Five Stones Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Players
• Game Description
• Phases of the Game
  • 1st Phase
  • 2nd Phase
  • 3rd Phase
  • 4th Phase
  • 5th Phase
  • 6th Phase
  • 7th Phase

Components

• 5 small smooth stones (small rounded stones)

Players

• 2 or more players

Game Description

The game of five stones is very old. You play employing five small rounded stones. It makes all the matters to define the order of the games and each player may enter the race only when the previous one has made a mistake. Who makes the mistake remains stationary for a ride and restarts from the stopped position. Who wins in the end, is able to perform all the steps without dropping the stones. The game was developed in seven steps.

Phases of the Game

The game has 7 phases.

1st Phase

You throw the stones on a plane, it takes one and throws it into the air. While the stone cast is still pending you take one stone from the ground which is collected with a hand with the one. In the same way you collect the other three small stones.

Note: the source's phrase "collected with a hand with the one" is unclear as printed. It is transcribed as written.

2nd Phase

You will throw stones on a plane, it takes one and throws it in the air: for every throw you collect two stones at a time.

3rd Phase

You throw stones themselves on a plane, it takes one and throws it in the air: on the first throw you collect three stones and on the second throw only one.

4th Phase

You throw stones on a plane, it takes a hand and try to gather in one of the four stones on the ground and the fifth in air (without letting it fall to the ground).

Note: the source's phrase "it takes a hand" is unclear as printed. It is transcribed as written.

5th Phase

You take with your right hand all 5 stones holding one between his thumb and forefinger that is thrown in the air. In the meantime, lean the other 4 stones on the floor and you grab the one launched.

6th Phase

You can be quickly turning to fall and stop on the back of it, and then pick them up with another tap again in the palm of your hand. If you can't take them all one at a time you can retrieve the fallen stones launching every time all the stones contained in the palm.

The source includes an illustration of this phase, with five numbered hand diagrams showing the stones being thrown up from the palm and caught on the back of the hand.

7th Phase

You throw the stones on a plane, you take a stone in his hand and throwing it at the top, with the same hand you try to let the other one at a time in the hollow of his left hand that is formed by placing the cutting his hand on the floor and bending your fingers to form a cavity. Everything had to be done without dropping to the ground the stone thrown into the air.

Note: the source's phrase "placing the cutting his hand on the floor" is unclear as printed. It is transcribed as written.