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Twelve traditional games documented by the consortium, each one ready to play inclusively.

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  • Young adults of diverse ethnicities and genders, including a wheelchair user, gathering wooden corn cobs into a wicker basket during a traditional Basque game in a village square in the Basque Country.

    Lokotxak

    Cob Gathering

    A Basque rural sport in which a single player collects twenty-five wooden cobs, one by one, and carries each of them back to a basket. It measures endurance, rhythm and concentration rather than raw strength.

    • Spain
    • Sport
    • Medium
  • Young adults of diverse ethnicities and genders, including a wheelchair user, gathering wooden corn cobs into a wicker basket during a traditional Basque game in a village square in the Basque Country.

    Carrera de caracoles

    Snail Race

    A calm skill game: each player winds a string around a wooden spool, and as the string shortens their wooden snail crawls forward towards the finish line. Speed comes from steady, coordinated winding, not from strength.

    • Spain
    • Game
    • Low
  • Young adults of diverse ethnicities and genders, including a wheelchair user, gathering wooden corn cobs into a wicker basket during a traditional Basque game in a village square in the Basque Country.

    La rana

    The Frog (Target Toss)

    A precision throwing game: players stand behind a line and throw discs or small balls at a table-like structure, aiming above all for the mouth of the metal frog, which scores highest.

    • Spain
    • Game
    • Low
  • Young adults of diverse ethnicities and genders, including a wheelchair user, gathering wooden corn cobs into a wicker basket during a traditional Basque game in a village square in the Basque Country.

    Arrantza Jokoa / Juego de la pesca

    Fishing Game

    A calm dexterity game in which players use small rods to hook wooden sea animals and lift them out of the play area, alone or in teams, against the clock.

    • Spain
    • Game
    • Low
  • Two lines of diverse young people facing each other in a Turkish town square while one player sprints to snatch a handkerchief held by a referee, watched by seated neighbours of all ages.

    Mendil Kapmaca

    Handkerchief Snatch

    Two teams line up facing each other and each player is given a number. A referee stands in the middle holding a handkerchief; when a number is called, the two players with that number sprint for the handkerchief and try to get it home without being tagged.

    • Türkiye
    • Game
    • Medium
  • Two lines of diverse young people facing each other in a Turkish town square while one player sprints to snatch a handkerchief held by a referee, watched by seated neighbours of all ages.

    Kaleli Yakan Top

    Dodgeball with a Goal

    A team version of Turkish "burn ball": the field is divided by a centre line, each team stays in its half, passes among its own players and tries to hit opponents with the ball, either directly or after a bounce, depending on the agreed rule.

    • Türkiye
    • Game
    • Medium
  • Two lines of diverse young people facing each other in a Turkish town square while one player sprints to snatch a handkerchief held by a referee, watched by seated neighbours of all ages.

    Aşık Çıkarma

    Knucklebones

    A precision game of Anatolian origin: each player places a knucklebone on a line inside a drawn circle, and from a throwing line five metres away players throw a stick to knock the bones out of the circle.

    • Türkiye
    • Game
    • Medium
  • Two lines of diverse young people facing each other in a Turkish town square while one player sprints to snatch a handkerchief held by a referee, watched by seated neighbours of all ages.

    Dokuz Kiremit

    9 Tiles

    A two-phase team game: a stack of nine tiles is knocked down with a ball, and the real game begins afterwards, when one team tries to rebuild the stack while the other tries to hit them with the ball.

    • Türkiye
    • Game
    • Medium
  • Diverse young people playing hopscotch chalked on the pavement and jumping rope together in a brick courtyard in Kraków, with a wooden palant bat leaning against the wall.

    Palant

    Polish traditional bat-and-ball game

    A historic Polish bat-and-ball team game: the batting team hits the ball into the field and runs between marked points, while the fielding team recovers the ball and tries to stop them. It is one of the European ancestors of baseball and cricket.

    • Poland
    • Sport
    • Medium
  • Diverse young people playing hopscotch chalked on the pavement and jumping rope together in a brick courtyard in Kraków, with a wooden palant bat leaning against the wall.

    Gra w kule

    Target Ball Game

    A precision game in which players roll or throw their balls trying to finish as close as possible to a small target marker. Simple to explain, endlessly repeatable, and playable almost anywhere.

    • Poland
    • Game
    • Medium
  • Diverse young people playing hopscotch chalked on the pavement and jumping rope together in a brick courtyard in Kraków, with a wooden palant bat leaning against the wall.

    Gra w klasy

    Hopscotch (various variants)

    Players throw a marker into a numbered square drawn on the ground and travel through the grid according to the rules of the chosen variant, hopping, stepping or moving without touching the lines.

    • Poland
    • Game
    • Medium
  • Diverse young people playing hopscotch chalked on the pavement and jumping rope together in a brick courtyard in Kraków, with a wooden palant bat leaning against the wall.

    Skakanka

    Jump Rope (various variants)

    Rhythmic jumping over a rope, alone or in a group, from single basic jumps to long-rope routines with several jumpers, counting rhymes and coordinated entries and exits.

    • Poland
    • Game
    • Medium