This study explores folk games created due to the cultural and spiritual demands of people during the long historical development. Through games people discover, experiment and interact with their environment. Playing games helps people to be healthy and active in today’s technological era. As well as, the paper proposes an alternative model of classification games based on brain development. Folklore of games is one of the recognized literary phenomena in the oral poetic creation of the peoples of the world. Among with universal ideas, they reflect the lifestyle, history, culture, outlook, religious beliefs, and national feelings of each nation. As in general folklore, the fundamental basis of game folklore is the idea of struggle for life. The fact that games are connected with the cultural environment has been shown in the research strategy. Most of the games are created on the basis of copying life, imitating the occupations, behavior, rituals and holidays of adults. Therefore, they serve as a lesson of social life, a means of forming social morality.

Game, social, linguistic, brain development

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