kids games: Playing marbles ( Nekeran )

Playing marbles (Nekeran), is the most well-known children's games and has spread throughout the world. The term originated from the Dutch neker knikkers meaningful marbles. In the British Museum saved many ancient marbles from around the world. There marbles from ancient Egypt and Rome. It was also found in Aztec Pyramids. Ancient marbles made of clay and stone, especially marble. New in 1890, the first briquette factory was built in Germany, following in the United States. In 1922 the tournament was first held marbles in Wildwood, New Jersey. In Yogyakarta there are also three giant marbles made of marble stone diameter is about 15 cm to 30 cm are kept near the Tomb Kotagede. Stone called Watu Gatheng was supposedly a boy toy Raden Rangga Panembahan Senopati ruling Islamic Mataram kingdom around the 16th century.

Currently the most popular types of marbles made of glass balls. The size of marbles around 1.2 cm to 6 cm. Most transparently with a variety of shades in it, called marbles starfruit, because the marbles as decoration in the form of star fruit. White marble called milk (Gowok).

The game is very simple. At least two children. Usually played by boys, although there is also no rule that girls come to play. At first all the players stand in line with a ground line as a barrier, the barrier is considered past fall and the game started again.

All players throw gundunya into the holes made previously, the term headed. Holes for the "toward" made its way to the land of marbles buried a bit dense to form a semi-circular basin, called "cliwikan". The order of players based on proximity to the target hole. The closest entitled to play first. He must enter into the hole gundunya target. When you can get into the hole he is entitled to undertake targeted opponent. If gundunya can not go into the hole then replaced by the next player.

Marbles opponents got sight crosshairs directly belong. He has the right target to be dead. Considered dead when the marbles into a hole sights or target sights marbles and marbles that have been the target of less than sekilan (distance between the tip of the thumb to the little finger hand). When you can turn around but the distance between the target marbles marbles players with too close a possible opponent or knocking marbles marbles target shoot was troubled because too much can just say in, he gave not want to take a turn around and gundunya moved into place toward the hole. Misses the target is also considered dead.

Each child has a different shooting techniques, they have a style he likes best. Marbles  clamped with the index finger and the thumb disentil, njenthot term. . Clamped between the middle finger and thumb, keep disentil with the middle finger, the term "nylenthik". Using two hands. Index finger and thumb pinch marbles left hand middle finger and disentil with the right hand, the term "nyladang".

For players who defeated and exhausted gundunya straight out of the game. There is also a debt to the winning players. The game ends when it is bored or has no one got marbles since hired by the winner, ngeruk term, because it has managed to take all marbles player. For a whiz at playing marbles, can make money as a result of the victory can be sold to a friend, of course, the price are negotiable, depending on the good and the bad condition of marbles.
This is a small time in Yogyakarta permainnya quite an impression because I was not quite adept at targeting so that children are adept at playing better stop playing just because of the possibility of winning are very slim, so better find an equivalent only challenge.

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