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To provoke that some players start making faces, grimace, and so on. Anyone who laughs or makes any sound — loses. All players sit in a row, and all put their hands on the knees of their neighbors. As the result all the hands are crossed. Then they start from one end to consistently clap on the knees, touching the knees in order: you need to raise your hand and slam on the knee when it is your turn. Eventually, players start to make mistakes. That is, the conditions are constantly changing, and your turn may happen earlier because of attrition of hands.

The game is played until all Robbers are caught. The name of the game comes from Tsarist Russia, when Cossacks were the guardians of law and order. The game became popular in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Another traditional game, Chizhik has been popular since at least the 16th century due to its simplicity, flexibility and fun. The game requires two wooden sticks: one short stick the chizhik , which has a sharpened end, and one long stick the designated bat. Before gameplay begins, a line and a circle are drawn on the ground, several feet apart.

The goal of this game is to use the bat to hit the chizhik as far as possible. Meanwhile, the other player s attempt to catch the ball mid-flight, or, failing that, find the fallen ball and throw it back into the circle.

The sticks are often made out of scrap wood; the chizhik can be sharpened with the aid of a pocket knife. The name of the game comes from the smaller stick's resemblance to a siskin, a bird from the finch family. The lowest card is a six, and the highest is an ace. Durak can be played with players, and involves a series of "attacks" and "defenses.

Any card of that suit can defend against an attack. Otherwise, attacks can only be defended against with a higher-numbered card of the attacking card's suit. The goal is to get rid of all the cards in your hand. In the game of Elastics, players perform a sequence of jumps around, over, and in-between a large elastic band. Typically the band is held in place by two other players, but many enterprising Russian children have played with fewer partners by hooking up the elastic band to the legs of a chair or a tree.

Use the chalk to draw quadrilaterals with numbers in a sequence. You can even play this game alone. The main idea is to get the stone or puck into one of the quadrilaterals, then jump to it using one foot or both feet, and come back using the same route.

This game develops dexterity, accuracy, the ability to concentrate, and knowledge of numbers if the players are young children. Participants in this classic Russian game are divided into two equal teams and line up in two rows facing each other, holding hands, meters apart.

The two teams move toward each other while repeating the line, "Boyars, we have come to you, dear boyars, we have come to you If the attempt is successful, the player returns to his team. If not, he has to join the other team. The losing team then starts the next round. The goal is to build a chain with as many participants as possible.

In this game, the players run away from the leader a variation of tag. The leader catches up to a player and tags her. The summer version of Koldunchiki is to run around and try to spray each other with water from bottles.

Cossacks and Thieves. Source: Elena Pochetova. Players are divided into two teams: Cossacks and Thieves. The two teams agree on the area that they are going to play in. This can be a courtyard, staircase, street, or even several courtyards. The Thieves think of a secret word. The Thieves escape, leaving chalk marks on walls, trees, curbs, etc.

The Cossacks then have to use the marks to find the Thieves. The Cossacks have to bring each of the Thieves to a prison and guard him, trying to get him to cough up the secret word.

If you are more into gambling and don't shy away from serious risk taking, try the hardcore action game Russian Roulette. There is just one bullet in an empty chamber of your gun and you have to spin it and then pull the trigger. The winner of each round is the one who doesn't end up dead.

You don't want to virtually die just yet? Then ease your nerves with the Russian Train Simulator, an amazing train simulation based on the beautiful landscape of Russia, in which you control a huge train and try to take it from one point to another without causing any accidents.