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The Hawaiian Luau: Games

This libguide is about the Hawiian Luau, which includes many aspects of what makes a Luau a celebration for all. This is directed towards my classmates to educate them on the Luau, because we will all be attending one on our trip to Hawaii.

Hot Coconut

The rules of this game are the same as those of hot potato. Pass the coconut around while traditional Hawaiian music plays and when the music stops, the person who is left holding a coconut is out of the game.

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Konane

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Konane is a traditional Hawaiian board game that is very similar to checkers. You can create your own Konane board if you do not have one. Grab a sizable cardboard piece. On the card board, make a 64-space grid. White and black stones are alternated until each square is filled. The object of the game is to hop over the pieces of the other player. They can leap left, right, up, and down. You can take someone else's pieces off the board by jumping over them. 

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Spear Throwing

'O'o ihe, which is spear throwing, is a frustratingly hard task that formerly taught young warriors how to fight with hand-to-hand spears and helped them acquire food-gathering abilities. A target is set up, occasionally the stalk of a banana plant. Participants attempt to drive a lightweight wooden spear into it while standing 15 feet away. King Kamehameha I was regarded as the most proficient spear-wielding chief in recorded history. Six spears were flung at him at once; three he caught, two he parried, and the sixth he nimbly evaded by a small inclination of his body, according to one onlooker. 

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'Ulu Maika

'Olohu, also known as 'ulu maika, was one of the most well-liked sports in early Hawaii. It consisted of rolling carefully crafted playing stones, resembling modern hockey pucks, on specially prepared courses. The stones were either rolled down lengthy courses to demonstrate strength or between stakes to test a player's abilities. Situated on the island of Moloka'i, this course is roughly 500 feet long. 

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Dart Sliding

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Similar to the competition in 'ulu maika, a player slides a moas, or wooden dart, between two stakes or across large distances. The moa slides and is even more erratic in its path than it is rolling like an 'ulu. 

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Limbo

Two people hold a stick on opposite ends and others try to walk under the stick. The more the game continues the lower the stick goes. hence the saying "how low can you go".

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