Boling Kelapa (Coconut Bowling)

Bowling kelapa is a modified version of the real bowling game, using a coconut as the ball and plastic bottles as pins.
 Traditionally in Sarawak, this game has been played by those who have no access to the real bowl and pins as it cost a penny to enter those
establishments.






 Compared to the real bowling ball, the coconut poses a challenge when it rolls as it is not totally round. Join this game and be challenged by the coconut!

Congkak

Congkak is a mancala game of Malay origin played in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei and Southern Thailand.
 
Congkak, which is often considered a game for girls, has simple rules that allow the boards to have different numbers of holes. Congkak boards are often made of teak or mahogany wood are often elaborately carved into various shapes such as naga or birds.

 

HOW TO PLAY

The Congkak board has fourteen holes in two sets of seven (some have ten holes in two sets of five, some have eighteen holes in two sets of nine), plus an additional bigger store-hole for each player. Each player controls the seven holes on their side of the board, and their score is the number of seeds in their left-hand store. In Indonesia, the holes are called anak ("child"), while the larger store holes are called indung ("mother").
A total of 98 pieces are used in the two sets of seven board version. In Southeast Asia, cowrie shells and tamarind seeds are the most common. Seven seeds are placed in each hole except for the players' store. The objective of the game is to capture more seeds than one's opponent.
The main method of play has rules as described below.
Players take turns moving the seeds except in the first move which is performed simultaneously, beginning with the hole closest to his/her own store. After this first simultaneous movement, once the last seed falls into an empty hole, the players' first turn is over and the opponent of the player who reached an empty hole first commences his/her turn after the other player has finished his opening move too. On a turn, a player chooses one of the seven holes under their control. The player removes all seeds from this hole, and distributes them in each hole clockwise from this hole, in a process called sowing. Sowing skips an opponent's store, but does not skip a player's own store.
If a player is unable to fill a hole with seven seeds that hole is considered sunog ("burnt"); all excess seeds are returned to the store. The round begins with the player with no sunog holes taking his/her turn sowing first.
If the last seed falls into an occupied hole, all the seeds are removed from that hole, and are sown starting from that hole. The process continues until the last seed falls into a player's store, or an empty hole.
If the last seed sown falls into a player's own store, they immediately earn another turn, which can begin at any of the seven holes under their control.
The game ends, when a player has no seeds in his holes at the start of his turn. The remaining seeds are awarded to his opponent.
The objective of the game is to capture more seeds than one's opponent.

NYABUNG MANUK

A traditional game that the Iban universally play in Sarawak is cockfighting, a game said to be first played by the deities.

 As this game was, and is, the traditional sport of the spirits and deities, it must also be held at all major religious festivals to please the gods who are believed to be spiritually present.4 Because of the importance of cockfighting to the Iban mind, there exists an elaborate terminology particularly for the colorations of plumage, and it is believed that there are special times when it is best to fight each rooster according to its colouration.

Here's a sample video of how it works,

Bepangka

From the month of June to August men traditionally played with spinning tops (bepangka) all over the country.
Top spinning was believed to make easier the felling of trees for new padi fields.

Again, in late February the young men traditionally played with tops once more in order to burst spiritually the womb or kandong of the padi so as to hasten the ripening of the grain. As men are spinning tops, boys play with small tops made by their fathers. Iban tops are usually made of tough, strong woods such as kayu malam, bait, engkerutak, mengeris, and tapang.

Sumpit Dayak/ Blowpipe

Sumpit is a blowpipe used by the indigenous ethnic groups in Sarawak in the past to hunt for animals in the jungle.

The sumpit and the darts are made from different materials such as wood and bamboo as well as fiber glass. Sumpit has become one of the traditional games for competition in Sarawak and is enjoyed by people from all walks of life.

Batak Lampong

Batak Lampong is a traditional sport of the Iban in Sarawak.
Batak means pull in the Iban language while Lampong refers to a light and medium length piece of wood.

It is a traditional sport where two persons sit flat on the ground to compete by pulling on the wood. This traditional sport was in the past held at the “pemetong” of the door (door divider) if it was held in a house. Traditionally in the longhouse, the loser has to drink tuak. The purpose of this sport is to test the strength of players and to strengthen community relations in the longhouse. This sport is usually held during the Gawai Festival.

Binsulong

Binsulong is a traditional game of Kadazandusun people. There is a string “trapped” inside the double-loop rattan spiral and you need to pull it out without cutting the string. Here's how a Binsulong looks like.

Here we have a young girls trying hard to solve the binsulong.

 Below we have a sample of how this game goes can the method to solve the binsulong.