Hitting the pot
Topfschlagen is a child's play in which a player blindfolded and a wooden spoon an upturned pot must find a reward. It is mainly played at birthday parties for small children .
Rules of the game
In the game, a fellow player is blindfolded so that he can no longer see anything. Then a wooden spoon is put in his hand and another player turns it in a circle to confuse him. An upside-down pot is placed somewhere in the room , under which there is usually something sweet or a present . The pot must not be moved during the search.
The blindfolded child now has to find the pot in the crawling alley by constantly hitting the floor in front of him with the wooden spoon. The other children call out “warm” and “cold” to indicate whether the looking child is approaching the pot or moving away from it. Sometimes another player knocks on the pot at the beginning and shows the blindfolded player the direction in which the pot is. As soon as the searching teammate has found the pot and hits it, he may take the handkerchief from his eyes and the reward. Then it is another player's turn, the pot is moved to another place. In a variant, several children are blindfolded and look for wooden spoons at the same time.
history
The game was originally a fun fair entertainment . There was a living rooster under an earthenware pot . Whoever could smash the pot with blindfolds won and got the rooster (cf. Hahnenschlag ).
The internationally known piñata is similar to hitting a pot, in which a cardboard figure hanging from the ceiling is used instead of a pot.
See also
literature
- Robert E. Lembke : The great house and family book of the games. Lingen Verlag, Cologne, no date; P. 53.