Many of the games students play on the school playground are recognizable the world over: skipping, football, tag and marbles.
Some of these games have the same rules but different names: are you familiar with the game "Piggy in the middle" where someone standing in-between two other players has to try and grab hold of the ball? In Thai it is called Ling Ching Bon - "Monkey Snatches Ball" and is played by children in grades 1 - 6.
The person who plays "it", or ben in Thai, is often chosen using a familiar game called "rock, scissors, paper". In Thai it is called Bao Ying Choob and has the same rules.
All of the following games are played by Thai students in grades 1 - 6.