Games children Play in the Indian Ocean Rim Region
BENTENGAN
(CASTLE) – from Indonesia
by Senior ILC Phase 1 Years
5/6/7
1.
We make 2 teams of unlimited numbers.
2. Each team must defend their castle and attack the other castle.
3. We touch our castle and run to the middle to tag a player from the opposite team.
4.
If we touch or tag a player, that player must stand beside our castle
with their arms stretched out.
5. The tagged player can be freed by being touched by one of his/her teammates.
6. If somebody wants time out, they must stick their thumb up.
7. If there is a dispute, the game must stop.
8.
One player who is touching the castle can give power or renew the power
of the player in the middle.
9. If two people go to the middle and one of them runs back, then the one going back cannot give power to another in the middle because he/she didn’t touch the castle and therefore doesn't have the power from the player.
But another player from the castle can come forward and touch the player to qive power to the player in the middle.
10. One team can't block a tagged player of the other team.
11.
The player who is the first to leave the castle must return/retreat
if a newer player from the other side comes to the middle to tag.
This means the new player who leaves his/her castle first but the first
player can get power again by either being touched by
a team mate from the castle or by retuming to touch the castle.
12. You can only tag one player
at a time.
13. A player is allowed to free a tagged
team mate and then attack the castle. The freed players can attack the
castle also.
14. If there is more than one tagged player,
those players can hold hands and be freed all at the same time.
15. A chain of players can be made if one
player is touching the castle.
16.
Each group team creates strategies of attack and defence to decoy
the other team so that they can (a) free tagged team members; (b)
create holes in the defence so that their team can reach Bentengan.