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Jogo da Macaca (Monkey Game)
By Students at Escola Básica do 1o Ciclo de Fortios, Portugal <[email protected]>
Teachers: Maria de Fátima Gomes Pinheiro Bengala, Maria Florinda Rita José Delicado Pacheco, Antónia Cordeiro Bastos

English version by Regina Machado Garcez <[email protected]>
Colégio Sinodal, São Leopoldo - Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil

These games are also described in Spanish and Catalan too on the web page of Rafael Badia, Spain
at: Juegos infantiles de todo el mundo


Material: Uma pedra lisa, tintas para desenhar a macaca no chão
Terreno: Um local de terra ou cimento onde se possa desenhar
Número de participantes: Seis a doze jogadores
Objectivo: Deitar a pedra dentro de cada casa; Saltar a casa onde está a pedra sem a pisar; Saltar as casas ao pé coxinho apanhar a pedra sem cair e não pisar as riscas.  Desenvolvimento: Atira-se a pedra para a primeira casa e quando começo a jogar salto ao pé coxinho, pulando a casa onde está a pedra. Fazemos o mesmo para todas as casas até ao fim da macaca. Depois começa outro jogador. Quando a pedra sai for a também joga outro.

Material: a small smooth stone, paint or similar (chalk, for example) to draw the female monkey on the ground 
Place/Site: a paved floor or drawing surface on the ground
Number of Participants: 6 to 12 players
Aim of the game: to throw the stone at all drawn "houses"/sections; to jump with one foot at all the houses/marked sections without touching the marks on the ground or falling and to try to collect the thrown stone. You have to skip the house where the stone is.
How to play: you throw the stone at the first house and start jumping with one foot only at all the houses but the one where the stone is. You collect the stone and step on all the other houses. You repeat the process until you have thrown at and collected the stone from all the houses. Whenever you miss the target at throwing the stone you are out of the game.

Note of Regina: Here in the south of Brazil we call this game "Amarelinha" (kind of "Yellow").
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