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Spinning-top games

The game and its history — explore its living tradition country by country.

Every folk culture has its spinning top game. In Mexico the trompo has organised tournaments. In Malaysia the gasing is a village sport where enormous tops (some 5+ kg) are wound and battled — kept spinning for hours. In Japan competitive koma spinning is a discipline. In India lattu is played by every generation of children. The tops themselves are hand-turned from hardwood by specialist makers.

Explore this game by country

Each country page describes how this game and its variants are played there — its own name, its own board, its own rules.

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