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  • [ASCII Ask] What "sport" is this?

    From xwindows@xwindows@tilde.club to tilde.art.ascii on Fri Nov 8 20:08:24 2024
    (This post is not related to ASCII Of? [1] netnews game)

    Hello everyone,

    I have been wondering for a long time now,
    about some kind of children sport or physical game
    that would comprise in a long grid with numbers
    written (usually by chalk) on the floor;
    then player would jump into it,
    and then hop between cells with different number.
    Not sure what the actual rules was.

    The grid would look like this from above:


    _-_
    /' 6 `\
    ,---.---.
    | 4 | 5 |
    |___|___|
    | |
    | 3 |
    +---+
    | 2 |
    |___|
    | |
    | 1 |
    '---'


    (In case the drawing wasn't clear enough,
    I also have a screencap [2] from one of the films
    that I have spotted this)

    This sport/game might be originated from the west,
    and I have seen this kind of grid-on-the-floor from several films;
    but couldn't figure out what on earth that sport was.
    Do anyone here know what this sport actually is?

    Regards,
    ~xwindows


    [1] "ASCII Of?" [2021-07-14T08:22:37Z] <news:b5618b23-9af8-400e-a520-950437c740d7@tilde.club> <nntp://news.tilde.club/tilde.art.ascii/39>

    [2]
    <https://tilde.club/~xwindows/temp/2024-11-08/002036.jpg>
    Captured from "Fantasia 2000", segment "Rhapsody in Blue";
    special edition DVD, 00:20:36 into the film.
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  • From Patricia Ferreira@pferreira@example.com to tilde.art.ascii on Fri Nov 8 11:32:37 2024
    xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> writes:

    Hi, xwindows!

    (This post is not related to ASCII Of? [1] netnews game)

    Hello everyone,

    I have been wondering for a long time now, about some kind of children
    sport or physical game that would comprise in a long grid with numbers written (usually by chalk) on the floor; then player would jump into
    it, and then hop between cells with different number.
    Not sure what the actual rules was.

    In the US, this game is called Hopscotch. You'll find the rules at

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch

    It's a lot of fun. I don't really see kids playing such games any more.
    I bet they don't think it's fun.
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.art.ascii on Fri Nov 8 15:15:31 2024
    DE: Himmel und Hölle (Heaven and Hell)
    <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmel_und_H%C3%B6lle_(H%C3%BCpfspiel)>

    EN: Hopscotch
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch>

    I saw it a lot in my childhood[0], but never got the rules explained and
    I only remember girls playing this. It did not even look interesting to
    watch others jump by the rules I did not understand. Seems it did not
    harm to grow up without it!

    Don't tell me *now* I was missing something very important.
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.art.ascii on Fri Nov 8 15:20:15 2024
    Eeeeek... forgot the footnote...

    ____________

    0: The days where phones were rare and the world was B&W[1].

    1: At least in the TVs that were even more rare than phones, but not
    only because of being built with tubes, they where the hot thing to
    have those days.
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  • From Patricia Ferreira@pferreira@example.com to tilde.art.ascii on Fri Nov 8 15:47:44 2024
    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

    DE: Himmel und Hölle (Heaven and Hell)
    <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmel_und_H%C3%B6lle_(H%C3%BCpfspiel)>

    EN: Hopscotch
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch>

    I saw it a lot in my childhood[0], but never got the rules explained and
    I only remember girls playing this. It did not even look interesting to watch others jump by the rules I did not understand. Seems it did not
    harm to grow up without it!

    Don't tell me *now* I was missing something very important.

    LOL!
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  • From ~rdh@rdh@tilde.institute to tilde.art.ascii on Wed Apr 8 05:05:19 2026
    On 2024-11-08, Patricia Ferreira <pferreira@example.com> wrote:
    It's a lot of fun. I don't really see kids playing such games any more.
    I bet they don't think it's fun.

    I don't see kids playing it a bunch outside--but I don't really see
    kids playing outside at all anymore. That said, at the local children's
    museum (Which is not so much a museum as an expensive indoor play-
    place) there is a hopscotch carpet, and when I take my kids there,
    not only do we have to play, we sometimes have to *wait* for the
    kids who are already playing. I think the real difference is that
    kids just don't play in the street as much anymore.
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