the folklore division of the instituto estadual do patrimonio cultural of rio de janeiro lists six types of games that the crianças de terra fluminense play - athletic games, rhythm games, games with symbols, games with objects, action games, and theatrical games. apart from these, there are games which do not correspond with one fixed category or another. 

of the athletic games, there is carniça, similar to american leapfrog, in which children form a folded conga line which grows longer each time a child manages to jump over those already accumulated.

morto-vivo mirrors the well known duck-duck-goose, where a group follows a leader to crouch or rise on command.