Traditional handgames is played with bones and sticks. 22 sticks that are split evenly between two teams, 4 bones are played with, and 2 are marked and 2 are clear. The way to play is to follow the objectives, which are to get all the sticks on your teams’ side to win. How to get the bones to your teams’ side is to have the other team guess the two marked and clear bone. If the opposing team guesses a clear bone, one of their sticks goes to your team’s side. The objective is to let them guess the clear bone so they can lose. If they guess the marked bone, the opposing team gets one of the bone sets. The four bones are split up, one clear and marked bone have to be together for the game to play. The objective of the game is very standard, and the game is played with limitless players. The amount of players that can join and play is up to the captain. Sometimes the game is played for fun and many players can play or just a few, maybe even have a one on one. Handgames is fun to learn and play.
Handgames is for all ages, the game is taught to have fun and meet some people. Handgames is played in different areas of age. Reservation schools in South Dakota: Elementary, High Schools and Colleges all play handgames. Elementary and High School play handgames at the “Teca Wacipi Okolakeciye” and they have rules to play by. “The rules are if both sets of marked bones are guessed correctly, they must be forfeited to the guessing team. If both sets of marked bones are missed or guessed incorrectly, the guessing team must forfeit two sticks to the hider’s team.” (White Eyes, LNI, 2017) “If one set of marked bones is guessed and the other set is missed, the one who is missed hides the bones again the guesser forfeits one stick to the opposing team. The one who is guessed will hold and be in a stay if the 2nd guess is missed then both bones come back into play the guesser forfeits one stick to the opposing team if the 2nd guess is correctly guessed then the hiders forfeit the bones to the guessers. There are no live and dead sticks in Lakota Style A team must win all sixteen sticks to be declared the winner.” (White Eyes, LNI, 2017)
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