Pawn game
As forfeits refers to a category of board games , in which one participant who a round has lost a pawn post must, which can be redeemed later.
Pawn game
In most pawns games, the number of participants is almost unlimited, but a manageable size of 6–15 should not be exceeded. The games themselves are of different nature. Often they consist of a kind of attention exercise , whereby the person who makes a mistake has to give a personal deposit to the game master. These attentional exercises usually have a linguistic character that either encourages people to forget or makes tongue twisters or provokes a gesture inherent in the game that was not permitted.
Deposit release
When enough pledges have come together, the game master draws one face down and asks the game round with the slogan:
- "What should the deposit be in my hand?" "What should the deposit do for the deposit I have in my hand?"
Now the participants agree on a penalty for redeeming the deposit. This ranges from physical endurance or dexterity exercises to (playful) enduring teasing and literal embarrassment. With young people, the redemption tasks often have a flirtation or even an erotic character.
Examples of deposit redemption
- while standing on one leg, thread a needle
- picking up a sheet of paper with your mouth
- draw a mustache blindfolded
- Cut bacon = sit at the table and perform cutting movements while shouting from time to time: "I sit here and cut bacon and whoever loves me takes me away."
- to hang on the cross = to pretend to be hanging on the cross and say: "I'm hanging on the cross and those who love me kiss my mustache."
- Roman confession = after the group has agreed on the falls and given them a number, the confessor has to confess to various questions: "How often did you do number 1?" "Where did you do number 2?" Etc.
Historical
Pfänderspiele were already known in courtly times. However, little has been handed down here, but it must have been leisure activities of the ladies-in-waiting and their admirers. In Goethe's Faust II it says in a passage:
- Pawn game and third man
- Didn't want to get caught;
- Today the fools are out
- Love open your lap
- I guess someone gets stuck.
which clearly indicates the flirtation factor of this game.
The grandfather of German school gymnastics and the educational game Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759–1839) writes in his book Games for Exercise and Recreation of the Body and Mind from 1796 about the Pfänderspiele, which he advocates but rejects the excesses : “Im It is different in youth circles; she should neither introduce Spanish love, nor hang and demand, nor measure love with Ellen, nor silently beg; because we all agree that it is not necessary to practice the feelings that underlie such tasks. They don't need any practice. But what should she do? - She should exert her physical and mental strength, be it in what way, now more, now less, seriously or for fun. Man has infinite strength, consequently all sorts of small tasks aimed at practicing it cannot be difficult; at least one needs to their invention common sense to speak broken far less than those that are of the above shock, the absolutely absurd for everyone just a little educated people incomprehensible and disgusting. " He therefore proposes for adequate youth mortgage redemptions (see)
Examples of pawns games (selection)
Mainly Pfänderspiele are played in larger game rounds. Parties and birthday celebrations for children and adults are suitable for this. The games are so numerous that only a small selection comes into play here:
- Everything that has feathers flies (also: all birds fly high ). The game master, who is the only one allowed to make mistakes, names animals or other things that can either fly or not fly. Participants must put both hands up in the air every time a flightable animal or object is named. If someone reports incorrectly, they have to give a deposit.
- Command Pimperle . All participants sit at the table and the game master gives the commands that have been agreed beforehand. At Pimperle's command, everyone drum their index fingers on the edge of the table. Command fist means that the fists are on the table. There is also the command flat (= hands flat on the table), command up (= put hands in the air), command Kant (= the edges of the hand on the table), command low (= hands under the table), and command elbow ( = Elbows on the table). If necessary, further commands can be introduced. The command is only to be carried out, however , if the game master has put the word command in front of it. If he simply says “up”, the previous position, gesture or activity must be retained. The game master, who is changed after a while, is allowed to make deliberate mistakes in order to mislead the participants. If the other players make a mistake, a deposit is due.
- Song with fill in the blank . There are some songs, the texts of which are gradually to be replaced by gestures or silence (Now we're going across the lake; On the wall, on the lookout ; A little sailor ...; My hat, it has three corners, etc.). Anyone who makes a mistake gives a deposit.
- Pack suitcase
- The evil 7 . It is counted in a circle. Every time the number includes a 7 or a combination with the 7 times table of the multiplication table (7, 14, 17, 21, 27, 28 etc.), you have to say boom or another agreed word. Mistakes will be punished by a deposit.
See also
literature
- Max Weiss: The book of the Pfänderspiele. Collected and edited by Max Weiss (collection of game books, volume 15). Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1914
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.sportpaedagogik-online.de/gutsmuths/index.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.gruppenspiele-hits.de/kreisspiele/kommando-pimperle.html
