what games did you play when you were a child?

Stigura · 29-03-2017 5:08pm

Aah, the usual stuff ..... Cutting the tits off my sisters toy dolls. Tormenting kittens. Stamping on dead birds, to see the pretty things inside

Now, we play this game with ink blots .....

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 29-03-2017 5:22pm

Rings was another game I played with my family. Two players would play. The game consisted of a board numbered 1to 10 and had hooks on it. You would have 5 rubber rings and throw them and whoever scored the most points would win. My dad would hang the board on the kitchen door. Handy if the weather was bad and you couln'd go outside.

29-03-2017 6:39pm

Lots we use to recreate the horse show, the Olympics, Wimbledon, hopscotch, skiping games, tag rounders etc. Inside drafts snakes and ladders, cutting out clothes for paper dolls, dressing up with handbags using net curtains to make a wedding dress.

Rubberlegs · 29-03-2017 7:15pm

French skipping /elastics
Bouncing two balls off of a wall to different rhymes, can't remember if there was a name for it.
Swopping fancy pages/ erasers
Red Rover
What's the Time Mr Wolf?
Mother May I?
Knockadolly
Building dens and mazes with hay bales in the field. Also building a tower with bales and busting up a few to jump off on to. I'd say the farmer loved us !

Doctor Nick · 30-03-2017 9:43am

Madelynn Green Biker wrote: »

Another game we played was a game called Queeno. One of us would have a ball the size of a tennis ball we would turn our back to the other 6 or sometimes 8 people. We would throw the ball over our heads and you would have to guess who caught the ball. Before throwing the ball I would say Queeno, Queeno who has the ball is he big or is she small and then you would name the person who you think caught the ball. Whoever caught the ball would take their turn and you would have to go back and join the group.

Jeez, I remember this one as well. Few others mentioned that I forgot like Kick the Can and Knick Knack.

We used to play a very dangerous version of knick knack around Halloween where we knocked on the door and put bangers in the letterbox. Looking back it's shocking to think we did this as we could have caused serious fires and/or potentially killed somebody. We would (and probably should) never have been allowed out of our parents house if they knew what we were doing.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 11:01am

73Cat wrote: »

French skipping /elastics
Bouncing two balls off of a wall to different rhymes, can't remember if there was a name for it.
Swopping fancy pages/ erasers
Red Rover
What's the Time Mr Wolf?
Mother May I?
Knockadolly
Building dens and mazes with hay bales in the field. Also building a tower with bales and busting up a few to jump off on to. I'd say the farmer loved us !

Yes building dens or what we would call camps with bails of hay. As soon as we would see the farmer cutting the grass we would go over and watch him. When he was finished we would go Into the field and start helping him build hay cocks which farmers would do mostly when I was young. We would play hide and seek and knock them. They were simple times back then.

snaps · 30-03-2017 11:04am

Doctors and nurses with the girl nextdoor!

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 11:21am

snaps wrote: »

Doctors and nurses with the girl nextdoor!

Yes one of my favourites as was Kiss Chase. I used to love playing the patient because the nurse would give the mouth to mouth and the odd tongue would slip in.

snaps · 30-03-2017 11:55am

Madelynn Green Biker wrote: »

snaps wrote: »

Doctors and nurses with the girl nextdoor!

Yes one of my favourites as was Kiss Chase. I used to love playing the patient because the nurse would give the mouth to mouth and the odd tongue would slip in.

It was more than kising we were doing!

Hercule Poirot · 30-03-2017 12:03pm

We played a game which we called "Kabudi" which I saw on TV once in a documentary about Asia and we adapted it into our own game where a ball is placed at one end of the "pitch" and you had to run past the other two (there were only three of us on our street) touch the ball and shout "Kabudi" and you get a point - the other players were allowed to rugby tackle you only (no tripping or grabbing feet) and if they could lay you on your back your turn was over

It was so much fun and imagine my joy when flicking through the Sky Sports channels late one night last year to find televised Kabaddi - and of course I hadn't a clue what was going on but the nostalgia buzz was magnificent

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 12:24pm

Hopscotch was another game we played. If you were lucky to get a piece of chalk to draw out the six numbered boxes on the foot path. You would have to hop on one leg starting off and then two and back to one to finish. I remember one of my sisters broke a stature of Holy Mary so she could use it as chalk to draw the course as we had no chalk. My mam wasn't a happy bunny.

Boom_Bap · 30-03-2017 12:25pm

Madelynn Green Biker wrote: »

Hopscotch was another game we played. If you were lucky to get a piece of chalk to draw out the six numbered boxes on the foot path. You would have to hop on one leg starting off and then two and back to one to finish. I remember one of my sisters broke a stature of Holy Mary so she could use it as chalk to draw the course as we had no chalk. My mam wasn't a happy bunny.

I played hopscotch with my kids on Saturday

It was 8 squares.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 12:26pm

snaps wrote: »

It was more than kising we were doing!

Now now.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 12:29pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I played hopscotch with my kids on Saturday It was 8 squares.

Ah right great to see it'still been played. Used to hate when it rained as it would wash away the chalk.

Ush1 · 30-03-2017 12:30pm

Anybody remember a game called Polio?

Was usually played in a driveway where one kid was at one end and the other kids were at the other end. You'd pick a subject, for example car brands, and the kid on his own would name car brands and then when it matched one of the other kids they would race other up and down the driveway?

Doesn't make much sense thinking back.:(

emeldc · 30-03-2017 12:34pm

73Cat wrote: »

French skipping /elastics
Bouncing two balls off of a wall to different rhymes, can't remember if there was a name for it.
Swopping fancy pages/ erasers
Red Rover
What's the Time Mr Wolf?
Mother May I?
Knockadolly
Building dens and mazes with hay bales in the field. Also building a tower with bales and busting up a few to jump off on to. I'd say the farmer loved us !

Plainey packet o' rinse-o

Boom_Bap · 30-03-2017 12:34pm

I remember Polio, what a game!

There was also the Yellow Reg game or Mini Dig game while driving in the car.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 12:35pm

Ush1 wrote: »

Anybody remember a game called Polio?

Was usually played in a driveway where one kid was at one end and the other kids were at the other end. You'd pick a subject, for example car brands, and the kid on his own would name car brands and then when it matched one of the other kids they would race other up and down the driveway?

Doesn't make much sense thinking back.:(

The name sounds familar but I can't remember how we played it.

Ush1 · 30-03-2017 12:44pm

No I remember now. The other kids would list car brands one at a time and when it matched the one that the kid on his own was thinking of, he'd shout polio! Then said race would commence, with the winner taking his rightful position alone and being the shot caller.:cool:

lurker2000 · 30-03-2017 12:47pm

We played a game that I now realise must have been more parochial than nationwide or even known by those who lived a few miles away. Sadly when I now tell someone about it, it always ends with filthy comments and snickers due to its name: 'Pussy four corners'. Please someone who did not live in a South Dublin 60s suburb confirm you heard of it !!

The rules were simple. 5 people played. 4 in each corner of the front garden, one in the middle. The four kids had to swap places with each other without the person in the middle running to the empty corner first. If they got there first the person left with no corner was then in the middle and so it went on. Why it was call 'pussy four corners' was because of the way you let someone else in a corner know you wanted to swap places with them, so you put you hand out as if you were calling a cat for a treat and made that pish-wish-wish sound ye do to cats ... and then the two of you would leg it before the middle kid took your place...

Glenster · 30-03-2017 12:53pm

Kerbs - 2 kids stand on either side of the street and try and hit the opposite kerb, bonus points for doubles.

Hoods - Place an item into the hood of someone else without them noticing. Bananas were the ideal item because of weight distribution.

Steps - Step on someone's heel to knock their shoe off, if it falls off you can pick it up and throw it as far as you can without repercussions.

Classic games.

Frogeye · 30-03-2017 12:58pm

We played the "What" game....basically involved walking around aimlessly, trying to come up with ways to get each other to say " what" and also avoiding saying the word " what".

Then we played " two for flinching" which was basically pretending to punch each other so that the other person would flinch, at which point, they got two of the best in the arm. sometimes, if the didn't flinch, you would let on they flinched anyway and pretend to give them the first of the two digs, the weaker ones always flinched at this point, opening them up to two of the best, only the strongest stared it down unflinchingly...

Yellow reg was another one: Upon seeing a a car with a yellow registration, you immediately shouted " yellow reg" , blessed yourself by touching your foot and your head with you hand , then preceded to thump ( in the arm) the nearest person to you who hadn't managed to bless themselves in time.

Occasional we would stand either side of the road and when a car was close to passing we would pretend to pull on rope across the road, generally the car hit the breaks and we scuttled off delighted with ourselves. there wasn't really a name for that one...

Hoboo · 30-03-2017 1:02pm

Frogeye wrote: »

We played the "What" game....basically involved walking around aimlessly, trying to come up with ways to get each other to say " what" and also avoiding saying the word " what".

Then we played " two for flinching" which was basically pretending to punch each other so that the other person would flinch, at which point, they got two of the best in the arm. sometimes, if the didn't flinch, you would let on they flinched anyway and pretend to give them the first of the two digs, the weaker ones always flinched at this point, opening them up to two of the best, only the strongest stared it down unflinchingly...

Yellow reg was another one: Upon seeing a a car with a yellow registration, you immediately shouted " yellow reg" , blessed yourself by touching your foot and your head with you hand , then preceded to thump ( in the arm) the nearest person to you who hadn't managed to bless themselves in time.

Occasional we would stand either side of the road and when a car was close to passing we would pretend to pull on rope across the road, generally the car hit the breaks and we scuttled off delighted with ourselves. there wasn't really a name for that one...

So basically you spent your time bullying weaker people?

andekwarhola · 30-03-2017 1:05pm

Loved Ralivo(?) and Kerbs/Paths.

We also invented one called Crowd Control. We split up into 'hooligans' or 'police' and it just involved fighting each other with rolled up magzines or newspapers, usually after a token interlude of 'questioning'.

Frogeye · 30-03-2017 2:33pm

Hoboo wrote: »

So basically you spent your time bullying weaker people?

Its not bullying if you are giving as good as your getting.and 25 years later the same people are still my friends and while I can't say they are all mentally stable today , any instability was not caused by playing yellow reg or the what game!

Frogeye

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 6:11pm

We played another game called a leg and a duck. When my late dad would come In from work we would ask him for a leg and a duck. He would pick you up by one leg and one arm and swing you around until you shouted stop. There was eight in our family so it lasted quiet a long while. Whoever lasted the longest won. We played it outside in the garden as it was to dangerous to play inside the house in case you hit your head off a piece of furniture.

r93kaey5p2izun · 30-03-2017 6:36pm

Kick the can, kerbs, Simon Says and What Time is It Mister Wolf were played regularly. We also played something called "Sticky Jam" but I can't remember anything about it other than it involved running after people. We also played "IRA", and yes people wore balaclavas and everything.:eek:

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 6:50pm

Isaiah Sweet Rim wrote: »

Kick the can, kerbs, Simon Says and What Time is It Mister Wolf were played regularly. We also played something called "Sticky Jam" but I can't remember anything about it other than it involved running after people. We also played "IRA", and yes people wore balaclavas and everything.:eek:

Kerbs was very familar and so was spin the bottle. Especially when the girls would play.

wakka12 · 30-03-2017 6:56pm

Tip the can, stuck in the mud,flush the toilet, ding dong ditch, IRA, hide and seek, rounders, british bulldogs, cluedo and monopoly when indoors

byhookorbycrook · 30-03-2017 7:05pm

Red Rover- where someone was "called" and try to break through a chain of children holding hands.
Rounders .
"Show-jumping" if the RDS horse show was on -we used to build jumps out of boxes etc.
We did a lot of climbing/building dens/cycling everywhere.

Indoors: Monopoly, Scrabble, Buckaroo, Cluedo, card games like "Beggar My Neighbour" and "Sevens" (We had a family friend who was blind and a pure cardshark!!)

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 7:34pm

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Red Rover- where someone was "called" and try to break through a chain of children holding hands.
Rounders .
"Show-jumping" if the RDS horse show was on -we used to build jumps out of boxes etc.
We did a lot of climbing/building dens/cycling everywhere.

Indoors: Monopoly, Scrabble, Buckaroo, Cluedo, card games like "Beggar My Neighbour" and "Sevens" (We had a family friend who was blind and a pure cardshark!!)

There wasn't many indoor games around when I was young but as I got a bit older we started playing Draughts, Snakes and Ladders, Frustration, Connect Four, Ker Plonk and Operation where you would have to take the body pieces out without setting off the buzzer.

stampydmonkey · 30-03-2017 7:38pm

I take it tip the can is the same as 40 40?

Samaris · 30-03-2017 7:51pm

Ush1 wrote: »

Anybody remember a game called Polio?

Was usually played in a driveway where one kid was at one end and the other kids were at the other end. You'd pick a subject, for example car brands, and the kid on his own would name car brands and then when it matched one of the other kids they would race other up and down the driveway?

Doesn't make much sense thinking back.:(

Aw, I loved that game! We played that too. Also..

Kerbs
Hopscotch (rarely)
Forty-forty Home (basically tag with one specific bent lamp-post as Home)
Sardines
Piggy in the Middle (never liked that one, I was a rubbish jumper!)
Red Rover (got banned in school)
..something about frogs. We'd all stand on a bench in one of the big shelters in the playground and there rhyme went something like "Down in the valley of Blankity-Blank, there lived two frogs sitting back to back, singing zoom, zam, zoom-zam-zay, down in the valley of Ker-Plunk" (good gods, I remembered it all!). One person would be counting off up and down the line with each word and whoever Plunk was, they'd yank them and try pull them off the bench while the people on it linked arms and tried not to fall off. That got banned too.
Wall-fights - So, one side of the street had very sloping gardens, and a small wall that descended in steps. Two kids started, one from either side of the wall, arms folded and hopping. They'd hop along the wall to each other and try to gladiator each other off. That got banned after someone's leg got broken.
All the skipping games - blackberry jam is the only one I remember now.
Rollar blading/skating and that daft thing that all kids try at some point of grabbing onto a passing car and being towed. And then being yelled at.
I made up a lot of games for a few of us involving the huts - lions and tigers was one, where we'd use one of the natural huts formed by the trees lining the field and go stalking imaginary lions and tigers in the wheat field.
Lava-Floor
What's the Time, Mister Wolf
Some sort of letter game where letters would be called and kids would start stepping towards the caller based on how many of that letter was in their name. Having a middle name and a Confirmation name was a bonus.

I'm sure there were more!

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 30-03-2017 8:05pm

We used to play on a Trolley that was made up Of old pieces of wood nailed together to make a cart shaped box with three bicycle wheels bolted on and old handle bars fixed to the front to steer it. There wasn't a lot of traffic around back then so we would find a road with a hill on it and two of us would get in to the cart and another would push us to get us going. Thinking of it now it was quiet dangerous as we had no head protection.

30-03-2017 8:23pm

Ush1 wrote: »

Anybody remember a game called Polio?

Was usually played in a driveway where one kid was at one end and the other kids were at the other end. You'd pick a subject, for example car brands, and the kid on his own would name car brands and then when it matched one of the other kids they would race other up and down the driveway?

Doesn't make much sense thinking back.:(

I loved this game.

Why on earth was it called polio, though?

There was also a game called Queenie-i-oh, where one person held a ball behind their back in a line-up, and it had a rhyme that went,

"Queenie-i-oh, who's got the ball?
Is it he, or is it she?
Are they big, or are they small?
See I haven't got it (shows right hand)
See I haven't got it (shows left hand)
Who has got the ball?!"

Glenster · 30-03-2017 11:57pm

Madelynn Green Biker wrote: »

Kerbs was very familar and so was spin the bottle. Especially when the girls would play.

You wouldn't want to play spin the bottle with just a circle of lads. not in the nineties at any rate.

pawrick · 31-03-2017 12:06am

In national school
Kiss, cuddle or torture with the girls v the boys. if you got caught you had to choose one of the 3. torture usually meant a kick in the shins.
wall ball - line up class mates against a wall and try to kick them in the face with the ball. last person hit then got the chance to do the same to you.
conkers - pick conkers and try to skull people with them
stone rain - everyone would throw pebbles in to the air and try not to get hit
they were simple days, violent but simple.

kittensmittens · 31-03-2017 12:15am

Does anyone else remember playing "Scotch"?
It was simple...one person was on and they had a tennis ball and basically everyone legged it as the person who was on tried to purposely hit you as hard as possible with the ball? If you were hit, you were on.
I'm convinced we gave the Wachowski Brothers the ideas for the Matrix moves

riffmongous · 31-03-2017 12:18am

Madelynn Green Biker wrote: »

Kerbs was very familar and so was spin the bottle. Especially when the girls would play.

flas · 31-03-2017 12:31am

kerbs....nots paths if you hit the path you are out,the aim was to hit the curb...

Mackman · 31-03-2017 3:16am

Heads and Volley's. Soccer with 3 or more people and 1 goal. Goalie against the rest basically, 1 point for scoring a goal but it had to be from a header or a volley. Goalie gets a point for catching the ball, or a wide. I spent most of my summers playing this.

Noodles81 · 31-03-2017 3:45am

Does anyone remember Ghost Castle? It was a 3D board game with a glow in the dark skull you used to put down the chimney. It came out at different parts of the board and would knock you or your opponent over. It was the best fun ever. No one was safe and you never knew who would win.

Badly Drunk Boy · 31-03-2017 5:12am

Lia_lia wrote: »

Manhunt. I think the rules were something like:

You were split into 2 teams. Both teams split up. One team came up with a word. Each person in the team was assigned a letter of the word. And then the other team had to hunt down members of the team with the letters and beat them up until they told them what their letter was. Once they had every letter and put them together to make the word they won. Or something like that.

We lived in a rough estate :pac:

Nice! Almost Countdown + violence.

Tzardine · 31-03-2017 5:32am

We used to play knick knack but with a twist.

We would steal our mams sewing thread (black was the best). We would then tie it to the door knocker and retreat to a bush.

You could them pull the thread and knock on the door. I was brilliant because they would be waiting at the door for you to knock again, but as soon as they opened it you were not there. Surprisingly they rarely saw the string.

What used to get you caught was the mad laughter coming from the bush.

If you were lucky you would get a chase.

Good times.

fergus1001 · 31-03-2017 5:50am

Anyone remember playing IRA where one lad was a brit and had to catch and beat a letter out of you everyone had a letter of a word, good fun

razorblunt · 31-03-2017 9:56am

When we started primary school, there was a grass area next to the yard, we were allowed into.
Day 2 and a game of bulldog started. One fella in the middle tries to catch as many as he can when everyone runs from one end to another. Eventually those in the middle can form a human chain and snare quite a lot.
One kid got absolutely clotheslined one day, it was like something from the WWF, he flipped in the air and everything.
The game was banned and you weren't allowed in the grass after that.
Even at the age of 7 I remember thinking "yeah, that's probably for the best".

The school yard had a wall with some drainage holes for the elevate grass area outside the school windows. We invented a game called "corks". Started off with kicking a bottle top through the hole, the further away you were the higher the score, this eventually evolved into penalties, with goals being made between the two holes. We had leagues and knock out tournaments organised and everything it was huge. A Country Spring 3 litre cork, with a lucozade brown cork inside was the ideal, it was like a hockey puck. Happy Days.

ohnonotgmail · 31-03-2017 10:21am

Do children still try to set ants on fire with a magnifying glass?

Doctor Nick · 31-03-2017 10:26am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Do children still try to set ants on fire with a magnifying glass?

Takes too long so now they just use aerosols and a lighter :pac:

silverharp · 31-03-2017 10:41am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Do children still try to set ants on fire with a magnifying glass?

unless its an app on a phone I doubt it. you need time on your hands and an element of boredom to come up with creative uses for the power of nature

mrcheez · 31-03-2017 10:47am

Lego ... so much Lego ... and He-Man of course

what games did you play when you were a child?

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