Berlindes

Number of participants: Several players can participate

Material you must use in the game: Some glass or metal marbles.

How to play: Each child will place 2 or 3 marbles in the centre of a circle drawn on the floor, about thirty centimetres long. Individually, each child, from a designated starting place, throws their marble by bending their index finger and pushing it with their thumbnail, or pushing it with their index finger on their thumb. If the child manages to throw a few marbles out of the circle, they automatically keep them. Whenever this happens, the child plays again, otherwise the turn passes to the next child.

Variant

Make a hole in the ground, the size of a marble, called a hole. So that the children know who's going to start the game, they each throw their marble from a predetermined spot, trying to get it as close as possible to the hole. Whoever comes closest is the first to play. The child has to throw its marble from its current position so that it hits its opponent's marble, in order to get all of its marbles into the hole.

If the child manages to hit a marble, he or she can play again up to a maximum of three times. When a child puts another child's marble into the hole with one throw,that marble wins. If the child's own marble falls into the hole with one throw, he/she loses it.

Ways to throw a marble:

- Throw with the index finger. Bend the index finger and holding it with the thumb, propel it forward. 

- Thumb throw. Bend the index finger under the Thumb and propel it forward by slipping the index finger nail under the thumb.

Pedro, Portugal