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This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Hopscotch1900F294.png licensed with PD-US . 2008-07-18T04:14:05Z ScotchHopper 241x473 (6790 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=Hopscotch court; P. 357: Fig 294.—A Typical American Court with Ten Subdivisions.}} |Source=''The Outdoor Handy Book: For the Playground, Field, and Forest''.
Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, [1] [2] into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. [3]
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Hopscotch1900F291.png licensed with PD-US . 2008-07-18T04:08:10Z ScotchHopper 225x464 (6695 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=Hopscotch court; P. 356: Fig 291.—An English Court with Eleven Subdivisions and a Plum Pudding.}} |Source=''The Outdoor Handy Book: For the Playground, Field, and Forest''.
Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...
Inglenook Sidings, created by Alan Wright (1928 - January 2005), is a model railway train shunting puzzle.It consists of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions, a defined goal, and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations.
English has borrowed the term from tafl (pronounced; Old Norse for 'table') [4] [5], a generic term referring to board games.. Hnefatafl (roughly , [5] plausibly realised as [n̥ɛvatavl]), became the preferred term for the game in Scandinavia by the end of the Viking Age, to distinguish it from other board games, such as skáktafl (), kvatrutafl and halatafl (), as these became known. [2]
One magpie at the birth of Jesus, perhaps presaging sorrow for Mary: [3] Piero della Francesca's The Nativity Children's game hopscotch played in Lancashire, England with lyric close to the 1846 version of the rhyme
The backs of the tiles in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design. The gaming pieces make up a domino set, sometimes called a deck or pack. The traditional European domino set consists of 28 tiles, also known as pieces, bones, rocks, stones, men, cards or just dominoes, featuring all combinations of spot counts ...