Ox on the mountain
Ochs am Berg is considered a classic children's game outdoors or in a larger hall. Regionally, the game also has other names, such as a hare running across the field , reading the newspaper or thunder, weather, lightning .
course
One child is chosen as the “ox” and stands facing away from the other children on the “mountain” (for example in front of a wall). The other children stand in a row about 20 to 30 meters away from the ox. The ox calls out: “One - two - three - four - ox on the mountain.” While he is counting, the children are allowed to move towards the mountain step by step. At the word "mountain" the ox turns around and all the children in the group have to remain petrified in their movement. If the ox catches a child in motion, it has to go back to the start. If the ox turns around again before it has reached the start, it may start from the place where it is currently located.
If a child manages to reach the mountain, they have won, which means they can play the ox and the game starts all over again.
variants
- Instead of sending a moving participant of the game back to the start, the ox can also impose partial penalties in the form of backward steps. For example, if you only shrug slightly, you only have to take three steps backwards, etc. There are no limits to the ox's arbitrariness, except that he is not allowed to send someone back who does not move at all.
- Depending on the arrangement, the ox is also allowed to approach individual players during the observation phase and to make them laugh with all sorts of slogans and grimaces. If this happens, he can also send it back.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Game collection of the Cevi Ostschweiz , p. 14.
- ↑ [1]
- ^ Johanna Preetorius: Knaurs Spielbuch . Droemersche Verlagsanstalt 1953, p. 51.