Games from Around the World. Here's a dectet of strategy games from around the world for you to play over the 'Olympic' summer when athletes from many nations will be gathering in London for the 2012 Olympics.
Try playing outdoors - at the park, on the beach, in the garden - and use stones, pebbles, shells or acorns for 'counters'. See if you can find a winning strategy - see if you an become the Achi champion, for example, amongst your family and friends. Each game is great for developing 'gold-medal' strategic thinking muscles -enjoy! Achi Stage: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 This game for two players comes from Ghana. Two Stones This game is known as Pong hau k'i in China and Ou-moul-ko-no in Korea. Sz'kwa This Chinese game for two players is a simple version of Wei ch'i or Go. Mulinello Quadrupio A game from Italy. Pumpkin Patch A game for two players based on a game from the Somali people of Africa. Mu Torere Try playing this game from New Zealand at the beach by drawing the board in the sand.
Seega Alquerque Oware. Olympic Rings. Olympic Magic. Can You Do it Too? Here are some pictures of people throwing things in Olympic events.
The first one shows a man throwing a hammer and the second shows a man throwing a discus. They can throw them a long way. A recent Olympic record for throwing the hammer was about 80 adult paces and for throwing the discus was about 70 adult paces. How far can you throw a beanbag? Can you throw a beanbag 70 paces? Can you throw a beanbag 80 paces? Photograph acknowledgements. Olympic Logic. These four problems require some logical thinking and a willingness to work systematically.
Can you deduce the missing information in each sporty situation? Perhaps you might develop techniques in one that will help you to solve another. 1. Medals Count Given the following clues, can you work out the number of gold, silver and bronze medals that France, Italy and Japan got in this international sports competition? Japan has 1 more gold medal, but 3 fewer silver medals, than Italy.France has the most bronze medals (18), but fewest gold medals (7).Each country has at least 6 medals of each type.Italy has 27 medals in total.Italy has 2 more bronze medals than gold medals.The three countries have 38 bronze medals in total.France has twice as many silver medals as Italy has gold medals. 2.
Three teams A, B and C have each played two matches. Three points are given for a win and one point to each team for a draw. Fill in the table and find the scores in each match. Now and Then. Olympic Turns. Olympic Starters. This is the start of the 100 metres in 1896.
In that year Thomas Burke from the USA won the race in 12 seconds. I wonder how far you could run in 12 seconds. You and your friends could use a stop watch and then measure how far you ran. This is the finish of the 200 metres in 1924. Jackson Scholz from USA won that race in just over 21 seconds. I wonder if you could run the 100 metres in that time? Or you could see how far you could run in 22 seconds. This is the high jump in 1906. He jumped 1 metre 56 centimetres. How high can you jump? See how high 1 metre 56 centimetres is. Can you find someone who can jump that high? This is the triple jump, which is a hop, step and jump.