ostrakinda

…game played with seashells, called ostrakinda. Court dodge was a similar game played in 16th-century England.

…elaborations of the game: in ostrakinda, described by the 2nd-century Greek writer Julius Pollux, two teams stood on either side of a line. A shell was spun or tossed in the air, and one team chased the other according to which side of the shell turned up. In another form,…