Talk:Hopscotch

Africa
i heard this game was played in africa with a different name,, anyone know what it is and then put it in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.119.120 (talk) 18:27, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Copyright Violation?
Copyright violation? I don't know what constitutes a violation, but about 2/3rds of this article is taken verbatim from the external link mentioned at the end. That seems a bit much, to me.
 * Agreed. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 | T | C | @ 03:31, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

China Content
am not so sure about the content

this museum page mentions, that the game was mentioned already 2357 B.C. in China

http://maf.mcq.org/jeux/jouets/vignettes/en/jd_mcq_marelle_153.php

Speedy Copyvio tag

 * The speedy copyvio tag was reverted since this article is well over 48 hours old. Vegaswikian 05:13, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Roman Origin
As for the Roman origin - prove it to me and I still won't believe it. 83.95.108.180 08:34, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

The english Version of this article says about the origin "Britain during the early Roman Empire". The German version says origin unknown but the oldes version was found in Rom. If the oldes version found is from Rom, how can you be sure that it is British? --Christian Krützfeldt 09:11, 23 September 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckruetze (talk • contribs)

There is no evidence for Roman hopscotch origins, and scant evidence for Chinese hopscotch origins, so I am making note of same in the article. Ditto the Czech references. Ajax-and-Achilles (talk) 05:38, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Removed "in addition to jumprope" line
Removed "in addition to jumprope" line from the intro paragraph; it's played "in addition to" a lot of stuff; jump rope doesn't seem to be particularly relevant in this context. — Matthew0028  10:09, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I think the idea was that the rope is swung over the hopscotch field, so the player has to follow the regular hopscotch rules, while also jumping over the rope. 203.161.101.209 (talk) 14:34, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

French
"Marelle" in French almost always has the first square marked "earth" (terre) and the last one "heaven" (ciel/paradis). The game is exclusively played by girls. And boys would find playing hopscotch a "gender offense". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.45.178.123 (talk) 17:45, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Andalusia and Spain
In Andalusia is called "El Guiso" ("The cook"), in Madrid "El Tejo" (named by the stone). Rayuela is diminutive of "Raya" (the drawn "line"). As in France, is exclusively played by girls, and the last square is marked as "cielo" or "paraíso" (heaven, paradise). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.57.13.159 (talk) 11:02, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

in portugal is called 'jogo da macaca' - monckey's game, probably due to the fact that one has to hop like a monckey — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.196.177.68 (talk) 23:55, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Czech
I've removed from the section "Etymology" the sentence "Hopscotch is phonetically written two imperatives from Czech language "hop!" and "skoč!", which means "hop" and "jump"". The source given does not in fact mention anything about the Czech language, and while this is an interesting bit of trivia, its placement in the etymology section falsely suggests that the name hopscotch came from these two czech words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.135.189.179 (talk) 21:15, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe it did. --Flukas (talk) 02:40, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Except it didn't, as the included OED etymology shows. It is just a coincidence, and is unrelated to the etymology and therefore confusing to include here. Somebody has reinserted similar text since this discussion, and I have deleted it. Runox (talk) 06:44, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Heavy ethnocentrism in the Origin section
So brrrrrritishhh ethnocentrism, I add, asd. All the games related to hopscotch come from an original ancient game played already in very ancient times, possibly the Old Egypt ones. And yes, there is plenty of sources to testify it as the French essay Les Jeux au Moyen Âge written by Fabian Müllers. Or the hopscotch in the Rome forum, still extant.--Olbia merda (talk) 13:03, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * A persistent myth beloved of journalists is that it evolved in the Roman province of Britannia and was part of military training. This seems to be based on a misunderstanding of some speculations in a 19th c. archaeology magazine (see http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/02/14/hopscotch-origins/)  But if you have a good citation of a French medieval children's game, played on a design marked onto a floor, why don't you add it?RLamb (talk) 17:30, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

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Scotland 1960s
At school in the Clydeside area of Scotland in the 1960s the version we played was much as described in the section "Laylay" for the Persian version, concentrating on accurate kicking of the flat stone while hopping. We called the game Peever, after the stone. Until reading a local history recently, I thought they were separate games. It was played almost exclusively by the girls. 78.226.87.14 (talk) 10:13, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Why is parchesi and chess in the see also section
As the title says I do not believe that the game parchiessi (sorry for the typos) or the timeline of chess is related to this page at all and have removed the see also catagory please add it back in if you are unpleased by the edit and explain the reason why.

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