Spillikins, a magic bag and a heap of malas are old games for the whole family. What does Spillikins mean? How to understand Play Spillikins? What qualities does the game of spillikins develop?

The game of spillikins is known to the majority as a saying, a synonym for idleness, a frivolous occupation. But all games, born long ago or modern, are designed to entertain. Fascination, excitement, the ability to communicate with friends and relatives - these are the characteristic features of the game of spillikins. It is an ideal alternative to computer games that deprive your leisure time of pleasant relaxation.

To appreciate the benefits of this game, you need to learn the rules and immerse yourself in the process. At the time of the appearance of the game, straws and small chips served as the main material. The material spilled out on a flat surface in a heap, the players took miniature hooks made of straw or small twigs. With the help of the hook, the player had to take out one straw from the slide. During this manipulation, adjacent sticks should not have moved. If a careless movement led to a collapse, the player passed the move on to the next one.

The origin of the game is not known for sure, whether the children, playing with thin torches, came up with this competition, or the adults entertained themselves and the children in this way on a winter evening. There is a similar game in the East, but everything is subject to stricter rules: a set of 35 sticks with notches or rings running across is used. "Chinese sticks", the so-called eastern version of spillikins, have a length of about twenty centimeters, and their diameter is only a couple of millimeters.

To start the game correctly, sticks are placed vertically on the table, and the hand is released. An even pile turns into a randomly lying sheaf. I must say that the number of notches on the sticks is not the same, this helps to vary the grip between them and allows you to count points for each stick removed from the pile. There is one notch on fifteen rods, one point is awarded for its successful notch, on eight - two points. Four sticks are marked with four barbs, and two with five. One side of the twig can be sharpened.

In the eastern tradition, sticks are taken out simply by hand or by the very first stick that was pulled out. The duration of the game is up to one hundred and one points, scored by one of the players. One hundred and one point is the same value, no more, no less. If, already at the finish line, a player takes out a complex stick and he is awarded more points than needed to win, then he pays for the bust: ten points for each extra.

Russian craftsmen, wood and bone carvers, tried to make the set for the game durable and beautiful. Therefore, by cutting it out, they gave the figures an interesting shape, for example, the familiar items of dishes, furniture and other things used in everyday life. Of course, such an attractive set had to be kept in an appropriate box, it was made of valuable wood species and decorated with carvings. The set for the game was a work of art.

Needless to say that such a thing was available only to the richest, and not to ordinary people? And for our contemporaries, these products are evidence of the popularity of the game among all strata of society. A beautiful set for playing with spillikins was one of the traditional gifts for the holiday, for housewarming.

Playing this calm board game, you can develop perseverance, because in order to make a good move, at the climax, the player has to hold his breath. Movement becomes precise, coordination works as much as possible.

Today, you can buy games that resemble spillikins for your children. Having explained the rules to them, there is no doubt that the children will enjoy their time playing. Such activities in a relaxed playful atmosphere develop fine motor skills, while simultaneously forming intelligence.

Every person has at least once heard the phrase "to play with spillikins." This phraseologism has become quite widespread. It means doing nonsense, stupid things, while ignoring important things. This game was fascinated not only by the common people, but also by the rich, noble people. Even among the nobles, it became widespread. There was a pleasant tradition - to present a set of spillikins for a housewarming or celebration. The attitude towards them was positive. When playing Chinese sticks or spillikins, you need to concentrate, try not to make sudden movements and be attentive. It takes a certain amount of tension and concentration. This game can and even should be played with kids: it contributes to the development of fine motor skills. It is a spillikin that can replace a small toy or a cube for a child. What it is, children often learn from their parents. But all the advantages of spillikins pale in comparison to the fact that they can bring families together and bring people closer together.

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Surely, everyone at least once heard the phrase "to play with spillikins." This phraseologism has become quite widespread. It means doing nonsense, stupid things, while ignoring important things. This game was fascinated not only by the common people, but also by the rich, noble people. Even among the nobles, it became widespread. There was a pleasant tradition - to present a set of spillikins for a housewarming or celebration. The attitude towards them was positive. When playing Chinese sticks or spillikins, you need to concentrate, try not to make sudden movements and be attentive. It takes a certain amount of tension and concentration. This game can and even should be played with kids: it contributes to the development of fine motor skills. It is a spillikin that can replace a small toy or a cube for a child. What it is, children often learn from their parents. But all the advantages of spillikins pale in comparison to the fact that they can bring families together and bring people closer together.

What are spillikins and how is this game useful for a kid?

An inquisitive child, upon hearing a new word, will surely ask "What are spillikins?" Most of us, apart from the common phrase "this is not for you to play with spillikins!" we haven’t heard anything about spillikins, so a little excursion into history will not hurt.

What are spillikins?

"Spillikins" - from the word "take", take. Spillikins - collecting toy items (dishes, ladders, hats, chopsticks, and so on), an old Russian board game. The meaning of the game is to pull one toy after another out of a bunch of such toys with your fingers or with a special hook, without touching or scattering the rest. To make the spillikins easy to hook, they are made in the form of objects that have ears or holes - cups, teapots, and so on. Sometimes spillikins are made in the form of pieces of an abstract shape, then several small holes are drilled in them. As spillikins, you can also use improvised items - straws or matches.

Rules of the game: Spillikins are poured out in a heap on a flat surface. With the help of a special hook, the players take out one spill one at a time, trying not to move the neighboring ones. The one who moves the neighboring spill passes the move to the next player. The game continues until the whole pile is taken apart. The winner is the one who collected the most spillikins, or the first one to collect the previously agreed amount.

The forgotten old game was originally a child's play. History is silent about how the game of spillikins grew into a popular hobby, the name of the master who was the first to make figurines for children's play is also unknown. But it is known that at first it was a game of the poor, they played it to while away winter evenings, and a handful of identical straws served as spillikins, which were thrown on the table in a bunch. One straw after another was taken out of the bundle with a straw hook, trying not to hurt the neighboring ones. Moved or touched the straw - the move is given to another. The winner in the game was the one with the most straws.

Over time, the game moved from poor houses to palace chambers, houses of aristocrats and noble townspeople, and became a popularly loved game. The straw spillikins were replaced by wooden figurines, ivory spillikins were made to order and kept in elegant boxes decorated with skillful carvings. The figures were different - miniature dishes, musical instruments, shoes, weapons and other small wonders.

How is the game useful for the kid?

With the advent of modern times, spillikins were forgotten, and they remembered them almost a century later. A few years ago, craftsmen revived the once popular game, and now spillikins are experiencing a rebirth. While this is not yet a family hobby, this is a child's game, very, very useful for a child. There are a lot of game options, to the traditional one, where objects are crocheted, games have been added in which you need to find the same figures in a bag by touch.

During the game, the child develops memory and imagination, and fingering the figures in the bag is also an excellent massage of the hands. It is especially useful when the baby lacks tactile sensations (for example, this can manifest itself in the habit of sucking a thumb).

Playing with spillikins trains fine motor skills. Kids learn accuracy, patience, perseverance, develop an eye and coordination of movements. Do not forget about live communication, carried away by the game, children tell each other what and how best to do, discuss successes and failures, and all this stimulates the development of speech.

This is such a useful, interesting and exciting game of spillikins!

We develop children's motor skills with the help of old traditional games of pucks and spillikins. We train memory with figures from a miracle bag.

It's no secret that by the end of the last century, traditional toys made of wood, cotton wool, cardboard and other natural materials, beloved by many generations of Russians, practically disappeared. But, fortunately, there are still enthusiasts who today again begin to make them for our children. Thanks to the efforts of these people, even such long forgotten and known to the generation of modern parents only from the idiomatic vocabulary of the game as the "game of spillikins" come to life.

This time we will tell you about some of these "new" games. They can be called "games for the whole family" because not only children, but also adults can participate in them.

People's game "Spillikins"

We have all heard the expression "play with spillikins". It means doing nonsense, messing around. But if you play spillikins, this does not mean at all that you are doing nonsense.

History is silent when adults noticed the children's enthusiasm for spillikins, and how spillikins grew into a truly nationwide game. It is also not known which Russian craftsman first made spillikins. In Russia, there were two types of spillikins - they played spill-sticks and spillikins, turned on a lathe. And if the first version of the game (in the form of sticks, wires or straws) could be made by ourselves, and it was mainly village children who played it, then a completely different fate awaited the turning spillikins.

rules this old game is extremely simple. The spillikins are poured onto the table so that they lie in a heap, from which the players take them out one by one using a wire hook set on a stick. Whoever moves the adjacent spillik, passes the hook to the next player. The game continues until the whole pile is sorted out. The winner is the one with the most spillikins. Or they play until one of the players has the agreed number of spillikins.

Rules of the game... The counting tool determines who will play first. He clutches an even bundle of spill-glass sticks in his hand, touches the table with its lower end and sharply opens his palm. At the same time, the spillikins should fall in a heap. Spillikins dropped out separately are set aside until the next game. The players take turns taking out one spill from the heap, trying not to move the other sticks. The player keeps the correctly drawn spillikin for himself. The rest are pulled out with the first elongated spill-stick stick. If the sticks move, the move is passed to the other player. The remaining bundle and separately dropped sticks are thrown out by the fined for the next player. At the end of the game, the number of spillikins for each is counted.

These wonderful games are extremely useful for children.

First, during the game, the child learns to communicate with other players. Everyone is solving one problem. The players exchange lines, cheer, tease each other. The movements of the fingers lead to the excitation of the speech centers of the brain and the strengthening of the coordinated activity of the speech zones, which ultimately stimulates the development of speech.

Secondly, the baby learns to correctly distribute and concentrate his attention. The child's memory develops as he learns to memorize certain positions and movements of the hands.

Thirdly, children learn patience, perseverance, accuracy.

Fourthly, the details of the game are so small that manipulating them is an excellent workout for a child's hand, for the development of fine motor skills. When a child takes a thin hook and tries to get a spillikin, he learns to strain and relax the muscles of the fingers, maintain the position of the fingers for quite a long time, switches from one movement to another, and develops precise coordination of movements. No wonder psychologists say: "The hand teaches the brain." The freer the baby controls his fingers, the better his thinking is developed.

Play spillikins with your children and you will feel the pleasure and joy of this forgotten game.

Children and adults can play.

Rules of the game... Each of the players in turn takes one of the figures out of the bag and then, with closed eyes, groping, finds the same second in the bag. If the second figure is found incorrectly, then both are returned back to the bag, and the next participant makes the move. The winner is the one with the most figures.

This game is also very useful for. Firstly, when the child is sorting out various wooden figures in the bag, the hands are massaged involuntarily. This is especially useful if the child lacks tactile sensations. In everyday life, a lack of tactile sensations can manifest itself in the habit of sucking a finger or a nipple.

Secondly, the game also trains fine motor skills.

Thirdly, the baby's imagination and memory develops.

Why is it so important to develop a child's imagination? The development of imagination occurs most actively in preschool age. The child perceives fabulous, fantastic images as real. His own life experience is still too small, so imagination helps to make up for his lack.

Young children have developed passive imaginations. They can easily imagine the described images and often consider them to be real. By the end of preschool age, imagination is activated, it becomes creative. And the child can create new images on their own. Imagination is closely related to other mental processes: perception, thinking, attention, memory, and speech.

Family game "Heap-Mala"

The game consists of a large hemisphere and 60 pucks in three sizes.

They play it like this... The pucks are divided equally among the players. Players take turns placing one puck on the blade so that no puck falls off the blade. If some or all of the pucks fall from the base, the player on whose turn it happened takes the dropped pucks for himself. The object of the game is to get rid of your pucks. The one who has the last washers loses.

The game is designed to develop the child's eyes, dexterity and sense of balance.

All these and many other wonderful wooden toys are made by the "WALDA" company, to which the editors of the "Game and Children" magazine would like to thank for their help in preparing this material. Here are the addresses of WALDA stores:

"Moscow, B. Spasskaya house 4 A, publishing house" Gnom ".
"Little Genius shops":
- Metro "Pushkinskaya", B. Kozikhinsky lane, building 6.
- metro station "Otradnoe", shopping center "Golden Babylon" 2nd floor.

Similar toys are manufactured by a number of other companies. And therefore, you can sometimes buy them not only in toy stores, but also where souvenirs and gifts are sold, as well as at exhibitions of handicrafts and even in online stores.

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My wife and I played it for the first time in Pereslavl-Zalessky and I wrote about it, but one of the subscribers after reading the post asked me to write separately and in more detail about this wonderful and forgotten game.

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Since the 19th century, chiseled Russian spillikins have become a family and even secular entertainment, and by the beginning of the 20th century they could be called one of the most popular games of any class. Spillikins were made from various types of wood, from linden and birch to exotic palm trees, and even ivory. Figures for the game were made in a variety of ways - miniature cups, teapots, flutes and double basses, weapons and shoes and other small wonders, and the boxes in which they were kept were decorated with precious stones and fine carvings. Spillikins were an indispensable attribute of aristocratic salons. They, in boxes of various shapes and sizes, were sold in Moscow stores, complete with chocolate sets. It was considered a sign of good form to give a set of spillikins for a holiday or housewarming.

In those days, there were many craftsmen who knew their special secrets in the manufacture of spillikins. For example, in the village of Likino, Odintsovo district, they were made the size of a grain and placed in a box skillfully carved from hazelnut.

How to play this interesting and mysterious game "Spillikins"?

The rules of this ancient game are extremely simple. The spillikins are poured onto the table so that they lie in a slide, from which the players take them out one by one using a wire hook attached to a stick or with their fingers.

Whoever moves the adjacent spillik, passes the hook to the next player. The game continues until the whole pile is sorted out. The winner is the one with the most spillikins. Or they play until one of the players has the agreed number of spillikins.

"Is that all?" - you ask. Yes, but it’s not at all easy, picking up another spill, not to move, not turn or at least not disturb others, because "independent", not touching each other spill-backs - one, two and too many. Therefore, before you make a "move", you must patiently search.

There is a second version of the game, no less fun.

Children and adults can play. To play you will need two sets, which are poured into one bag. Each of the players in turn takes one of the figures out of the bag and then, with closed eyes, groping, finds the same second in the bag. If the second figure is found incorrectly, then both are returned back to the bag, and the next participant makes the move. The winner is the one with the most figures.

This game is also very useful for the development of the child. When the child is sorting out various wooden figures in the bag, hands are massaged involuntarily.

The game also trains fine motor skills and develops the baby's imagination and memory. Imagination is closely related to other mental processes: perception, thinking, attention, and speech.

These wonderful games are extremely useful for children.

Secondly, the baby learns to correctly distribute and concentrate his attention. The child's memory develops as he learns to memorize certain positions and movements of the hands.

Thirdly, children learn patience, perseverance, accuracy.

Play spillikins with your children and you will feel the pleasure and joy of this forgotten game.

By the way, do not confuse the expressions "play spillikins" and "play spillikins". The latter means humming with your fingers over your lips.

The meaning of the game is to pull one toy after another out of a bunch of such toys with your fingers or with a special hook, without touching or scattering the rest. To make the spillikins easy to hook, they are made in the form of objects that have ears or holes - cups, teapots, and so on. Sometimes spillikins are made in the form of pieces of an abstract shape, then several small holes are drilled in them. As spillikins, you can also use improvised items - straws or matches.

In a figurative sense, "to play with spillikins" - to engage in trifles, nonsense, leaving aside the main and important.

Rules of the game

Spillikins spill out in a bunch on a flat surface. With the help of a special hook, the players take out one spill one at a time, trying not to move the neighboring ones. The one who moves the neighboring spill passes the move to the next player. The game continues until the whole pile is taken apart. The winner is the one who collected the most spillikins, or the first one to collect the previously agreed amount.