, onward and upward toward the set direction. he judges for both sides collect the javelins as they keep the scores. Should one of the teams have thrown ten, or more or less, spears over the farthest spear of the opposing team, they have that many points to their credit. usually the team that tallies 100 points first is considered the winner. Sometimes the contest lasts a week. The village where the contest is held plays the role of the hosts and supplies the food for all the visiting contestants. The guests will have their turn to supply food when the game is played in their village. Cheering, singing and dancing is continuous during the games and in the evenings.
Another way of playing the spear game is with heavy, sharp-pointed hardwood spears which the players throw at a target made of a stump of a young coconut tree. The root of the buried stump is shown above the ground about six feet. The number of spears found on the stump for each team determines the points.
Another ancient sport that is very popular among the chiefs is Tau-Lafoga (pitching of small polished coconut shells). The game is played on a narrow, smoothly woven mat about 18 inches wide and 50 feet in length. There are only two or no more than four in each team. On both ends of the mat the players are seated. Each player has about five shells of varied sizes which he tries to land nearest to the end of the mat. Like European bowling, they try to push the opponent's shells off the mat. All the shells left on the mat beyond the opponent's farthest shell are counted, one each for a point. The mat is spread flat on a cushioned surface to allow free sliding of the polished coconut shells.
By moonlight the most popular game is hide-and-seek (moe-moe-saili). It is played by both men and women. A spot is marked in the center of the village playground for a goal. The teams are usually large as they include all the children who are old enough to run. One team leaves the playground to hide its members in any inconspicuous place behind the homes in the village, and as close as possible to the goal. The captain of the hiding team yells or whistles to inform the searching team that they are ready. The ones hiding are alerted to take the first possible chance to make dash for the goal. Touching the goal is a point. The searching team is supposed to be away from the goal at a set distance from where they can run and touch the head of the one dashing for the goal. All whose heads are touched before they reached the goal are out. This game is played long into the night.
Another interesting moonlight game is hopping on one foot around a human ring (atiga). The player holds a newly-woven coconut-leaf basket between his or her teeth. As the player hops around he tries to drop the basket backward over his head, so as to touch a member of the opposing tem and make a point. In the ring, seats are arranged so as to have members of the two contesting teams sit next to each other. Should the basket be dropped accidentally by the player in touching any of his own team, he is out and the basket belongs to the other side. All members of both teams forming the ring, are restricted from moving in order to dodge the basket. The number of points necessary to be declared the winner is agreed upon by captains of both teams before the game is started.
Wrestling is played by boys. Points are made when the opponent is floored or when he staggers and touches the grounds with his hands.
Canoe racing and surf-riding are also very popular among the young men.
Modern games such as football, volley ball, basket ball, cricket, tennis and soft ball are played in the schools and some of the villages.
Something of great value protected behind a gate of pure ivory which opens and closes up and down. Answer: The tongue. The movable gate of ivory is the upper and lower jaw with teeth.
Somebody who warns the world at the exact time every night about the coming of day. answer: The rooster.
The woman who wears long and grey hair. She sits on the rock wall. Her hair floats in the sky. Answer: The stone oven, heated. he grey hair is the smoke that rises to the sky.
A thing that tries to reach the sea. On its way it leaves a trail. Answer: The river.
Your most honest friend that protects you from fire and snow. He is clever and moves quickly from danger. Answer: The tongue.
Twenty soldiers who wear white helmets. They serve you faithfully in your waking hours on self defence. Answer: The toes and fingers. The white helmets are the nails.
 Answer: The hen. The balls of ivory are eggs.
Games of rhyming are also popular. One gives a list of names of fishes and the opponent is asked to rhyme them with names of birds, trees, animals or such as that. One says, "I now have a fish known as gatala." A selected member of the opposing team would reply, "Gatala rhymes with ti'otala." In the same manner they would continue until they could rhyme no more, then they would change probably to names of trees to rhyme with names of animals or plants. Very often both sides would try to blame each other and debate the rhyming of the fish ulua with lelefua. The guessing team insists it rhymed but their opponents argue that lelefua is a butterfly and not a bird. The guessing side would argue that all things that fly are birds, etc. A settlement is always asked from an of the older folks who are present who usually decide on having the side with the best singers and dancers the losers just so that they may be ordered to sing and dance by the victors.
They also amuse themselves with the "Silence Game" (Taputapu Gagana). All participants are instructed not to talk, move, whisper, cough or laugh. sometimes winking at each other is also forbidden. A chant is sung by all members of the two teams. The last word of the chant is understood to be the deadline and all are expected to be absolutely silent. Laughing is the most common offense. A wink from someone to a member of the opposing tem might force somebody to laugh. Finding the guilty one is the greatest fun, when both offenders blame each other as the instigator. The fans usually force the one they want to plead guilty and be punished. Punishment is oftentimes a comical dance or smearing of his face with charcoal.
Fuaga (juggling) is a woman's game. The player sings a song as she tosses three or more oranges over her head and keeps them in the air as long as possible. The length of the act is decided by the number of times the participants repeated the words of the song for the player. When she drops an orange she stops and the other team selects a player.
Tolotolo-uga (Crawling-Snail_ is a guessing game played by the villagers at moonlight. The players must know each other well. Behind a screen or cloth stretched tight by two players of the hiding team crawls one as the two members stretching the screen sing as they all march toward the other team who will give only one guess of the name of the person hiding behind the screen. A wrong guess makes one point for the hiding team, who continue on until the right name is given, when the curtain changes hands.
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