Editing Hand game

{{Short description|Game played using the hands}}
{{About|games played with the hands|the feature in card games|Hand game (cards)}}
[[File:Mushi-ken (虫拳), Japanese rock-paper-scissors variant, from the Kensarae sumai zue (1809).jpg|thumb|300px|[[Sansukumi-ken|Mushi-ken]], a Japanese hand game (1809)]]

'''Hand games''' are [[game]]s played using only the [[hands]] of the players.<ref name="Norbeck">{{cite book|title=Forms of play of native North Americans |editor=Edward Norbeck, Claire R. Farrer|work=Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society|year=1977|location=[[St. Paul, Minnesota]]|publisher=[[West (publisher)|West]]}}</ref> Hand games exist in a variety of cultures internationally, and are of interest to academic studies in [[ethnomusicology]] and [[music education]].<ref name="Norbeck"/><ref>{{cite journal|author=Catherine McLaughlin|year=2009|title=Cultural hand games inspire students|journal=Alberta Sweetgrass|issue=16|volume=4|page=8}}</ref> Hand games are used to teach music literacy skills and socio-emotional learning in elementary music classrooms internationally.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gluschankof |first1=Claudia |last2=Kenney |first2=Susan Hobson|title=Music Literacy in an Israeli Kindergarten|journal=[[General Music Today]]|year=2011 |volume=25|issue=1|pages=45–49|doi=10.1177/1048371311414880 |s2cid=144182018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Jacobi, Bonnie S|work=[[Music Educators Journal]]|title=Opportunities for Socioemotional Learning in Music Classrooms|date=December 1, 2012|volume=99|issue=2|pages=68–74}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Twentieth-century school music literature in China: a departure from tradition|author=Lau, Wai-Tong|work=Journal of Historical Research in Music Education|date=October 1, 2005|volume=17|issue=1|page=33}}</ref>

==Examples of hand games==
* [[Chopsticks (hand game)|Chopsticks]] (sticks)
* [[Clapping game]]s
* [[Mercy (game)|Mercy]]
* [[Morra (game)|Morra]] (finger counting)
* [[Odds and evens (hand game)|Odds and evens]]
* [[Pat-a-cake]] and variations:
** [[Mary Mack]]
* [[Red hands]] (or hand-slap game)
* [[Rock paper scissors]]
* [[Thumb war]] (or thumb wrestling)
* "[[Where are your keys?]]" (language acquisition game)

Less strictly, the following may be considered hand games:
* [[Bloody knuckles]]
* [[Fingers (game)|Fingers]] (drinking game)
* [[Jacks (game)|Jacks]]
* [[Knife game]]
* [[Spellbinder (paper-and-pencil game)|Spellbinder]]
* [[Stick gambling]]
* [[String game]]s, such as [[cat's cradle]]

==References==
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