Central Asian games for kids - checkers, bones, and bowling

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 Empire of the Mongolians

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.

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