Cossacks-robbers - the rules of the game

There is a huge number of diverse outdoor games for children. Such games include the game "Cossacks-robbers".

Description of the game Cossack robbers

Cossack robbers are a mixture of lambs and hide and seek. This yard game was most popular in Soviet times. In order to learn how to play Cossacks robbers, you can ask your parents, who certainly played it in childhood. However, modern children play in it in schoolyards. You can play it in any place, where there are secluded nooks in which you can hide.

To play the Cossacks robbers must collect a large company, consisting of 6 people or more. Then it is necessary for all participants of the game to divide into two teams. This can be done by drawing lots or by agreement among themselves. Each team has its own name: one - "Cossacks", the second - "robbers". At the same time, "Cossacks" may be slightly less than "robbers".

Children's mobile game Cossacks robbers: rules

Cossacks robbers has the following rules of the game, which must be respected by all participants:

1. Participants agree in advance with each other, within which territory it is possible to play, and where it is forbidden to go out, for example, you can not go outside the school yard.
2. Members of the team "Robbers" hold an internal meeting and make a secret phrase that will serve as a password.
3. Members of the team "Cossacks" step aside so as not to see the participants of the other team. To do this, you can go inside the entrance or hide behind the corner of one of the houses.
4. The robbers take the chalk and paint on the asphalt a large circle that marks the beginning of the movement.
5. Further from this circle are drawn arrows in the direction where the team of "robbers" will run away.
6. Arrows can be drawn on any surface: on a tree, curb, bench, wall of a house.
7. At the signal, the team of "robbers" starts to run away in accordance with the marking of the arrows.
8. Subsequently, the robbers can be divided into mini-groups and draw arrows in different directions to confuse the Cossacks searching for them. Typically, the time during which the robbers need to have time to hide, is limited and averages 20 minutes.
9. The main task of the robbers is to hide as best they can. Therefore, the more confusing the drawn arrows, the more difficult it will be for the Cossacks to find robbers.
10. While the robbers are hiding, the Cossacks settle in their "dungeon" - a place where they will later torture the captured robbers. To do this, outline its boundaries, trying to hide it from outside eyes by external means.
11. Then, guided by the arrows, the Cossacks need to find the robbers and bring them to their dungeons, where they are tortured (tickle, shovel small insects). However, in advance, all participants in the game should discuss the rules of torture so that they are not cruel or offensive.
12. The Cossack who caught the robber, remains to guard him in the dungeon while the rest of the Cossacks continue to hunt for the robbers.
13. The remaining robbers have the right to attack the dungeon and release a member of their team.

The main goal of the game is to find out a secret password for the Cossacks from the robbers. In this case, the Cossacks are considered winners. Also, if all the robbers were in the dungeon, the victory is awarded to the team of Cossacks. As a rule, loser players get one click.

The game "Cossack robbers" begins to regain its former popularity among the children's collective. Playing street games, children learn to interact with each other, negotiate, set goals, tasks and find ways to achieve them.