Poll
Question:
Which of the following games did you use to play when you were a kid? (Choose as many as you like)
Option 1: Hopscotch
votes: 2
Option 2: Hide and Seek
votes: 5
Option 3: Tag
votes: 5
Option 4: What's the Time Mr. Wolf?
votes: 3
Option 5: Simon Says
votes: 3
Option 6: Mother May I
votes: 3
Option 7: Dodgeball
votes: 3
Option 8: Skipping (rope)
votes: 3
Option 9: Red Rover
votes: 2
Option 10: Marbles
votes: 4
Option 11: Red light, green light
votes: 1
Option 12: Duck Duck Goose
votes: 1
Option 13: Follow the Leader
votes: 3
Option 14: Four square
votes: 1
Option 15: Blind Man's Bluff
votes: 2
Option 16: I spy
votes: 4
Option 17: Musical chairs
votes: 4
Option 18: Silent ball
votes: 0
Option 19: Two balls and a wall
votes: 0
Option 20: Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?
votes: 1
Option 21: Sleeping lions
votes: 0
Option 22: Magic Fingers
votes: 0
Option 23: Not on List
votes: 3
Option 24: Doctor
votes: 1
Phew. Tried to list as many as I can with the aid of Google. If there's a game that isn't here on the list, lemme know and I'll modify it.
nothing beats hide and seek heck I still play it with the younger cousins.
Jeebus, I can say I know of/ played at least once half of those things on that list. Thats.. scary.
I wonder how many kids now can recognize or ever will play half of these games... :(
I think its too computer and game orientated for the younger generation.[/DIV]
I was surprised spin the bottle or truth or dare wasn't on the list.....
Spin the bottle? Heaven forbade that it should be a childhood game!! I'm not letting this game near our kids. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/6.gif)
Modify: Added Doctor to list.
i dont know what half of those are.
how about adding 'doctor' to the list.
I knew kids playing the game around grade 3 or 4 and then of course when puberty it around middle school a third step was added, you get the idea.
Truth or dare? Never been to summer camp obviously.
Questioner: Truth or Dare
Person: Dare
Questioner: Throw a frog into the girls shower room or take all there clothes etc. good times.
Oh gosh Doctor.......
A few that are even OLDER than those, would be jacks and Chinese skip (purelife mentioned that earlier, and I'd forgotten all about it.....loved that)
Marbles and Tiddly Winks
Why did we stop playing them?
I dunno seems like doctor and magic fingers are ones us guys could still be playing. lol.
Spin the bottle and truth or dare is something that you would start playing in the early teens at parties and birthdays and such is it not? Or its something that we started then.
I still play hide n seek with these kids I know. Hmm, for some reason, I'm always the seeker. hee hee... I prefer not to hide anyways. I can't fit under the bushes or climb trees like I used to. ;) The funny thing is that when it comes time for me to find them, they yell "ok, you can come out now!" LOL, I'll find them for sure! :D
I used to play chinese skipping rope, hopscotch, equipment tag, jacks, card games, marbles.....
I used to like "Spotlight" and "Spitball Alley". Sometimes we'd combine them.
I'm not to sure if you actually play this game in America or Canada, but When I was young I use to love playing British Bulldog... From the list I use to also love playing marbles. I phoned my mother up & put the same question to her and she explained that she used to love to play Hopscotch, lol, and that was way back in the late 1930s, just shows how old some of these games are.
[FONT color=#0000ff] [/U][/FONT][A href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Bulldogs_(game)"][FONT color=#0000ff]More about British Bulldog here[/U][/FONT][/A]
"I wonder how many kids now can recognize or ever will play half of these games... :( I think its too computer and game orientated for the younger generation."
Russ, sadly I agree with you... Children just don't spend enough time outside.
British Bulldog is FUN!
Sadly they have banned it in most schools(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/10.gif) the say its to violent.
Hmm. Don't recall playing BBD. Sounds violent.
Games that I can remember playing frequently would be tag. We didn't have boys at our school so we couldn't catch and kissy kiss. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/10.gif)
eeew! <young russ> Lise has COOTIES! Now I have it, she kissed me! <furiously wiping face on sleeve>
Lise wrote:
Hmm. Don't recall playing BBD. Sounds violent.
Games that I can remember playing frequently would be tag. We didn't have boys at our school so we couldn't catch and kissy kiss. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/10.gif) Never mind lise... i'm sure you've had lots of kisses since(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)
EDIT: Hmm..that reminds of anouther game i used to play at School... Kiss chase, lol
Hehe. I dobut my hubby will see that as funny. He'd be hovering over the boy who kissed her with a bat in his hand. (//vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/boese/e073.gif)
Ah childhood memories. So long ago......
Brit_Guy wrote:
Never mind lise... i'm sure you've had lots of kisses since(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)
True enough and a lot of rough playing in the bedroom.(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Love/17.gif)
Yeah, it's too bad they banned BBD at schools. Now, they end up playing it during sport practices.
We played duck duck goose on the beach once (about 3 years ago) and some kind of tag game. Oh, that was fun. Brings back good times. Oh, and just recent, we played a tag game on the snow.
I believe in outdoor games....(sex....) no matter the weather condition.
@Purelife
(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/8.gif)
How about you and me play british bull dog, purelife's style. ;)
Did anyone play jacks? I enjoyed that game. How about board games?
Oh ah!! Doggy style? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)
And this thread has gone from sweet, innocent childhood game to............. *cough cough*
i just picked up on this one.. brilliant! That would be me and RSS.
(//vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/boese/e073.gif)
Board games! Hey, that's a cool one. I can make a poll on that one too.
purelife wrote:
How about you and me play british bull dog,[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"] purelife's style. ;)[/FONT]
Do i dare ask?
Never much good at Board Games.
Russ wrote:
i just picked up on this one.. brilliant! That would be me and RSS.
(//vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/boese/e073.gif)
You and RSS have played BBD, purelife's style? ;) OMG!
Lise, it's your thread. We always gravitate towards the best game of all in our adulthood. ;)
LOL! and PL, can you guess who was who in that little animation?
RSS is the one holding the bat?
Pretty mcuh! lol.
purelife wrote:
Lise, it's your thread. We always gravitate towards the best game of all in our adulthood. ;)
whats that? I don't know of what you speak? ;) lol
OH YEAHHHH, AND we used to play SCHOOL. Especially at the end of the school year, because you had all kinds of paper and paste, and sometimes the teacher would give you broken bits of chalk. (I don't suppose they use that anymore.....lol) And having a RED PENCIL was teh creme de la creme
Playing school was lots of fun.