 Cuban girls playing hopscotch Hopscotch is a simple children's game which can be played with several players or alone. Hopscotch is often played in playgrounds by children. Hopscotch may mean: Hopscotch, a schoolyard game. ...
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Historic version of hopscotch rules
The first player tosses the marker (typically a stone, coin or bean bag) into the first square. The marker must land completely within the designated square and without touching a line or bouncing out. The player then hops through the course, skipping the square with the marker in it. Single squares must be hopped on one foot. For the first single square, either foot may be used. Side by side squares are straddled, with the left foot landing in the left square, and the right foot landing in the right square. Optional squares marked "Safe", "Home", or "Rest" are neutral squares, and may be hopped through in any manner without penalty.
Upon successfully completing the sequence, the player continues the turn by tossing the marker into square number two, and repeating the pattern.
If while hopping through the court in either direction the player steps on a line, misses a square, or loses balance, the turn ends. Players begin their turns where they last left off. The first player to complete one course for every numbered square on the court wins the game.
Current version of hopscotch Rules for a common Western version of "hopscotch", which are not the same as the historic "hopscotch": The first player tosses the marker (typically a stone, coin or bean bag) into the first square. The marker must land completely within the designated square and without touching a line or bouncing out. If the marker lands in the wrong square, the player forfeits a turn. If the marker is successful, the player hops through the court skipping the square with the stone in it. Single squares must be hopped on one foot. For the first single square, either foot may be used. Side by side squares are straddled, with the left foot landing in the left square, and the right foot landing in the right square. Optional squares marked "Safe", "Home", or "Rest" are neutral squares, and may be hopped through in any manner without penalty.
When players reach the end of the court, they turn around and hop back through the court, moving through the squares in reverse order and stopping to pick up the marker on the way back (and hops in the square). Upon successfully completing the sequence, the player continues the turn by tossing the marker into square number two, and repeating the pattern.
If while hopping through the court in either direction the player steps on a line, misses a square, or loses balance, the turn ends. Players begin their turns where they last left off. The first player to complete one course for every numbered square on the court wins the game.
The placement of squares need not be straight. The squares can wind across the ground in single squares (the player landing on one foot), paired squares (the player landing on two feet) or mismatched paired squares (the player landing on one foot, then the other). The player may have to do actions on squares like spin in place, hop several times in place before moving on, etc. Elaborate hop scotch courses may have branches that split from the main course and join again further along.
Origin
 A hopscotch game in Boston, USA Hopscotch originated in Britain during the early Roman Empire. It was initially designed as a training regimen for Roman foot soldiers who ran the course in full armor and field packs, as it was thought this would improve their footwork. Roman children imitated the soldiers by drawing their own boards and creating a scoring system, and "Hopscotch" spread throughout Europe.[citation needed] Download high resolution version (615x800, 237 KB)Magpie hopscotch at Morecambe Pier, England. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1456x1907, 505 KB) Old hopscotch game Photo taken on School Street in Boston, by Yannick Trottier 2007 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Hopscotch Metadata This file...
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Etymology The word "hopscotch" is a compound of "hop" and "scotch", meaning "scratched line". It dates back to at least 1801.[1]
In Czech (and probably in other Slavonic languages), both "hop" and "scotch" are rather childish expressions for "make a jump". The "hop" is injection referenced to jumping, the "scotch" (correctly "skoč") is 2. person sing. of imperative, i.e. "jump!" But the game itself is called panák in Czech.
Variants There are many other forms of hopscotch played across the globe.[2] In Russia and Russian--speaking countries it is known as классики (diminutive for the word meaning classrooms). In Poland, it is called 'klasy', meaning classes'. 'In Malaysia the most popular variant is called tengteng. A diminutive is a formation of a word used to convey a slight degree of the root meaning, smallness of the object or quality named, encapsulation, intimacy, or endearment. ...
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Escargot A French variant of hopscotch is known as Escargot (snail) or "La Marelle Ronde" (round hopscotch). It is played on a spiral course. Players must hop on one foot to the center of the spiral and back out again. A player marks one square with his or her initials, and from then on may place two feet in that square, while all other players must hop over it. The game ends when all squares are marked or no one can reach the center, and the winner is the player who "owns" the most squares.[2]
Chikki-Billa In India, hopscotch is also called chikki-billa, chikki meaning the chalk borders and billa meaning the marker. It has similar principles in that players must hop on one foot and must throw the marker in the right square.
References - ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (CD-ROM) (1994).
- ^ a b Lankford, Mary T.; Karen Dugan (1992). Hopscotch Around the World. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 0-688-14745-3.
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