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Hand games are activities played using the hands as the primary instruments, typically involving coordination, rhythm, or competition between participants.
Children's hand games include clapping patterns like patty-cake and rock-paper-scissors, while adult versions encompass gambling games and traditional Indigenous contests of skill and endurance.
The term also covers solo dexterity activities like cat's cradle with string.
We played hand games at recess until the bell rang.
- thumb warPinning game using fingers
- thumb wrestlingGrip-based finger competition
- cat's cradleString figure between fingers
- patty-cakeRhythmic hand-clapping game
- jacksChildren's ball-and-pieces game
chopsticks · knucklebones · concentration game · mercy · action songs · handsies · slapsies · secret handshakes · shadow puppets · cup and ball · patting · rock-paper-scissors · finger wrestling · pat-a-cake · fingers · palms · coordination · counting
- folklore of childhoodnursery rhymes, fairy tales, lullabies, bedtime stories, folktales
- recess gamestag, hopscotch, jump rope, hide and seek, duck duck goose
- traditional gameslacrosse, stickball, shinny, snow snake, mancala
- Dene culturetea dance, drum dance, drum dancing, traditional territory, traditional lands
- playground gamestag, hide and seek, hopscotch, freeze, capture the flag
- group songssing-along, sing-alongs, singalong, communal songs, communal singing
hand gamesboard games
Structured tabletop play
card games · video games · tabletop games · dice games · computer games
hand gamesmind games
Psychological manipulation tactics
word games · trivia games · strategy games · guessing games · puzzles
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