How do you play the native American stick toss game?

Answer 1

You take four sticks and color one a "sun stick (draw four suns on it)" and another a "four directions (draw four arrows on it pointing different directions)" and another the "rain stick (draw three horizontal lines in the middle and three blue dots on each side of the lines)" and the last a "lightning stick (four lightning bolts)". Then you take 15 blank sticks for the points. One person takes the marked sticks and tosses them. If the "rain stick" is face down, you hand the sticks to the other player. If it is up, count your points. 3 points if the rain stick is up, 4 points if the four directions is up, and 1 point if the sun or lightning stick is up (if one of them is face down, it's 0 points and no points AT ALL if the rain stick is down.) NOTE: If you get the rain stick facing up, you keep going until you get it face down. When I say points, I mean the point STICKS, not mental points. The game can be as long as you like, you can stop whenever you like and when you stop when you want to, the person with the most points wins.

ANSWER #2

Now! their are different types of handgames to play. If you was to play a regular handgames as a type of classroom involvement.

• It will be called Intertribal. Which has 11 sticks they consist of 5 sticks a piece of the 2 opposing teams and one bonus stick. In the their are live and dead sticks in this game. you have to play for couple of hours before all sticks are dead then the last stick is if one team could win or lose.
• Then in the west by Montana is called cheyenne style ( bonus stick ) or blackfeet style (no bonus stick). Uncleared how this game is played, but same stickgame
• In Oklahoma they have also started stickgames which includes 12 sticks for the opposing teams. which includes 24 sticks. they would have to race to the middle to win the whole game. And their is a bonus stick
• In the Midwest is Lakota Style is with state of South Dakota. or part of lakota, Dakota, and nakota tribes. This includes 8 sticks for each 2 teams which is total of 16 sticks. and no bonus stick.

So this will depend what tribe you come from. One of these games will be played in a tournament or independently. The answer above doesn't specify what type stickgame is or what kind is played it just says it.