Roman

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• Roman
• children's
•   games

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Contents

• General Information
• Gall Games
• Board Games
• Catch- and Running Games
• Bone Games
• Games with nuts
• Swell

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General Information

• Roman children played games like children
  nowadays.But the childhood today is completely
  different from this of former days because of the
  electronic possibilities, which can be used
  without any restriction.
• Many people are thinking, that there was another
  kind of playing in ancient Rome.
• But that is not right The kids had also
  dolls, carts, animal figures, stalks and
  kites.Today people believe that the game culture
  of former days was not highly developed, but it
  was and many games which exist nowadays have
  their origin in ancient times. The famous games
  from the kids of all ages were Mühle, Backgammon,
  Käsekästchen, a preform of Schach, Murmelspiele
  as well as by the ball games Hockey, the catch
  games Blinde Kuh and Reiterkampf.

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Ball Games

• Examples
• Dreierball
•    Three players line up in a triangle and throw
  three little balls to each other at the same
  time. If someone let a ball fall down, he looses
  one of his five lifes. The game ends, when one
  of the players lost all his lives.              
• Hockey
• A game for two temas with at least two players
  each.
• One small ball, 4 marks for the goal and one
  hockey bat for every player. 
• Set the marks for the goals and build teams.
  Each team tries to hit the ball into the goal.
  Only the goalkeeper is allowed to touch the ball
  with his feet.
• Ballschleudern (mit Hund)
• The player throws a ball as far as possible and
  the dog runs to get it and returns it to the
  player.

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Board Games

• Examples
• Drei
• A board with each 3 black and
  3 white gamestones is set up. After placement
  the stones will be pushed until one player has 3
  stones of his color in a row.
• Rundmühle 
• Alternately each player sets his gamestones on
  the board and tries to get 3 in a row. Each time
  he gets a Mühle he can take one gamestone away
  from the other player when his are not in a row
  of three.
• Zwölferspiel
• A player throws the dice and moves his stones in
  the amount of his dice on the board.
• They continue alternately. If someone comes
  to a field on the board which is already takes by
  another players stone you can put it back to the
  beginning of the board and that player has to
  start all over.

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Catch- and Running Games

• Examples
• Blinde Kuh (Bronzefliege)
• One player gets gets tied a scarf around his
  eyes. The other players get
• paperwhips.The Blinde Kuh tries to catch the
  other players while they
• whip her with the paperwhips. The one that gets
  cought is the next Blinde Kuh.
•  Reiterkampf
• There are formed two teams, one player in each
  team gets tied a scarf around his eyes and the
  other one climbs on his back. The
  riders steer their horses as quickly as
  possible around the target point and back to the
  starting point.
•  Reifentreiben
• You stuck spits in the ground as a start- and
  targetpoint.Than you set up the hoop and try to
  turn it with a stick around the spit back to the
  targetpoint.

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Bone Games

• Pentelitha 
• You throw 4 bonelets on the ground. The last one
  you have in your hands you throw up in the air.
  While its in the air you grab one from the ground
  and catch the one thats in the air. You do that
  till you have all five in your hands.

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Games with Nuts

• Examples
• Delta
• With a stick you carve a starting line and in
  2 - 3 m distance a triangle in the ground,
  divided by horizontal lines in ten fields.The
  players throw their nuts on the
  field.The largest field that is located closest
  to the starting line gets one point, each next
  higher plus one point. The smallest top box is
  ten points. The points are added.Once
  each player has thrown five times, the game is
  over. Whoever has the most points wins.
• Kastellspiel
• Each player places 3 nuts in a triangle close
  together.Then the players drop a nut from the
  top trying to have the nut remaining on
  the others.
•  Schräge Ebenenspiel
• You let some nuts roll down a scew plane trying
  to hit other nuts laying on the ground. You make
  points by hitting other nuts.
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Swell

• http//www.emabonn.de/ludi.htm
• http//www.harab.de/Berufliches/Projekte/Romer_2/r
  omer_2.html
• http//www.ccbuchner.de/musterseiten/detail/m4751_
  6.pdf