Do you know what this is?
By JB_girl
@sol_cee (38902)
Philippines
February 14, 2023 6:12pm CST
My mother and sister don't have a car, so last Sunday I picked them up and took them to the newly opened playground park in our city.
Well, it actually opened a few months ago, but our schedules never seemed to match. Finally, we all agreed on a day to go.
My nephews and niece were so happy when they saw the colorful playground. Their excitement was contagious! Even the adults - including me - ended up trying the swings, the seesaw, and even the monkey bars.
The playground is near the new coastal road, so we could smell the fresh salty air, and the light breeze was so refreshing. It wasn't too hot, and it didn't rain.
Thank you, weather gods, for cooperating!
The photo above shows a piko court. I Googled it, and apparently it's called hopscotch in English, although I'm not entirely sure if that's the exact equivalent.
Seeing it brought back so many memories. My sister and I used to play piko all the time, and we would fight tooth and nail to win as many "homes" as possible. 
Sadly, I don't see many kids playing it these days.
How do you call this game in your country? Did you ever play it?
Sadly, I don't see many kids playing it these days.
How do you call this game in your country? Did you ever play it?30 people like this
29 responses
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Feb 23
That´s exactly how we made it. We stole bits of chalk from the classroom to draw them.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Feb 23
We also drew it with chalk stolen from our classroom.
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@sol_cee (38902)
• Philippines
15 Feb 23
@marguicha we used pointed sticks to draw the ‘flag’ on the soill/ground. Not so many cemented/paved roads back then and we would get really dirty when we got back home.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Feb 23
I saw it and the name I knew is hopscotch. In Spanish it is called Luche in my country and in others Rayuela
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@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
15 Feb 23
Yes, it is piko.. But I haven't played that when I was young... We played patintero and chinese garter... But I get tired easily because I was fat then hihihi Until now... =)
I think this was posted twice?
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@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
15 Feb 23
@sol_cee No, usually I was just a saling pusa or part of the cheering squad.. Hihihi
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@sol_cee (38902)
• Philippines
15 Feb 23
@brokenbee were you the cheerleader with the most difficult routine? Loll
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@rsa101 (41255)
• Philippines
15 Feb 23
I can now see that I never mastered the game, but I did observe others play, which explains why I truly had no idea how to play it or what the rules were. Simply jumping here and there while a stone is being tossed there is what I enjoy seeing.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
15 Feb 23
Yes I used to play hopscotch. It was one of my favorite games as a child, that and double dutch skip rope.
This playground sounds so amazing and right by the sea air I would love it
This playground sounds so amazing and right by the sea air I would love it2 people like this
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
15 Feb 23
@sol_cee Oh you live in a most blessed place solcee
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@DaddyEvil (175023)
• United States
15 Feb 23
We played hopscotch when I was in grade school but I haven't seen anyone playing it in years. Pretty hated the game when she was little.
I'm glad you all had a good time at the new-ish park.
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@DaddyEvil (175023)
• United States
15 Feb 23
@sol_cee I don't know. I never asked her. As far as I can remember, she preferred playing kickball and jump rope over anything else.
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@sol_cee (38902)
• Philippines
15 Feb 23
@DaddyEvil she likes more physical games
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@aninditasen (18203)
• Raurkela, India
15 Feb 23
I don't know about this game. I played, ludo, snake ladder and so on.
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@sol_cee (38902)
• Philippines
17 Feb 23
@aninditasen thank you for explaining. You seem to like board games
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@aninditasen (18203)
• Raurkela, India
16 Feb 23
@sol_cee It is a board with squares of four colours. You choose your own colour and throw the dice. If the dice shows 6 the game starts for you. You have to gradually move through the house boxes to reach a square called home.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
15 Feb 23
@sol_cee
I remember it for being hopscotch when I was growing up in the States and I believe I did play it. I came to live in Israel as an adult and have seen kids playing that and jump rope too. In Hebrew this is what it is: ???? which is hopscotch in English.
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@astutimeliana723 (4686)
• Indonesia
15 Feb 23
A little like a game that in Indonesia is usually called "Sundamanda". Yes, I used to play it when I was little with my friends, plane sundamanda and mountain sundamanda.
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@astutimeliana723 (4686)
• Indonesia
15 Feb 23
@sol_cee What's yours we don't have it here. lol
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Feb 23
As others have already said - hopscotch - but the one in your photo is different from the version I grew up with it (more like the ones in the comments - just the squares). I've seen kids play it at school, but I don't see kids drawing that on sidewalks or at the parks anymore. That used to be so much fun!!
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! I remember some friends made the lines/boxes crooked 
.@sol_cee (38902)
• Philippines
15 Feb 23
My photo shows our version and if you’re familiar with the Philippine flag, you’ll see the similarity. That’s why we call it piko flag. I would always be the one assigned to draw the flag using pointed sticks on the ground because my lines were so defined lol at least that was my playmates told me before (or maybe it was their ploy to make me do it? 
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@moffittjc (128909)
• Gainesville, Florida
16 Feb 23
Hopscotch!!! We used to draw out the layout with chalk on asphalt streets or on concrete.
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@moffittjc (128909)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Feb 23
@sol_cee Haha I wish. The girls were always so much better at it than the boys.
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Feb 23
I know about hopscotch and may have played it once or twice when I was a kid,
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Feb 23
@sol_cee I don' recall that. We probably didn't take it too seriously.
