Put sticks

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Put sticks , even podium game or Shut your house clean is a traditional road game .

Game thought

The idea of ​​the game is to practice a stick with the other players in their circle. This circle, understood as “castle” or “house”, must be defended with the feet against the penetration of the stick.

origin

The street game, known under different names, can be traced back to at least the first half of the 20th century by contemporary witnesses and literary evidence. Its typical distribution area are the developing countries and the poor areas of the big cities. The game scientist SA Warwitz was able to play the game , which was played with almost identical rules. a. for India ( Calcutta ), Yemen , Kenya , Brazil ( Rio de Janeiro ), the USA ( New York City / Bowery ) as well as for Germany during the war and post-war period around 1945. In the 1950s, it was still a popular break game in numerous school areas, for example in the Ruhr area . The writer Albert Camus describes a variant of the game from his youth in the North African Algiers around the year 1923. The historic first almost exclusively practiced by boys Game was the emancipation of girls increasingly in the opposite sex encouragement.

Game components and playing field

A hand-long stick is sufficient as game material. The playing field is created by the players themselves by drawing a circle around themselves on earthy ground about two meters apart. The circle can also be marked with chalk on solid ground. In the sports hall, you can use an exercise hoop or a gym mat .

Game flow

A randomly drawn child initiates the game by trying to practice the stick in one of the other players' circles, which the attacked person must prevent with his feet. Cheating and tricking are part of the game tactics. If the defense succeeds, the player to whom the stick is closest continues the game. If it lands in a circle, the district defender receives a minus point and the successful one receives a plus point. The game ends at a predetermined time. In the break games, the bell at the end of the break marks the end of the game, at which the points winner has been determined. Since everyone plays against everyone, it is tactically wise to distribute the points of failure as widely as possible among the other players.

Game variants

  1. A hit scored directly from the foot defense gives three plus points.
  2. Older children or adult players have a larger circle or even two circles to defend at the same time.
  3. There is only one circle that a child has to defend with a wooden club against the successive throws of the stick by the other players. Every successful defense earns the castle player one point. Successful placement of the stick leads to a change of castle. This variant reported by Albert Camus can also be combined with the game idea of ​​the street game Pinneken kloppen .

Play value

The simple game requires little space and can therefore be played spontaneously almost anywhere. The playing technique is uncomplicated and allows every child to get involved. Nevertheless, skill , agility , quick reactions and ingenuity are required to be successful.

See also

literature

  • Albert Camus: The games of the child , In: Ders .: The first person . 2nd edition, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2013, pp. 61–63.
  • Anita Rudolf, Siegbert A. Warwitz: Put sticks , In: Dies .: Playing - rediscovered. Fundamentals-suggestions-help , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1982, pp. 52-53.
  • H. Spiegel: The Bollerrad has to roll, the Knicker, it has to roll. Lost children's games, told in stories from the Ruhr area . Henslowsky Boschmann Verlag, Bottrop 2004, ISBN 3-922750-49-4 .
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz (Ed.): Games of other times and peoples , Karlsruhe 1998.
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: From the sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th updated edition, Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, ISBN 978-3-8340-1664-5 .
  • Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann, Regine Falkenberg: What we played. Memories of childhood . Frankfurt / Main 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegbert A. Warwitz (ed.): Games of other times and peoples , Karlsruhe 1998
  2. ^ Albert Camus: The games of the child , In: Ders .: The first person . Rowohlt Verlag, 2nd edition, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2013, pages 61–63
  3. ^ Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann, Regine Falkenberg: What we played. Memories of childhood . Frankfurt / Main 1981
  4. ↑ Anita Rudolf, Siegbert A. Warwitz: Put sticks , In: Dies .: Playing - newly discovered. Fundamentals-Suggestions-Hilfen , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1982. Pages 52-53
  5. ↑ Anita Rudolf, Siegbert A. Warwitz: Put sticks , In: Dies .: Playing - newly discovered. Basics-Suggestions-Aids , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1982. Page 53
  6. ^ Albert Camus: The games of the child , In: Ders .: The first person . Rowohlt Verlag, 2nd edition, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2013, pages 61–63