While no one would want to play these games again in a Squid Game-like scenario, it’s not a bad idea to just meet our friends one day and play these games and relive those golden days of childhood. It’s a classic game that we have all played as kids when we had a lot of time to pass. One of the players has to take his/her index finger and put it inside the hole formed by the tower of fists. In this simple game, a group of children sit cross-legged in a circle and put their fists one on top of another. While Ludo is an amazing game, especially on the board, it might be worthwhile to give Ashta Chamma a chance. But the game strongly differs from Ludo in strategies and tactics used to win it.

Called Ashta Chamma, this game has the same objective as that of Ludo – to roll the dice and take your pawns home step-by-step. While we love playing Ludo today on our phones, we used to play a different version of it back in the day. The one variant that is played by the majority though is where each player has 10 marbles and the objective is to win your opponents’ marbles by hitting them with your marbles. And much like the participants of Squid Game, children can choose which game to play with their marbles. Much like Squid Game, the people of Vizag also have a history of playing with marbles. This childhood game is not limited to Vizag, being one of the most popular children’s games in the world. Then, that player has to find and tag all the other players. In another version of this game, one player is chosen to close their eyes and count up to a specified number. The blindfolded player has to tag as many people as they can. In this game, one person is blindfolded and the rest around him/her. One game that we have all played as a kid. #4 Hide and Seek (Dagudumootala Dandakor in Telugu) It has been extremely popular as a children’s game in Vizag since the 1960s. The player who loses their pillar becomes the next catcher. The one remaining player is the catcher who has to steal a pillar while the other players are moving from one pillar to another. Four of these players stand at each corner of the room, which is considered a pillar. This traditional game requires five players and can be played within a room. #3 Four Pillars (Nalugu Stambalata in Telugu)

If he/she manages to catch a player, then, that person becomes the catcher for the next round of this game. Then, the catcher should catch the other players when in his/her area and should not leave this area. Ashtachamma A traditional board game from the modern day Ludo.Played by up to four players and is appropriate for any age above five years.If you have had the good fortune of spending lazy summer and winter vacations in your grandparents’ home, this game surely must have been a part of your childhood.Our endeavour here is to revive those memories and help you create new ones with your own. One person is chosen as the catcher who either picks ‘Nela’ or ‘Banda’ and the remaining players stand in the other area. All we needed was an area with varying levels of height. This is a childhood game we used to love playing because we could play it anywhere. If the player manages to do this successfully, then, they can move on to the next box or else they need to start over. Then, as the name of the game suggests, we hop from one box to another across the hopscotch board and then back to reach the box where the stone has fallen. We pick a stone or a coin and throw it on the first box. All we need is a piece of chalk which we use to draw up boxes on the floor and number them. We all have played this game at some point in our childhood. This game is the famous and addictive Indian version of Ludo.Īshta Chamma is called by various names in different regions.This one is a classic. The game finishes when a player's token manages to get into the home square. When a token reaches the outer square left of its starting square it further moves up into the inner squares and now moves in clockwise direction. Player gets an extra turn to play when the dice result is 1 or 6. However killing is not possible while the token is in a safe or cross marked square. The killed token returns to its starting square and has to go round all over again. If a player's token lands on a square occupied by an opponent's token then the opponent's token is killed and the player gets an extra turn to play. The tokens travel anti-clockwise in outer squares, clockwise in inner squares, and finally land up in home square. The tokens enter the board only when the dice result is 1. In Ashta Chamma game the movement of tokens is controlled by throw of a dice.

Traditional ashta chamma game