Indoor Games

Played inside homes or shaded areas, these games focus more on strategy, concentration, and skill.

Bahay-Bahayan

Bahay-bahayan is a role playing game, as children will pretend to manage a home as a family: father, mother and children. As they would do

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Bang-Sak

The game got its name from the sounds of a gun (bang) and a knife (sak-sak) because players pretend to hold these using their hands.

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Clapping Games

This game can be played by two players or in pairs. The clapping games does not require materials but only use their hands or create

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Dama

Dama (or Filipino Checkers) is a board game where each player starts with 12 pieces. The goal is to protect your pieces by either capturing

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Doctor Kwak-Kwak

Doktor Kwak Kwak is a fun game usually played with lots of players. Everyone forms a circle by holding hands, and then they tangle their

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Hula-hoop

Suot Lusot (or Hula Hoop) is a fun game played with 5 or more players. The goal is to pass the hula hoop through each

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Jackstone

Jackstone is a popular Filipino game usually played by two or more players. It uses a bouncy ball and ten small, star-shaped metal or plastic

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Jolens

“Hole in” where this game was derived from. Holen is a variation on marbles of US. It is played with marbles, which should be tucked

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Pass the Message

A group game, that requires players to stay quiet and pass the message with the use of action or body movement that is related to

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Pogs

A game like “Teks,” but with circular cards! Flick, toss, and slam as you compete to flip and win your opponents’ pogs.

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Sagidi Sagidi

Is a follow the leader game that while chanting the song the leader will do a movement that the other players will follow throught while

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Sawsaw Suka

A game that doesn’t require rigid body movement. A song is being chanted by the players while dipping their finger on the other player’s palm,

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Sungka

A strategic two-player game played on a wooden board with two rows of pits (bahay) and larger stores (ulo or inay) at each end. Players

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Tagu-Taguan

Also known as Hide and Seek, this game can be played indoors or outdoors—anywhere with good hiding spots. The goal is simple: find a place

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Teks

Teks is a card game that children usually collects. The game be played with two methods: Clapping and toss method. The players must bet on

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