NEKERAN
Nekeran or play marbles, the game's most famous son and has spread throughout the world. The term comes from the Dutch neker knikkers which means marble. In the British Museum kept many ancient marbles from around the globe. There are marbles from ancient Egypt and Rome. Also found in the Aztec pyramid. Antiquity marbles made of clay and stone, especially marble. New in 1890, the first briquette factory was built in Germany, following in the United States. 1922 marbles tournament was first held in Wildwood, New Jersey. In Yogyakarta there are three giant marbles made of marble stone diameter of 15 cm to 30 cm which is stored near the Tomb of Kotagede. Stone called Watu Gatheng was said to be the child's toy Panembahan Senopati Raden Rangga's ruling Islamic Mataram kingdom around the 16th century.
Currently the most popular type of marble made of glass balls. Briquet size range 1.2 cm to 6 cm. Most transparently with a variety of shades in it, called marbles Blimbing, because marbles as decoration in the form of star fruit. White marbles called milk.
The game is very simple. At least two children. Ordinary played by boys, even if also did not rule out there that girls play. At first all the players stood along a line parallel to the ground as a barrier, which is considered to fall through the barrier and the game started again.
All players throw gundunya into one hole is made before, the phrase headed. Toward the hole to bury marbles made its way into a rather solid ground to form a hollow semi-circle, called cliwikan. The order of players based on proximity to the target hole. The closest is entitled to play first. He must enter into the hole gundunya target. When you can get into the hole he was entitled to shoot the target opponent. If gundunya can not go into the hole then replaced by the next player.
Opponent who got the marbles belong sights direct viewfinder. He is entitled to be considered dead aim. Considered dead when the marbles into the hole target sights or sights marbles and marbles which have become targets is less than one span, the distance between the tip of your thumbs with the little finger. When you can turn to play but the distance between players with marbles marbles too close to a possible target marbles knocked opponents or shoot marbles targets distressed because too much can direct say in, he gave up not taking their turn to play and gundunya moved into the hole where headed. Misses the target is presumed dead.
Each child has a different aiming techniques, they have a style he likes best. Marbles is clamped with the index finger and thumb disentil, termed njenthot. . Sandwiched between the middle finger and thumb, and hold disentil with the middle finger, termed nylenthik. Use two hands. The index finger and thumb and left hand gripping disentil marbles with the middle finger right hand, called it nyladang.
For players who are defeated and exhausted gundunya directly out of the game. There is also a debt to players that win. The game ends when it is bored or has no one got marbles since hired by the winner, called it ngeruk, for having succeeded in taking all the marbles players. For the hero in the play marbles, it can make money as a result of the victory could be sold to a friend, of course, a price that can dinego, depending on the good and the bad condition of marbles. Craki Cino, a term that is intended for children who have had a lot of wins but do not want menghutangkan gundunya on the losing players.
This is a small time in Yogyakarta permainnya quite an impression because I am not quite adept at aiming so if you play with better skilled children to stop playing just because of the possibility of winning is very slim, so the equivalent nyari challenges alone.
