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Encyclopedia ID 1052

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Also known as Marbles · Hopscotch

Illustration pattern only. No free-licence photograph yet: can you suggest one?

Children's yard games: flicking marbles at targets and hopping through a chalk grid.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Deep Past and First Games (before about 3000 BCE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of The Americas: Caribbean.

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