The street game of LAGORI ……

This is quiet an interesting pastime for teenage pals. This game involves two teams (seeker team and hitter team) with at least 3 players per team and a big ground/ empty street? . The other requirements include a soft rubber ball and 4 to 7 plates of stone (of size of a human palm) heaped on above the other (Note: These stones must be lighter enough to be unheaped when hit by the soft rubber ball we have.)

Then we are ready for excitement, the heap of stones is placed in center of small circle and two teams stand on either side of any diagonal of circle about 1meter away from the center. The seeker team has the ball with them and need to unheap the stones by aiming them with the ball. If the player is unable to unheap the ball then chance goes to the next player of the team. The hitter team has no work until any person in seeker team hits the stones with a ball from the place where they stand. Once the ball is hit the player of seeker team who has hit the ball will be the main target and others are sub targets. Now the actual goal of hitter team players is to hit one main target or two sub targets with ball before they reheap the stones in the center of circle.

So the points are given to the seeker team if they reheap the stones without getting hits and shout “LAGORI” to signal the end of game, and to the hitter team if they hit the targets by the time they utter “LAGORI”

Simple and interesting game …….. isn’t it ?