THE GAME(S)


TANTANG MATA
It’s, of course, a game which involves eye contact between two people. All you really actually have to do is to sit in front of the person you're competing with and stare at him/her in the eye. As simple as that, unless you're competing with someone you like. The one with the ability to stare longer is the winner. This game makes you laugh in embarrassment but at the same time gives you self-confidence in making eye contact. You can also challenge EVERYONE to do this and it IS very easy because no items are needed and it is most enjoyable when played between people of the opposite sex such as children and teenagers. But mostly teenagers.

KASUT GERGASI
This game itself can produce family, friends and other bonds between the local, no matter how different they may be. It needs a split wooden planks and are fastened to the first player’s feet. Every team consists of five contestants and they have to race a distance of sixty or less metres each. Each player in each team has to change to the player next in line AFTER completing his or hers turn. And yes, you have to squeeze in with the other contestants. The team that finishes first is the winner.


 
PASANG
It is a two player strategy board game in which the board is 10x10 square and like chess, the object of the game is to acquire the most points by capturing black and white tokens on the board. 

It is 100% pure Bruneian.
Black tokens are worth 1 point and the white ones are 2 points worth. The game is unrelated to any board games EVER invented. Overreacting? Yes! Back to the game, it is different because there is a rule in the second and third phase that an odd number of pieces must be captured reminiscent of the capturing rule in Rimau of Malaysia.  The middle point of the board is removed along with the four segments connected to it and also four diagonal lines from four corners of the board connecting to the four corners of the 2x2 empty square.
  

"Ikan Bernang/Swimming Fish"


There are over 30 different traditional patterns.
There is a total of 120 intersection points and 120 tokens to be played upon. Each player 60 pieces. One plays black and the other plays white. Any two colours will suffice.

The rules:
1. The board after being laid out, with all the pieces on the intersection points in one of two patterns, the players must agree on which pattern to be lay out.
2.Once the pattern is agreed upon, lay out now the pieces accordingly. Players themselves then will decide who goes first.
3. Players capture the pieces alternately. One move, one turn, one token captured.
4. Reminder: Black token 1 point and 2 points for the white ones.

Now, for the FIRST PHASE;
1.First player has to choose a 5 piece column to capture on their respective half of the board. He or she captures first and has eleven possible columns to choose from. But mind you, from the first player’s side. Empty column left on the board is called a ‘passage’.
2.The second player then does the more or less same thing as the first player but is dependent upon which quadrant the first player had chosen for his or her 5 piece column.

SECOND PHASE? Read on.
Each player has a ‘ka’ from among the tokensnest to the passage ot tokens one column away from the passage.  ‘ka’ is used to capture the tokens on the board THROUGHOUT the game so it is important. It then enters the passage and captures any odd number of tokens of the same colour that if forms a line with from any orthogonal direction.
Players have two ways of playing the game.
1. Sliding.
The ‘ka’ slides HORIZONTALLY(one space only) into the passage, capturing pieces and from that intersection point will be moved to or in the passage.
P/s : The ‘ka’ only can possibly capture the pieces those are in the same rows or columns nearest to the ‘ka’.
Captured pieces cannot be belong to both both colum or row and must be of the SAME colour and NOT both black and white. Too bossy? There also must be add number of pieces excluding the ‘ka’.
p/s : The ‘ka’ is no longer representitive of any colour because it is a non-coloured piece.
The ‘ka’ and odd number monochrome pieces must form a line in a row or column uninterrupted by the other player’s ‘ka’. More or less asking not to be ‘amai tangan’. The ‘ka’ and the monochrome pieces can be seperated from each other with empty spaces but the ‘ka’ can be in any position in this time with the monochrome piece. If many capturing line is formed, players must choose ONE AND ONLY ONE to capture.
2. Jumping
The ‘ka’ jumps horizontally over the column next to the passage and lands in the passage. After that, the game play and rules are the same as the sliding method.

FINALLY! THIRD PHASE;
i) Each player now may move orthogonally to any number of unoccupied spaces as long as it can be captured. EVERY move is a capturing move.
P/s : The capturing method for the rest of the game is SLIGHTLY different.
A ‘ka’ that moves horizontally can only capture vertically pieces on a column and likewise to a ‘ka’ that moves vertically, it can only capture horizontally pieces. It is ONLY IN SECOND PHASE that a ‘ka’ can move into a space and capture either the horizontal or vertical direction.

ii) If there is no more pieces to be captured, the winner would be the player with the most points. Total for each player is the score for the game. If the game can no longer go on because one player can no longer perform a capturing move then that player is the loser and the other player is the winner. It’s a situation called ‘suntuk’ in Brunei.

Simban

Simban is a very popular game here in Brunei Darussalam, played by many people with slight variations.
 Items used here are just mere rocks or stones.

 The stones are thrown down randomly on the ground in front of the player. He or she then has to pick them up in SEVEN different ways. The players who makes the LEAST fumbles wins. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Brunei traditional games:

Tarik Kalat

2) At the start of the game , people who took part stands on the side of the rope and wait for the match to start.

Kikik or layang-layang are kites, and is one of the traditional games of Brunei and it is mostly played on a windy day.
 

The items used are: 

i) bamboo stick

ii) ball of yarn

There are various kinds of kites that are favourites amongst people. Some of them are kikik jelama(kite of people), kikik lasik(diamond-shaped kite), kikik jangkang(rhombus-shaped kite). As for the patterns, there are the flag of Brunei,animals and etc. Bamboo frames are added or covered with thin kite paper and measure anything from 18 inches to 4 feet in length. During competitions, contestants take turns to fly their kite. Points are given to the quality of the kite, its decorations, flying techniques and aerial monovers. It takes skill to handle a kite, especially when the wind is high.