Pronounced as: pee-koh...Is similar to hopscotch...

You need at least 2 players but preferably no more than 4 or 5; coins or other items that players are willing to bet such as bottle caps, fruit seeds (e.g., tamarind or sampalok, cashew unopened nuts or kasoy, etc.); a cue (pamato - likened to a pool or billiard cue ball), if you are using coins, your cue is also a coin but usually a larger coin; if you're betting pennies, you may want to use a quarter for your pamato. If you're using tamarind, you select the largest tamarind seed you can find for your pamato, etc.)

The rules are as follows: Players agree to bet x number of items, for example, 5 pennies each. So if you have 4 players, you have 20 pennies altogether. Now, you draw a big enough square on the round to accommodate all 20 coins. Coins are individually laid flat on the ground and not stacked. You also draw an initial toeline several feet (6-8 feet) away from the square. Who gets the first turn is determined like this: while standing at the square you have drawn, each player tosses his pamato to get it as close as possible to the toeline. The order of taking turns is determined by whoever is closest to the toeline. The objective of the game is for the player to hit the coins inside the square out -- totally out -- of the square. The ones you hit out, you get to keep. If a coin is almost out but still touching the line or edge of the square, that is considered still in the square because it is not totally out. And as long as you are successful in hitting out at least one coin, you continue your turn (you give in to the next player only if you fail to hit out at least one coin). When you hit the coins, obviously your cue or pamato lands somewhere. That is the new point from where you aim for those coins whether or not you are still on your turn or on the next. You lose your turn if you fail to hit out at least one coin. If, in the process of hitting the coins, your cue or pamato ends up in the square (or touching any of the edges of the line), you lose all your turns for that round altogether. A round is ended when all the coins are out of the square. On the next go-round, players again determine how many coins they each will put inside the square.