Outdoor games you played as a kid

canadianwoman · 20-09-2013 10:50am

orchidsrpretty wrote: »

We use to play the one where you join up heaps of rubber bands; two people would stand on each end and a person would stand in the middle and jump through the elastic singing "England Ireland Scotland Wales; inside,outside, inside, scales. The trwo people on the ends would move the elasdtic up a notch to ankles knees etc and you would be out if you missed the elastic!
Was brilliant fun but no idea of the name and if people still play it.

We called that game 'jumpsies' here in Canada and had a different chant to go with it.

I also played red rover and hide and seek a lot.

maximoose · 20-09-2013 10:55am

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

'One To Get Out' - If you scored a goal you got through to the next round. The last guy left in each round was eliminated. A game could last for hours but it was great fun and kept us really fit.

We called that 'Wembley'. Apparently no one in Ireland did though - one of the things we used to say when playing was if someone's boot came off, or lace was open and wanted to stop play for a sec, we'd shout "NO WAITING IN WEMBLEY!". I've said that a couple of times in the office and been met with a vacant puzzled look.

Also:
Hunts (cooler name for hide and seek)
Headers and volleys
Kerbie
British bulldogs
Cornerball
Stick in the mud

briany · 21-09-2013 12:04pm

littlejp wrote: »

Used to play Kerbs a lot. Stand on opposite sides of a road throwing a football. Get it bounce back off the kerb and catch it to get a point.

Rules of that game should have been standardised. The amount of arguments I had about how much an facing away, over the head, two hand throw was worth was crazy.

D-FENS · 25-09-2013 3:51pm

Snatch the Bacon, which was quite similar to Kick the Can if memory serves...

Love2love · 02-10-2013 6:25pm

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Back garden hoping in the mid - late 1980s. Literally jumping from garden to garden along the street. If there were dogs, we would scoot along the back wall. Not easy when there was over hanging bushed. Bear Grylls would be proud of us.

We called that Commando and you had to wait til it was dark to play it.

Warlord was another one we played. Where 1 person was "on" and had to find everyone and when you did you had to say the name really loud. If they touched you're back before you said their full name, you were "on" again. I suppose a variant of kick the can....

You don't really see kids play that way anymore, do you?

canadianwoman · 02-10-2013 6:55pm

Love2love wrote: »

Warlord was another one we played. Where 1 person was "on" and had to find everyone and when you did you had to say the name really loud. If they touched you're back before you said their full name, you were "on" again. I suppose a variant of kick the can....

That sounds more like a variant of Hide and Seek.

UpTheLilies · 09-10-2013 12:32pm

Kick the sh1te out the ginger kid used to keep us entertained for hours.

Floppybits · 09-10-2013 4:24pm

Played dodgeball or scotch, basically there was one tennis ball and ya threw the person that caught could shout scotch and we would all have to stop and the person with the tennis ball could decide which person to hit with the ball, if a person was hit they were out, if the person missed it was a free for all for the ball. Some amount of misses because you were trying to throw the ball as hard as you could at someone.

An Riabhach · 13-10-2013 3:38pm

Simon Says...
Hide n' go Seek
No Laughing,No Talking,No...Red Lights
Foxes And Chickens
Tig
Cat and Rat

and ball games....

Donkey
Headers And Volleys
Rounders
Penalties
Hurling,Soccer,Tennis
Wembley/Double Wembley

briany · 13-10-2013 4:15pm

40-40. I forget, without looking it up, what the exact difference between that and hide and seek was though.

UpTheLilies · 13-10-2013 5:03pm

Kerbs

Paddy Fields · 13-10-2013 5:16pm

Names. - Kick the ball against a wall and you must call the person's name before you kick it. The school sheds were toughtest as it had to be btween 2 steel supports about 6' apart and if it hit a support it could go off at a sharp angle and you'd have to leg it after the ball and it was nigh on impossible to hit it back between the supports into the "play" area.

Spring Onion · 15-10-2013 12:35pm

fussyonion wrote: »

Was that when you knocked on someone's door and ran away?
Yeah, we played that and always hoped we'd get a chase!
God, we were brats!

We called it "Belfast". Ring the bell and run fast.

Agricola · 18-10-2013 4:22pm

maximoose wrote: »

We called that 'Wembley'. Apparently no one in Ireland did though - one of the things we used to say when playing was if someone's boot came off, or lace was open and wanted to stop play for a sec, we'd shout "NO WAITING IN WEMBLEY!". I've said that a couple of times in the office and been met with a vacant puzzled look.

We had a game called 10 point Wembley. Someone went in goal and the rest had to try to score volleys. A volleyed goal was a point to the outfield players, a save, ground shot, or miss was a point to the keeper. Keeper stayed in as long as he was losing, or the outfielder to hand the game to the keeper went in goal. Great game for tension I remember!

nlgbbbblth · 18-10-2013 9:47pm

Agricola wrote: »

We had a game called 10 point Wembley. Someone went in goal and the rest had to try to score volleys. A volleyed goal was a point to the outfield players, a save, ground shot, or miss was a point to the keeper. Keeper stayed in as long as he was losing, or the outfielder to hand the game to the keeper went in goal. Great game for tension I remember!

Summers of the 1980s. Playing 10 point Wembley in my next door neighbour's garden until we couldn't see the ball anymore.

boomchicawawa · 17-02-2014 11:24pm

I thought everyone played this game as kids in the 70s but from the snickers and guffaws when I mention it now in company, it seems I'm on my own until someone said they remembered it and it turns out they lived near me... so maybe it was just a local game in leafy Dublin south.

It was called 'Pussy four corners' and was very entertaining and entirely innocent as that was before the advent of the porn industry's take on the word !....

5 kids in a garden, 4 in each corner, one in the middle. You had to swop places with one of the other kids in a corner without the person in the middle running to your place first, if they got there first you were in the middle...
now where does the 'pussy' come in to it I hear you ask....to get the attention of the other person in the other corner, you had to extend your hand, and make that sound you do when you're trying to attract the attention of a cat, whilst rubbing you thumb and first two fingers together as you did it..pish wish wish...pish wish wish... ah yes...innocent times !

tempnam · 18-02-2014 10:51pm

boomchicawawa wrote: »

I thought everyone played this game as kids in the 70s but from the snickers and guffaws when I mention it now in company, it seems I'm on my own until someone said they remembered it and it turns out they lived near me... so maybe it was just a local game in leafy Dublin south.

It was called 'Pussy four corners' and was very entertaining and entirely innocent as that was before the advent of the porn industry's take on the word !....

5 kids in a garden, 4 in each corner, one in the middle. You had to swop places with one of the other kids in a corner without the person in the middle running to your place first, if they got there first you were in the middle...
now where does the 'pussy' come in to it I hear you ask....to get the attention of the other person in the other corner, you had to extend your hand, and make that sound you do when you're trying to attract the attention of a cat, whilst rubbing you thumb and first two fingers together as you did it..pish wish wish...pish wish wish... ah yes...innocent times !

hahahaha! What a name!

I do remember something similar, but can't remember the name at all..... but I'm almost SURE it wasn't called pussy four corners!

tempnam · 18-02-2014 11:03pm

briany wrote: »

40-40. I forget, without looking it up, what the exact difference between that and hide and seek was though.

Hide & seek was just a load of people hide and one person tries to find everyone.

40-40 & kick the can were basically the same thing except instead of a can you used the nearest lamp-post / tree / whatever...

These were like hide & seek except that the person who was 'on' also had to guard the can which was sitting in the middle of the road (in kick the can) or else the tree/lamp-post if playing 40-40.

So if the person who was 'on' had to tip the pole/tree (40-40) or else the can (kick the can) when they spotted you. So if I caught you hiding it wouldn't count until I tipped the can/pole and said "tip the can, I see briany in so-and-so's garden" etc....

So if the person who was 'on' went too far, someone who was hiding could jump out, make a run for the can/lamp-post and kick & shout "kick the can" or "40-40".... "All Free!"

and the person who was 'on' had to be 'on' again

Complex rules for a bunch of kids!!!

I don't know what the reference to 40-40 was though

Edit: Just found this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_forty

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 19-02-2014 4:23am

Manhunt - an extreme mash-up of Hide & Seek and Capture the Flag. It was played in teams (both of whom had their own bases where they would start the game). One team was on and trying to seek out all members of the other team, drag them back to their base where they would be kept prisoner (usually with a guard outside the base, but there was an honour code - if you were caught, you stayed there). The fun part was that the team that were hiding could infiltrate the base of the seekers and rescue those who were already captured and by doing so win the game. This was extremely hard to do without being caught first. The Seekers would win once they rounded everyone up. Usually played in forests, parks or entire housing estates, the game could generally last for hours.
I recall one of these games in particular, where I spent two hours hid up a tree, not far from the seekers base where I could see everything, including the rest of my team being captured. At one point after this they left two people guarding the base, while the rest spread out and searched. When one of the guards they left behind decided to go off to the side and take a leak and the other with his back to me, I had the opportunity to infiltrate, rescue my comrades and win the game. It was epic.

Hagriderp · 19-02-2014 5:50am

IRA is basically a variation on Manhunt....

Also Wrestling, trying to pin the other person so they give up.

Heads and Volleys older brother "Red Ass" where the loser would have to bend over and take a blast of the ball from everyone else playing...got really tense...

Just trying to fill in the gaps other people missed

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 19-02-2014 5:58am

Hagriderp wrote: »

Heads and Volleys older brother "Red Ass" where the loser would have to bend over and take a blast of the ball from everyone else playing...got really tense...

Red Ass got banned in our school because one lad got hit in the elbow instead of the ass and whatever way he had had his arms, his finger went into his own eye and he had to go to hospital. It was the lamest reason imaginable for having it banned. It's also the only reason the teachers knew we were playing it.

Professey Chin · 19-02-2014 9:36am

Was it Bulldog or British Bulldog where 2 groups lined up against 2 walls facing each other and then just ran straight at each other trying to get to the other side without being knocked over? :pac:

....Ah the days before health and safety

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 19-02-2014 11:27am

Professey Chin wrote: »

Was it Bulldog or British Bulldog where 2 groups lined up against 2 walls facing each other and then just ran straight at each other trying to get to the other side without being knocked over? :pac:

....Ah the days before health and safety

I think it just had a variety of names. We used to call it Bulldogs Charge.

Outdoor games you played as a kid

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