playground games, rounders , marbles etc

molytom54

Hi could you help remember the names of kids games that were played 20+ years ago

eg. Rounders
marbles
releasio
tag ( we didnt call it that - I can't remember our name for it)
kerbs- ( hit the ball off the kerb).
releigh

any others ?
Any help appreciated!

MooseJam

Squares - everyone gets a square on the road and its like tennis with a football
hide and seek
3 and in - football game
heads and volleys - football game - can only score with heads and volleys

Josey Wales

I'm pretty sure there was a game called Kick The Can.

Genghiz Cohen

52 Bonkers

Fnz

- Conkers
- Royal Rumble (everyone starts inside a marked out square in the yard - push other competitors out of the square - there can be only one).
- Kiss Chasing
- Nerd Toss (pretty disgusting actually)
- Hide The Soap

Stev_o

.Tip the Can
.Bulldog
.Manhunt
.World Cup (football sort of game)
.21 (football game and a brilliant one at that)

GigaByte

Kiss chasing, I use to play this with the Girl Guides :P

kenon

5-4 - Football game
10-9-8 - Similar to 5-4
Hit the can - Lamposts for goals.
IRA - People have a secret word, they are chased and then "beaten" till they relinquish that word...

Kiith

Kerbs - hit the kerb with a ball, different throws/kicks/etc got more points
Wallball - kick a ball against a wall, in a particular and ever smaller place
Conkers - everyone knows this
Wembley - 1 on 1, with 1 in goals

Battle of the Spirits was our best one though. Its was a fighting game on one of the small walls. Basically push the other person off. Not sure where the name came from.

Overheal

Kickball - much like baseball, or rounders. But with a very satisfying-to-kick rubber ball.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickball

MooseJam

murder in the dark - turn off the lights and bate each other - not sure how widespread this was - lots of bust lips ensued

Twilightning

Hide the sausage

Overheal

In that same spirit: Doctor

kyp_durron

Stev_o wrote: »

.21 (football game and a brilliant one at that)

Yeah, awesome game. Headers and vollys, good times

SeantheMan

British Bulldog - 2 teams join hands opposite each other in a chain, and send 1 person off their team in turns to break the others chain. If they do, they get 1 of their players, if they dont, other team takes them

IRA 1 team, makes a word, gives each player a letter, other team beats the crap out of ppl till they give up the letter

Kick the Can
World Cup
3 and your In
Kings and Queens
Heads and Volleys
Kerbs
Rounders
Marbles
Conkers
Maps
Walls
Queenie-I-Oh
Slaps
Scotch / Sick , dyin, dead and Buried
Stuck in the Mud
HORSE/DONKEY

Jazzy

Balls - a game involving a football. imagine croquet with people as the stumps

komodosp

Corners - 4 players, one on each corner of a square, had to try and swap corners while a 5th player who was "on" had to run into one of the corners while it was empty...

Kick-the-can, Over-the-rock, 52-bonkers, 21, 45 (all Hide-and-seek games)

Kerb football - like normal soccer but played across a road - and you could only score by hitting the ball off their kerb (and between the posts/jumpers/whatever) - usually 1 on 1.

I remember there was a game where one player held his hands together (like praying) and the other had to slap them hard. The first guy could win by moving his hands and making the other guy win, the second could win by "faking" a slap and making the first guy move his hands... I think those were the rules, forget the name of it

"Mercy" - two players clasp each others' hands and try and each tries to hurt the other (by twisting or bending his hands) until he says "Mercy".

World Cup (also called knockout) - football game with one goalie and all players against each other - as you score you go through to the next round, last player on the field who doesn't score is out and the next round begins without him.

Knik-Knax, Knock-And-Run, Knockadolly - knock on someone's door and run away before they answered!

MayoForSam

Came across this today with rules and instructions on a lot of outdoor games: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/08/simpleoutdoorplay/#more-16559

I must set up a few training courses for the local kids, they wouldn't have a clue about hardly any of these (more's the pity). Our overly protective society and crap summer weather have put paid to outdoor high jinks.

Fnz

Retr0gamer

Soggy Biscuit

SeantheMan

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Soggy Biscuit

I don't know if anyone ever played this...i dont know of anyone who did...I certainly wouldnt :P

Smellyirishman

komodosp wrote: »

I remember there was a game where one player held his hands together (like praying) and the other had to slap them hard. The first guy could win by moving his hands and making the other guy win, the second could win by "faking" a slap and making the first guy move his hands... I think those were the rules, forget the name of it

Slaps, funnily enough.

Varkov

I vaugly remember murder in the dark. You'd have to have a pitch black room, like a garage or something and then just fight... That was fun.

And where are you al goign with your Tag, it was called "chasing" aptly names, as all you did was run around like mentlars chasing eachother.


Good times.