Khmer New Year brings with it its own culture of fun and frivolity. That includes traditional games that have been played at this time of year for centuries. Here is Leisure Cambodia's guide to the four most popular games.
ANGKUNH
Angkunh is the large, dark brown nut of a vine. To play this game, two groups of players get together a boy's team and a girl's team. The teams take the Angkunh, which are now called kuoy for the purpose of the game, and place three to five on the ground. These are called the "planting kuoy". Each team then takes more of the nuts and throws these "hitting kuoy" at the planting kuoy, trying to hit them.The team that hits the least planting kuoys loses, and the other team then gets to hit them on the knee with kuoys. There are two ways of doing this. Bai trachheak (cold rice) means the winner puts one kuoy on the opponent's knee and hits with another one. Bai gadao means they put two kuoys together as before but harder so it makes a cracking sound. If no sound is created, the person being hit is allowed to do the same back to the person who has failed to produce the sound.
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