| | Games | | Life is a lot boring without one or another activity to keep it lively,alive and going.Everyday of our lives,we wake up to a new beginning.In most cases,we don't know what to do with our time.Some of us,in an attempt to be fulfilled,have spent our time unwisely whereas some others have spent theirs judiciously.For the vacuum of our lives to be filled,we need to engage our minds and hands in something.This brings us to the subject of gaming. | | | | Gaming is as old as the history of man.In the days of the early man,he engaged his mind in games of different kinds.It was his pastime.As time went on,men started engaging themselves in a game called tug-of-war.In this game,two or more people are always involved.It is a game of show of strengths.Different organized groups hold the ends of a piece of strong rope,and engage themselves in a pulling show of might,where the eventual winner is the group which succeeded in pulling the other group to its side.They would be declared as a winner. | | | | With the advance of age,many new games are discovered,and one of such games is that played by two people only.It involves the digging of twelve holes in the earth,and each of the players has six holes to himself.Each hole is dropped four stones.The first player serves his stones until he comes to a point where there are two or three stones in the holes on the other player side and he packs them.The same process is undergone by the second player as the game progresses. | | | | Then the advent of a game called Ludo, Ludo,unlike the game mentioned earlier,engages two or more people to play it.It is a game with four houses and two dices.Each of the houses contains four buttons which are used in sequence as the game continues.It can be played by either two or four persons as the case may be.In a situation where two persons are playing it,they require to throw the dices and from the numbers that appear on them,take their steps through the chequered lines to follow.The first person to score all these buttons into the general home wins the game.Other like games are chess and a host of others. | | | | While these mentioned games are played at local level,there are other big games that are played at international level.They include football,basketball,volleyball and others.These games invite participants from around the world to converge on pitches and display their natural and intellectual skills.You see here different countries of the world playing each other's | | | | Today,people have come to love football more than any of the other games.It has a lot of fans that watch it as clubs and countries play.In not too distant time,we would be witnesses to the big world event-soccer and we would be thrilled to the climax and peak of stupor as we watch the dazzling dribbling displays of these talented players the world over. |
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