Schoolyard games

r3nu4l · 20-01-2006 6:08pm #1

Primary school, Bulldogs charge! Yeah, so violent!!
"Red Rover, Red Rover, I call (insert name of someone you don't like) over".

The kid would try to run past a line of other kids to get to the other side of the yard. If he got caught, he got the thumps and then was on your side

Secondary school: Football with a tennis ball, 8.30 every morning and then at lunch-time.

Bettyboop · 20-01-2006 7:37pm

Pussy 4 corners.:D you and your friends spin around and someone says
pussy 4 corners you then have to find a square and stand in it,whoever cant get a square is out:D

kiss chasing YUK:D

Larianne · 21-01-2006 2:38pm

Snatch-the-bacon, Elastics and different games with skipping ropes is all I can remember at the mo. Oh and What time is it mister wolf?

Zulu · 21-01-2006 2:41pm

Mosh? when everyone would squash one kid into a corner?

Ruu_Old · 21-01-2006 2:56pm

football was the main one with me, we did a similar mosh thing also.

killswitch · 23-01-2006 4:15pm

skipping...especially near the end of promary school as it was a good way to get to know girls

pogs, top trumps, conkers....oh yea

Ruu_Old · 23-01-2006 10:52pm

conkers were great, throwing big planks of wood to knock the best ones out of the tree

solskjaer20 · 12-02-2006 2:20am

hehe red rover was lethal back in the day.

Corruptedmorals · 16-02-2006 4:13pm

Red Letter....'Red letter yellow letter I call the letter __' and everybody with that letter in their name moved forward..

And Mother May I..I can't remember what it entailed though.

Bulldog rocked! It got banned when we were in 4th class, because of the injuries..

Peaadina · 16-02-2006 4:26pm

Did anyone play a game called Ciggarettes On?
I played it when I was really young with all the kids on my road.
I know you said "Cigarettes on...x...." and then ran up and down.
Really REALLY dont know why!

Skipping was great. altho the songs we used to have to go with them were odd!
And such a job as i had to convince ppl that it was "vote vote vote for deValera" and not Fo fo Fo!;)

deisemum · 16-02-2006 7:12pm

1 2 3 redlight, Simon says, London Bridge is falling down, Hopscotch, Knux,

Eminem · 16-02-2006 9:05pm

Simon Says, crockidile, crockidile, What time is it mr Wolf

mickymg2003 · 17-02-2006 10:18pm

Soccer, Or Bulldogs. That game was brutal. You just picked someone smaller that you and made bits of them. until it was banned. Also we used to kick a ball against a wall (Squash i think) until my cousins head got caught between a football and a pebbledash wall.
Hide n' go seek was always an alternitive aswell.

- bo - · 18-02-2006 9:43pm

mostly soccer, we used to play the class from nextdoor a lot. we got beaten about 17-0 every time. i remember walking around the yard crying 'coz i scored an own goal to put the others about 24-0 up...

"kiss cuddle or torture", all the lads always picked torture, the innocence of it all...

europerson · 18-02-2006 11:23pm

mickymg2003 wrote:

Soccer, Or Bulldogs. That game was brutal. You just picked someone smaller that you and made bits of them. until it was banned. Also we used to kick a ball against a wall (Squash i think) until my cousins head got caught between a football and a pebbledash wall.
Hide n' go seek was always an alternitive aswell.

Ah, the wonderful days of Newtown NS...
I never remember Bulldogs being so brutal!

Den_M · 18-02-2006 11:37pm

Anyone remember 'forty forty'.
One person stands at a drainpipe/tree/whatever and others have to try and tip it before the person can say 'forty forty I see -persons name-'.
Great fun. Whoever got caught had to stay with the person and help them to catch. The one who got to the tree or whatever then freed all the trapped players - which was quite a buzz back then.

skye · 18-02-2006 11:56pm

"Queenio, Queenio, who's got the ball-io" - said this with yer back to everyone then throw a tennis ball over your shoulder and someone catches and hides it behind their back "I haven't got it, oh I haven't got it, oh I haven't got it at all-io" then you guess who has it.....so daft really.

Kiss / Chase
Fourty, fourty also...
Oranges and lemons
hop-scotch
Loads of skipping - London Bridge etc
Tag ball

**elaine** · 19-02-2006 3:51pm

Larianne wrote:

Elastics

I loved them!! Such a fun game

demanufactured · 03-03-2006 5:43pm

kick the can

rogue-entity · 04-03-2006 3:19pm

Kick the Can/Tip the Can, 40-40 and Mob are all basicly the same game. But there are different versions of the rules. The way we play it the person who is on, stays at the "can" and they have to count to 40 while the rest of us go hide. They then have to walk around and look for us hiding.
When you get a chance you have to try and get "home" before the person who is on. And we usualy just say "home" or 40-40 home. Only the last person not caught or home can "free all" and usualy they do that by tipping the can and shouting "Tip the can I free all" or "40-40 I free all". The person on then has to count again unless he was to catch the last person. Then whoever was caught first is on. On the third go of being "on", the first person caught is automaticaly on. To catch a person, the person "on" just needs to see where the person is hiding and then run to the can and say "40-40/tip the can, I see <person> <where the person is hiding/is right now>". If they are wrong then the person "caught" can shout False Alarm and then he/she gets 20seconds to go hide again.

Other games I played as a child were, Chase, Jail Chase, Bulldogs and Red Rover.

When my cousins are around during the summer holidays, and there cousins from Tipp and Waterford are also down for a week or two, then we usualy have big games of Bulldogs and Following. We usualy only play 40-40 when it is dark (more fun).

sioda · 05-03-2006 2:53pm

Off the ground tig once you were up on something you couldn't be made it. So many broken fences

Nevyn · 05-03-2006 3:00pm

All the games or playing handball aagaint the wall seem to be dying out, you hardly ever see kids ( ok it used to be mostly girls) playing that anymore.

lyrama · 05-03-2006 6:32pm

"What time is it Mr.Wolf?"... yup some of the best years of my life:rolleyes: !

Bodhidharma · 07-03-2006 12:12am

Rounders - with a tennis racket/hurley.

Allies

Chessies

swapping Premier league 94 stickers

Kick s**T - everyone (at least 20 people) huddles together, closes their eyes and begins to kick and punch

Schoolyard football with the top of a coke bottle or a squashed can.

Organising fights

Stuck in the mud - class game. Whoever was on had to catch other people and when they were caught they had to stand with their legs open.They were free again if their buddy ran under their legs.This led to many a scraped knee and head-butted bol**ks, due to some lame ass "baesball" slide.

Ruu_Old · 12-03-2006 7:08pm

who could forget "rounders"..basically baseball

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