Pitthu
When you set your feet on the field to play ‘pitthu’ remember to use only a tennis ball. It is light and safe.
All you need is:
1.A ball
2.Seven flat pieces of stones – leftover pieces of marble and granite are great, so scout around a house being constructed.
How to play:
- This game has to be played outdoors. Divide the children into two teams.
- Pile up seven stones with the largest at the bottom and the smallest on top. Have one person from team A hit the pile with the ball from a distance of approximately four metres. The other members of team A have to scatter on the field.Just as in cricket, there is a wicket keeper-like figure from team B, who stands behind the pitthu or the stone pyramid to catch the ball. The other members of team B position themselves around the pitthu.
- Each player gets three turns to break the pitthu.
- As soon as the player hits and breaks the pitthu, the actual game begins.This is when team A tries to rebuild the pitthu and team B stops them from doing so, by hitting them with the ball.
- The player gets out if the ball touches him/her, but if he/she succeeds in making the pitthu first, the team gets a point.
In this way the game continues till all the children have got their turns to hit the pitthu. The team that makes more pitthus is the winner.
Lagori, dikori or lagoori, also known as Lingocha,Pithu(Punjabi), Palli Patti(Karimnagar),Pitto(Rajasthan), Pittu (Bengal) or Satoliya (madhya pradesh ) is a game in India involving a ball and a pile of flat stones, generally played between two teams in a large outdoor area. A member of one team (the seekers) throws a tennis ball at a pile of stones to knock them over. The seekers then try to restore the pile of stones while the opposing team (the hitters) throws the ball at them. If the ball touches a seeker, he is out and his team continues without him. A seeker can always safeguard himself by touching an opposite team member before the ball hits him.