THE  OSTRICH

Some times it is convenient to escape from the reality  like the ostrich, which hides the head under the ground. But often the reality has the upper hand.

Players – How many it wants, with a conductor. One each ten represents an ostrich, while the other nine are as many reality’s scraps.

Necessary – As equal picture post-cards as the reality’s scraps divided by three.

Preparation – Every picture post-card is divided into three different pieces, but equal to those of the other picture post-cards. So it will be possible to recompose an image with different picture post-cards’ pieces. Each player (except the ostriches) receives one of these pieces, which he keeps hidden to the partners until the game’s start. All the players (included the ostriches) spread themselves all over the field and the conductor can finally say, “Go!”

Rules – At the “Go!” the reality’s scraps tries to unite between themselves in manner to recompose one or more complete images. Doing it they are opposed by the ostriches, that run after them. Who is touched by an ostrich before having found and taken for hand the two players that own the two picture post-card’s pieces complementary to his own piece, is captured and he must sit on the ground. He can be freed by other two players that need his picture post-card’s piece to complete their image (but not by only one… it would be too convenient). If two players already hand in hand are captured, they become again single players and they must sit on the ground at least at three steps one from the other. When three players give life to a complete image, from preys they transform themselves in pursuer and they try to catch the ostriches, which now must escape from them and prevent, simultaneously, that new triplets should be formed. The ostrich that is touched by an adversaries’ group must continue the game skipping on only one leg (he is become the famous “Chichibio’s ostrich”) and he cannot more be touched by that adversaries’ triplet. If another triplet touches him, he definitively goes out of the game.

Winners – The ostriches’ group wins if it succeeds in avoiding that all images should be formed again (this happens when the reality’s scraps that are not yet succeeded in giving life to a triplet are all three sat on the ground). The reality’s scraps’ group wins if it succeeds in eliminating from the game all the ostriches.