6 or more players, aged 8 and up, played indoors and outdoors

Each player should have a one-metre broom stick-sized stick for each player, and a 30 cm circle should be drawn on the ground in which his stick is places. The "piglet" is a small tennis sized ball.

One player is the "farmer", who does not have a circle. The farmer must try to hit the "piglet" with his stick at one of the other players, hitting them below the knees. While keeping their sticks in their circle, these players must avoid being hit by the "piglet".

When a player sees the piglet coming at him, he may hit it away with his stick, but he must be careful, for if the farmer can put his own stick in that empty circle, the former owner must become the farmer. Then the game continues.

This game is played widely in most European countries. In Yugoslavia, players line up in a straight long ling instead of circles as in Byelorussia. In Greece, players use a tin can, so that the piglet foes not roll so far. The use of holes in the ground is popular in the Ukraine.