BATU SEREMBAN

BATU SEREMBAN OR BATU SEREMBAT

FIGURE 3 : Example Of Batu Seremban

     It is was a historical and heritage kind of traditional game, unique and differ. The game was inherited from the great grand generation of descendants before world of civilisation.

•   History

     The games was believed to be found and practiced in popular area of Malaya(Malaysia), Philippines and  all part of Malaya and Indonesia and also the surrounding islands, Palau(Pulau), Micronesian, far east pacific islands; Vanuatu, Tuvala, Fiji, Cococs Island, Guam and so on Southern Asia plate and Indian continent, Indochina and northern pacific area, by Burma, Laos and Cambodia aborigines.

     The game also being played by Inuit and Eskimo in Northern part of Canada, east and west Siberia and Shakalin Island, where the evidence was found in southern and eastern part of Africa, played by nomadic, Taureg and Badwin, Central America by Inca and Maya inhabitant, by the Red Indian on top of Andes plattue of southern America, Chile, Bolivia and Peru tribes.

•   How to Play Batu Seremban : 

Step 1:

Throw all 5 stones. Whilst throwing a stone, pick up 1 stone and catch the stone in the air before it falls to the ground. Do this for each of the stones on the ground.

Step 2:

Repeat step 1 but pick up 2 stones at a time.

Step 3:

Repeat step 1 but pick up a combination of 3 stones and 1.

Step 4:

Throw all 5 stones. Pick up 4 stones whilst 1 stone is in the air and catch the later before it falls to the ground.

Step 5:

Whilst throwing 1 stone, place the 4 on the ground. Throw 1 stone up again and catch it whilst picking all 4 stones on the ground.

Step 6:

Throw all 5 stones on the ground. The opponent selects a stone to be thrown in the air. The player has to pick this stone without moving any others. The player throws the stone in the air and picks the remaining on the ground in one clean sweep.

If the player fails in step 6, automatically the turn will revert to the opponent. Once the opponent fails to complete the turn, her or his will return to the incomplete step, starting from the first step.

•   The Objectives of Playing Batu Seremban:

The aim of playing this game is to throw one of the stones one at a time and sweeping another on the floor all together catching the one you threw earlier on. This game continues to advance stages where the game gets complicated.

•   Equipment Needed

This game was played using 5 or 7 pieces of objects usually made of small stone, beads, fruits seeds, beans, nut or nutshell, or even bones and (originally) hard wood but not these days. Today, they already improvised using marble or small bags of sand/stone or beans. It depends on the players to choose what kind of objects they wanted to use.