<h2>Village Game of Bangladesh</h2>

Ha-Du-Du Game

                                               

All nations on earth have their own games and sports. They are as much a necessity of life as food and drink are. Bangladesh is a tropical country. So we should have games and sports suitable to our climate. Luckily, we have many such outdoor games and sports. Among them Ha-du-du, Dariabandha, Kanamachhi, Gollachhut, Danguli, Buddhimantra, six-guti, sixteen-guti, Lathi-play, boat racing etc. are worth mentioning.

                Ha-du-du is a very popular game in Bangladesh. For this game at first a field is selected with a line in the middle dividing the field into two halves. All the players are divided into two teams. One player of a team goes across the middle line into the area of the other team all the while uttering ‘ha-du-du’ or ‘du-du-du’ without taking any breath. His object is to touch a player of the other team while hw goes on uttering ‘du-du-du’ and to come back to his own area without being caught, held back or seized within the area of the other team by any of its members. The player so touched is called ‘dead’. The player who is caught or held back within the area of the other team is also’ dead’ or out. If all the player of one team are thus ‘dead’ and the other team has some of its player still ‘living’ the former party is said to be defeated and the latter party wins a point.

Village Game

                Dariabandha is another popular game of our villages. In this game a field is made under certain rules equally divided with lines equip-distant from each other. Players are equally divided into two teams. One team stands outside the field and each of the players of the other team stands on each line facing at least one opponent player. Players standing outside enter into the field one by one and try to pass across the field to the fishing to the finishing end. If any player of a team crosses the field from the starting point to the finishing point and vice-verse, the team concerned wins the game.                                            

                Kanamachhi is an interesting children’s game. A piece of cloth is tied over the eyes of a player. He cannot see through it. He is ‘blind’. Other players go round him and touch his head or his body and say ‘ Kanamachhi bho-bho’’ to him. He cannot see them but he catches somebody and says his name that players takes his place to play as ‘blind’

                Gollachhut is another popular game in our villages. It is played between two teams of equal number of players. A team takes stand at a fixed point on one side of the field. Players of the other team stand scattered on the field facing the team that has taken position with one ‘king’ at a fixed point. The players of the king’s team run as fast as they can to cross the field. If the team of the king can cross the field with the help of ‘ pucca’ players or if the king can cross the field untouched, his team wins the game.