My drawing in the last post, it's a game of bakuli. Damn, nobody got that one right eh? 2 reasons maybe. One - no kids play bakuli anymore - sad. Two - my drawing skills is worst than I thought. But I hope it is the latter.
I used to play this all the time in school during recess, at home after lunch
almost everyday when it doesn't rain after finishing whatever homework I was given in school lah. Duh! I no longer play bakuli now. At least I am not playing this type of bakuli now... if you know what I mean. Already graduated to another intermediate level type of bakuli now. This type of bakuli like what??? 17~20 years ago lah! Am too tired and sleepy to describe to you how this game is played. Other games/activites I played during my childhood days besides bakuli are "S", kali toi, mata chat, kam buck chew... and a few others.
Argh... feel so guilty if I don't describe to you how a game of bakuli (marble) is played. Don't wanna dissapoint my fansi so this one is for all muh fansi out there, k? Here goes... This game can be played with 2 or more players. Depending on the stake, each player must have of course a minimum of 2 bakuli to play. No pun intended here. Just like billards or snooker or pool, you need at least 2
biji balls to play, right?
Firstly, you need bakuli to play. It's obvious isn't it? But there a few types of bakuli. You have got the normal transparent ones with colors inside. You got the susu type. You got the spider type. You got big sized ones and small sized bakuli as well.
To play, you need to find an open space with sand like your school padang coz you need to draw the circle and 2 lines on the sand before your friends and you can start playing each others bakuli.
Before the game is played each player must deposit or put in some bakuli in the circle. If the stake is 3 bakuli per game, then each player must put in 3 bakuli in the circle. The circle is known as "bank". Yea, like bank as in Bank la....where you keep your money "KaChing KaChing".
After that, each player will stand behind the short line below the bank. Each player will then try to throw a spare bakuli from behind the short line and let the bakuli roll as close as possible to the line on top. Cannot exceed the line. The closer the better. If the bakuli stops touching the line, then it's ok. But once the spare bakuli crosses the line, then the person will start last.
In this drawing (yea, praise muh 3l33t drawing sk1llz), there are 3 players. The player with the green bakuli will start first cos his bakuli is nearest to the line. 2nd to start will be the player with the blue bakuli and last to start will be the person with red bakuli cos his bakuli ended up the furthest from the top line.
Each player will then move to the long line and from there try to knock off as many bakuli in the bank as much as possible. If he doesn't hit any of the bakuli inside the banks or the bakuli in the bank does not come out from the circle then the turn goes to the next player. The object of this game is to get as many bakuli out from the bank. The player who knocks off the bakuli from the bank can keep the bakuli. This will go on until all the bakuli in the bank is taken out. The game is re-start in the same sequence.
Of course there are a few other minor rules to this game which I have not mentioned. So far I have never seen any kids play bakuli anymore. So now you girls know why guys like to play bakuli.
Disclaimer: This entry was completed in under 3 minutes plus/minus 5 seconds. So don't bitch. Maybe next time I will share with you another game called Pak Khan Dock. See how my mood is first la. Thank you for reading my bakuli post.
