Hand game
Game played using the hands
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Hand games are games played using only the hands of the players.[1] Hand games exist in a variety of cultures internationally, and are of interest to academic studies in ethnomusicology and music education.[1][2] Hand games are used to teach music literacy skills and socio-emotional learning in elementary music classrooms internationally.[3][4][5]
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Examples of hand games
- Arm wrestling
- Bloody knuckles
- Chopsticks (sticks)
- The circle game
- Clapping games (Pat-a-cake and variations like Mary Mack)
- Fingerhakeln
- Hand cricket
- Mercy
- Morra (finger counting)
- Odds and evens
- Red hands (or hand-slap game)
- Rock paper scissors
- Sansukumi-ken
- Thumb war (or thumb wrestling)
- "Where are your keys?" (language acquisition game)
Less strictly, the following may be considered hand games:[citation needed]
- Fingers (drinking game, but debatable since game can be played without the drink)
- Jacks (uses jacks)
- Knife game (uses knife)
- Spellbinder (uses paper and pencil)
- Stick gambling (uses a stick)
- String games, such as cat's cradle
