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Soccer

A football fanatic or not this interactive Google Doodle game is fun and easy to play. Head to Google Search and type Soccer google doodle and dick on the first link that appears. The game is simple - you are a goalkeeper who needs to stop the striker from scoring a goal. You have three chances to save as many goals as you can.

To move your player left and right, you can use the arrow keys on the keyboard or move the mouse. To make your goalie jump and save a shot, either hit the spacebar or the left click on the mouse. As you keep saving goals, the game gets faster.

Score maximum points and ask your friends to try out the game and see how much they score.

Coding Rabbit

This is an interesting Google Doodle that celebrates coding for kids. Type 'Coding Rabbit Google doodle’ on Google Search to get started. When you start the game, you will find a rabbit and blocks with carrots on them. You need to get the rabbit to eat all the carrots in each round. To move the rabbit, you need to place appropriate tiles in the given space at the bottom of the playing window. Based on the tiles you place, the rabbit will move. If the rabbit finishes all the carrots in one round, you progress to the next. As you move ahead, you will find many challenges. But don't worry, the game has tutorials for each stage to make it easy for you to understand and play.

Quick, Draw!

If you like playing Pictionary or any other drawing and guessing game but do not have anyone else to play with this game is just for you. Head to Google Search and type out "Quick Draw”. You should find a link to the game in the top search results. The game is simple - you have six rounds in total and 20 seconds for each round. You need to draw the word assigned for a particular round and Google's neural network will try to guess what you are drawing. You can use your mouse to draw. Whether or not the neural network guesses what you have drawn, the game will move to the next round.

At the end of the game, you can see the words guessed and not guessed by the neural network. If you click on the ones that the network failed to guess, Google will show you what the neural network thought your drawing might have resembled and will offer you suggestions on what you could draw should that word appear again.

Mancala games have been popular in Africa for thousands of years. Two players move small stones or seeds around pits scooped out of a board. The goal is to get the most stones on your side of the board and in your Mancala cup. The trick is deciding which group of stones is best to move!

You will need:

• An empty egg carton


• 48 small stones, buttons, marbles, or beads


• 2 small cups (the Mancalas)

What to do:

• Use an egg carton and two shallow cups for the Mancala board and Mancalas. Each player owns the six pockets on one side of the egg carton and the Mancala cup placed to his or her right.


• Place four stones in each of the 12 pockets in the egg carton.


• Decide who will go first. The first player scoops up all the stones from one of his or her six pockets and drops them one by one in the pockets around the carton in an anticlockwise direction starting in the next pocket. If you reach your Mancala, drop a stone in it, but do not drop stones in your opponent’s Mancala.


• The players will take turns picking up all the stones from a pocket and moving them as described in step there, always taking from one of their own pockets. If the last stone in a turn is placed in the player’s own Mancla, the player gets another turn. If the last stone is placed in an empty cup on the player’s own side, he or she may take that stone and all the stones from the pocket directly opposite his or her own, if there are any, and put them in his or her own Mancala. The game ends when one player’s side is clear of stones.

You’re the winner if you have more stones in your pockets and Mancala than your opponent does.

 

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Derrah is a game like Noughts and Crosses and Go. It is a two-player game from North Africa and is easy to make and fun to play.

You will need:

• Card or paper


• Felt-tipped pen


• Small coin


• 12 matching seeds, stones, buttons, coins, paper, clips, or beads for each player

Be sure each players’ pieces are different. For example, use white seeds for one and black seeds for another, coins or different coloured buttons.

 

What to do:

• In Africa, Derrah is played on a wooden board with rows of little round holes, but you can make your own game board. Just trace around a small coin on the paper, drawing six rows of seven circles each. That’s 42 circles that form a rectangle.


• Decide who goes first. Then set all the pieces on the board, talking turns putting one piece at a time in any empty circle on the board. Only two pieces from the same player can be next to each other.


• Then take turns moving pieces one space left or right, up or down – but not diagonally. The object is to get three pieces in a row. Choose your moves carefully to try to prevent your opponent from getting three in a row.


• Each time you get three in a row, you can take one of your opponent’s pieces off the board.

The game ends when one player cannot make any more rows of three, or when all of a player’s pieces has been taken.

 

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Be prepared like the professionals! Take a look at the big, tough professional American football players. They always wear hard helmets and cover their bodies in safety padding. They are serious about playing it safe.

You should be, too.

Bicycle riding is fun for everyone, and everyone should wear a helmet when they ride.

On paved paths, people love to glide on in-line skates and surf on skateboards. Skates and skateboards require balance and speed. A sturdy helmet and a set of wrist, elbow, and knee-pads help keep you safe!

Hockey players of all ages know that helmets, mouth-guards, and padding are as important as skates and sticks.

The best surfers and divers have had many swimmers lessons. They know you have to be strong swimmer before you try anything fancy in the water.

In-line skating is a fun and active sport. Skaters should always wear protective clothes to keep safe.

Hockey is a fun, but fast, sport that should always be played wearing safety equipment.

 

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Do you like to compete? Are you ready to take on the world?

If you are, try the Olympic Games. In the Olympics, athletes representing countries around the world compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals. And the whole world watches.

Do you like archery, fencing, boxing, or rowing? The Olympics have a competition for you. Many sports are included in the Olympic Games. The Winter Olympic Games feature athletes who ski, sled, and skate. The Summer Olympic Games have swimmers, runners, cyclists, jumpers, and gymnasts.

In some sports, players compete in teams. In others, it’s you against your opponent. In some sports, you might race against the clock to beat the record. Ice skaters, divers, and gymnasts all perform before judges who rate their skills.

In sports, someone wins and someone loses. In the Olympic Games, a world-class skier or swimmer might win a medal by only 0.02 seconds! When you race, you might lose by a hair – or you might win.

Games help you learn to be a good sport – to do your best and enjoy playing, whether win or lose.

After an Olympic event, the top three players or teams are honored with a special ceremony and medals – gold, silver, and bronze.

The lighting of the Olympic flame is a tradition at the Olympic Games. It stands for spirit, knowledge, life, and peace.

You have to be very strong for the weightlifting competition. Some people lift more than 454 kilograms.

The Olympics have many track and field events. Some include running, but others involve jumping or throwing things.

Downhill skiing, or Alpine skiing, can have athletes hurtling down a mountain at speeds of about 97 kilometres per hour.

 

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People are crowding into the Olympic Stadium in Rome. Banners are flying. Flags are waving. Everyone is talking at once.

Th calico champions from Rome and Milan are about to meet. Calico is the Italian name for soccer. Every Sunday, from October to May, teams from big Italian cities play one another.

“Evviva!” (Hurrah!) A great roar echoes through the stadium as the game begins. Soccer is the favourite sport in Italy, and probably throughout the world. In many countries in Europe, South America, and Asia, soccer is the national game.

In Canada, ice hockey is the national sport. This game was first played on Canada’s frozen lakes and ponds. Now, hockey is popular in western Europe, Russia, the U.S.A., and Japan.

Cricket, the United Kingdom’s favourite summer sport, is also popular in Australia, the West Indies, and Pakistan.

Americans play all kinds of ball games, such as football, baseball, and basketball. American children love to roller-skate and ride bikes. In Japan, the favourites are volleyball, baseball, and table tennis. Very large wrestlers compete in sumo wrestling, another popular sport in Japan.

 

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Tired of the same old games of tag? Get some friends together and try these tag games from different countries.

Moon and Morning Stars

The game Moon and Morning Stars comes from Spain. The Moon stands in the shadow of a building or a large tree. He or she must stay in the shadow because the Moon belongs to the night. The other players – Morning Stars – dance in the sunlight but sometimes venture into the shadows and risk being caught. The first star caught becomes the next Moon.

Bow and Curtsy Tag

Try the game Bow and Curtsy Tag – from Sweden. Players stand in a circle, holding hands. The one who is “It” runs around the outside of the circle at least twice, then touches someone’s shoulder. The two then run around in opposite directions. When they meet, they stop and bow or curtsy three times. Then they race in opposite directions to take the vacant place in the circle. Whoever loses the race is “It” next time.

Mubwabwa (Antelope)

Here’s another fun game called Mubwabwa (Antelope) – from Brazzaville, in the Republic of the Congo. Play this game in the field or on a court with set boundaries. One person is the mubwanwa, or antelope. The mubwabwa tries to catch the others, yelling “Mubwabwa!” Each player who is caught yells “Mubwabwa!” too and helps catch the others. Anyone who goes out of bounds is considered caught. The last person caught is the winner.

 

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What do you like to do for fun? Do you like to swim, or ski, or camp? Do you like to read, or draw, or make things?

The ancient Greeks enjoyed running races and going to plays. The children of ancient Rome played blindman’s buff. The people of Greece and China have been flying kites for more than 2,000 years.

Today, people have fun doing all these things – and others too. People skateboard, ski, and snorkel. They watch their favourite sports teams play. They visit zoos, museums, and parks. They play thinking games, and they run, jump, and climb. It’s fun to exercise your mind and your body.

In the playground

Street games are fun! The names may change, but the games are pretty much the same on playgrounds, pavements and parks all over the world.

Do you play hopscotch? Children all over the world play it. In China, hopscotch is called Gat Fei Gei, which means “One-Foot Jumping Flying Machine”. In Italy, it’s called the Bell. In Austria, it’s the Temple. In Myanmar, children squat with hands on their hips as they jump the squares.

Hopscotch games come in all shapes and sizes. Some have 8 squares in a straight line. Others have as many as 20 squares in the shape of a snail’s shell.

Find me, catch me!

It’s Alfredo’s turn to be “blind hen”, Pedro ties a big, red handerchief over Alfredo’s eyes. Then Pedro, Inez, Maria and Juan form a circle around Alfredo. The four of them chant, “Blind hen, blind hen, what have you lost?”

“I’ve lost a thimble and a needle,” says Alfredo.

“Where have you lost them?” ask the others.

“In a haystack,” says Alfredo.

Inez turns Alfredo around three times and steps back. Now the children run up to Alfredo and tease, “Blind hen, blind hen”.

Alfredo tries to catch then. But he is confused from being turned around and blindfolded. The children dart away whenever Alfredo’s handfs come close. Then Juan gets careless – and he is caught. Now it is Juna’s turn to be “blind hen.”

Alfredo and his friends live in Peru. But “find me, catch me” ggames like blind hen are played all over the world.

Children in Rome played this game about 2,000 years ago. They called it murinda. Nowadays, children in Italy call it mosca cieca, “blind fly”. In China, it’s tsoo, tsoo. In Germany, it’s blindekuh. And in the United Kingdom, children call it blindman’s buff. What do you call it?

Many kinds of games have one person chasing and catching the others.

Quick hands, quick eyes

In the U.S.A., a game called jacks requires quick hands and eyes. Jacks, small metal or plastic pieces, are placed on the floor. A player tries to pick up one or more jacks after tossing, but before catching, a small ball.

Filipino children call the game siklot. In India, it is called guttak. Instead of jacks, Indian players use small stones.

Can you crisscross a string into a cat’s cradle? Quick fingers can, in seconds. Within a few more seconds, they can cross the strings again, and another shape appears.

Children everywhere play marbles. In some countries, children play a marbles game called ringer. Players use a big marble called a shooter to knock smaller marbles out of a ring.

Pick up sticks is another world favourite. To play, you toss down a fistful of sticks or straws. Then you try to pick up the sticks one by one, without moving any of the others.

Who’s first?

Ziggeddy, ziggeddy,

Marble stone,

Pointer, pointer, bouff!

Kisskillindy, kisskilindy,

Pa...Pa...poriff!

That’s the rhyme you use to choose who will be “It” in Trinidad, an island in the West Indies. Everyone puts a hand into the circle, and one child says the rhyme while tapping everyone’s hand. The child touched on the last word is “It”.

Almost every game starts with deciding who goes first. Is it the oldest person, the shortest, or the one with the longest hair? Or do you count around a circle saying “Eeeny, meeny, miny, moe” or “”One potato, two potato, three potato, four...”?

In Cuba, it’s:

Little white dove,

Tell me the truth,

Is it this, or this,

Or this, forsooth?

In many Western countries, China, and Japan, children often use the game called Paper, Scissors, Rock to decide who goes first. Each player makes a fist. On the count of three, the players throw their fists open, each showing one of the three items. A flat palm is paper. Two fingers are scissors. A fist is a rock.

Who wins? Rock beats scissors, by crushing them. Scissors beat paper, by cutting it. Paper beats rock, by covering it.

In Indonesia, the game is called Elephant, Man and Ant. The thumb is an elephant, the first finger is a man, and the little finger is an ant. The elephant can step on the man. The man can scoop up the ant. And the ant can beat the elephant by running up his trunk and tickling him.

 

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The first references of Kalaripayattu can be proved by the mention in Sangam literature era 300 BC. But, Kalari was first officially recognised as a martial art of Kerala in 1362 AD.

Sage Agastya is considered to be the creator of Kalaripayattu. Speculated to have lived sometime around 15,000 BCE, Agastya is one of the ancient saptarshis, a revered Vedic sage. He is considered to have fathered the ancient form of warfare which is speculated to be either a direct translation or parent form of Kalaripayattu. From this account, there seems to be no doubt that Kalaripayattu is the oldest art form of war. The word kalaripayattu is a combination of two words, namely, ‘kalari’ and ‘payattu’ which mean training ground and fight.

During its peak, kalaripayattu was used as a code of combat by Indian dynasties. Kalaripayattu reach its zenith during the years of war between the Cholas, Pandyas and Cheras. The constant fighting between the states helped fighters in refining the art into a martial art form.

Many movements and postures in Kalaripayattu are believed to be inspired by the raw strength of animals and are also named after them. There is a strong belief that this art was developed in the forests when hunters had observed the fighting techniques of different animals.

In 5th century, a Buddhist monk Bodhidharma took Kalaripayattu from India to China, Kalaripayattu is also the predecessor of Chinese martial arts. Once it was brought to China, practitioners of Kalaripayattu merged it with existing forms.

 

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Rubik's Cube

Don't have a Rubik's Cube at home, but have always wanted to try your hand at solving it? Then look no further than the Internet. Type out Rubik's Cube Google Doodle in the search bar and hit enter. You will find a link to the game right at the beginning of the search results page. The doodle was a tribute to Hungarian inventor and Professor of Architecture Emo Rubik.

The game is as simple as it gets. You have a 3x3 Rubik's Cube whose rows and columns you have to move around to ensure that each of the six colours on the cube forms a 3x3 grid on each side of the cube. Simply put all the nine green coloured squares need to be on one side of the cube and this is the same with the rest of the colours on the cube. If you manage to achieve this, then you're a Rubik's Cube master.

Crossword

If you are a crossword enthusiast, there's a Google Doodle to satisfy your love for the puzzle. To mark the 100th anniversary of the crossword puzzle on December 21, 2013, Google collaborated with a crossword constructor to come up with an interactive crosswords doodle.

Just head to the Google search bar and type out Crossword Google Doodle' and you will find the link. Once you begin the game, you will realise it is just like any other crossword puzzle. Clues are given on the right side. When you click a clue, the relevant portion on the grid will get highlighted and you can key in the solution.

If you think the clues are a little difficult, take your parents help. Or else, you can always Google and find the answers

Magic Cat Academy

This is a fun and exciting Google Doodle game created by Google to mark Halloween on October 31, 2016. Just key in Magic Cat Academy Google Doodle and a link to the doodle will appear

The premise and the rules of the game are explained at the start. In this game, you are a wizard cat and the ghosts have taken over the Magic Cat Academy where you study. You need to fight and kill them to get your academy back. There are a total of five levels in the gameplay. To kill the ghosts at each level, you will have to draw the symbol appearing above each ghost's head. Sometimes, you will have to draw a combination of symbols. At the end of each level, you will face a powerful ghost to kill whom a long combination of symbols needs to be drawn multiple times. Once you do so, you will move on to the next level. You have five chances to stay in the game and win. To improve your chances, sometimes a special power with a heart symbol on top will appear. If you draw the symbol, you will get an extra chance.

 

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