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PATINTERO

Patintero is a Filipino game played outdoors on a rectangular grid drawn on the ground. Two teams of about five players each take turns tagging runners from the opposing team as they try to cross the grid without getting touched. Runners score a point if they make a full circuit from one end to the other and back. The game ends when all runners on one team have been tagged or a time limit is reached.

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PATINTERO

Patintero is a Filipino game played outdoors on a rectangular grid drawn on the ground. Two teams of about five players each take turns tagging runners from the opposing team as they try to cross the grid without getting touched. Runners score a point if they make a full circuit from one end to the other and back. The game ends when all runners on one team have been tagged or a time limit is reached.

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PATINTERO

Patintero is a widely played Filipino game. The objective of this game is to block the other
opposing team playes from passing and reach the end.
There are two teams of about five players each. The object of the game is to get past the
lines, which are guarded by players of the opposite team. Most of the guards face front or back,
but one guard is perpendicular to them.

How to Play:

Patintero is an outdoor game.


Patintero is played on a rectangular grid drawn into the ground. The rectangle is usually 5
to 6 m (16 to 20 ft) in length, and 4 m (13 ft) wide. It is subdivided into four to six equal parts by
drawing a central lengthwise line and then one or two crosswise lines. The size of the rectangle
and the number of subdivisions can be adjusted based on the number of players. The individual
squares in the grid must be large enough that someone can stay in the middle out of reach of
someone standing on the lines.
The purose of the game is to cross the rectangle back and forth without getting tagged. One
tagger is usually assigned per crosswise line.
Taggers can only move along their respective lines. with the exception of the tagger on the
first line who is regarded as the team leader (patoto). Unlike the other taggers, the patoto can also
move along the central lengthwise line. Taggers can tag runners at any time, including those
already past them, but both of their feet must always be on the lines.
Runners can cross anytime, however, they can only exit the playing rectangle at both ends
of the rectangle. Once a runner is tagged, they are out and will sit out the match until the next
game.
Teams score points when they complete isang gabi ("one night"), a full circuit of the
playing rectangle, from one end to the other and back again.
Once all the runners have been tagged, the teams reverse roles, with the taggers now
becoming the runners and vice versa.

In some versions of the game, the match ends if even only one runner is tagged. In others,
this only applies if the patoto of the team is tagged. In modern versions, there is also sometimes a
time limit for how long runners can attempt to score points. The match ends once the time is up,
regardless if no points have been scored.
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