i really liked Tag and Hop Scotch
i really liked Tag and Hop Scotch
I played the heck out of a game called "Solarquest" which was basically space Monopoly.
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We played smeer the ************* without knowing how hurtful the word or the underlying concept of the game was.
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Was too poor to have many toys, even a few. We used soda bottles as cars and pretended that say, a pepsi bottle was a chevy. A coke bottle was a ford. Also " root the peg " was another game we often played. Sucked if you where the loser and had to remove a wooden small peg driven into the ground with your teeth.
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I f-ing loved board games.
None of the others in my family felt the same, so I don't have any favourites amongst board games... Same with Table Tennis, LOVE it to bits, but nobody ever wanted to play. Boys = I'd win so they would stop after a while. Other girls had no interest to begin with... -_-'
I did however finally find something others wanted to play during the POG-craze. Loved the little circles with pretty designs and playing with others. But then the craze left and I realized that when others claimed to have an interest, they weren't as into it as I was. Ever.
Yeah, I think there are plenty of local variants with somewhat different rules...but the general concept is usually a bunch of kids ganging up against one kid who, through whatever process the exact variant uses, is "it". Apparently the actual name of the game is "Muckle"...though I never heard it called that on the playgrounds I frequented as a child. Heard it called plenty of other names though... all using the same combination of slur and a word that rhymes with said slur ("smear the XXXXX", "tag the XXX", "slay the XXX"). I must have been living in a more progressive community when I first played the game though... we just called it "Reverse Tag".
Sometimes it is an object on the ground...like your can...and the process of deciding who is "it" is a test of bravery. Sometimes it's something that is thrown into the air and whoever the object lands closest to is declared to be "it". Sometimes the previous person who is "it" can just pick the next contestant.
Ah, good times, my family had a more recent, localised version of this called Kummituslinna (lit.trs. Ghost Castle, but I guess Haunted Castle is the more common phrase). I was legitimately afraid to play this, since it was so tense. At some point we managed to break it or lose some of the parts or something, which is why I didn't get to tackle it at an older age.
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Block 1 2 3, British Bull Dogs and Bung if you're talking about playground games.
HeroQuest and Cluedo (what Americans call Clue)
on computer it was Skool Daze, Cliff Hanger and Hover Bother (ZX Spectrum & Commodore 64)
Two player Monopoly, played in blitz fashion.
Games now have evolved into charades style party games, Pictionary, Articulate and the like. I will participate but I'm not a fan of the modern style games at all. Give me Cluedo, Totopoly any day.
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We had "The Gob Pit". Kids would throw coins into the pit at the bottom of the steps leading into the bike sheds. Anyone who went to fetch the coins would be gobbed on from the overhanging balcony. Usually what eventually happened was that the school tough kid would go fetch them and nobody dared stop him.
i didnt particulary enjoy this kind of games - maybe monopoly .
for me childhood was all about playing LEGO im gratefull to my parents for buys so many sets still keep all of them in basement for my kids :P
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