PATINTERO

Patintero is a children's game usually played on empty streets,

schoolyards and beaches. It involes a grid drawn on the ground

where one team will try to pass through while the opposing team tries to catch them without leaving the grid's lines at all times.

Patintero is the most widely played native game in the Philippines.

You don't need any equipment to play it, but for an official game,

 prepare chalk to mark lines on the ground and perhaps a whistle

and a stop watch to set a time limit. There are two teams of about

 five players each. The object of the game is to get past the lines,

 which are guarded by players of the opposite team. Most of the

guards face front or back, but one guard is perpendicular to them.

The game is prepared on the ground by drawing a rectangular field

(usually five to six meter with four parallel lines inside) using either

water, stick and charcoal on the ground to define the boundary.
To play, one set of taggers or the 'it' situate themselves inside the

lines of the rectangle while the runners will try to get through both ends of the field and back without being tagged or blocked. When caught, they right away change roles. The group that has lesser tagged

 incidents is declared winner. The games is widespread in Luzon,

Visayas, and Mindanao