Handgame is a traditional team gambling game. One team gets together some money or items to wager, and the other team comes up with a matching bet of equal value. This bet makes up the "pot". Whichever team wins the game wins the pot.
The game starts with one team singing a favorite gambling song; two players from that team each hide a pair of "bones", one in each hand. Each bone is typically about the size of a person's thumb, one bone being plain or white, the other marked with a black stripe around the center.
The other team must guess where each bone is hidden. A point - represented by a counting stick - is lost for each bone mis-guessed.
The guessing team wins the pair of bones correctly guessed.
When the guessing team has won both pairs of bones, they become the hiding team, and sing their own song to give them the power to hide. When one side has accumulated ten counting sticks the game is over.