Körebe - “Blind Midwife” (Blind Man’s Bluf

Köroğlu Kaleden Çıktı - Köroğlu Came Down Out of the Castle

Köroğlu is a legendary hero of the Turks. The players are divided into two groups, those who are in the “castle” (home base) and those who are hiding. The leader of the ones in the castle says “Köroğlu has come down out of the castle,” and starts looking for those in hiding. Then one of the ones hiding goes to the castle and begins to hit the ones inside. The ones in the castle then cry for help from their leader, crying “Köroğlu, save us!” Köroğlu comes to the castle, and if he sees one of the opponents, the game is over. The teams switch sides in the next game.

Kulaktan Kulağa - From Ear to Ear

This game is played by boys and girls on winter nights. The child who is “it” has all the other children sit side by side, and sits on the end. He or she then whispers a sentence or rhyme in the ear of the child next to him. The second player must say the same sentence or rhyme to the one next to him, and so on until it has reached the other end of the line. The last child then says the phrase aloud. It is usually diferent than the way the first child said it. Then all the children say it, from last to first, and whichever child changed it, becomes the next “it.” –Çanakkale