Wednesday, October 4

Moors and Christians

When I was little, we used to play a game called "Moors and christians". We really knew nothing about history, but it was fun. There's two teams with an equal number of kids and someone in the middle (leader) with a piece of cloth (there's some distance between both teams.
Each player of each team has a number from 1 to the number of players in the team. The leader places him/herself in the central line, between the two groups and shouts a number from one to the maximum is the number of total players in a team).The person of each team who has that number runs and try to catch the handkerchief, and run back to his/her team. If he succeeds, the one who failed is "converted" and his/her number is supposed to be for another player of his team. It was really fun. I tried to draw the game:



But it looks more like Martians against Plutonians...

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Where I come from we just call the game the handkerchief...

Brought back childhood memories, now I just wanna turn back time and go back to the playful world that was...

Nuri said...

I guess the game has many names. In Spain many people would call it moors and christians, due to our history. It was fun...

Unknown said...

Yeah those were the days...

Unknown said...

We used to play the same game in Egypt, it is called the handkerchief too "El Mandeel". It was so fun.