Thirudan Police is a traditional game, which is quite popular in all over India. Thirudan Police is also traditionally known as Kallan Police in many places of Tamil Nadu. The game is played well in two different forms; one is played as indoor and another outdoor. It is a wonderful game played by rural children mostly. This traditional game will help one to have a guessing power, face reading skill, that get enhanced and they sustain the feeling of unity and oneness among the other players.

Requirement of Thirudan Police
To play Thirudan Police or Kallan Police, one need some simple things like a bit of paper of equal size, pen, four players. If this will be played in outdoor the four players need to have an open ground.

Steps to play Thirudan Police
The four players need to follow some simple steps. The four players need four pieces of paper of equal size. They need to write the name of the characters. These are Raja, Rani, Police and Thirudhan, which is known as Thief. These will be written on each paper bit. After that, all the four papers are folded in such a way that the text is inside the fold look similar. Four players need to sit together forming a circle. After that one player takes initiative and shuffles the folded papers in hand and throws it on ground. Then each player picks one paper and needs to see secretly what they got. The text written on the four papers should be kept secret and other players should not know what others got.

Then one of the four players who has got the name Police has to raise his hand and he is asked to find the player who has the character Thirudan. These characters have certain points. For instance, the King or the Raja has 10 points, Rani or the Queen has 5 points, where the Police and Thrudhan have 1 point each. If the guess is right, Police get one point, Thirudan will not get the point. The game goes in 5 to 10 rounds. The winner is the player who gets maximum points.

Thirudan Police as an Outdoor Game
Thirudan Police can also be played outdoor, where the players form two groups, one group will be Police and the other group will be Thirudan. The thief or Thirudan will do some tomfoolery or take one toy and hide it and the police group will find the toy. It will be like the game Hide and Seek. It is influenced from the same concept of Thief and Police in real life.