Filipino Games

Filipino games? oh I would never run out of topics on this one. Well, I grew up from the province, and so games are everywhere. My neighbors and I use to play house pretend (bahay bahayan). We actually cook rice sometimes and buy salted egg and boil leafy vegetables (like sweet potato tops or talbos ng amote). We use tree leaves and pretend it was real money. We also play hide and seek. Our plaza is just near the house, so we play there often. We also play patintero even at nights, sometimes our sessions ends at midnight. Childhood plays are very fun. Oh I also love playing indoor games. when I was in high school my friends and I play jack and stones during our breaks. we also like playing sungka. Those wer the days that we feel so free and we really did have a lot of fun. very nice topic my friend.

i really love the patintero and taguan, hmmm. after reading your discussion i just felt missing my childhood friends, i used to play with them, too bad some of them have their own families already and they live in the city already. I wish the time would come back, i love the old games more than now...

hi red_amethyst! we loved playing patintero too! even if its hot and sunny and dusty outside, we would play the game. we'd bring water from the "poso" and make the pattern with it in the soil. we also played "moro-moro", i think that's "agawan-base" in your place. and yes, the hide and sick is popular everywhere! we'd play that game too at night with a full moon. ^__^ we'd also play Chinese garter, and all those games that uses garter or rubber bands tied together. and then jumping rope, "saksak-puso" and all those games of it. also, kick ball which sometimes turns to be so physical that we'd hurt each other if we throw the ball at our opponent. ^__^;; indoor games would include jackstone, paper dolls, "lutu-lutuan", we'd play with candy wrappers as if they were money, and a lot more. my favorites would be kick ball, jumping rope, Chinese garter, jackstone and paper dolls. i excel in all those games.

Hi there, I play a lot outside the house when I was a child! I like foot ball, hide and seek, Chinese garter and patintero, tumbang preso and syatong if I'm right! (don't know how to call these games in English). But indoor games I like jackstone also. Happy mylotting.

I don't play indoor games when I was a kid. I love to run around with my neighbors, play patintero, bato-lata, shatong, hide and seek and many many more. What I remember most of my childhood is that I am a very fast runner. I was once chased by a very bad dog.

I remember my childhood.Am always playing patintero and agawan based.I love seeing my kids playing this games too.This games are so really fun.Sometimes if we are on beach,me and my family plays the patintero game

Yeah I remember those days when there were no PSPs and gameboys around we tedn to play more outside than today. I am just sad that these games are not as popular as before. It has been replaced by these electronic ones which tends to make children confined but less physical which I think they need while they are growing up.

i have played so many games when i was a kid.. i like playing chinese garter, tumbang preso, taguan and sungka...i missed all of those.

chatto.... did i spelled it right. then i still played patintero when i was teen. specially when it is brown out and my barkadas are all at our house. my mom get angry kasi ang ingay daw namin. sungka also is one and chinese jackstone. then we get to a more higher games like games of the general and scrabble. i tried to play trumpo but i think it is a game for guys kasi hindi ko talaga gets.

Hi! I love the "luksong tinik" and "taguan" the most! I miss these Filipino games that I used to play when I was in the elementary grades. My mom would allow us to play outside for about two hours after school. I used to play with the neighbors' kids. It was so much fun! Notwithstanding the "bungang araw" and the "libag" that went with these games. Hahaha. Happy myLotting!

Hi there Red Amethyst! I miss playing "patintero" the most. I remember when I was in elementary and high school, we would play that in the afternoon in front of our house. My friends and I can play for hours. It's really fun. I miss playing it and I miss my friends too.

When we were kids we used to play taguan, piko, bagol, sungka, chinese garter, and patintero. We also played aircraft cards, whirling balls on our ankles, jackstone and those small pouches with sand or small stones inside, we play them like jackstone. Those were childhood days and I missed them. I wish I could get back time. Have a nice day!

i remember playing sungka a lot, we used these little spiral shells (like the dall's top on animal crossing) called "batad." i also loved playing jacks and this game we called "sua pao" which other people call chinese jack stone. actually "sua pao" literally means sand bag, but we fill ours with mongo seeds.

uuhh..reading your discussion makes me wanted to go back to my childhood days.anyway, way back then, I am so good at "jackstone", "10-20", hide and seek, and we also play teacher and students at that time. and I am often the teacher... I miss my childhood playmates. if only I could go back into their place, we will all play all day long.

i'm not famaliar w/your games, sorry. we played monopoly, cards ut really did not play any inside games much. we stayed outside weather permitting most of the time.

I love to play taguan because I love hiding in the most unlikely places. It is really very exciting the moment that the "it" comes searching for the other people as I make my way to the base and be safe from becoming the it. Well I could still play it yes but I don't think I'll be able to hide myself that well now.

I remember my childhood,i use to play taguan and agawan base with my playmates in the province.Childhood memories makes me laugh and remembering friends.I have a friend here on mylot that can relate our childhood games in the province.