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ALL YOU HAVE ALWAYS WONDEREDABOUT
THE SAPO GAME 
AND YOU ARE NOW DARING TOASK!!!!
Origins of the game - Knownnames of the game - Geographicaldistributionof the game - What the game consists of - Otherknown variants - Buenos Aires tournament�s rules-Assemble it yourself- Assemblingcomponents- Suggested assembling sequence - Photos- Dismantlingphotos - epistolary interchange - piecesplane ( year 1942)
Links: http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Pitching-Discs.htm
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Thanks to James Masters.
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Translated by ycristal@yahoo.com
Though the game of throwing andputting chips or pieces into certain orifices, cavities, of any form and size dates back of immemorialtimes, some people award the origin of this game to an old Inca legend. Thisculture venerated toads by their magic powers. The legend says that in holidays, golden pieces werethrown to the lakes, and if a toad jumped and 'ate' the piece, it changed into gold, anda desire was granted to the person that threw the piece.
Namesof the game: Sapogame,
Other known names: La Rada � Tonspel - Tonneau
Spanish: Sapo
English:Toad (Frog)
Portuguese:
Quichua:Ampat�
Guarani:Kururu
Inca:Sapu
Diaguita:Ampatu
Mapuche:Ampatu
French:Grenouille
German:
Southamerica, specially Peru, Argentina and Colombia, withsome old specimens
in Belgium, France, England and Germany.
It consists of a table or booth with several holes or cavities, and, throwingchips from a certain distance, these must be put into the cavities or holes.
The score added each throw, will depend on the hole whereit has been introduced, and score will be increased by the degree of difficulty.
The old woman, the toad, the small mills, (that can bebuilt in iron, bronze or aluminium, the same than the yews, chips, cards or doubloons,) theback holes, and the first ones, will give the score, in this order, from major to minor.
There is no limit for players' number, who will throw the cardsfrom a distance among 5 and 7 steps, granting the ladies, the advantage of throwing from5-step distance and the gentlemen, will do it from a 7-step distance.
These distances are not exact and no regulation saysthey should be, but it is possible to take them as a parameter for the throwing distance.
Also there is no agreement about the number of cards that the players must throw,some people use ten and others use twelve cards or yews each round.
The winner will be the participant who (finished the round ofthrowings) obtains the predetermined score (commonly agreed), and, in case of tiebetween two or more players, a new round will take place.
A variant of the game, is to paly certain number of rounds,the winnner is who obtains the major score.
Scores of the cards that enter any hole in the top partwill be added (for the case that the card moves towards another conduit) and the cards that enterdirectly to the boxes in the frontal part, will discount the respective scorefrom the total score.
Good players don�t bother in any way the player who isthrowing
In Peru and Colombia, the game lacks the element "Oldwoman" or 'Sun' ,that was seemingly incorporated in Argentina, converting it in the mostdifficult throw of the game.
Likewise, in Peru and Colombia, they use to have in the first frontal line, three small mills ofbronze.
4 Legs built in massive parked and selected wood
9 strips, 4 frontals the back one and 4 wings
1 Cover of perforated wood and protective sheet.
2 wings and their corresponding protective sheets.
1 bottom(fund) with protective sheet.
2 triangular wings.
4 trays.
17 strips for trays.
1 toad of bronze.
1 old woman of bronze or another material (iron, aluminium).
1 small mill of bronze
12 chips or cards of bronze
Hammer, drill, grinder, handsaw copa of 38/40 mm,thick and fine sandpaper roles, hand saw, lime, screwdriver, tweezer, presses, scissors for sheet, chisel, blockheads of 8 mm, wick of 8mm, stuffs of 4 mm, nails of 20 mm, nails of 40 mm, screws of 60 and 40 mm(4 to 4 1/2 mm of diameter), strong glue, paintbrushes, painting or glaze,diluter.
A 1 bottom 1�x49x25cm with underhand stope
B 2 wings 1�x14,6x52,5with underhand stope
C 1 piercedtable 50x51 cm MDF 1cm
D 4 legs 30x45mmx80cm
E 12 m.linealstrips 1/2x1�
F Oldwomanconduit 2u x 3cm x 1/2� x 0,90m +1x1/2 x4,5cmx 0,90m
G 1 table 38x80cm slung 5/6mm
H 1 table 38x60cm slung 5/6 mm
J 1 table 38x40cm slung 5/6 mm
K 1 table 38x20cm slung 5/6 mm
L 5 front and backstrips 2x6x38 cm
M 4 lateral strips 1�x5,5cmx45,5 cm
N 2 lateral triangles 45 x 65 cm MDF of 0,9 or 0,5 cm
O 1 sheet 24 /27 (piercedtable protection) 50x53cm
P 1 sheet 24 /27 (back old woman protection 25x49 cm
Q 2 sheets 24 /27 (wings protections) 13,6 x 52,5 cm
R Nails 100 of2cm
S Screws 40de 6 cm
T 40 blockheads 8mm
U Strongglue, � litre
V Antifungifor wood, 0,2 litre
W 1 toad, 1 old woman, 1small mill, 12 cards
X Painting � litre, syntheticenamel or glaze
Materialsandstandard sizes
Plate phenolic 0,6 cm 2,20 x 1,60
Ironsheets 1x 2 m o 1,20 x 2,40
MDF 9mm 2,60 x 1,83 m
OSB2,44 x 1,60Origins of the game - Knownnames of the game - Geographicaldistributionof the game - What the game consists of - Otherknown variants - Buenos Aires tournament�s rules-Assemble it yourself- Assemblingcomponents- Suggested assembling sequence - Photos- Dismantlingphotos - epistolary interchange - piecesplane ( year 1942)
Sendus a picture of your Sapo Game and we will publish it.
mariokristal@gmail.com or mkristal@ciudad.com.ar
Translated by ycristal@yahoo.com
October 2002.-
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