Shagai (game)

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Sheep ankles in the positions:
camel, horse, sheep, goat

Schagai ( Mongolian шагай ) is a group of mainly in Mongolia known games of skill , which with sheep ankles are played.

Schagain Charval

In this variant of the game (translated: "Knuckle Shooting") the player holds a narrow wooden rail in one hand, on which a single knuckle lies. This is flicked with the middle finger of the other hand in the direction of a box several meters away. In this there are more bone particles that have to be hit. Among other things, championships for this variant are also held as a side event at Naadam festivals

In 2014, ankle shooting was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity .

See also

  • Pentelitha an ancient Greco-Roman skill game played with the ankle bones of various animals.
  • Astragaloi an ancient Roman board game in which ankle bones were used as dice.
  • Bone game , European variant

Web links

Commons : Schagai  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Great Naadam Festival - 2010 Program , Official Tourism Website of Mongolia - Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism, Mongolia, accessed July 20, 2010
  2. ↑ Naadam Festival in Mongolia: Riding, Wrestling, Snipping , Spiegel Online, July 15, 2010
  3. ↑ Mongolian knuckle-bone shooting - intangible heritage - Culture Sector - UNESCO. Retrieved June 10, 2017 (English).