In Korea, during the Lunar New Year, many families come together to enjoy a traditional game, Yut-nori. It is a game that requires a cloth placemat with four sticks that act as dices. The players throw the sticks up and see how they land. By looking at whether the sticks face up and down, one can determine how many steps to move. The first player to reach the destination wins.

In Ghana, a common game children play is Da Ga, or boa constrictor in English. In this game, one person, the boa, is surrounded by the rest of the players who cannot enter the “home of the boa constrictor”. The child in the middle tries to touch the players surrounding him without leaving his marked perimeter. If he touches a player, the player will join the middle group. The game will continue as the boa increases in size until one player is left outside. The last child standing is the winner.

Queimada is a popular game, similar to dodgeball, that is played by children and adults alike in Brazil. In the game, players are separated into two “living” teams. The game is played on a field divided in half. At both ends of the field, there are “cemeteries.” Each group’s cemetery is located behind the opposing team’s territory. Both teams have to nominate one team member to be “dead” in the cemetery. To start, the “dead person” throws the ball to his team across the field, and then the “living people” throw the ball at the opponents in hopes of “burning” them with it. If the ball touches an opponent, he or she must go to the group’s cemetery. The game ends once all “living” members of a team die.

In Europe, one game people love to play is Fox and Geese, an ancient board game that is played on a board with holes in a cross shaped formation. In this game, one player, representing the fox, tries to eat the other players, the geese. The objective of the geese is to try to imprison the fox by surrounding it. These characters are represented by pegs. If all the geese pegs circumscribe the fox peg, then the geese are victorious. However, if the fox peg jumps all the geese pegs, the fox is the champion.