Games are Addictive

 Or he might say: "Whereas some honorable recluses and Brahmins, while living on food offered by the faithful, indulge in the following games that are a basis for negligence:

1. Aṭṭhapada (a game played on an eight-row chess-board);

2. Dasapada (a game played on a ten-row chess-board);

3. Akasa (a game of the same type played by imagining a board in the air);

4. Pariharapatha ("hopscotch," a diagram is drawn on the ground and one has to jump in the allowable spaces avoiding the lines);

5. Santika ("spellicans," assembling the pieces in a pile, removing and returning them without disturbing the pile);

6. Khalika (dice games);

7. Ghaṭika (hitting a short stick with a long stick);

8. Salakahattha (a game played by dipping the hand in paint or dye, striking the ground or a wall, and requiring the participants to show the figure of an elephant, a horse etc.);

9. Akkha (ball games);

10. Paṅgacira (blowing through toy pipes made of leaves);

11. Vankaka (ploughing with miniature ploughs);

12. Mokkhacika (turning somersaults);

13. Cingulika (playing with paper windmills);

14. Pattaḷaka (playing with toy measures);

15. Rathaka (playing with toy chariots);

16. Dhanuka (playing with toy bows);

17. Akkharika (guessing at letters written in the air or on one's back); 

18. Manesika (guessing others' thoughts);

19. Yathāvajja (games involving mimicry of deformities)

The recluse Gotama abstains from such games and recreations.