Snatching of Handkerchief or commonly known as Agawan ng panyo o Laglag Panyo.
It is commonly played by children, usually using handkerchief. In the Philippines, due to limited resources of toys of Filipino children, they usually come up on inventing games without the need of anything but the players themselves.
With the flexibility of a real human to think and act makes this game more interesting and challenging. A few decades ago, kids used to gather in the streets or in their neighborhood playground to play their favorite Larong Pinoy games like piko, patintero, taguan, tumbang preso, siato, luksong tinik, etc.
These has been their regular and popular pastimes, but at the inventive mind of someone the Agawan ng Panyo came up and became popular especially for the street children because it only needed a single handkerchief and just their selves.
Some people says that more of the traditional games including Agawan ng Panyo does not no longer played but it is not true because as of now there are thousands of street children who played it and there are a lot of people that use Agawan ng Panyo as one of their games in their parties or events.
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Snatching of Handkerchief or commonly known as Agawan ng panyo o Laglag Panyo.
It is commonly played by children, usually using handkerchief. In the Philippines, due to limited resources of toys of Filipino children, they usually come up on inventing games without the need of anything but the players themselves.
With the flexibility of a real human to think and act makes this game more interesting and challenging. A few decades ago, kids used to gather in the streets or in their neighborhood playground to play their favorite Larong Pinoy games like piko, patintero, taguan, tumbang preso, siato, luksong tinik, etc.
These has been their regular and popular pastimes, but at the inventive mind of someone the Agawan ng Panyo came up and became popular especially for the street children because it only needed a single handkerchief and just their selves.
Some people says that more of the traditional games including Agawan ng Panyo does not no longer played but it is not true because as of now there are thousands of street children who played it and there are a lot of people that use Agawan ng Panyo as one of their games in their parties or events.