Do you know that Amber Drinks Ltd is celebrating its first anniversary with an online game called “Amber Rush” ? Here are 5 reasons why you should play Amber Rush:
1. You can win amazing prizes
Playing a game and winning amazing prizes has to be the best thing since jollof rice, brace yourselves and win loads of goodies.
2. It’s a good way to kill boredom
An idle mind they say is the devil’s workshop. Do you wanna be lazy on the bed doing nothing or tasking your brain with an engaging game?
3. A great exercise
Brace yourselves and get a chilled can of Amber Energy Drink as you’d be doing a lot of screen tapping which is good for finger exercise.
4. You can challenge your friends to beat your highscore
To all your friends who think they are better than you in gaming, here’s your chance to prove them wrong.
5. You can improve your financial status
Wouldn’t you want to change your financial status from a thousand naira to a million bucks? Well, by playing the Amber Rush game, you too can stand a chance to call yourself a millionaire.
Like Jumanji, there are certain games that cause nothing but anger, frustration, and misery amongst friends and family, leading to the complete destruction of relationships you once thought would be always and forever. Games like:
1) Monopoly
A board game with a runtime seemingly never less than 6 hours, Monopoly brings out the absolute worst in every single player. You know your inner sadist has jumped out and taken over when you already own all the houses but refuse to end the game, even though everyone else is broke.
Can you guess the Nigerian artist from two clues?
The Zikoko Game show is finally here!! In the first episode, the contestants attempt to decipher the name of Nigerian artists from two picture clues shown to them. Do you think you can do better than them? Let us know how many you get correctly.
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2) Scrabble
You’re playing the game with a friend while others watch. It’s your turn and even though you’ve gone through your available letter tiles countless times, you can’t come up with a word that’ll give enough points. It’s been 20 minutes. You’re stressed AF because you know that with each passing second, they’re judging the hell out of you. You finally play a basic word (e.g. dog) and someone snickers. Enraged, you throw the nearest wine bottle at the person’s face. There’s blood, pieces of skin, and broken teeth everywhere. Game night has descended into chaos, and Satan is pleased.
3) Whot!
Specifically, the Nigerian multi-player game named General Market. There’s nothing worse than the betrayal you feel when you think you’re about to shut shit down with your last card and then someone you consider a friend (or worse, family) destroys your dreams of being a winner by smacking you in the face with a barrage of pick 2s, pick 3s, and general markets.
4) Football Video Games
It always starts out innocently enough and almost always ends like this:
Player 1 (to opponent): “I gave you 2 goals at the beginning of the match and still won 6-0!”
Player 2 (dropping pad and walking off): “Maybe if your father worked this hard on his marriage your mother wouldn’t have left him for your landlord.”
Onlookers will now be like:
5) Charades
The aim of the game is to describe things, people, places, or phrases without speaking. Safe to say, the possibility of you making a big fool of yourself with this game is a strong 10, and worse still, if your teammate doesn’t know what you’re trying to describe and spends the entire time just staring at you, confused AF.
6) After round one
It involves the last person standing, getting their hands slapped with no mercy. That’s enough to let you know the amount of tension this game starts and ends with. Also, if your friendship isn’t built on solid ground, you might leave this game and block the other players.
7) Musical chairs
The players are supposed to dance around an uneven number of chairs until one seat is left, and someone is crowned the winner. But there’s almost never dancing involved in this game. It’s almost always just a quick two-step with everyone staring daggers at each other.
Growing up in Nigeria can be all shades of awesome, weird and just plain insane, depending on the kind of Nigerian parents you had. But, the awesomeness of playground time cannot be disputed, sometimes I want to shed off this adult skin and dance in the rain while playing suwe or ten-ten.
We’ve listed seven games that make us reminisce about our childhood. Do you remember any?
Ten-Ten
This involves a lot of hand and leg movement; clapping your hands against your partner’s in a fast rhythm while moving your legs in a opposite direction to theirs, trying to best them.
Suwe
Multiple squares are drawn within a big rectangle on the floor, then each player hops on one leg after throwing a pebble in a square. The goal is to avoid stepping on the square with the pebble in it.
Boju-Boju
This is Nigeria’s equivalent of hide and seek. The only difference being that the seeker must sing; “boju-boju, oloro nbo, shey kin shi? (close your eyes, close your eyes, a maquerade is coming, should I open my eyes?)” while others find hiding places until they give permission to the seeker to open his/her eyes.
Who Is In The Garden?
After forming “a big circle like your mother’s cooking pot”, the next step is for someone to get within the circle then begin a call and response chant; “Who is in the garden? A little fine girl. Can I come and see her? No no no no. I beg my sister/brother follow me.“
I Call On!
This is an indoor game that requires each player to write the letters of the alphabet on a notebook, then proceed to write names of people, places, animals, fruits and things that begins with any letter that is called on. The player with the highest results wins.
Who Stole The Meat From The Cooking Pot?
This is also a call and response outdoor game that also involves forming a circle. An accusation of who stole the imaginary meat is made and everyone shifts the blame, you are out of the game if you get caught unaware with no response ready.
“Number one stole the meat from the cooking pot. You mean me? Yes you. It couldn’t be. Then who? Number two stole the meat from the cooking pot.“
When Will You Marry?
This involves a round of questions that must be answered while the player skips rope. Questions usually include; “When will you marry, this year, next year, single forever? How many wives/husbands will you have? How many kids would you have? How many cars would you buy? How many houses would you build?”
So, which of these were your favorite?
Growing up, a number of games shaped our childhoods and frankly our whole lives. Tinko-tinko taught us pristine hand-eye co-ordination, Ayo sharpened our math skills. We are pretty sure this list isn’t exhaustive, but for me these are the most memorable childhood games I can remember.
Who is in the garden?
Who remembers how the chant went?
“Who is in the garden?”
“A little fine girl”
“Can I come and see her?”
“No no no no”
Suwe
To the ajebos its hopscotch but to me, it’ll always be Suwe. Who remembers slipping bits of chalk stolen from class to draw the lines for Suwe during break?
Ten-ten
For reasons I’ll never understand, this game was only ever played by girls. It was mad fun though.
After round one
This game was the bane of my existence because I always lost, but that didn’t stop me from playing it every day. I’d go home with my hands red and smarting but would still play it the next day.
When will you marry?
It’s funny how for me this went from being just a childhood game to a real-life question I’m asked every day.
Tinko-tinko
Your hand-eye coordination needed to be on point for this one. Miss a beat and you lose.
Name, Place, Animal, Food, Thing
Trying to fill out this form for X, U, V and Q used to be so hard.
Fire on the mountain
I remember never really running too far once I heard “There is fire on the mountain, run run run” so that I could easily get a partner once I heard “the fire is out”.
Boju-boju
You might know this one as hide and seek, but the real OGs remember this as boju-boju.
Form a big circle
This might not have exactly been a game itself but it was the start of all the greatest games from there is fire on the mountain to ‘who stole the meat from the cooking pot?’
I’m sure I left many out so please help me jog my memory!
1. “Guy, the pad is slippery. Who used it last?”
If you didn’t eat so much, I wouldn’t be losing.
2. Chill, let’s restart. There was something in my eye when you scored that 5th goal.
No, it was sand not my tears.
3. It’s not my fault I lost, you were talking too much. It’s distracting na.
Your voice is too loud.
4. “Let me use that pad. You gave me the bad one, scammer”
The pad is hot even… You knew it was bad.
5. This seat isn’t comfortable. It’s giving me back pain.
So I must break my back over FIFA
6. “Is this FIFA 2020? I only play FIFA 2012”
Why are you bringing a different game for me?
7. “Put on the AC, how am I supposed to play in this heat. Am I a snake?”
Whether you want to cook hotdog in this heat. Fool.
8. I like Call of Duty even. You know i’m not a sports person
The Olympics are well over but we were super gingered by Japan’s amazing display at the Closing Ceremony in Rio. Because of that,we are ready to do wuru-wuru to the answer, so we can qualify for Tokyo 2020.
1. Archery *a.k.a Bow and Arrow*
Think of it as point and kill! Very easy something!
2. Badminton
Just hit the ball pam pam pam! Finish!
3. Shooting
After all the play-play gun moves we’ve had since we were kids, this one is just a piece of easy cake!
4. Canoe Sprint
We can all do row, row, row your boat now!
5. Equestrian
All the people riding horses at Bar-beach can organize for this one jor.
6. Rhythmic gymnastics *women-only*
If you can jump and dance like Eyo Masquerades, this one is for you.
7. Water polo
If you don’t have a swimming pool near you, take advantage of the recent rains and practice in your nearest gutter.
8. Fencing
This one is too easy abeg. Just chook someone with a fake sword and you win!
9. Artistic gymnastics
Simple somersaulting hian!
10. Synchronised swimming
Our mammy-water people can organize some ‘shoki’ moves underwater abeg.
Let’s just drop this video here so our mammy waters can use it for practice when they go for meetings.
https://youtu.be/PvYJ7qcUeUg?t=3s
The Nigerian Super Eagles will not participate in the 2017 AFCON tournament after their failure to qualify for the games.
Although they had several shots at qualifying, their first leg match against Egypt which resulted in a draw lowered their chances.
To add salt to injury, Chad dropped out of the game stating financial reasons and the Eagles were left with one chance: Win or Get Lost!
The Eagles faced the Egyptian Pharaohs for the second time on March 29. Unfortunately for them, the Egyptian Pharaohs came hard this time, scored the only game of the match and earned a 5 point lead.
When you realise the Nigerian Super Eagles will be missing the AFCON tournament for the second time.
