Central Asian Games
Kids playing knucklebones (Burma)
Central Asian people also played games sitting down. The most popular games involved small animal bones, mainly vertebrae, and the games were like the American game of jacks. Another game kids played with bones was to line up the bones and toss another bone at them to try to knock them over, like miniature bowling. (Kids also played knucklebones in ancient Greece and medieval Europe).
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Tales
Told in Tents: Stories from Central Asia
by Sally Pomme Clayton (2000). For kids.
Empire
Of The Mongolians, by Michael Burgan (2005). Young adult.
Islamic games
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