Spanish Games

Spanish Games posts cover traditional games and sports rooted in Spain. Articles look at pelota and the various Basque court games, mus and tute card games played in cafes by older men, the Catalan castells human towers built at festivals, juego de la rana with its frog target, lawn bowls played as petanca, and the older folk games of Andalusia and Extremadura that have mostly been replaced by football. There are also short notes on the Spanish baraja card deck with its forty cards in four suits, on chess as a serious tradition since Ruy Lopez in the sixteenth century, and on the games children play on the school patio.