Pambaram (Spinning Top)

How it's played on the street

1. 1

   Wind the string tightly round the top, starting at the nail and working up the body.

2. 2

   Hold the top and the loose end of the string in the same hand, often with the end looped round a finger.

3. 3

   Throw it down hard and pull the string back, so the top unwinds and lands spinning on its nail.

4. 4

   In the ring game, one player's top sits inside a circle drawn on the ground. The others throw their spinning tops at it to knock it out.

5. 5

   A player whose top fails to spin, or stops inside the ring, puts their own top in the circle next.

6. 6

   Good players also lift a spinning top onto their palm with the string and drop it back on target.

Other names

• Lattu Hindi
• Buguri
• Spinning top English

How it plays in Vilayo

Wind it, throw it, and knock Kumar's top out of the ring. Like every game in Vilayo, it is built in real 3D, and the touch controls do what your hands would do on the street.

Levels are short, and each one gives up to three stars. Easy, Medium and Hard tiers bring new grounds and harder challenges, and the whole game plays offline.