A Che Che Sih Hlawk Ah – Mizoram

Play Materials: None

Playing Method

This game is a fun generating game played by the children in the age group of 6-8 years. There is no fixed number of players, but more players are more fun.

One of the children stands back facing the other children who have to stand at a distance approximately 50-70 meters. Once the play starts, the child has to take a turn towards the children saying Around London.

The other children need to stand being a statue. As long as the child is looking at them the children have to stand without moving. If any child moves then he/she will be out of the game. After some time the child needs to turn back as before. As soon as the child turns back children in the group need to come forward. The child again has to take a turn saying Around the London as before and the other children have to become statue. In this way the game continues.

The child needs to try to make as many children as he/ she can by catching him/her in movement and the children in the group too need to try to not getting caught by the child while in movement.

The entire act needs to be fast. If any of the children is caught when in movement, then that child has to replace the child who was trying to make children out and has to play the way the former one played.

On the other hand, if any of the children can come to the child and touch him/her, then the child is considered successful/pass and he/she has to stay aside. The game continues with the other children as before and generally till all the children pass or out

Around the London– Arunachal Pradesh

Variations

The game remains same in Mizoram, but only difference is that instead of Around the London, the child has to say the following rhyming lines –

A che che sih hlawk ah (The one who moves will be punished, either by pinching or stretching the ear). A nui nui banah (The one who laughs will be punished). A tawng tawng tawng tai ah(The one who talks will be punished)