Project Erasmus + Bridging three generations

1. O2 European Book of
Traditional Games

2. 1. Puppet Game
The Guignol Puppets
• History :
Created by Laurent Mourguet in Lyon in 1808
• Aim :
Comical or satirical play that deals with human
faults and virtues, social injustice afflicting
the little people
• Material:
Guignol hand puppets

3. Main characters in the Guignol theater
Guignol
naive, honest & without scruples, brave
& frightful, ready to help, seeking
justice & cunning
joyful
Madelon
sour-tempered, talkative
thrifty, down-to-earth
Gnafron
Funny, careless, generous,
loyal, obliging,
has a weakness for beaujolais

4. 2. Board Game
The Yellow Dwarf « Le Nain Jaune »
• Classical family game
• combination of a board and a card game
• History
Circa1760, region of Lorraine
Dwarf - nickname of Nicolas Ferry- –
dwarf and King Stanislas of Poland and Duke of Lorraine’s protégé,
was notorious for violence and cruelty

5. Material: - deck of 52
- A board of The Yellow Dwarf game
composed of 5 compartments
- 3 sorts of different shapes and colours
Rule: 3-8 players lay a suit regardless of
colour
Aim: to get maximum chips by:
• finishing one’s cards first to collect chips from
fellow players
• laying cards represented on board – to collect chips
that have been placed on them

6. 3. Indoor Game
Cards game La Belote
• most popular card game in France
• Circa 1900s, growing popularity in
between the wars
• Origins unknown,
maybe adopted from
the Netherlands ???
Material: a deck of 32 cards
• Number of players: two teams of two
• Aim: to score at least 82 points (out
of 152)
Rules:
• players take turns clockwise to play a
card of the required colour, bigger
value or a trump
• player who’s played the strongest
card collects the round

7. Values of cards
• Column 1 – ordinary cards
• Column 2 – trump cards

8. 4. Outdoor Game
La Pétanque
type of the “boules” game, played on hard
dirt or gravel, eg. in public areas, in parks
History- in Occitan dialect “planted feet”
“Boules” games can be traced back as far as
Ancient Greece and Roman Empire
Pétanque was invented by Ernest Pitiot in
1910, in the town of La Ciotat near
Marseilles, region of Provence, France.

9. Players: two teams of 1,2 or 3
Material: 6 hollow steel balls &
1 wooden cochonnet
Aim: to toss or roll steel balls
as close as possible to cochonnet
while standing inside a circle with
both feet on the ground

10. Throws: underhand or overhand
2 strategies in scoring
Pointing - making one’s boule
come to rest in a particular
spot, usually as close as possible
to the jack.
Shooting – making one’s boule
directly hit an adversary’s boule
with the goal of knocking it away
from the jack

11. 5. Role-play immitation game
The Game Of Miming (Jeu De Mime)
History: inspired by the celebrated French mime
Marcel Marceau (1923-2007)
Materials: a chronometer (optional)
Number of players: 4 and more, who form two
teams
Aim: by means of miming to make one’s own team
guess the word chosen by the adversary team. Team
members may ask yes/no questions to help them
infer the concept that is being mimed

12. Want to find out more?
You will soon. In the Book of European Games