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===Games=== :''See also: [[:Category:Games|List of known games]]'' [[Westeros]]i children's games include [[come-into-my-castle]], [[monsters-and-maidens]], [[hide-the-treasure]], [[hopfrog]], [[spin-the-sword]], and [[rats and cats]].{{Ref|AGOT|22}}{{Ref|ACOK|4}}{{Ref|ASOS|22}}{{Ref|ASOS|68}} Popular among children from [[House Frey]] at the [[Twins]] is the game [[lord of the crossing]],{{Ref|ACOK|4}} named for the title held by the head of House Frey. Children in [[Meereen]] play a game involving sitting in a circle and taking turns to spin a dagger. When it stops, they cut off a lock of hair from whoever the dagger is pointing at. [[Barristan Selmy]] recalls a similar game he played with his cousins at [[Harvest Hall]] in Westeros when he was a boy, except it involved [[w:spin the bottle|kissing]].{{Ref|ADWD|70}} The [[finger dance]] is a game played by the [[ironborn]] of the [[Iron Islands]], and involves throwing a [[Armament|hand axe]] which must be caught or leaped over without missing a step. The game is named for the fact that it usually ends with a dancer losing one or more of his fingers.{{Ref|ACOK|24}} [[Cyvasse]] is a board game of military strategy originating from [[Volantis]].{{Ref|AFFC|13}}{{Ref|ADWD|47}} It is also played in [[Lys]],{{Ref|ADWD|6}} and since roughly {{Date|299}} has been present in [[Westeros]], after a trading galley from Volantis introduced the game in [[Dorne]], from where it was spread.{{Ref|AFFC|13}} The game came to [[King's Landing]] in {{Date|300}}.{{Ref|AFFC|36}}
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