A family activity that suits the quarantine .. Family entertainment games in the Ramadan evenings

Ramadan is the month of the family gathering par excellence.

With the spread of the Covid-19 virus, staying home and relieving gatherings has become the reality.

And it may be a very good time to recreate meat and entertainment among family members in a long evening that extends from Iftar to Suhoor.

From here, Al-Jazeera Net explored how people spend their time at home after performing their Ramadan rituals, and away from the screens.

Some of those who met Al Jazeera Net suggested beautiful games that they could try to play, recall games from the past, and tell about new games.

Card game is suitable for fun in a family evening (Shutterstock)

Playing cards with friends and family

"Before the craze for soap operas and their matches in Ramadan, my husband used to come every night for useful entertainment with the children, relatives and friends. Before that, my grandfather's house was the first to bring TV to the village, and the neighbors used to meet to watch one station, Lebanon TV."

Nawal Saad Eddin remembers those days.

And it became clear to Al-Jazeera Net that Ramadan had never been associated with her childhood and boyhood with drama and series, so that the fawazes were shocking in the eighties of the last century for her generation.

Nawal considers Ramadan a month of worship and an opportunity to get close to God, and there is nothing wrong with proper entertainment.

Hence, her husband used to allocate a suitable time for each day in the Ramadan evening for entertainment, playing cards with his friends “Tarneeb” and “Lekha”, or with the children with cards, the “14” or “liar” or “crazy eight” and recently “UNO cards”. UNO with grandchildren and it's all fun games.

Sometimes she and her husband play with the children of Monopoly, who entered Lebanon in the sixties of the last century, and used to play them with her brothers before marriage.

She says that her grandchildren are never interested in these games, and she is sad that "their head is on the screen of the phone or tablet (the tablet) all the time."

Turkish Master Aoki game (Al Jazeera)

Mind games and their goals

For his part, Wassim Awwad remembers that his father used to play Monopoly with them, which is a game of buying and building land, and he says that it stimulates the understanding of the importance of investment and is alert to the elements of risk, and the fact that the game depends on dice is an indication that circumstances may oppose the person, and that there is a profit and loss Which makes him think of studying his decisions.

As well as the game "Risk" (risk), which is plans to occupy continents through plastic armies. Wasim says that this game made him preserve the map of the world and its countries, and the session lasted 4 hours and more in an atmosphere of planning and enthusiasm.

Wasim remembers a game that only needs communication, and its name is "Atrophied". His father used to play it with them at all times in the car and in the evening parties, to distract their minds from grief, as happened when his grandfather died.

The game is for a person to harbor a person or a certain thing.

And it begins when someone says "atrophied" and the players ask a question, the answer of which is yes or no, until he arrives at the answer that the person is wrong, and whoever misses the answer does not have the right to the question again, and whoever wins is atrophied and becomes the head of the game.

Wasim says that this game makes the person think about the question, and may get nice information and great fun.

And he practices this game with his children, and finds it suitable for relaxation and deep thinking, and is considered one of the games that make parents and children understand each other's thinking, and it is very suitable for family evenings.

Backgammon The game has spread in cafes since ancient times, and it has moved to homes due to the quarantine in conjunction with Corona (Shutterstock)

Dice and challenge table

Fatima Yassin recalls that she used to go to cafes and Ramadan tents with her friends in the evening for Iftar, which was accompanied by the challenge of playing the backgammon known as backgammon or dice.

"We play the prisoner, whose style my grandfather taught me, just as I learned to play the Franjieh, which is a little different, and my cast is always good."

Fatima challenges the men to play backgammon - they are more skilled at it - and wins more often, she says.

She moved the backgammon game to the house where she plays with her father and siblings, and says that the quarantine made her play hundreds of times, so she stopped since late last summer, and finds it interesting to return now, especially after her brother and his family moved to the village to spend the month of Ramadan with the family in the parents' house.

She indicates that she might take the opportunity to teach her niece (9 years) this game and other games such as "human, animal, thing, cities", which is that they all start with one letter to focus the girl more on the Arabic language and think about plans instead of spending time choosing clothes for the dolls and feeding them On apps games for children on the tablet (tablet) as you indicate.

Chess requires a high concentration of mind (Shutterstock)

Chess online

For his part, Hussam Karim proposes to divide the games between the electronic games that his son plays with his cousin across continents, and mental and realistic games such as chess, checkers, monopoly, submarine warfare, and others.

He refers to a game he saw in Turkey called "Master OK", which is similar to the 14-card game known to many, but with different techniques.

It occupies the mind in math and analysis to get rid of the plastic chips before the rest of the players.

He had brought her with him at the time, and then he bought most of his friends like her, as well as cafes in his neighborhood, and it became very popular among him.

He also plays with his brother, who lives in Dubai, online chess (via the Internet) at least once a week, and the rest of the time he competes with strangers.

Game (The Bounties) and information

Hossam finds that to spend an enjoyable and useful evening, it is also good to include some general and religious information in games with the family, such as maths, such as maths, which he owns a lot of, and some tricks and general information questions.

He says that he finds that fun time with the family is absorbed by the children and helps them overcome barriers with parents, so he and his family often watch funny clips on YouTube (the Internet), believing that laughter strengthens the family's bonds and makes them more close and happy.