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Sgaragote is an Indian playground game. The game aim is to pick up as many scattered pebbles in one hand as possible while a tossed pebble is in the air. The tossed pebble must be caught before touching the ground, or the turn is lost.

Location
India.

Age
Mainly played by school children, but is suitable for all ages.

Ability
Sgaragote encourages co-ordination of the hand and eye movements.

Description
An odd number of round pebbles are scattered upon the ground by a single movement of the right hand. one is selected, and tossed into the air, while it is in the air, one of the others is picked up and held in the palm of the hand, and the tossed pebble is caught in the same hand. In a similar way, pebbles are picked up by twos, threes, fours and so on till all are picked up all at once.

Dedication
A further skill lies in the requirement of making various movements of the hands while the tossed pebble is in the air. This requires great co-ordination of the hand and eye movements.
Another game variant, is to hold the pebbles in the hand, toss them all and catch as many as possible of the pebbles on the back of the hand; then again toss the pebbles from the back of the hand and catch all in the palm. If any are dropped it is a miss and the turn is lost.

Closely Related Activities
Sgaragote is basicly the same as the British game of Knucklebones, Five Stones or Jacks 956.

Sgaragote may also be called Gajage which is a kind of nut, with which it is played with, and named after.

Cost
FREE.
There are no costs involved with playing this game.

Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.

Energy

Arms

Legs

Sight

Hearing

Speech

Learning

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