Today, I am featuring "Bulong Pari", one of the Traditional Games in the Philippines, my beloved country. I am highlighting one game for each post. Let’s try to review the games we played when we were kids, when we all have the strength and time on this world. Am I right?
It is essential for us all Filipinos to know and at any rate remember what we have in our own country. Culture labels us, and these games are a bit of our lifestyle. True!
The Culture
Traditional Games in the Philippines are games regularly played by kids, usually utilizing local materials or instruments. In the Philippines, because of limited assets of toys of Filipino kids, they more often than not come up on imagining games without the need of anything other than the players themselves. With the flexibility of a genuine human to think and act makes the games additionally fascinating and interesting. Since it is a common for Filipinos to play in a greater and open area, most games are generally played outside the house. A few amusements are played or held amid town celebrations.
Let the game begin … Bulong Pari!
"Bulong Pari" is a customary Philippine game which implies in English "Whisper It To The Priest." As the name suggests, it is a whispering game prevalently referred to in the Visayan district as "Honghonganay".
It requires two teams with no less than 5 individuals each. The more members, the better. Two individuals will serve as the Leaders of each group while one player assumes the role of the Priest who should remain at around 5 meters away from the two groups.
The leader of Team A will approach the priest and whisper the name of one of the individuals from Team B. The priest at that point gets out "Lapit!" or "Approach!" to summon one player from Team B.
In the event that it happens to be a same individual specified before by the leader of Team A, the priest will say "Bang!" and he or she turns into a detainee. If not, the player who moved toward the priest will get a chance to specify the name of one of the players of Team A.
The group with few or no players left becomes the loser.
Another variety of the game is otherwise called "Singsingan". As the name proposes, a player assumes the part of a priest looking for a missing ring. He will then think about who among the group of players the ring has. On the off chance that he finds the correct individual, the priest will then squeeze the player's ears as a discipline.
This game might be or not recognizable to some of us, yet giving them a try, regardless of whether you're a child no longer, would be so amazing. Additionally, the child within you will in the long run come out when the fun starts.
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Sources:
http://larong-pinoy.weebly.com/all-traditional-filipino-gamescompilation.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_games_in_the_Philippines#Other_advocates
My Previous Traditional Philippine Game Posts:
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Shatung Ta Bai: Traditional Philippine Game
Bati-Cobra - A Traditional Philippine Game!
Bahay-Bahayan - A Traditional Philippine Game
Agawan Base - A Traditional Philippine Game
Araw-Lilim - A Traditional Philippine Game
Sekyu Base - A Traditional Philippine Game
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