Lagori / Pittu Garam / Seven Stones
Lagori is a team sport that originated in Southern part of India. The sport is a popular playground game, played only at a recreational level. The sport goes by many names, including Pittu Garam (meaning 7 stones), dikori, lingocha, pitto or Satoliya (Rajasthan).
Lagori is played between two teams, with a minimum of three players and a maximum of nine on each team, using seven stones and a rubber ball. Each team gets nine chances, 3 players taking 3 chances each, to knock down the stones that are stacked vertically, from a distance of about 20 feet. If one team is unable to knock down the stones the other team gets the chance to throw.
If the throwing team knocks down the stones, the objective of the team is to stack all the seven stones back. The objective of the defensive team is to strike any player of the throwing team with the ball, below knee level. Players on the defensive team are not allowed to run with the ball and have to pass between players to move the ball.
Lagori stone stackIf the offensive team successfully stacks the stones first, the team receives a point, and gets to throw the ball again. If the defensive team is able to strike a player first below the knee, there is a change in possession.
There are no fixed rules for number of players or match durations. Matches are usually played for a fixed number of points, about 7 to 10.
Similar Sports
- Tenpin Bowling — a player rolls a bowling ball along a wooden or synthetic lane to knock down pins.
- Digor — a sport from Bhutan in which a pair of spherical flat stones are hurled at two targets fixed in the ground 20 meters apart.
- Kho-Kho — the team that takes lesser time to tag all the opponent players wins the game, from India.
Related Pages
- About the general sports of bowling
- List of Boules-type sports
- Sport in India
- Complete list of sports
- The Encyclopedia of Sports
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