The first player thrown in the last field and jumped right wins. One commits an error in throw ( stone lands outside or on the line of the selected field) or jump ( stepping on the boundary, forgets a jump, forget the stone upon return or is out of balance and needs to the ground at a with both feet illicit point touch ) is immediately off the next player.

Heaven - and - hell - variant

In this variant, the first field is labeled with the word " earth ", the penultimate "hell " and the last with the term "heaven". Mostly, the earth is the starting field. Hell is basically to skip, that is, they may not be entered. In some versions there are post boxes, the stone ends up here, must from now on no longer speak or laugh, what the players of course all the more irritating more, causing the participants to do so. Depending on the variant of stone throwing is also encountered at every jump with his foot to the next field or not even thrown, but supported in various ways during hopping (eg on the foot or the head). It can also be defined, with which walk the fields may be skipped. In Switzerland the term hopscotch is little known here is, the game usually heaven and hell. In contrast to the variant with the field " Earth" Hell is frequently very bottom of the game.

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