United States. The concept is the same, but the rods have been replaced by curved sticks and the wooden ring by a plastic glow-in-the-dark ring. Traditional Variants Serso is a one stick variant played in Poland. Two people face each other with some distance in between them, and each carrying only one stick. The player with the ring throws it toward the other person using his free hand, and the other person attempts to catch it with his stick. The other person then removes the ring from his stick before throwing it back with his free hand to the first person (who attempts to catch it with his stick). The game continues indefinitely. The game reached popularity in the 19th. and 20th. century. Serso is phonetically equivalent to cerceau in French which means "circle". The game is thought to have derived from ancient Rome. References Children's games