Congkak is a popular game of logic with variations played throughout the Malay archipelago. It requires two players to share a wooden board with seven holes marking each player’s house and village. Marbles are placed in each hole and redistributed according to the rules of the game, with the objective of gaining as many marbles in one’s village as possible.

It was the first time playing Congkak for these two. What an experience!

Some common strategies to stay in the game include choosing the house with most marbles in a player’s village to empty out. This ensures that empty houses are filled so that the player is not likely to stop short. Redistributing marbles also helps to prevent an opponent from claiming a large victory should the opposite home be empty. Keeping a close count of the marbles also gives a player the edge, especially in anticipating where the move may end.

The classic block-stacking, stack-crashing game of Jenga!

Is your hand steady enough to pull out the last block before the tower collapses? Or do you need to apply some physics theories to determine which block should be pulled out?

Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object into numbered spaces of a patern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces to retrieve the object.