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Portuguese traditional games

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Thegame, in its broadest definition, is a kind of convention, where thefitness, design, or both, as the diversity of games, determine the gainor loss between two or more people. Traditional games are marks of physical activity of a society or a social group. Theyare made by its practitioners from the register of older, predominantlytransmitted in oral form within a generation and from generation togeneration, and adapt to the characteristics of the practice.


There are a variety of traditional games, which can be divided into several categories.
Games combination or strategy, such as dominoes, chess and checkers, as the company
"Blind man's buff" or "hidden", and games of skill as the nail, the top or the "five stones", are just some examples.
Thereare games with many variations (in Portugal are registered more thanfifty variants of the game loop, for example), and games typical ofregions such as the frog and the pool at the villa. Alsothere are universal standards Entertainer - the blind man's buff wasalready being practiced by the Romans in the third century b.C. and thegame of marbles is also, for example, in France (Bill) in Brazil(shuttle, marble) or in Germany (klick).

But traditional games do not feed the consumerism, because practitioners can make their own objects. They are part of the living population and school children develop and occupy the leisure time of adults. And among such a large field of choice, each one is always a game like that.
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