"Gilli Danda" is played with two pieces of wood - a danda which is a long wooden stick, and a three inch spindle-shaped gilli.

Standing in a small circle, of about four metres in diameter, the gilli is placed at the center on a stone, which is inclined to raise the gilli. The striker hits the gilli at the raised end with the danda, flipping it into the air.

If a fielder catches the gilli, the striker is out. If not, the fielder closest to the landed gilli tries to hit the danda. If the fielder is successful in hitting the danda, the striker is out; if not, he/she scores points based on the distance between the gilli and the center of the circle. The striker then gets another opportunity to strike. A striker is out if he/she misses to hit the gilli in three successive attempts. The team (or individual) with the most points wins the game.

The marbles are kept inside a circle, about 2 feet wide. One marble is called the shooter, and is used to strike the other marbles inside the circle, from outside the circle. The forefinger of the left hand is stretched back using the forefinger of the right hand, holding the marble in between. Now keeping the left thumb firm on the ground, aiming for the marbles inside the circle, the shooter marble is released. The marbles that are thrown outside the circle belong to the shooter.

In another version, a hole is dug in the ground, and the striker tries to throw all the marbles inside the hole. The ones that fail to enter the hole are in jeopardy. The other players ask the striker to hit the marbles that didn’t enter the hole. If he/she succeeds, then all the marbles belong to him/her, and if not the other players get a chance to try the same.

In both the versions of this Indian game, the player with the maximum marbles wins.

In addition to the rules of cricket, gully cricket has evolved with its own regulations. One tip- one hand out, winners to continue, dismissal if the ball goes in any house, three consecutive body touch - were few of the adaptations that were made as per the street conditions. In some moronic circumstances, the side that owned the bat used to bat first.

One of the players is the seeker/denner/it, whose task is to catch the other players and grow the chain. Once a player gets caught he/she belongs to the seeking/denner team. Now both the players will try to catch the other kids and thus augmenting the chain.

In India, there are two variations of this childhood game - Band Chain (closed chain),when all the players in the seeking/denner team hold their hands while trying to catch the others, or Khuli chain ( open chain),when the seekers/denners can run freely without holding hands (imagine the debacle).

A tower with seven stones is made and the players are divided into two teams. Each team gets three attempts to break the tower with a tennis ball. If the team fails to do so, the other team gets a chance. When any team succeeds in knocking over the tower, their aim is to rebuild the tower while the other team tries to hit the team building the tower, with the ball. If the first team builds the tower without getting hit, they win but if the defending team hits the striking team with the ball, the defending team wins. Both teams take alternate chances to strike the pithoo.

There is just one rule to this game - Survive and thrive. Although there are some moral grounds that suggest that not more than two kites should duel. There are also a lot of safety rules to be kept in mind in order to avoid accidents. One should make sure that if flying on a terrace, there is proper fencing and while running on the streets to catch the kite, the eyes are on the road and not up in the sky. Kite lines can get tangled in the electrical power lines, resulting in power blackouts.

One of the player is chosen as denner/seeker/it and the other players hide themselves within the decided boundary. After counting till hundred with his/her eyes closed, the seeker announces the onset of his/her hunt. On finding a player, the denner/seeker/it calls out I-spy and the player who is caught is out of the game, while the denner/seeker/it proceeds to find the other players.

In India, the other players can defeat the denner/seeker/it by touching him before he/she does and call “dabba”. The same player repeats his/her den. If the denner/seeker/it finds all the players, the first player to get caught becomes denner/seeker/it.

Top fights are a form of duelling where two players combat with their tops. The aim is knock off the other person’s top. The first one to do so while keeping their own top spinning wins. In India, another version of the game is to be the make your top spin the longest. All the players unwind their tops with their respective ropes simultaneously.

The Playing Court is drawn on a flat surface (usually the floor of alleys) with the help of a piece of coal or chalk.

The first player tosses the stone into square number one. It can't touch any of the lines or bounce out. That player then jumps the course skipping the square having the stone (square number one in this case) , with one foot where there are single squares. Where there are two adjacent squares (3-4 or 6-7) they are straddled. The left foot lands in the left square and the right lands on the right. On reaching square number two, the player picks the stone and jumps to the initial position skipping square number one.

Upon successfully completing the course, the player continues the turn by tossing the stone into the next square (square number two), and similarly repeating the pattern.

If, while hopping through the court in either direction, the player steps on a line or puts both the feet on single squares, the turn ends. The first player to complete one course for every numbered square on the court wins the game.

In another variation the stone is kicked sequentially back through the course on the return trip and then kicked out.

After blindfolding, the denner is rotated three times to disorient them. The aim is to touch/tag another player, who then becomes the denner/”it”. A boundary is set, outside which the players are not allowed to move. The denner is warned with claps if he/she goes outside the decided boundary. To spice up this childhood game, players tease the denner to signal him/her towards them. In India, blindfold is popularly known as “Aankh Micholi”

The ball is thrown in the air, and the players run to catch the ball first. Each player tries to hit the other players with the ball. The player who gets hit is eliminated from the game. Usually a boundary is decided beyond which the players cannot go. The last player to survive elimination wins. This childhood game, when played just for fun, is without the elimination and goes on for a decided period of time. In India, Dodgeball is popularly known as “Maram Pitti”.